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f • t Thursday, March 26, 1953 / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Three WAYS AND MEANS CHAIRMAN HANDLED ROUGHLY BY HOUSE Columbia. — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Verner of Greenville has come up with an idea that may evaporate the mist that clouds the lawmakers’ un derstanding of State finances. The membership of the House has Representatives to outlaw Commun- ists in South Carolina. One would ^ require a lo(yalty oath of all the em- — ployees including teachers. By latest ^ available FBI count there are 15 — Communists in the State . . . John ss Peurifoy of Walterboro, State De- zs been'trying "to handle big State mon- Partment career man now Ambassa- ^ ey problems when it doesn’t savvy ; do ^ to Gree< ^' app ^ )1 | lte ^ b y Tr H! T ’ an, 1 = - • • 1 will retain the post during the Eisen-, = MURRAY GARBER’S Second the complexities of even onq depart ment’s budget request. The result is hectic debate, punctuated by de mands for exact information on a dozen, problems, and underscored by criticism of the state Budget and Control Board which drew up the basic budget plan. An air of frustration rules at first, then the lawmakers settle down to various attitudes of resignation to the ultimate outcome of the situation. hower administration . . . Now that = GOP top-level decisions have been = made on patronage and S. C. for Ike sss Chairman Douglas McKay, Sr., has = conferred with 'S. C. GOP Chairman 1 — Edgar Morris in Washington some Federal job-changing is expected shortly . . . Gov. Byrnes was offered a ride to Augusta with President Eisenhower when he flew down for his long week end from Washington, but the Governor turned it down be- The brunt of the Houses bellicos-1 cause 0 ; appointments in the Na- ity hits Mr. Verner, who, as head of| tion , s Capital The State legis- the money-bill-writing committee, i i ature begins its ninth week Tuesday acts as floor director and interpreter an( j hasn’t passed any important lor the appropriation bills. He is put statewide legislation, through a barrage of cross-question Diseases Hit U. S. Animals, Cause Is Sought Anniversary i iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ing like no witness ever saw. The physical and mental strain is more than one mortal should bear. Should Be Informed The solution to this is for the House members to educate them selves on the financial problems of the individual state agencies, insti tutions, and departments. There are nearly 70. Since it is unrealistic to try to get the 124 House members to undergo such an indoctrination and continu ing study course, Mr. Verner has come up with the next best thing. As of now the 27-man Ways and Means Committee which writes the 1 appropriation bill (mostly on the recommendations of the budget and control board) is divided into nine, three-man committees. Each com mittee isassigned at least a half-doz en State agencies to study and be come expert on. Not only will this enable them to write money bills more intelligently, but they will also be able to share the burden of explaining the con tents and the reasons for the money requests to the House—the job now undertaken by one man, Mr. Verner. It is only right that the committee men assume responsibility for the passage of appropriation measures. They, not the chairman alone, write the bills. When the 1953-54 State spending bill was handed back to the House this week, the subcommittees were ready to handle any questions. Mr. Verner has appointed the sub committees to work on money meas ures. tex the 1954-General. Assembly. By that time they should be author- ities on the departments they are |Virginja area a , one Research CO n- = studying. ! tracts totaling $170,000 have been = This plan is an improvement over , j== one proposed recently by Anderson Vesicular exanthema - a virus = County Rep. James B. Bawson. He affectl swine . „ was con , ined t0 = suggested the House be divided into ( _ ... , . ^ ® . ! California until last summer. Now =; 69 committees to do the work. With, , , „ oc . — „ .‘swine herds in more than 35 states — that many committees working at i, , • ., * j , . j . , , ,, have been infected. Federal and one time, only chaos could result. “ * . , . . . Mr Verner’s action imoressed the state governments have spent about Cauitol reo^rters as thTsinete out-'^ 250 ' 000 ’ 000 trying t0 halt 11 by standing dm-elopmont in the current i P urch f' n 8 and destroymg session so far | anunals. ^ Some political notes ... A top-1 Rhil J its ~ a h ° g di *f ase ' 11 t ha ^ ranking French government official i iecent1 ^ fP r ? ad to a11 ^P ortant will visit in South Carolina and make P ork producing ai;eas m the coun try. Simms said it is reaching se rious proportions.” Illlllllllll = Washington, March 21.—An un precedented outbreak of animal disease in the past 15 months has caused experts to look for evidence that germ warfare is being waged against U. S. farmers. Dr. B. T. Simms, chief of the Agriculture Department’s Bureau rz of Animal Industry, said today ‘‘there- is no evidence at *aH” of such activity thus far. “Of course, we have thought of the possibility and are watching it closely,” Simms said, adding that field workers have been alerted. Scientists and veterinarians have had multiple headaches during the past 15 months as both old and new animal and poultry ailments ^ cropped up in almost every section of the country. “We’ve never had a time when so many came along, one right after} the other,” Simms said. Causes and remedy of some are still ^unknown. Simms said some, which have yet to hit large num bers of animals, present potential threats unless farmers are awak ened to the danger. He hinted that the BAI will need more money ifor adequate research. Among the diseases are: Air-sac — a recently discovered poultry virus. It kills about six perils cent of all broilers annually. Losses j —- Another year has rolled around again, and we invite you to celebrate our Anniversary with us. We offer a galaxy of bargains galore. Clothes to wear for and after Easter. We invite you to come in and see our values as follows: are as High as 10,000,000 birds a — year in the Delaware-Maryland-fS a major speech -some time this Spring, probably in April . . . There apparently was no direct tie-in be tween Negro organization and the Democratic party during the 1952 presidential campaign, however, Ne ville Bennett, who managed the Stev enson campaign has written to John McCray, chairman of the S. C. Pro gressives, and expressed apprecia tion for the support that was given at the polls. . . . South Carolina has 17 per cent of the chapters of the Na- FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 14th day of April, 1953, I will render a final ac count of my acts and doings as Com mittee of the estate of Corinne H. Boyd in the office of s the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 10 o’clock a.m., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Committee. Any person indebted to said estate tional Association for the Advance- is notified and required to make pay- = ment of Colored People. ... It is ment on or before that date; and all j jSjij not generally known that Illinois persons having claims against said Congressman Dawson (Negro) re- estate will present them on or be- ceived a police escort to and from fore said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. B. HUBERT BOYD, Committee. 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