The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, October 22, 1953, Image 14
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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
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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
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The Federal Trade Commis
sion. set up to help enforce laws,
appears to have entered into
their own Big Switch.
* * *
FTC la busy as beavers .bat
activities seem largely confined
to scanning advertisements, ar
bitrarily ruling what can and
cannot be said
about any prod-
act. la tbe
meantime,
main function
gets left-hand
ed treatment.
* • •
A perfect
case in point is
the FTC an
nouncement of
hearings on tel- c -W. Harder
evision receiver industry.
FTC is looking askance at to-
d ns try method of classifying pic
ture tube size, ie, a 21 inch tube
is 21 inches on the diagonal, in
stead of either 21 inches wide, or
high, a practice started In early
days when tabes were round or
oval. 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. On a $300 sale that
, ® Nttlonil r«d»r*tUift of Independent BuMneu
is an extra profit of $60. >-
• 0 •
Obviously the extra $69 does
not come about because the man
ufacturer sells at a loss.
• • *
Therefore, it appears public
pays excessive prices for appli
ances to provide bonuses to a
favored few huge outlets.
* so
Manufacturers not liking sys
tem are powerless to do any
thing else. Big outlets will not
handle their prod nets withont
preferential discount.
0 0 o
There are other practices FTC
could well investigate.
e e *
One in cooperative advertis
ing. AMheogh man of actor era
nasally pay half the cent ef a
dealers’ advertising as their
prodnets there are reported In
stances ef Big outlets getting
entire amount paid by manufac
turer, which Is Jnst another way
of giving extra discounts to a
favored retail outlet.
e * *
It appears FTC could find
many facts to justify a full scale
hearing on selling practices in
the appliance business.
* * o
Of coarse, FTC would step on
seme mighty powerful toes.
* e *
And that may be reason why
FTC prefers to hunt for needles
in a haystack.
e e •
After all, when FTC tells lit
tle Joe, the corn plaster man,
to quit saying his prednet will
stop corn discomfort overnight
and that Instead he most aay
something in effect his corn pias
ters are designed to relieve dis
comfort, and some folks have re
ported some benefit, there Is lit
tle that little Joe can de, because
he can’t back bureaucratic
power.
* * e
The Russians have a woVd for
this type of one-sided procedure.
e • *
The word is Sovietize.
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