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Pape Four- THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 21, 1957 Qlltntan dUirnntrlp . 1 » . ; Established 1900 July 4. 18*9 — WILLIAM WILSON HARRIS — Jane IS. 1955 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Subscription Rate (Payable in Advance) - One Year $3.00 t Six Months 92.00 Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Post Office at Clinton. S. C., under Act of Congress March 3. 1879 The Chronicle seeks the cooperation of its subscribers and readers—the publisher will at all times appreciate wise suggestions and kindly advice The Chronicle will publish letters of general interest when they are not of a defamatory nature Anonymous communications will not be noticed This paper is not responsible for the views or opinions of its correspondents Member: South Carolina Press Association, National Editorial Association National Advertising Representative: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION ' — New York, Cnicago, Detroit. Philadelphia CLINTON, S. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1957 Transportation Official Speaks To ClintonXIub setting up a statewide school Bus transportation organization simi lar to the one here. " Many Enroll For ’ ‘ ‘ _ Classes In Textile Work » Jack Inabinet, Jr., of Columbia, assistant state, supervisor of transportation, was the guest speaker at, the recent monthly School Bus Transportation Club meeting at Clinton High School. Other' guests for the evening meeting were Bob Harlestori. of Greenwood, area supervisor of I ployees school bus transportation; Jctfini Mills. Davis, shop foreman of the state The courses are offered through highway maintenance depart-! the cooperation of the South ment; and Bill Gray, mainten-[Carolina Department of Voca- ance mechanic, who maintains tional Education, Clinton high Training courses in card grind ing and fixing, spinning frame fixing and Hoorn fixing have drawn an enrollment of 28 e*n- of Clinton and Lydia An Anniversary February 25th marked an important anni versary. Rut it wasn't one that was received with cheers. It was the 44th anniversary of the federal income, tax. . y* A look backward is in order. In 1913, in Oie tax's infancy, the normal rate was one per cent and the highest surtax was six per cent^ Today the tax starts at 20 per cent, on the lowest taxable incomes, and rises to a high of 91 per cent. and how‘and in what amounts Outs can be school buses in District No. 56. Mr. Inabinet tracked the school school and Clinion-Lydia Mills Van Oxner. Clinton card room .bus transportation program from supervisor, is instructor for card made. An additional poipt should be made. ^ its beginning until the ,present j grinding and 'fixing. Joe Caugh* Concern over the budget is not limited to tim «- In 1951 there were 2,435 man, Clinton spinning room su school buses operating in the dollars-and-cents problems of the moment alone. One fear was expressed by Mr. Hum phrey in these words: “If we retain our pres- in state of South Carolina, oompar- ocl to the 4.600 operating today. This increase has brought about , . , many problems, according to Mr. ent high tax rates over a sufficiently long imabmet. P9H0 Vaccination Makes Sense Suppose someone*took you .aside and ,said: “Vou have an enemv wfio~Tnay waylay VOtL ' ■ '1 " anuTHTtple you for life. But I know how you . ian stop this enemy./You’ll have to act fast. It won’t cost much money, and it will take only ISO seednds of your time.” If you knew the facts were true, you’d lake him upon it. wouldn’t you? Well, the facts are true. The enemy is para lytic polio. If you’re under 40 years old. you’re a possible victim. If polio strikes, you truly fare a life shattered by disease and dis ability. • There S no cure for paralytic polk), but there is.a.way to prevent it. The preventive is the ^aik’vaccine. It is safe and it works. Three proj>erly spaced shots—at 60 seconds a shot—gi\’es you -protection. Over 15.000,000 Americans, have been smart enough to,get this protection.. Rut 60,- noo.ooo in the susceptible age group have been foolhardy enough to neglect ft. Don’t be.one of the foolhardy ones. The polio, season, stasts soon. Yon still hayf time to/safeguard yourself and your family if you act at once, (beto yoUr doctor or your clinic now. Vaccinate—before it’s too late! period of time, we won’t l>e able to maintain the activities necessary to provide jobs for our people.” Another fear is based on the hard fact, that this enormous spending is projected for a period of extremely high bus iness activity and record employment. Ob viously, any decline in business and employ- stated’ that practically every ac ment. with the depressing effect that it would Odent could be traced to one of , • 1111 • ' , the followirvg factors: have on tax revenues, could knock current , . ' , , .. . . U) Lights (visibility), (2) Wea- plans, prospects and fiscal policies into ,a conditions, (3) Road condit- cbcTced hat. • - * —, 10ns, (4) Condition, olthe vehicle, (5) Flow of traffic. (6) The driver. Transporting students to and from school is a big business to day, he said, which is shown by the fact that $4,000,000 is spent anmially in school bus transpor tation in South Carolina. Mr. Inabinet cited several fac tors that cause accidents and Dillon Herald: “ ‘What you ask is going to cost somebody a lot of money. Are you will ing to pay the bill?’ This answer was given bv a government official to a gryup of citizens who had appeared to ask for a certain tax- financed project. His frank reply set them back on their heels and after some discus-^ sion among themselves they withdrew their 1 request.” Mr. Inabinet congratulated the drivers of Clinton High School for the excellent job they have done and are doing. “School Dis trict 56 has as good a transporr tation set-Up as can be found in the State of South Carolina, or better, and they have the best or ganized system in the state,” he said. After his talk apti upon the suggestion of -Harleston, the School Bus Transportation Club voted to take the initial steps in pervisor, teaches spinning frame fixing, and Oscar Kinafd, Clinton loom fixer, is teaching a class in loom fixing. Carding and spinning classes are held each Tuesday from 6 to 10 p. m., in the Clinton high school textile department. The loonp^ixers class is held Tuesday a nd rhiirsday from 4 to 6 p. m. in the Clinton Mill training room. Each class must meet for a total of 40 hours. The following are participating in the training program: Card Grinding and Fixing: Ith- /iel Harvey, Marvin Harvey, O’Neal Martin, John Broome, Life Underwriters To Meet In Laurens The Life Underwriters Associa tion of Laurens County will meet tonight in the regular monthly session at George’s Ranch Drive- In at Laurens, officers state. Tbe meeting will begin at 7:30, and all life underwriters in the coun ty are invited. Speakers frpm the state asso ciation will be present, it was stated, and business of the asso ciation wil be discussed William Alexander, William Bag well, James Johnson. Carlton King, Donnie Womble, John Fuk . EVERYBODY'S HEADING FOR Founder’s days 9 BIG DAYS.. , Today Through March 30th ler, Harold Stroud and James Poison. Spinning Frame Fixing: James McElhannon, James Nelson, Fred Patterson, Billy McGee, Clyde Brazil, Furman Humphries, and Rufus Handbeck. Loom Fixing: Edgar BeMew, Howard Stroud, Reuben Stroud, Thomas Moates, Ulyas Gilliam, Robert Bundrick, W. H. .Gooch, and Bobby Quinn. Irby’s Meai MUSGROVE STREET t Market PHONE 489 HOME MADE (Good) PURE PORK Sausage «> 39 c FRESH GROUND BE :EF * 29* GRADE A LARGE S. C. EGGS . Doz. 4 5 c MORRELL’S SMOKED BACON b 29 c SPICED Luncheon M( .1 eat «»29* Every Tuesday Is Butchering Day At Our Abattoir Bonifay, Fla., Advertiser: “And there was the man who only took a drink to steady his nerves and who sometimes got so steady he couldn’t move." Where It Can Be Cut One thing can be said with certainty about the administration’s''proposed $71.8 billion budget—the largest in peace-time- history. Almost no one is really pleased or satisfied. T Manasquan, N. Jv Coast Star: “Socialism is supposed to distribute the wealth. What it actually does—as in Russia-*-is to enforce j poverty on the many, while the few at the j top enjoy almost unlimited luxury.” ' • SENSING THE NEWS By THURMAN SENSING CxocutiT* Vic* President Southern States Industrial Council HOW BIG IS THE REAL BUDGET? We are hearing a lot of talk about the propos- . . , , ed $71 8 billion budget for the next fiscal, year. worried./ There is actually a school that believes the budget isn’t big enough. Leon Keyserling, who once headed President Truman’s Coun cil of Kconomic Advisors, recently' argued that in the New York Times Magazine. In Dr. Key selling’s view, the government should play a still larger role in national affairs of -just about every kind, at a higher cost. However, the members of this school-are comparatively few and far between. The vast majority of people, in (fnd out of the government, who have studied the budget and considered its implications are convinced that it is dangerously large-. As*an example, Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, a middle-of-the-road Republican and a strong Eisenhower supporter, has characterized the budget With the word ’Tanf astic.’’ The ITesident himself has said,- in effect, that he hopes the budget can be cut, so long as it is done without peril to national security and world peace programs. Rest publicized of all has been the stateTnent by Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey that unless we mend our fiscal ways we will bring on a depression "that will curl your hair.” Former President Hoover, after quoting this phrase, said: “Mine has already been curled once, and I think 1 can detect the signs. ... Unless"we'Turb iri- iiation on its way up. Old Man Economic Law will return with a full equipment of hair curlers.’.’ On the coheretA/Side, Senator Byrd, a top CongressionaLauthority on money mat ters. has said that the budget should be very heavily cut—br $5 billion or more. This brings Up the 864,000 question. Where t an it be cut ? Any major cuts, it seems evident, must be in the non-defense field. And that leads to a fact that may not be generally recognized: In the first four’ Eisenhower budgets non defense spending rose by $6 billion—from $20.9 billion in 1954 to $27.9 billion in 1956. In a Newsweek column, Henry Hazlitt gave his ideas as to where specific reductions could be made. He said, “There will be no real economy until the government’is ready to slash drastically or.to halt entirely whole categories of spending.” Categories in which he believes either the axe or the pruning shears should be applied include federal aid to schools, federal highways, low-cost hous ing, foreign aid, and the agricultural sub sidies. In his view the budget can be reduced to $60 billion—“all that is needed is the po litical courage and will to achieve it.” ()ther students have other ideas as to where Well, it is the biggest peacetime budget m our history, and it certainly should be cut. Actually, though, the figure given is a sort of net budget— and it d**0*noX begin to tell us how much the Fed eral Government spends and how much it takes from the people in taxes in one form or another: The real budget proposed for the next fiscal year is $95.6 billion—and it is proposed to take from the taxpayers a total of $98.9 billion. If these figures come as something of a shock: and you want to check up on thefn, you can do so by ordering from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S...Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C~ a copy of “The Budget of the United States Government for the Fical Year ending June 30, 1958," and dig them out for yourself. , Of course, the budget we are all talking about Is the same one we have always talked about—the net budget—but the fact is that the taxpayers ac tually cough up the money to pay the gross budget whether it is called to their attention or not. To sum it up briefly, the way the real budget of $95.6 billion is arrived at is as follows: Instead of. the commonly quoted figure of $71.8 biffiSh: we use the 'gross expenditures of *$81.2. These gross expenditures include the so-called applacable receipts,’ - amounting to $9.4 billion. For example, .stamp sales, etc., are not included in the'cost of operating the Post Office and only the deficit operating cost is shown in the $71.8 billion figure. But it is the total cost that the people pay or the services rendered by the Government that is the actual cost—and that is true in all de partments where there are “applicable receipts.” Then, to the figure of $81.2 billion we add trust fund expenditures (which consist of money also paid in to the Government by tho people) amounting to $14.4 billion. This gives us a total budget for fuscal- ’58 amounting to $95.6 billion. ~Ta arrive at the grosS incomd side of the bud get, amounting to $98.9 billion, we take estimated net budget revenues of $73.6, add the same “ap plicable receipts” of $9.4 billion, and then estimat ed trust -fund receipts of $15.9 billion. These figures are a far cry from the generally quoted budget expenditure figures of $71.8 billion and budget receipt figures of $73.6-billion, in fact just about $25 billion more-on each side. But they are real—^hd the government will spend the mon ey and the Government will. collect the money, whether we realize it or not. Also, it should be pointed out that there are are some great hidden dangers in the proposed budget, both in items in the net budget and in items outside the net budget. This is true because many of the budget items cover programs that are just now being initiated with comparatively small appropriations, and, if approved, will require much larger appropriations and tax collections in the years immediately ahead. For instance, included in the net budget are modest beginnings for Federal slum clearance, Federal flood insurance and Federal aid for school construction. Once inaugurated, all these pro grams would require greatly increased appropria tions in the years ahead. • I Outside the net budget, mainly in the “trust funds,” there are such items as the big new High way Program trust fund, which is just getting started and will require much greater collection of money from the people in the days ahead. And there is the Federal old age and survivors trust fund (social security) which, with increased cov erage and increased benefits and with the rapid increase in the number of people eligible for pay ments, gives every indication of getting rapidly out of hand in the next few years. Die people should at least realize just* what their government is actually costing them and just how big the real budget is. SPECIALIZING LEADS TO H/g/f Quality ’ PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Because of its attractive and orderly appearance, andbecausc « of our excellent stocks, it mtfjat be presumed that our prices for prescriptions are high. Thia is not true. Our prescription prices are definitely fair Specializing in descriptions makes real savings possible. Our large volume helps to keep our stocks alwayk frCsh and clean, and our prices in line wish the service rendered. Bring your prescriptions to this store with full confidence. You are assured of professional integrity, fair pfices and best quality—always. 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