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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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give Jhem maturity — “an esstntial
element for competent bus drivers.”
Rep. Fritz Hollings of Charleston,
said, however, the “overwhelming
weight of evidence” is in favor of
the teen-age operators. Hollings
headed a committee which original
ly studied and supported the use of
student drivers. |
He cited statistics and a nation
wide study by the American Auto
mobile association to support his
stand.
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.
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