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r~ \* 'S/ 1956 Laurens School Boajrd Doe* Not Plan Calling An Election To Take Care of Estimated 1956-1957 Deficit THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pac* ThirUa Laurens, May <—G. Miller Mc- Cuen, chairman of the Board of Trustees of School Disrtict No. 55, sadi last week that the board does not presently contemplate petitioning for an election as provided for in the County Sup ply Bill to take care of the es timated deficit to occur in 1956- 57 xependitures. At the meeting held April 13, he said, the board authorized Dist. Supt C. K. Wright to for ward contracts to teachers of the district without any reduction in salaries from last year. The board, he said, is hoping that the new delegation to enter office in January will take care of the anticipated deficit just as this year’s delegation did. In making the announcement, Mr. McCuen, who said he was speaking for the board made the following statement. “Hie county supply bill, as passed in the closing moments o! the session, provides for a levy of only 25 mills for the support of schools in the District, al- proved by the Board and submit- though the budget as twice ap ed to the delegation in Febru ary of this year calls for a. levy of 35 mills. The delegation in ^ap proving only 25 mills in the sup ply bill provides that the Board of Trustees might call for an elec tion for the people to approve the additional 10 mills. The time when contracts are usually enter ed into is long since past, and to delay further while an election is called and held would not be fair to the teachers in our schools, The Board has considered this, but does not contemplate calling such an election at this time. "We do not feel justified in longer withholding action on our teacher contracts, as further de lay will disrupt the teaching staffs of the various schools in our district. The board is fully aware that the issuance of con tracts to our teachers with no cut in their salaries will cause an operating deficit in school funds for the coming year, but feels that the welfare of our children is of paramount importance, and to attempt to cut salaries would prove to be a backward step. In making his statement. Chair man McCuen added that the average operating cost per pupil throughout the state is greater than in District 55 and said that to attempt to cut it further would' destroy the effectiveness of the system. . Other parts of Laurens county, no wealthier than Dist. 55 and 56, already have higher school levies than those two districts, he said. Last year, he said, the levy in Ware Shoals 51 was 35 mills and in Greenville 5200 the levy was 42 mills. _ The average levy for school purposes in the Piedmont area, he said, was 40.78 mills. The highest, he said was 57.5 mills in York County and the lowest 25 mills in Laurens County. ,f We feel that the welfare of our children should be given a place of first importance," he said. MISS MARION’S SCHOOL OF DANCE Presents Their 10th Anniversary Recital “GREETINGS” Tuesday, May 15th Whitten Village Auditorium Adults 50c Children 25c News From The County Agent C. B. CANNON, County Agent Judging Team Placed Second The Laurens County 4-H Live stock Judging team placed second in the Piedmont District, and third in the state contest at the Caw Caw Plantation near Or angeburg May 5. Anderson coun ty "placed first and Orangeburg second in the state contest. Club members on the team were Millard Daniel and Howard Lucas, from Thomwell Orphan age at Clinton; and Ben Crouch, IH, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cruoch, Jr., of Mountville. Mil- ton Burns, son of Mr. nad Mrs. Herbert Burns, Mountville, wsu alternate and took part on the team. . Millard Daniel tied with a club boy from Orangeburg county for frist place as individual, scoring 258 points out of a possible 300. There were 16 counties repre sented of which seven were from the Piedmont section. R. J. Ben nett, assistant county agent, at tended the judging contest with the Laurens county team. . , The classes of livestock used in judging by the club members were: a class of breeding beef animals, a fat class, and two classes of market hogs. Each boy gave reasons for his placings no one ring of fat cattle and one ring of hogs. Last Pepper Plant Delivery The Pomona Products Co., will deliver pepper plants for the last time at the Laurens county far!- grounds May 14 from 2:00 pw m. until 5:00 p. m. The extension of time in de livering plants is due to rains de laying fanners from preparing land, and also rains in Florida interfering with pulling plants where they are grown. Any person wishing to increase acreage signed up or any person who has not signed up for plant ing may do so at the fairgrounds Monday, May 1.4 Saw Damonstration There will be a chain saw dem onstration Saturday, May 12, be ginning in the morning and last ing until 4:00 p. m., at the David Blakely place, Laurens, on the new by-pass near the cement bridge on the Laurens-Spartan burg highway. In the afternoon, two drawings for free chain saws will be held. The public is in vited. Labor-saving equipment under present-day conditions is considered efficient operation.. Small Grain For Silag* Small grain makse excellent silage or hay for both dairy and beef cattle. The grain should be cut early, in the milk stage, for hgihest quality feed. Small grain for silage may be stored in bundles cut by grain binder or finely chopped with field harvester. Grain silage will keep if prell packed in silo without a preser vative, however, molasses used at the rate of 40 pounds to 60 pounds per ton makes a more desirable feed. Trench silos cost approximate ly one dollar per ton to con struct, as compared to $10 per ton for uprigh\ silo. Blueprints for building a trench or bunker silo mal be had free from the county agent’s of fice. Grain Bins Farmers are reminded to have grain bins ready for storage at harvesting time. Old bins should be checked for repairs, cleaned, and sprayed thoroughly for insect control. Prospects are good for a good grain crop. Price of grain to farmers usually drops during peak of harvest. Temporary storage of marketing grain on the farm during pea kharvest season no doubt will give good returns. However, goqd storage is profi table whether grain is used on the farm or sold commercially.' Cattle Bloating Farmers reporting trouble of cattle bloating grazing clover and lush growing grass at this sea son. Bfloat is dangerous and kills quickly unless treatment is given at once. There are simple treatments a person may use such as drenching the affected animal with one half ounce of formaldehyde in a pint of water, or may use 12 ounces of raw linseed oil, or one teacup of kerosene in a pint of water. One half pint of warm sweet milk is also recommended as a treatment. If a person ..does not have material to drench with as mentioned above a greased round such as a P'e c p of boe handle, IF YOU DONT READ THE CHRONICLE YOU DONT GET THE NEWS etc.; may be placed in mouth of animal similar to bits of horse bridle. Keep animal up and walk ing until gas passes. Another recommendation.is to call the vet- the lungs. arinarian at once. \ * In drenching an animal, care must ' be taken not to strangle the aniiqal by 'getting liquid in Phone 74 COTTON CORD PANTS $3.95 L B. DILLARD Wolfe & Addison Investment Dealers "Insurance and Investment BuNding” 200 Nerth Broad St. Phone 610 CLINTON, S. C. MUTUAL FUNDS—INVESTMENT STOCKS INSURANCE , "DIE FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH” Hugh L. Eichelberger NEW YORK LIFE MAN 33 Years Experience PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE INFORMATION FURNISHED FREE / ) , Beautiful Stationery t . and Note Paper In White, Colors and A Variety of Styles and Sizes Bibles-Desk Set*-Memory Books Diaries-Scripto Ball Point Pens Engraved Visiting Cards, Inf ormals and Stationery CHRONICLE PUBLISHING co. STATIONERY STORE Tm heading for Colonial’s FROZEN FOOD HERE'S HOW THEY VOTED for Robert C Wasson in 1954 A •f PRECINCT Ballots Cast For House Ora 51 Waterloo 67 Mema 38 Lanford 56 Pleasant Mound 29 ^ Daniel Store 60 Poplar Springs 102 ! Laurens Ward 1 308 Mountville 82 Renno 32 Woodville 132 Jones Store 99 Laurens Ward 6 278 Laurens Ward 5 571 Owings 1 114 Barksdale-Namie 82. Brewerton 93..... Mt. Olive 64 Laurens Ward 2 154....! Dials 32 Clinton Mill 461 Clinton City 1106 Grays 22. Baileys ......^.3 59 Lydia Mill 1 Ill Princeton 46.. Youngs 50 Stewart’s Store ,.... 39 Long Branch : 43 s. Laurens Ward 4 162 Cross Hill 106 ! Hopewell 61 ;. Shady Grove 15...., ” Joanna 301 ...!. .!!!* Hickory Tavern 181 Tip Top 40 Wattsville 337. Mount Pleasant 36 Ekom 104 J Shiloh 51 .!.. Cook’s Store 46 ZZZZ Trinity Ridge * 94.;..,.... .„ ..... ...... Gray Court 204 j Z!! Laurens Ward 3 322 */- Wasson Received —. 35 48 29 38 29 > »••*»••>•••••»••» ••«*••»• £4 £4 28 66 179 55 - 25 - 104 78 152 353 58 50 >. 62 40 85 26 222 784 :.... 17 32 78 37 26 v 23 36 86 73 : 40 6 176 168 29 237 19 87 37 27 67 144 186 FESTIVAL i Yep, to celebrate National Frozen Food Week, Colonial brings you a whole freezer-full of stock-up values in your favorite frozen foods! New, exciting products, old favorites-all at low, low, sub-zero prices. Hurry, thess are real values! •OMXaDALX Strawbebbxes < «OSS* * atACEWXLL FMOM MIX iOB Lemonade 2 SEABBOOK VAAMI PDOZEN STEAM BBOCCOL1 Maedook fabms babt cam KXH. KG. *02 CAMS »Oi KG •OL c»ium srutTI Total Ballots Cast ... 6,420 4,169 Wasson led at 23 precincts out of 44 and received a majority at 41 precincts out of 44. Wasson gets a good vote in all the precincts of the county—on example is Ointon City where he ) received over 70% of the votes cost. At his home box. Hickory Tavern, he received over 92% of the votes cast. 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