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Page Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, June 18, 1953 CONGRATULATIONS — to — Giles Chevrolet Co. on their 25TH ANNIVERSARY We take pleasure in extending our hearty felicitations in the cele bration of your birthday. We wish for you a contin uation of pleasant business relations in our commu nity. HOWARD’S PHARMACY CONGRATULATIONS **.#*•**—*-‘*^*^>« ** Giles Chevrolet Co. on the occasion of their 25TH ANNIVERSARY in Clinton We wish you every future success • TIMMERMAN Sales - OLDSMOBILE - Service CONGRATULATIONS Giles Chevrolet Co. on their 25TH ANNIVERSARY It is a pleasure to salute this fine firm and we wish you many years of continued success. M. S. Bailey & Son BANKERS Established 1886 — Our 67th Year Capital and Surplus §600,000.00 Member FDIC COMPLIMENTS and BEST WISHES — to — Giles Chevrolet Co. On the occasion of their 25TH ANNIVERSARY WE WISH YOU CONTINUED SUCCESS W. G. King & Sons Builders Supplies AUTO INDUSTRY EXPECTS UPWARD BUSINESS TREND (By DAVID J. WILKIE) Detroit, June 13.—It often is said Life 111 Automobiles that as &oes the auto industry so p| us hier And goes the nation's business general- ni r* r i> ly. In earlier years it was said arV rlushier Every Day thing affecting the natiorie’s econo- (By V. G. MARTIN) my also affected the auto industry. New York.—Life in an automo- Whichever view may be corecjUkile g e t s piushier and plushier. business generally should continue If you become bored on the high- good throughout the year, for the) way or vexed at city traffic, you car makers’ expectations for 1953 can brew a cup of coffee on the still are running high. Despite some dashboard. pessimistic forecasts they expect the; A new gadget plugs into a socket year to be their second best. That a b 0 ut the size of that of a cig- would mean an outpjut topping the^ arete lighter. Turn it on an in sev- 1951 total of 6.765,000 vehicles. en m inutes a soft whistle signals! The record year was 1950 with t 0 y OU that the water is boiling.- | production of more than eight mil-1 ft fwict nf thf. knnh and wa-1 lion cars and trucks. ; t er pours into a cup filed with in- 1 The figures, of course, look large j slant coffee which forms the bot- when compared with the auto in-! tom part of the machine, dustry’s pre-war operations. But; The coffee-maker comes in sizes that was more than a decade ago; ranging from one to four cups. You nobody in the industry or close to; can stow it in the glove compart- it has yet come up with a widely | ment when not in use. accepted figure for post-war normal Called Autp-Mix, it’s made by a| firm in Cologne, West Germany. Car shields sporting your mono annual car and truck output. Several Estimates Perhaps the most generally ac-.gram are designed for use on the cepted figure in this respect has j front doors, in case you want to been the estimate of numerous adorn the family chariot with a general sales chiefs that there is personal touch. The small shields an annual domestic market for 5 1-2 feature both the driver’s initials milion pasenger cars far into the and the insignia of the car manu- future. | facturer. That figure, the sales executives Finished in 18 karat gold, coated say, is based on very careful mar-' with lacquer for protection, the ket analyses, taking into account shields have an adhesive backing all factors of population growth, i which allows them to be pressed; vehicle obselescence and the con- j on the doors. When you sell the' tinuing growth in the number of car, you can peel off the shield, mutiple car families. without affecting the paint. Thes experts have statistics to' A set of key rings rounds out the prove a steadily increasing use of line of automobile jewelry (Signa- motor vehicles. Figures gathered I Craft, Inc.). by the United States Bureau of ; Public Roads show car and truck State of Sodth Carolina, registrations in the United States County of Laurens, last year exceeded 53 1-4 million Court of Common Pleas. un it s Bank of Clinton, Plaintiff, vs It is interesting to note this tops R u by Neal, Defendant, the total of 10 years ago by more, PURSUANT to a Decree ol the than 22 milion vehicles. j Court in the above case, I will sell For the industry’s impact on the at public outcry to the highest bid- nation’s social, industrial, and fi- der, either in or in front of the nancial economy, the experts note Court House, at Laurens, S. C., on that more than nine million per- 1 Salesday in July n«ixt, being Mon- sons are directly or indirectly em-, day, the 6th day of the month, dur-, ployed in the production, ' sales, ing the legal hours for such sales, I and servicing of motor vehicles, the following described property, j That is figured by the industry at to wit: better than one out of every seven! All the undivided interest of workers. 1 Ruby Neal, the same being a one-1 --Bq»ally--importaTTt-peThailS“is"the^raffTTiterest inTee~sffiipTe~and aTIfe'l' fact that just about all the indus- j interest in the remaining one-half, try’s workers are^also its custom-! in the following described rgal ers; that the products of every statefproperty: All that piece, parcel or in the Union are required for *he tract of land, with the improve- production of automobiles, and that ments thereon, situate, lying and the auto companies are the biggest being on the east side of South customers of many of the nation’s Carolina Highway No. 308, being j basic industries like steel, glass, partly within and partly without rubber and others. . the corporate limits of the Town of Last week a Federal Reserve Clinton, in Laurens County, State Bank report perdicted production • of South Carolina, said tract con-; cutbacks and “sharply reduced” taining thirty-five (35) acres, more employment in the auto industry or less, and being bounded on the in the latter half of the year. The north by lands now or formerly or automobile industry does not W. J. Martin and Mollie Martin an ~ go along with this forecast. Neith- by lands now or formerly of Estate yr do they agree with the bank’s of G. C. Young; on the east by statement that a possible 40 per lands of H. D. Rantin and lands of! ‘cent production drop cannot be Agnes Bobo from which it is sep- casily offset by more aggressive arated by a branch the branch bi selling methods or more advertis- log the line, and by lands now or' ing. formerly of G. C .Young; on the However, a certainty' is that car ’ south by lands now or formerly of sales and'' auto industry employ- H. D. Henry; and on the west by; ment are very closely tied togeth- lands of J. A. Melton, lands of M. j er. A cut in either will quickly af- D. Smitherman and possibly by feet the other. A production cut- lands of others from which it is sep- j back would be reflected not only arated by S. C. Highway No. 308, in auto plant employment but in the said highway being the west- numerous other industries of w’hich c-rn boundary line; said tract is the auto makers are leading customers, identical tract conveyed to B. B. 1 Even if production were curtail- j Neal and Ruby Neal by Mary And- ed but 20 or 25 per cent, a lot of i erson Bailey and William Ray And- car purchases w’ould be deferred, i erson as executors of the estate of And it is true that while motor George W. Bailey by deed dated j vehicle production cannot be turn- February 26, 1945, and recorded in 1 ed on and off on short notice, out put is geared in the long run to de mand, both actual, and potential. ' S. C. Highway Network Could Girdle Globe the office of the Clerk of Court for Laurens County in Deed Book 79, a t 302. TERMS OF SALE: Cash, the suc cessful bidder, other than the -Plaintiff herein, immediately upon the conclusion of the bidding, shall deposit with the Clerk of Court the sum of 5 per cent as a guarantee of his bood faith in the bidding. The | Columbia, June 15.—South Caro- S ame to be applied to the pu rchase lina’s vast network of highways, p rice up0n his complying with the placed end to end, would stretch terms of sale, othenvise to be paid nearly all the way around the t o Plaintiff for credit on the in- wor ld. debtedness. In the event the suc- Total mileage in the road system | such a deposit, or should fail to at the end of last month was 23,382, cessful bidder should fail to make representing an investment of moie CO mply with the terms of sale, the) than $300 million, the State High-; said lan d s shall be re-sold on the | way department reported today. same or some subsequent Salesday Due largely to the extensive sec- on ^e same terms, at risk of the ondary or so-called farm-to-market, defaulting purchaser, program which was begun in 1946, j The purchaser to pay for papers, the total mileage'of primary and j stamps and recording, secondary roads has almost doubled * W. E. DUNLAP, in the past decade. Only 11,977 3 C ^.2 C. C. C. P. & G. S. miles were in the system in 1943 Dated this 13th day of j une , 1953 and 3,047 in 1920. Of the present total mileage, 8,829 miles are in the primary sys tem and 14,552 in the secondary program. Four hundred and miles have been tliken into the sys tem since last May. Only 171 miles in the primary system are yet to be paved w T hile 7,850 miles in the secondary sys tem are still not surfaced. Orangeburg county leads in total mileage with 890 miles, followed closely by Spartanburg with 879. Anderson has 850 and Aiken 821. Richland county has 611 miles of the total mileage. Of this figure 254 miles are in the primary system and 357 in the secondary program. Neighboring Lexington has a'to tal of 785 miles, 232 in the primary group and 553 in the secondary. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 9th day of July, 1953, I will render a fipal 751 account of my acts and doings as Administrator of the estate of Bar rie Jean Wingard in the office of 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 Admin istrator. Any person indebted to said es tate Is nbtlfle<r Snd required to 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 forever barred. B. F. WINGARD, Adm., Clinton, S. C. jj June 6, 1953. 4c-w-2 CONGRATULATIONS —to — Giles Chevrolet Co. 1 on their 25TH ANNIVERSARY It is a pleasure to extend our best wishes and good-will, and to wish for you many years of business suc cess. BANK of CLINTON Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation CONGRATULATIONS —to— Giles Chevrolet Co, / We hope you will have many more “birthdays,” and we join with others in wishing you many suc cessful business years. EDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION BEST WISHES — to — Giles Chevrolet Co. on their 25TH ANNIVERSARY It gives us pleasure to extend our compliments and heft wishes, and to wish for you many years of suc cessful and pleasant relations with those you are privileged to serve. LB. DILLARD Gent’s Furnishings COMPLIMENTS and BEST WISHES —to— Giles Chevrolet Co. on their 25TH ANNIVERSARY Cooper Motor Co. # * Dodge — Plymouth >