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* •« Pag« Four THE CLINTON CHRONICLE By SPECTATOR... COMMENTS on MEN AND THINGS Here in South Carolina we are a modest, unassuming, unpre tending, unassertive people, liv- iifg moderately well, but seldom rising to the highest heights or sinking to the deepest depths. Rarely do we seek glamorous ac claim by fabulous earnings, but we are also spared the appalling disasters that afflict our breth ren. Consider the drought: it is dry in South Carolina, but not so dry that we raise a hue and cry about it; it hasn’t impeded the steady growth of our one great South Carolina power enterprise, the South Carolina Electric & Power Co., which has the greatest lakes and water supply of any private enterprise in the state; nor has the dry weather impressed our State Legislature, for it appro priated money as though money were a spontaneous generation like weeds. Of course the power company is guided by a great genius who not only has long and wide vision, but a firm grasp of all the immediate factors, too. Byth eway, I’ve just read sev eral annual reports of great com panies. Do you read the annual statements of our big enterpris es? I read many of them and find them informative. Here is something from the largest South Carolina industrial enterprise: “Interesting evidence of the continued growth of the 23 coun ties served by the South Carolina Electric and Gas Company is contained in the company’s an nual report for 1954. During those 12 months six thousand,; one hundred and thrity-six new electric customers were added to the company’s lines bringing the total to 158,381. The residential customers used an average of 3,- 477 kilowatt hours of elecrticity | during the year—this is 36 perl cent above the national average; the average rate paid by residen tial customers was less than two and one-half cents per kilowatt hour, nine per cent lower than the average residential rate for the nation. The one sad note in I the company’s report for last 1 year was the continued decline in the use of its bus systems in Columbia and Charleston; the transit operation carried 3,000,- 000 (three million) fewer bus passengers than in 1953.” • • • As to the drought, let us con- ' sider the condition in the South west: I "In the past six months, the i whirling winds have ravaged some 11 million acres of wheat and grazing land in a ’dust bowl’ that covers parts of Texas, Colo rado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and j New Mexico. The devasUted area is larger than Massachus etts, Rhode Island, and Connecti cut combined. Federal soil sci entists estimate another 15 mil lion acres are dry enough to blow loose in the first big wind. Says Agriculture Secretary Benson, fresh from a three-day tour of the drought area: ‘The current drought in the Great Plains is worse than it was in the 1930’s.’ Despite these stark statistics and grim words, a visitor to the region finds most farmers appar ently weathering the dust storms surprisingly well; new model cars abound; homes are well fur nished. But citizens are digging into their bank accounts and go ing into debt. There is almost no sign farmers will stage the mass exodus that took place two decades ago. Lewis Wolfe, leading Okla homa state drought official, notes that farmers ‘are going pretty heavily into debt, borrowing on credit established when crops were good. But they know all they need is rain and one good crop, and they’ll be solvent over night.’ Consdier the case of a typical drought victim. Three times this season he’s planted wheat on his 600 acres, only to have it blown away. If rain comes soon, he says he’ll try to recoup some of his losses with barley or grain sorghums. Agriculture Department offic ials in Washington explain the absence of ‘drought panic’ this way: Fanners went into the drought period with more mon ey in the bank to tide them over bad years; they know more now than they did in the ‘30’s about soil conservation, irrigation and other safeguards against wind erosion, and they have better machinery to work with; they’ve had more help from the govern ment in the form of easy credit, crop insurance and cut-rate feed to keep livestock alive when rangelands are destroyed. score of changes in administra tion since the war’s end, with a hundred Communist deputies in her parliament, and certainly weak and doubtful as a prospec tive ally. Aid to France is es timated at $10,646,683,000. Next comes Great Britain; $10, 206,416,000. Itoe British have just announced a big reduction Then Italy, no tower of mi li fer their taxpayers, tary strength for anyone, $3,- 712,484,000. And after Italy, who? Russia and her satel lites: $1,325,050,000. That billion, wheedled out of us before we This is not to imply, of course, caught on, certainly sank in a that the dust bowl of the ’50’s has rat hole. (How much, by the not brought plenty of hardship to way, is one billion dollars? We farmers and the people who sell have heard of no easy way to tell, to them. | A billion would buy 58,000 aver- Moreover, government is age farms—enough to cover 29 spending millions for drought I or 30 countries.) aid. Shipping cut-rate feed and These billions have done some sharing the cost of emergency' good. They have helped keep soil conservation practices have some parts of the world out of cost the government more than i ' Communist hands. They have $65 million dollars in the past repaired a lot of war damage two years in the Southwest which was not our fault. They drought area. In addition, the have provided some defense fa- Agriculture Department’s Farm ers Home Administration since 1953 has doled out $85 million in one-year ‘disaster’ loans to help finance farming operations in the Southern Great Plains. Now this agency is mulling still another form of credit aid. It’s considering making emer-, gency loans up to five years ma turity to let ‘dust bowl’ farmers pay off their debts to banks and businessmen—something they’ve been barred from doing with the one-year ‘disaster* credit cilities for us abroad. Tbey have helped some poor people. They have propped up weak socialistic regimes, strengthened tyrannies and enriched the already rich. But have they bought ue 67 bil lions worth of defense? That’s a fair question. Such a sum could have given us balanced budgets all these ten years and tax cuts besides. Could we have bought more defense with half that amount? The United States cannot af ford #less than the best in de- Next month, Mr. Benson will fense, But neither can Ameri- take up just this problem at a cans afford an indefenite and meeting of governors of the endless drain from guesswork Savings Accounts I 3%-DIVIDEND-3% We invite savings accounts from the people of Clin ton and vicinity. You will like our friendly and efficient service, and you will receive your dividend promptly each January 1st and July 1st. Any amount—from $1 up—-opens an account. Each account is insured up to $10,000 by the Fed eral Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. Two people may have up to $30,000 fully insured. Accounts by mail promptly acknowledged. Chartered and Supervised by the # United States Government LAURENS FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION Laurens’ Largest Savings Institution 104 W. Main Street Laurens, S- C. Telephone 22271 mnncicie««»tt»agg>agaagaoaaa»ir.KKKitKnuieiciinwiiMn nmoimM; Enjoy the modem, the Light refreshment Great Plains states. Right now, he figures ‘education’ is the best way to persuade the farmers to shift from grain to grass. But his top advisers favor more strin gent methods. The lack of rain, rather than the wind damage, is the real problem for many Great Plains fanners this year. Actually, the winds have torn up fewer acres this year than last, when 17 mil lion acres were blighted. But rainfall has remained well below normal steadily since 1951, and its the cumulative effect of this that’s causing the trouble . The impact of the winds and drought vary widely in the dust bowl region. Eastern Colorado and portions of northeast New Mexico appear to be hardest hit. Even Colorado fanners, with land irrigated by rivers, are find ing things rugged this season, af ter doing relatively well in re cent years.” • • • The senator from Greenville, Bradley Morrah, and the senator from Aiken, John H. Williams, are not disposed to go along with the annual makeshift known as the Free Conference on the Gen eral Appropriation bill. I agree with them fully, although I un derstand not only the difficul ties, but appreciate a lot of hard work done by the joint commit tee. I may also say that Senator Edgar Brown, as a businessman himself, has tried to avoid the harsh impositions which arq fre quently suggested. N o t w i t h- standing that, the last-minute ar rangement is a solemn farce which does no credit to our abil ity to govern ourselves. Further more, I have a conviction that the provisions of free conference reports, even as adopted by both Houses, may be in violation of our Constitution. As to the Congress, although we have able men in both Senate and House; and in spite of my appreciation of President Eisen hower for his good intentions, however misguided and mis- commitments and hopeful give aways.” SUMMONS State of South Carolina County of Laurens OOUR TOF COMMON PLEAS Morrison Furniture Company, Plaintiff, —vs.— George Taylor, Defendant. TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMON ED and required to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is herweith served upon you, and to serve a copy of youi answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office, 106 North Broad Street, Clinton, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint with in the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. CECIL E. WHITE Plaintiff’s Attorney May 10, 1965. NOTICE To the defendant above named: You will please take notice that the original Summons and Com plaint in the above entitled action were filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for Laurens Coun ty on the 16th day of May, 1955. CECIL E. WHITE Plaintiff Attorney 3t-w-June 2 The State of Sooth Carolina, County of Laorena. In Court of Common Pleas Janie P. Harris, Plaintiff, vs. Alexander Glenn Calhoun, Agnes Alexander Evans, Robert John son, and others, Defendants. PURSUANT to a Decree of the Court in the above stated case, I will sell at public outcry to the highest bidder, either in or in front of the Court House, at Laurens, C. H., S. C., on Salesday in June nuwwc* next, being Monday, the 6th day chievous, I think the net result Qf the month dunng ^ ]egal 1 hours for such sales, the following „ , , , , T .• , of the month during the legal of the labors of our National^ „ w leaders is so far below that of The Light Refreshment No Finer at Any Price! PEPSI-COLA BOTTLING CO. GREENVILLE, 8. C. our British cousins that I won der if five hundred men, taken at random, would do worse. What do you think of this: Let me quote from The Town Journal something worth pon dering well: “The government of the U. S. is still spending more than it takes in. The budget has not been balanced. A balance next year remains only a pious hope. The national debt which now amounts to around $1,800 for every man, woman, and child, continues to grow. And taxes still take about a third of all the money that is earned by all the producers of the nation. These are pertinent facts. In their light. President Eisenhower requests by special message to Congress that more billions be appropriated in foreign aid. He has asked for $3,530,000,000. For eign Aid Chief Stassen says that two-thirds of this would be spent on 15 countries of Free Asia. These are rather considerable sums of money. In return for sending them to Asia, what is it that we are expected to get? De fense? Future allies? Friends? In Europe, which is closer home, we have had some expe rience. We have extended aid. We have assisted. We have lent How much? Curiously, the Unit ed States Government, with its vast information facilities, does noffeive its taxpayers an underr standable report on these mat ters. We are therefore indebted to the Washington weekly Human Events for having had the . in quisitiveness to try to add up our total foreign aid for the ten years since the war ended. Using sta tistical sources inside the .Gov ernment, Human Events reaches a figure covering the pest dec ade. Hie figure is 67 billion dol lars. Some 51 countries shared the American taxpayers’ gene rosity. At the top^ qf the list stands France’ still uimaMe after a described property, to wit: All that lot, piece or parcel of land, with the improvements there on, lying, being and situate in the Town of Clinton, County of Laur ens, and State of South Carolina, bounded on the East by Bell Street, on the South by lands now or formerly of W. B. Owens; and on the West by the Will Duckett lot; and on the North by a 30 ft. street, lands formerly of Steven Alexander being across said street. Ibis is the identical lot of land heretofore conveyed by W. B. Owens to Sarah A. Duckett by deed dated the 6th day of March, 1906, recorded in Deed Book 20, at Page 12, in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Laurens County, S. C. TERMS OF SALE: Cash. The successful 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 guaran tee of his good faith in the bid ding. The same to be applied to the purchase price upon his com plying with the terms of sale, oth erwise to be paid to Plaintiff for credit on the indebtedness. In the event the successful bidder should fail to make such deposit, or should fail to comply with the terms of the sale, the said lands shall be resold on the same or some subse quent Salesday on the same terms, at risk of the defaulting purchas er. The purchaser to pay for pa pers, stamps and recording. W. E. DUNLAP, C. C. P. & G. S. Dated this 8th day of April, 1856. 3c-d-May 26 Dr. L B. Morion, N. D. 289 Elm Ave. I CLINTON, 8. C. To THE NOTICE..... TO Ml PROSPECTIVE ■ ■ • • ' .j,:./' 1 . t New Car Purchasers Effective June lit, South Carolina State Sales Tax on Automobiles and Truck sales will carry a straight 3% Sales Tax on the gross balance in stead of allowing a bracket exemption - as has been the case ever since the Sales Tax charge started. (For example: If you buy a new 1955 car after June lat» and there is a dif ference of $1,400.00 between the trade-in allowance and the New Car price —your Sales Tax will be $42.00. Now and until June 1st, the Sales Tax is* only $25.00 ($17.00 less). i If you wait until June 1st to buy a new Tar, say $2,- 100.00 (with, no trade-in) your Sales Tax will be $63.00. If you buy now or before June 1st, your Sales Tax will be only $40.00 ($23.00 less). NOW Is the Time to BUY and SAVE Some Tax!! We have an assortment of beautiful New 1955 Cars to choose from and we invite YOU to come in and let us offer you a GOOD DEAL. Also wide selection of good Used Cars. Buy TODAY while you can get a GOOD DEAL and SAVE some Sales Tax. Cooper Motor Co. DODGE-PLYMOUTH Giles Chevrolet Co. CHEVROLET SALES & SERVICE Plaxico Motors Inc. Baldwin Motor Co. CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH YOUR FORD DEALER Timmerman Motor Co. 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