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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, April 9, 1953
Jiff (Eltnton GHirumrU
Established 1900
WILSON W. HARRIS, Editor and Publisher
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CLINTON. S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1953
t et the Bill Die
We recently commented on a
bill
a
tanks in the state. It would make
at permissible by law for banks to
operate five days a week instead
^->f five and one-half as at present.
It is noted that the bill is now
J. C. Owings, 95,
Laurens Civic
Leader Passes
♦—
Laurens, April 5.—John Calvin
; Owings, 95, retired merchant and
former mayor, died early Sunday
evening at the Laurens county hos
pital where he had been a patient
for three weeks following -a year of
declining health.
i He was born in Dials township,
Laurens county, son of Jonathan H.
and Mary Stoddard Owings. He
came to Laurens early in life and
had made his home here ever since.'
Mr. Owings was a member of the
firm of Owings and Bobo, one of
the city’s largest mercantile estab
lishments, which ceased its activi
ties about eight years ago. The oth
er member of the firm, the late C.
; B. Bobo, died in 1944. During their
business life together the firm sup-
ported two foreign missionaries.
Mr. Owings served as mayor for
one term about 1915 and did not
offer for re-election. During his
younger days he was active in the
j civic life of the city, serving as a
_ i member and director of the Cham-
lish a success. Poor folks or corpor? , He dona ‘ ed ‘ he
ntion, ^ K-or r. land on which the large county hos- (
pital stands and was a liberal con-
‘ tributor to all worthwhile causes, i
He was a member and deacon of
the First Baptist church and its
oldest member. He was a trustee
of the city schools during practi
cally his entire active life and se
asons do not have to take up collec
.. , . , . . . tions when seeking locations for new
troduced^m the Icg.slaturc to set industries £ interested in to-
five-day work week for the
eating in selected communities.
Secretary Talks Sense
The new secretary of agriculture, , ^ , . . , „
Ezra Taft Benson, has set himself j l ec t e d the site for the present Cen
m the hands of the judiciary com- j out tQ revise and en f 0 rce the law tral Clt y s** 001 -
There it should lie and
mittee.
<3)6.
There has developed
< ppbsition in the house, and prop
of supply and demand which in re-
t years was repealed by the
decided j Roosevelt-Truman administrations.
He Said in an address to a Chamber
crly so. to the proposal since it of Commerce group yesterday that
xvould work a hardship on banks’| the American people need “a little
<ustomer?. especially in rural com-j less dependence upon an ever-pater-
/numties. Such a law would prove nalistic federal government.” We
n great inconvenience not only to j need, he said, "to trim the federal
those in rural sections but in the | government down in size and ex-,
cities as well. A great many peo- 1 pense. We have today, he added, i Mre. Frank A. Dial of Laurens;'
pie do not- have an opportunity to i more than one billion dollars worth Mrs. Nim B. Sullivan and Mrs. Jul- j
On Dec. 25, 1888, he was married
to Miss Elizabeth Ruth Hughes of,
Fountain Inn. They celebrated! 1
their 64th wedding anniversary this I
past Christmas. I
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Elizabeth Bruce Hughes Owings;
two sons, Thomas C. and G. Edwin 1
Owings, of Laurens; four daugh- |
ters, Mrs. George H. Blakely and
have their checks cashed or depos- of .farm goods in storage. And he
itcd until Saturday. Merchants pointed out that the lifting of con-
and business houses need cash and trols on cattle had increased nrieat
other bank facilities on Saturday consumption 50 per cent. This makes
-o, which is their busiest day.
"ks are for the primary purpose
serving the public. If they are
eking the enactment of a law to
:t the work week they are maK-
.g a mistake, we say, and will
sense as every person must admit
Take the . item of butter of which
have spoken before. Secretary
we
ius W. Anderson of Anderson; one!|
sister, Mrs. I£ate Woods of Foun
tain Inn; 11 grandchildren and four ;
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted 1
Tuesday morning from the First
‘ 1 Baptist church by the Rev. J. E.
Benson warned the powerful Amer-
support for their product at 90 per
~f~rirL'a—reaction that-will-dn them I ppm of parjtv is creating a market
more harm than good. The bill is
p good one to let die -
By-Pass Need Here
It is hoted that the Greenwood
tounty delegation has introduced a
bill m the General Assembly
lean Dairy associatlon Uial the legal
Rouse, Rev. T. C. Cook and Rev. D
W. Garrett. Burial was in the
Laurens cemetery. T
not for butter but margarine. "If
xei
w rfotree Problems Occupy
a borhih: ' PTPserrt trend u>--caatliiue." j a .. . . , ,
he said, butter is on the way out. In'Alien ilOfl Or L.OUnCtl
1940 we were eating nearly 17
pounds of butter per person. Now
we are averaging a little under nine
pounds a year, which means to a
provide for the construction of a , . , . . „ i . 11 4 .
rvccr. pneed out of the market. Still the
by-pass around the city of Green-, inHllstrv is LafTlc y
large extent tha butter has been
(continued from page 1)
tivity has expired on the previous!
shift.
Policing the streets and handling
» The county's finance board I da i ry indust 7. « demanding that
would be authorized, it is noted, to ^ suPPO^d
borrow needed funds for the
pur-
to re-route heavy traffic from the
pose of constructing suyh a by-pass
at 90 per cent parity
Through the upholding of high
parity prices we have too much but-
hcart of the city and to alleviate ter * and millions of housewives have
crowded conditions. Provision for
repaying the loan is also provided.
stopped buying it and are bringing
up their families, on oleomargarine.
One of Clinton’s most pressing President Eisenhower a few days ago
needs today is a by-pass to facilitate! said d 15 a erm 16 against civilization
l/afiic on the main highways and
rtmove the enormous boxcar trucks
that much of the butter bought by
the government to keep the price up
that have made the main, business ^ p01s in stora g e when there arc
street a thoroughfare for the heavy j hungry Pf 0 ? 16 , who could use i*-G <>v "
Atlanta to Charlotte traffic. Not only | ern ment by price support laws is re-
^tic our streets being pounded day^ 01 ^ ^ sonae tvvo million
and night and worn out but there is, po ^ nds of a day at about 67
a large element of danger. The U r-j and c€ntsa pound, which
gent need for a by-pass here is rec- • j 713 es 1 e ltem prohibitive to mil-
ngnized by the state highway de- ilons ° housewives. Secretary- Ben-
partonent which recognizes the need 1 f 071 ^ ants tdls stopped and a self-
ht re of exactly what our neighbor e P ar m program-inaugurated that
r,ty is proposing to do. We would I would . reduce government spending
well to follow the Greenwood ° n pncc supports. Jn other words,
j.Ian upon some satisfactory agree-' he ^ ai ? ts u the law of and de -
ment. The Chamber of Commerce is\™ and to 4 ** given an honest chance
parting on a new year’s work. If it i t0 °P e r a te. Much of the fear over the
wants to help accomplish something Pnce-support law has been
Jrr the community that should long I fe y politically-inspired insinua-
have been done—here is an opportu-1 aons ^ ecr etary Benson is not
j sympathetic to the fanners’ prob
lems. The prime cause of the trouble
lies not in the laws themselves but
in the way the laws were maiadmin-
istered in the past. Unmanageable
surpluses were built up in govern
ment warehoused and small or no
effort was made to dispse of them
even when conditions were favor
able. Corn is an example, which tax
payers have paid for. The Secretary
of Agriculture has power to release
com, yet when the cattle feeders
needed feed in order to hold their
cattle, to raise the -grade of their
is
Know Their Records
For various reasons industry
moving South at a rapid rate, witn
state favorably considered, as
ihown by the number of textile and
ether plants, large and small, that
.have been built in recent years in
v.j-ious parts of the state. Warren T.
White, assistant vice-president of the 1
Seaboard Railroad, told a committee
of the Greenwood Chamber of Com-
xr*cict a few nights ago that this ten
dency of industry to come South will; beef, and to preserve “their breeding
continue, though the pace will prob-. herds, sufficient corn was not re-
ably be slackened. The advantages j leased, even though it was available
Die South has to offer will continue; for sale in government storage bins.
r"a * aw b 6 observed in the
very Town and community in- future, the new Secretary says, in
eluding ours, wants new industries. fairness to the legitimate £ ter€ ^ of
Wr have the climate, native intelli
gence of the people and a willingness
ic work on the part of most of them.
Availability of labor is an important u ..
factor and in a relatively sh*rt time ilQllniOnS HoiTIC
ran be trained to do skilled work.
Soimd government is another all-
'Torpurunl question with outsiders
rontemplating coming into the state.
Most towns and cities want out
ride capital to come into their midst
ard establish new industries. But
rthose that are sought should have
both agricultural producers and the
consumers. That is as it should be.
From France
1. Definite beats maintained by
the police department, with beats
changed each day.
2. Active and vigorous patrolling
of these beats constantly, with spe
cial attention to the parking meters
and the handling of traffic problems;
such as aiding traffic during all
heavy periods. Be on hand to help
with any traffic problems that de
velop on the officers’ beats at all
times. Seek out these problems and
try to assist them. The public wants
to see its officers on the street ren
dering the service that they are paid
for.
3. Detail an accurate record of all
parking violations, with every effort
possible on the part of the chief of
police to see that these violations are
enforced.
4. All alleys to be kept open in or
der that loading can be done at the
rear of the buildings and not per
mitted from the front when alleys
are available.
5. One officer in car patrolling the
main thoroughfares relative to traf
fic problems and speeding. This
same officer could cover other parts
of the city at intervals, such as the
Clinton Mill village, colored sections,
etc.
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Captain and Mrs. C. W. Hallman
and daughter, Kitty Lu, returned
here this week from France. Mrs.
Hallman and Kitty Lu joined Capt.
Hallman in Toul, France, in No-
thc needed capital and successful j v f r P^ r > and during their stay there
.i/usmess records. We should guard | Luxembourg, Switzerland,-
agaiH
nst the fly-by-night kind, those i H ^ land -®^^ um - Par j s and Berlin -
whe want a community to put up the
mam y and oftentimes make promis
es and propositions they cannot ful
fill Many towns are naving unfortu
nate and costly experience by the
abandonment of plants and financial
Josses by investors.
In seeking new enterprises we
should be sure the promoters have
ample capital and successful experi-
<»TiCe to make whatever they estab-
Capt. Hallman has been released
from active dirty.
B&PW CLUB
TO MEET TUESDAY
The Clinton Business and Profes
sional Women’s club will meet Tues
day evening, April 14, at 7:30 at the
Clinton Hotel for the regular month
ly supper meeting.
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