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Fajie Six THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, October 22, fess f Easier To Seek White House Than Home Vote Chattanooga, Tenn.—II probably is easier to campaign for tfie White House than get the vote in your own backyard. LAURENS BY-PASS IS APPROVED BY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT § Laurens, Oct. 15—Sen. R. T. Wil son has announced that he and oth er members of the county delega tion had been notified by C. R. Mc- Milan, chief highway commissioned, That is the general idea conveyed!'hat $240,000 had been allocated at i nat is me g a recent meeting of the commis- today by Senator’s Estes Kefauver | s . on ^ or t ^ e L aurens by-pass which of Tennessee. Richard Russell of has been studied by highway en- Georgia and John Sparkman of Ala- gmeers for some time, bama. The letter from Chief Commis- The three southerners who sought 8 j oner McMillan, addressed to the national favor in 1952 are running j our mein bers of the delegation, what political experts call "scared ^ was as follows: races” in their home sta \^ “State Highway Commission at election to the Senate in 1954. j jts meeting Sept. 17, added the fol- are busy 12 months before the vot- j ow j ng to t he Federal Aid Primary Program: “U. S. Route 76 (By-Pass) from U. S. Route 76 East of Laurens to U. S. Route west of Laurens—3.- 25 miles—$240,000.” Sen. Wilson said he coyld not tell from the letter when actual con struction would begin but that he would guess it might start the last of this year or probaly the first part of next year. The route, he jng. Recent conversations with these gentlemen indicate they don’t always talk about the same things to the homefolks that they did to national audiences little more than a year agl. , Sen. Kefauver is the only member of the trio who has opposition thus far. Rep. Pat Sutton has thrown his hat in the ring. There is talk that Gov. Frank Clement may get in the race, i The senator has proclaimed, mean-,. . w n ■ • while, that his bid for the Demo- New TellOW LmCS crat’s presidential nomination last ^^jll Rp Rioid year is strictly an event of the past. » He is concentrating only on the Sen- said, has already been surveyed. He exhibited a map which show-! ed that on the east, from the diree-! tion of Clinton, the route would cut northwesward in the vicinity of the fair grounds to Fleming street, then down Fleming street to North Har per, across North Harper and up the Little river valley to Church,! thence up Church several hundred yards to the neighborhod of Bish-! op’s Grocery and then across to 76 (Princeton highway) in the neigh borhood of Mitchell’s store. This route, he pointed out, would take care of all truck and through traffic except to and from the di-| raction of Greenwood on U. S. : Highway 221. Coming under the Federal Aid Primary Program, Sen .Wilson said, the cost of the by-pass does not come out of local funds, such as for farm-to-market roads and federal aid construction funds allocated to the county. “It will not interfert with any other of our construction programs,” he said. Enforcement Of ate campaign. Sen. Kefauver said: T really think it was easier to campaign for the nomination. These races at home get awfully intense. I haven’t forgotten the hardest cam paign I ever had was for the state senate.” Sen. Kefauver has made some 20 speeches here and there in the state since he returned home to Chatta nooga from Washington. He has talked about threats to curtail the Tennessee Valley Authority, lam- based the Republican farm program and “hard money” policy. These obviously are subjects close to the hearts of Tennesseans. Kefauver has not said much if anything about fair employment (FETC) or Democrats so-called loy alty oath. His stand on those issues before the party convention at Chi cago drew considerable fire from home constrtuents. Sen Russell let it be known tacitly that he seeks re-election by the sim ple expedient of announcing an all- out speaking tour of Georgia. The Georgian went to the Demo cratic convention in 1952 with as the southern delegates except for, u Tennessean, eoranmed to Kefauver P el 3 hne is Russell almost lost that following, . . . . J however, and certainly dropped some of the Dixie fervor about his can- Greenville, Oct. 20 — The State Highway patrol has been instructed to begin rigid enforcement of the new’ yellow no passing line regula tions immediately after the lines are properly down. » Lt. P. Frank Thompson of the Greenville patrol district said Chief Highway Commissioner Claude R. McMillan has told patrolmen to en force the new regulations rigidly. Cases for reckless driving, for which the fine is $25 to $100, will be made against those who wilfully or wantonly abuse the regulations. Two cases of reckless driving call for a three-month license suspen sion. The new lines have already been painted beside the white center lines at no passing zones on U. S. Highways 276 and 25 south to the Laurens county line, 29 south to the Anderson county line, and 123 west to the Pickens county line. Alter nate U. S. 123 through West Green ville was to be finished yesterday afternoon. By the end of the week U. S. Highways 25 and 276 north to the North Carolina line will have had smIW~ar-t on «*« »•“«"* f“' f"™- Signs are being erected to the in the At some stretches where there „ . ■ , 1 is only the white center line, pass- didacy for the presidential nomma-j ing u when sa , e from Uon when he suddenly advocated re- j ane Where there is a yel- peal of the Taft-Hartley labor law., j ow j| ne i an€t no passing For the It is notable that Georgia po.iticai wil j ^ allowed from that lane, i October, « .ssj .eader Roy V. Hams recently urged where there are yellow lines on : than total blighting. The big differ- Georgia voters to forget the sena- either side of ^ cen t e r line, no e nce this year is that there in the tors overture to win the labor vote passing a t all will be permitted. background is that sere, sad tan of since it was made an the heat of the The highway department main- p artia i blight, the mark of the national convention. Russell, mean- tenance crews here have develop- drought on all the hills. The Color Comes The effect of the late summer drought were clearly to be seen on the hills two weeks ago particularly where the trees were shallow-rooted; along the ledges and stood in sere, j sad tan. Now’ that look of drought-if blight begins to recede, not because * it has lessened but because the fall color has begun to come to so many other trees, more happily situated in deeper soil. The season moves in its usual pattern, and here come the reds, the yellows, the rich browns and the whole autumn spectrum. Drive out among the hilla and you will find the swamp maples, in their dried-up swamps, flaming with what seems more than usual color. The shades of red are already spectac ular, and not entirely because of a background mottled with drought- tan. "Hie woodbine is vivid crimson, creeping on stone walls and festoon ed on the tree*. Poison ivy, always colorful in deceptive invitation, has more than usual brilliance. Bitter sweet is at that stage where the leave* have a chartreuse glow which lasts only a few days before the leaves fall and the erries begin to pot their husks and reveal the vivid inside color. Many of the gray birches have already dropped their leaves, but the stouter white birches are at that luminous stage, no longer quite green and not yet really yellow. The ash trees take’, on that amazing color midway between green and blue, which will quickly turn to bronze and russet, then to dying yellow. And a few of the oaks are already taking on their reds and red-purples. 1 color comes, inevitably, with ’ when there is anything less while, talks like he has forgotten it, ed a ij ne painter which can put all right down one or all three of the lines . j Since he got home from the re- 1 cent session of Congress Sen. Spark- WHITER HANDKERCHIEFS man has made nearly a hundred h —The New Yorit Times. WASHINGTON AND "SMALL BUSINESS” Bv C. WILSON HARDER SCRATCHED SILVER To remove scratches from silver, ., . „ . To whiten handkerchiefs, put mix enough putty powder with a speeches throughout Alabama. Ht thern j nt0 a ^ co i d wa ter in, little olive oil to make a paste. Rub s „ , which a quarter of a teaspoon of this paste on the silver with a soft In those six weeks I ve wonted cream 0 f tartar has been dissolved,' cloth. Polish with ohaimois. The a.most as hard and made nearly as and them over night. (Scratches should disappear. imany speeches as I did while run-, —- 1111 ' - ning for the vice-presidency." The man who went down in de feat with presidential candidate Ad- lai Stevenson last fall gave further evidence that winning the home vote is no cinch. He said: “You can’t talk in generalities. You have to get rather specific and deal primarily with the problems of your own folks here in Alabama, and that's what I've been doing and frankly I’m encouraged by their re action.” • Chances of opposition? Sparkman laughed: "I'll not know about that until March 2 next year.” Sparkman also speaks like a man wno doesn’t necessarily uphold every little plank of the party’s 1952 plat form. That is to say, he’s not carry ing a torch for the national Demo cratic organization as was the case of a man seeking the vice presi dency. The Alabama senator said in fact he has made has sacrifice for the party by making the arduous 1952 campaign and that he doesn’t want Or. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices al 20(i South Broad St. Phone €58 Office Hoar* 9:90 to 5:39 Gray Funeral Home Cl'cton, S. C. FUNERAL DIRECTORS ...and... EMBALMERS Phones II and 399-J AMBULANCE SERVICE L. RUSSELL GRAY and V. PARKS ADAIR, Gen. Mgrs. 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Today, with rectangular tabes, practice is antiqaated bnt a matter which industry will un doubtedly change without gov ernment meddling. • * * However, while FTC prefers to decide between merits of Twee- dledeedee and Tweedledeedum, it has so far ignored the plague of the appliance business. * * * That evil is wide spread be tween the discount off the retail price given the smaller dealer, and big, or mnlti-onUet dealers. • '* * Because retaiTj>rices are the same consumef'ns not aware of discount set-up. * o • Usually consumer is better pro tected baying appliances from small dealer because of person alized service. * * 0 A multi-store dealer often makes as much as 20% more on a given item. 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