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f 7 : * V / V Thursday, February 12, 1953 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pajare Seven Society (continued from page 3) State Money Bill On Second Reading In House luncheon at Lakeside Country club. A two-course luncheon was serv ed buffet style from the pettily- _ , . . _ . . appointed table in the dining room. ^ ie ^-in^hon dol- Guesfs found their places at small ^ 1953 - 54 f neral appropriations tables centered with bouquets of up for second reading in red and white camellias which the state house of representatives were later given the guests to wear yesterday. White camellias in modernistic ar-1 The bill is geared so closely to ray and a mantel arrangement of school construction allotment in magnolia leaves with quince as a creases and surplus spending that decorated the club legislators had small leeway to ply center at Chongamcham,. less than 40 miles from the MIG base at Antung, Manchuria, and rail in stallations at Huichon. The Navy reported today that carrier-hased planes swept to with in 12 miles of the Manchurian bor der in Northeast Korea Tuesday. Pilots said they destroyed 40 build ings and four power transformer stations near Hoeryong, and dam-i aged another transformer north of. Chongjin, 60 miles southwest of the: Manchurian border. The Navy said explosions and oil j fires lit the target area. The mercury climbed to the 40s 1 , and 50s along the battlefront, the' focal point, rooms. After lunch a number of games were enjoyed with Mrs. D. S. Tern- The school construction and sur- turned to rain later in the day. pleton winning visitors* high, and plus spending bills have passed the Allied tanks pressed their bunk C. J. Hill, who had four children hurt in the accident, said the “na- rum-scarum - ’ driving of many school boy drivers puts “terrible pressure not only on the parents, but on the children.” This reflects, he said£4n their school work. H. Scott Rigby, another spokes man, said his group is petitioning for an adult driver program so that “this tragedy (at Manning) will not re-enact itself in some other county.” He called on the committee to vote for adult drivers as a “maximum safety precaution.” State laws place the responsibility on student drivers, but only “the laws of nature” can spend further in the face of expeev i highest tempreatures of the new | ed revenues. | y ear Early morning snow flurries, Mrs. Harry Baldwin club award. Consolation went to Mrs. Marion Milam. Mrs. J. R. Cox and Mrs. E. C. Wolfe won canasta prizes. house and now are in the senate^er-husting 'campaign against Chi- finance committee. ! nese positions on the Central *front. i The big money measure under- damage yesterday to 74 Red bunk- writes an approximate 200-million- ers, 19 troop shelters, 2 caves, 4 ! dollar state and federal aid spend- observation posts, 490 yards of Entertaining her club and addi-! ing program for the coming fiscal trenches. 3 tunnels and 3 buildings, tional guests Mrs. Caldwell Hen- year. This is about 15 million more derson was hostess for four tables than the current overall program. of bridge on Thursday afternoon. When scores were counted after A third spending increase bill, one that fits in with the general the progressions guest prize was appropriations, school construction presented Mrs. Pringle Copeland, and surplus spending measures, is •and club award to Mrs. Michael marking time on the House calen- Tumer. Mrs. Tommy Hollis kept dar. floating prize. Later a salad and sweet course was served. For the occasion the hostess’ Hearing On Bus Drivers Is Warm Columbia, Feb. house committee 10. — A hearing special on the school bus student driver controver- occasion home was lovely with daffodils, ca mellias and quince. It would increase the pay of stu dent school bus drivers, now $25 a, month, to $35, Action on it has^ "as halted late today after two i hours of statements from state agen- Thursday afternoon Mrs. Arnold Cannon was hostess to her bridge club. Two tables were in play with Mrs. Lykes Henderson winning club award for high score. When: cards were laid aside a salad and sweet couse was served. been deferred pending a report, . . t . t . , from a special House committee! educato ri> and county delega investigating the advisability of us- tions. The proceedings occasionally were interrupted by emotional outbursts ing student drivers. This committee, formed after a^j-om parents of school children, two-bus collision at Manning last Support of the present student month killed one student driver, another §Judent and injured 40 oth er pupils, held a public hearing yesterday, v s Despite the Manning accident, an driver system came from J. C. of Charleston, transportation mittee chairman of the State Edu cational Finance commission. He said “an exceptional driving A pretty setting for ttoe tables Educational Finance Commission | record of over 25 million miles with- was effected with colorful arrange ments of spring flowers in the liv ing and dining rooms and den. CITATION FOR LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION The State of South Carolina, County of Laurens. official said, the merit of school !°ut a fatality proves the merit” of boy drivers is proven by “an ex- J school boy bus drivers in South Car- ceptionl driving record of more olina. than 25 million miles (in 1951-52)’ a Clarendon county delegation without a fatality." J. C- Long, ihe commission’s Transportation Committee chair- „ * „ , . T , . man, said some 1,700 student By J. H. W asson, Probate Judge. d r i vers j n South Carolina compiled Whereas, Ardena B. Lark made, this miIeage record sml to me to grant her Letters ot, But a Clerandon counly delega _ Administration ot the estate and et-|, ion petmoning for adult drivers fects of Clarence Lorenzo Lark. to protesting student drivers. asseited “Statistics don’t mean a thing when your own flesh and blood is riding the buses.” The Clarendon group was compos ed mainly of parents whose children were involved in a fatal school bus collision near Manning last month. 1 asserted “that statistics don’t mean These are, therefore to cite and a thing when your own flesh and I admonish all and singlar the Kin-1 blood is riding the buses.” dred and Creditors of the said Clar- ( The group said that teen-age ence Lorenzo Lark, deceased, that j drivers lack an “essential element f . they be and appear before me, in | f 0 r competent bus drivers, matur- , the Court of Probate, to atL^v.. Laurens Court House, Laurens, S. C., I * A Florence on March 5, 1953 next, after publi PERSONAL MENTION Mr. and Mrs. Pope Chapman at tended a presentation of a Forty and Hght charter banquet at Cam- Mjx and Mrs. Pope-Chapman and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Terry attended the Ice Vogues in Greenville last week. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our apprecia tion to friends and relatives for 19-2cw J. HEWLETTE WASSON, J. P. L. C. accident. IF YOU DONT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DON’T GET THE NEWS BEAUTIFUL GIFT ITEMS ARE NOW ARRIVING DAILY and we invite you to drop in today and often to look around. RODDY’S GIFT SHOPPE S. Broad St. Extension -MR. AND MRS NY MASON, MRS. GEORGIA Mc- LENDON. JOHN- county delegation , . „ urged the committee to recommend cation hereof, at 3:00 o clock in thei local option to the Assem _ afternoon, to show cause, if any they ^jy ant j an en( j ^ a “concentration have, Why the said Administration o{ (^ool) power in Columbia.” should not be granted. | A supporter of the pesent sys- Given under my hand this 11th tern, Rep. Fritz Hollings of Charles-1 ^ manv exnressions of kindn css day of February, A. D, 1953. ton, maintained that studies sho,^ ™K~es°t'sincfS | the overwhelming weight of evi- | dence” is in favor of student driv ers. Another backer of teen-age driv ers, Newberry County Superinten dent of Education James B. Brown, j urged “careful consideration” be- J fore making a decision on the driv er system. Committee Chairman Tracy Gaines of Spartanburg, halted thej Washington, Feb. 10. — Selective session after 2 1-2 hours. He prom-1 service said today that “many” 19- ised to hear more reports later this, year-old youths will be drafted this wee k- j month to meet the army’s manpower needs and that “most boards” will ( take some younger men in March and April. A spokesman said local boards have been ordered to “try to take 20-year-olds, tout will call younger men if necessary.” He made Seoul. — Fighting dwindled to cle ar the boards would not be able patrol activity along the dreary 155 te fil1 tbeir quotas without dipping mile Korean battlefront today as * n to the ranks of youths 19 years old. Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor took 19-Year Olds To Be Drafted Little Action Seen At Front By New Chief FINAL SETTLEMENT ' Take notice that .on the 16th day FINE FURNITURE Down Through the Years tTe. Jones & Sons I The Best for Over Fifty Years CLINTON, S.C. Plus Thirteen Other Stores in South Carolina command of the U. S. Eighth Army. Taylor, a paratrooper general 0^ , „ , . oco T , World War II, became the fourth ° f February, 1953, I will render a United Nations field commander * ina i accoun t of my acts and doings in Korea. He succeeded General.* 5 Executrix and as restamentary. James A. Van Fleet, who started ( ^ uar< i ian under terms of will of home for retirement. | the of Fannie Copeland Bail-] The 60-year-old Van Fleet bade!® y the office of the Judge of a tearful goodbye to his beloved Fr ?^ ate °* Surens County, at 1U Eighth Army and then left the war- j 0 c J 1 ock a ; ^ ° n ih * da y ravaged peninsula for the first time ^ a PPly f° r a fuial discharge since he took command 22 months If 0171 my trust as Executrix and Testamentary Guardian. Any person indebted to said es tate is notified and required to ago. In Tokyd tonight a glittering host of Allied military and diplomatic officials paid him a hero’s tribute. Van Fleet will leave by air for Honolulu tomorrow. There he will meet his wife and after a short rest the couple will go by ship to San Francisco. Despite clouds covering most of North Korea throughout the tiay, the Fifth Air Force reported Sabre jets swept MIG alley, fighter- bombers struck on the West Coast and B26 bombers knocked out the center span of a rail bridge south of Wonsan on the East Coast. Sabre pilots encountered no MIGs. Thunderjet fighter-bombers de- storyed seven buildings and touch ed off a secondary explosion in a military area northeast of Sariwon on the West Coast. Other Thunderjets cut Red rail tracks in the same area and bomb ed a shore installation near Pyong yang, North Korean capital. Last flight, unopposed B29 Super forts rained bombs on a Red sup- make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forvere barred. PUTSY SILAS BAILEY, Executrix, , Clinton, S. C. Jan. 13, 1953 4c-w-5 DR. L B. 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The Newberry county superin tendent of Education, James D. Brown, made “a plea for the cause of transportation in asking that “we dont lose our heads” in deciding on the worth of the present, program. A Florence delegation headed by Baxter Harwell unged the commit- ee to support local option in choos ing school bus drivers. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE Dr. Felder Smith OPTOMETRIST Laurens, S. C. Phone 794 NEW RAIL SPLITTER OFFICE BOOKS For the New Year Commercial Printing “We Do All Kinds Except Bad” In 1953 We SOLICIT A CONTINUATION OF YOUR BUSINESS AND GOOD-WILL. OUR COMBI NATION NEWSPAPER - PRINTING PLANT IS READY TO SERVE YOU. Call 74 For Your Needs As You Have Been Doing for Many Years CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Printing - Advertising - Office Supplies “One of Clinton’s Oldest Business Firms’