The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 30, 1953, Image 15
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» 1953-54 County Supply Bill
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
The Laurens county supply bill
for 1953 passed third reading in
the lower house last week and was
sent to the senate Thursday. It is
now in the hands of Sen. R. T. Wil
son to be approved or amended be
fore the delegation agrees upon its
final enactment into law.
The amount to be raised by taxa
tion, the difference between total
appropriations and total estimated
revenues is $134,624.24. The bill
provides spending totalling $414,-
624.24. Estimated income is fixed
at $280,000, the total spending fig
ure being about $35,000 less than
last year. *
Under the bill the auditor is au
thorized to collect taxable property
tax in the two school districts at
the rate of 20 mills, a reduction of
7 mills from the county maximum
of 27 mills last year. The reduc
tion will be brought about by state
funds of nearly $100,000 being re
turned to the county through the
surplus spending act.
A reduction of $60,000 is made in
the section for permanent road im
provements due to the fact that this
will be cared for in the proposed
road building bond issue of $200,000
for this year, and the same amount n^h be necessary, $3,465.
for the fllowing year.
A breakdown of the estimated
revenue follows:
Fines, licenses and fees, $50,000;
gasoline tax, $95,000; alcoholic li
quors tax, $43,000; beer and wine,
tax, $11,000; bank thx, $5,000; bond
premium and interest, $2,500; aoun-
tys’ part of income tax, $35,000; de
linquent taxes, $27,500; miscellan
eous, $11,000.
The bill also includes several sec
tions pertaining to the operation of
the office of the sheriff, supervisor,
commissioners and general routine
business of the county. A tax of
one mill is levied on all taxable
property to cover insurance on the
county hospital and the balance
thereof to be expended for the care
County Home — Salaries: superin
tendent $1,760, assistant to the su
perintendent $350, additional help to
care for inmates $1,320.
‘ Food, clothing, fuel, lights, etc., for
inmates, and for farming expenses
$6,500.
Amount in excess of appropriation
for 952-53 to complete construction
of county home, $5,000.
S. C. retirement system for county
employees, $5,000.
S. C. Industrial commission—pre-
miunri for workmen’s compensation
insurance, $1,100.
County attorney, $300.
Rebinding records and repairing
plat books in office of clerk of court,
$1,000.
Total board of commissioners of
fice, $234,735. - ft ,
Clerk of v Court
Salaries — Clerk of court $3,960,
deputy clerk $2,310, clerical assist
ant, $2,310, janitor $1,848.
Office supplies, $3,500.
Circuit court expenses, including
jurors, witnesses and baili:s, $8,000.
Total clerk of court’s office, $21,-
928.
Auditor’s Office
Salaries—Auditor $1,505.62, assist
ant, 2,310, additional help, if so
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and support of needy and charity
patients, all claims approved by the
hospital’s operating board of trus
tees.
The following items are listed in
the bill:
Board of Commissioners
Salaries—Supervisor $3,960, com
missioners (2 at $350) $700.
clerk $2,310.
Travel — Supervisor $1,200, com
missioners ( a2t $350) $700.
Office supplies,. $600.
Courthouse: Water, lights, fuel,
telephone, janitor, supplies, cleaning
grounds, $5,000; beautifying lawn
and building walks, $750; ladies’ rest
room, $900.
Insurance — for courthouse, jail,
county home, agriculture building,
chaingang^ camp buildings, $775.
Maintenance of chaingangs, roads,
bridges, building bridges, purchasing
road machinery, grading and topsoil
ing roads, $135,000.
Amount of expenditures in excess
of appropriations for 1952-53, $60,-
000.
Travel, $600.
Office supplies, $1,000.
Board of assessors and equaliza
tion, $2,000.
Total auditor’s office, $10,880.62.
Treaaurer’a Office
Salaries — Treasurer $1,505.62, as
sistant $2,310, second assistant $2,310.
Office supplies, $1,400.
Total treasurer’s office, $7,525.62.
Superintendent of Education
Salaries—Superintendent of edu
cation $660, assistant $2,310, Council
of Farm Women—to furnish musical
director for all rural schools, $L980.
Travel—Superintendent $900, at
tendance teacher $300, supervisor of
school lunch program $300.
Office supplies $650.
children $200.
Total office of county superintend
ent of education, $7,300.
Sheriffs Office .
Salaries — Sheriff $3,960f deputy
sheriffs (8 at $2,640) $21,120, deputy
sheriffs — mills (6 at $170) $1,020,
jailor $2,640, one deputy for night
office work $2,640.
Travel — Sheriff $1,500, deputy
sheriffs (7 at $ 125 per month) $10,-
500, head mill deputy at Joanna for
transporting prisoners and witnesses
to jail and to trial at magistrate’s
court <25 per month) $300, head .mill
deputy at Lydia —for transporting
prisoners and witnesses to jail and
to trial at magistrate’s court ($12.50
per month) $150.
Office supplies $600.
Uniforms $1,600.
Jail—water, lights, fuel, disinfec
tants, plumbing, catching prisoners
outside of county, and dieting pris
oners at 85c per day, $8000.
Radio system—maintenance $600,
supplies $500.
f Total office of sheriff, $55,130.
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Judge of Probate :
Salaries—Judge of probate $3,960,
clerk $2,310, extra help $800.
( Travel—Judge of probate $300.
Office supplies $800.
Total office probate judge’s $8,170.
Health Department
County’s part of salaries and travel
allowance of county employees, $10,-
950.
Office supplies and maintenance of
building $3,200.
Total health department, $14,150.
Magistrates '
Salaries — Laurens $1,320, Clinton
$1,100, Cross Hill $250, Waterloo
$250, Gray Court $250, Youngs $250,
Scuffletown $200, Sullivans $250,
Jacks $200, Mountville $250.
Inquests, investigations, supplies
$2,112.
Office rent—Clinton, $114.
Office supplies, $100.
(Payment of jurors in criminal cas
es, and for miscellaneous expenses,
$300.
Total magistrates’ appropriation,
$6,076.
Agriculture Department
Salaries—County agent $600, sec
retary to county agent $120, stenog
rapher and materials for home dem
onstration agent $347, assistant coun
ty agent $660, second assistant coun
ty agent $2,180. ? - ■
Agriculture building—janitor, sup
plies, plumbing and other minor re
pairs', fuel, water, lights, telephone
and postage, $12.
For purchasing water cooler, $260.
Club work—Boys’ 4-H club $100,
girls’ 4-tH club $100, Future Farmers
of America $75, Future Home Mak
ers $75, Negro 4-H club $50.
AAA office $600, FSA office $270.
Laurens Cooperative Breeding as
sociation $600.
Negro county agent—rent, lights
and fuel $200, stenographic work
$150.
Curb market — lights and water
$25.
Total Agriculture $7,124.
Department of Public Welfare
For maintenance, including office
expense and mileage for child wel
fare worker $2,715.
Emergency assistance $1,800.
... Boarding home care $1,200. —
Total Public Welfare Dept., $6,715.
Domestic Relations Court
Salaries — Judge $2,100, stenogra
pher $600.
Total Domestic Relations court,
$2,700.
Laurens County Library
Total appropriation, $10,000.
Coroner
Salary—Coroner, $715.'
“Travel—Coroner, $300.
Total coroner’s office, $1,015.
County Physician
Salaries — County physician $825,.
assistant county physician # $425.
Travel—County physician $375, as
sistant county physician $175.
Medical supplies, $300.
Total county physician, $2,100.
Forest Fire Control
Per diem and mileage for board
members, $200.
Tax Collector
Salary, $2,310.
Miscellaneous
County audit, $2,500.
Laurens County chapter, Ameri
can Red Cross—office rent, $200.
Premium on boqds, $825.
Secretary of delegation—office ex
pense, $120.
Lunacy examinations, $1,000.
Contingent fund, $6,000.
\ Board of registration (3 at $100),
$300.
Total miscellaneous, $10,965.
National Guard Units
At Laurens, $600. 1
At Clinton, $600.
> Veterans’ Organizations
American Legion, Laurens, for
memorial hut, $li000.
American Legion, Clinton, for me
morial hut, $1,000.• J ■'
V. F. W., Laurens, for memorial
hut, $1,500.
Total veterans’ organizations, $3,-
500.
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Revival Services
Now In Progress
At Joanna Church
Revival services began at the Jo
anna Baptist church on Sunday
morning with the pastor, Rev.
James Mitchell bringing the mes
sages. Rev. Joe Stroud, music-edu
cation director of College Avenue
Baptist church, Lenoir, N. C, is di
recting the music each evening and
bringing the morning messages,
Tuesday throug^ 'Friday at 10:00
o’clock. Prayer 5 services are being
held in the various departments
each evening at 7 o’clock with the
Concord and church choirs and mu
sicians meeting in the choir room
for rehearsals and prayer.
Services will continue through
Sunday each evening at 7:30. The
pastor extends a cordial invitation
to the people of other churches and
the community to attend. The
nursery ‘ will be open each evening
at 7 o’clock.
Spitzenbergen, lying between Scan-!
dinavia and the North Pole, has ris-’
en 15 degrees Fahrenheit in the pasti
40 years, Wexler said.
That really is unusual. Tbe aver- 1
age increase for the rest of the world, !
Wexler said, has been no more than!
a degree or two in a century.
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