The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, January 23, 1958, Image 8
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THE CLINTON
CHRONICLE
Thutsday, January 23, 1958
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Dobbins Says Use off One
Cent Gas Tax Won't Hurt
Secondary Road System
(A report by Representative W. C. Dobbins As to the
Rftects of the 1958-59 Appropriation Bill as Passed
• by the House Upon the State Highway Secondary
Road Program.) —
Since Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee Representative
W l. Rhodes' announcement of
January 9 that the gene'ral appro-
pnation bill for 1958-59 would fe-
>lore the one cent per gallon tax on
the sale of gasoline in this state for
the fiM-al year 1958 59 to the generaj
fund instead of alkx-atfhg this tax to
the state secondary road system,
much has been printed in the news
papers that has caused the people to
believe that since this ta* has been
earmarked for general fund pur
poses for the year 1958 59, no pro-
\ision has beCn made for money for
the secondary road system
The people also have been led to
believe this bill will jeopardize
S<>ulh Carolina’s sharing in the
funds now available under, the. fed
eral highway program
As you know, the House of Repre
sentatives passed the 1958-59 appro
priation bill over the protest of the
Highway Department and that bill
i e\\ goes pi the Senate
a member of the South Caro
lina <tenoral Assembly from Lau-
rons County, 1 think it my duty to
inform you as best 1 can as to the
effect this bill as parsed by the;
House will have on the secondary!
road system (farm to market
roads) and the suite’s participation
in the federal "highw ay program j
first of all, let’s see when this:
additional one cent per gallon tax on |
the sale of gasoline in the state was’
first imposed and for what purpose
This tax was.first imposed in 1950
to meeT~a finaneTal emergency for
that year similar to the one we are
now facing. It was understood that
thus tax'would be taken off at the
end of that year, but jt was not.i
The General Assembly thought it
best to continue this lax and give it
to the State Highway Department to
be spent on the secondary road
system and beginning in 1951 ana
continuing until now, that one cent
per gallon tax has been used for this
purpose 1 am fully convinced that
that the people of the state have got
ten their money’s worth out of this
tax
This year the General Assembly
is faced with the problem of raising
approximately seven million dol
lars of new revenue to meet , the
1958-59 expenditures After much
study and consultation, the Ways
and Means Committee prepared a
feasible bill to meet the naeds of
the state and not increase the tax
burden*of the people of the state and
they did thus by restoring this one
cent per gallon gasoline tax- to the
general fund, the place and purpose
for which it was first created.
The bill also provides for the sec
ondary road system (farm to mar-
k^t_roads). This provision, is found
in Part II, Permanent Provisions,
Section 8. and it states that '’for the
fiscal year igoSJ^-tifThe five cents
quish the.use of this tax for the fis
cal year 1958-59. »
If the Senate amends the bill in
this fashion and sends it back to the
House. I believe the House will pass
the amended bill. If the Senate fails
to do this, then they are laced with
the problem of getting approximate-
on each gallon • of gasoline turned
over to the State Highway Depart
ment for the purpose of said depart
ment an amount of not less than one
cenl per gallon shall be expended on
thi^tate Highway Secondary Sys
tem”.
The Ways and Means Committee
after studying the Highway Depdrt-
• ment’s finahees. fihds that this can
ly seven million dollars in additional
needed revenue to meet the expendi
tures of the state for this fiscal
year The only source of this needed
additional revenue would be to im
pose a tax increase of some form on
.he people of this state and that
would not be fair to the people when
the bill, as it is now written, will
provide the needed revenue without
new taxes
^Clinton Citizen
To Be Hypnotized
By Radio On Feb. 3
Meet In Mountville,
Plan Year's Work
Preston, the Hypnotist, will pre-
■ j s cnt something different to the peo-
he done and not jeopard,,e the proth his b „.
res. of the Highway Department"^ A ^ be
Highway Dep
They find that this department's
bonded indebtedness is twenty two
million dollars, which is 48 million
dolars under the legal debt limit.
The department will realize $43,-
000,000 from the five, cents purpose
tax, not to mention the many mil
lion.- of dollars the department will
receive from the federal highway
program and the decline in cost of
road maintenance to the state as a
r Mift o^ tht 'federal highway, sys-
em - j
Jt i- my opinion alter talking with
members of the State Highway De
partment that restoring thrs one
cent per gallon gasoline tax t<f the
general fund for one year will nrit
hamper the Highway Department's
ingram for. this' year 1 find that
lie Highway Department’s chief
concern over .thus matter, is the fact
hai if we. make up 1 our deficit in
;m-•manner this year, they are fear
ful that tht General Assembly will
x.i live method—oi-.ge-U
ting needed revenue in the future,
to the detriment of the Highway
! Department and its program This
restoring of this tax to the general
fund for one year will not be harm
ful. but if the General Assembly
should continue this every time it
hypnotized by radio on February 3
at 4:00 p. m. over station WPCC.
Preston will be at the station and a
l^cal volunteer will be in the win
dow of Maxwell Bros, and Wilkes
Furniture S'ore, 204 N. Broad St.
By listening to a bedside radio,
the person will fall asleep and con
tinue to sleep until 8 00 p. m. The
’ sleeping beauty" will be taken by
ambulance from the furniture store
to the Clinton High School audito
rium where he or she will be awak
ened on the stage at the beginning
of Preston's performance
Incidentally, the person chosen
will receive $3 00 per hour—for
sleeping' XU persons, male or fe
male, old or young, who are inter-
e-ted in applying for this unusual
job, aie askwl to-be at Maxwell
Bros and Winces furniture-store at
3:00 p m at which time Preston
will choose the most suitable sub-
| joct.
Preston is “scheduled for - twoper-
formances, on the nights of F’eb. 3
•and 4, at the high school.' His ap
pearances here are sponsored by the
Jaycee Chapter.
Officials state that tickets are on
-ale at Young's Pharmacy and Mc-
The Executive Board of the Wom
en of the Church, South Carolina
Presbytery, met January 18 at the
home of Mrs. John B. Cooley,
Mountville, at 9:30 a. m.—
The president, Mrs. Cooley| vice-
president, Mrs. Irvin Hawthorne ol
Donalds; recording secretary, Mrs.
J. T. Holingsworth, Cross Hill; and
four dustrict chairmen, Mrs. Knox
Cheatham. Abbeville; Mrs. C. A
Mickles, Hodges; Mrs W'. P.
Shealy, Laurens; and Mrs H. F.
Blalock. Clinton, were in session for
the first hour, at which time plans
were formulated and dates set for
group conferences as follows:
District 1—Lebanon Church,'Ab
beville, February 16; District 2—
Greenvile Church. Donalds, Febru
ary 23; District 3—Owings Presby
terian Chut-ch, Owings,j, March 2;
District 4—Aveleigh Church. New
berry, March 9
At 10:30 the entire board conven-
ed, and the schedule for the year's
work was planned. Mrs. Joseph Get-
tys, chairman of the Spiritual
Growth Committee, conducted a
worship period which was followed
with reports and objectives from
the following committee chairmen:
World Missions, Mrs. N^il Trues-
dale, Newberry: Church Extension,
Mrs. George W Park. Greenwood;
Christian Education, Mrs. James
W a s s o n. Laurens; Stewardship,
Mrs. E W Smith, Abbeville; Gen
eral Fund Agencies, Mrs James K.
Waits, Joanna; Annuities and Re
lief. Mrs J. L. Wright, Greenwood:
0. B. Miller Passes
At Home On Monday,
Ollie Bushnel Miller, 72, retired
farmer and merchant, of 104 Shands
street, died eagly Monday morning.
He bad been in declining health for
two years. ,
A native of Prosperity, he was
the son of the late Amsie and Fran
ces Setzler Miller. He was a mem
ber of Mt. Pilgrim Lutheran Church
near Prosperity.
He was twice married. His first
marriage was to the late Katie Mae
Edwards.
Surviving are his second wife,
Mrs. Nancy Cook M&er, of Clin
ton: four daughters, Mrs. W. Al
len Coleman, Mrs. M. B. Mickles
and Mrs. Henry Hagen, all of Lau
rens; and Mrs. J. A. Surles of North
Charleston; one son, Francis T. Mil
ler of the University of South Caro
lina: three sisters, Mrs. W. E. Puch
of Jacksonville, Fla.; (Mrs. Frances
Borgus and Mrs. Joe B. Hartman,
both of St. Petersburg. Fla.; and
four grandchildren.
Funeral services were, conducted
Tuesday at 3:00 p. m. at Kennedy
Mortuary in Laurens by the Rev.
Chalmers McCutchen and the Rev.
J. S. Wessinger. Buriahwas in for
est Lawn cemetery
Pallbearers were Dr. J. F. Du-
senberry, B. M. Browi% Hugh F.
Morgan, E. A. Hagen, John W. Bolt,
and E. E. Medlock. *
Henderson Herd
fc High Producer
The South Carolina Jersey Cattle
Club presented production awards at
the annual meeting of the club in
Newberry on Friday, according to
G. E. Hawkins, secretary.
The Jersey herd of Caldwell Hen
derson, of Clinton, was recognized
as third in average butter fat in
herds with 369 pounds and fifth in
milk production with an average of
6,958 pounds.
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.\Jt.
bia Cir-
G. Murphy. Clinton; Columbia
cle, Mrs. W. T Moorman, Laurens.
Joining the above groups for
lunch were Dr. R L Alexander,
| pastor. First Presbyterian Church,
! Greenwood, who is advisor on Wom-
has a deficit, it would harm thei
[Gee's Drug Store.
Highway Department's program ■ T U
The Highway Department would j MWdMdnS lO IlGdr
[an’s Work, and Mrs Alexander;
Mrs. O. F. Liner, Greenwood, for
mer Presbyterian president; Miss
Clifford Barrett, missionary to For
mosa aid sister of 5trs. Park; Mrs.
S. B Goodman, president, Mount-
l.vilie Women of the church; and
! Mrs. J. W. Everett^ Abbeville,
I chairman of the nominating com
mittee
be pleased,and reluctantly favorable!
to the use of this one cent per gallon!
gasoline-tax for General Fund pur-
poses this year if the General As
sembly would assure the depart
ment that for the ensuing ten to
thirteen years, this one cent per gal
lon gasoline tax would go to the De
partment to be used on the £tate
secondary road program
Knowing this to be true, it is my
opinion and the opinion of a major
ity D6f the members of the House
that the Senate, as a compromise
with the Highway Department, will
amend the 1958-59 appropriation
bill to assure the Highway Depart
ment the use of this one cent per
gallon gasoline tax for an allotted
number <k ensuing years, if the
Highway Deparament will relin-
Telephone
Talk
by
IKE EDWARDS
Your Telephone Manager
Seth H Seelye, investment con-
sultan tfor A. M Law & Company,
of Spartanburg, will be the principal
speaker ^t the final January meet
ing of theCHnton Kiwanis Club this
Thursday night.
f ' The meeting is being held during
nation-wide- Kiwanis Anniversary
Week and spotlights the fact that
the local club is Clinton's oldest
civic organization
Seelye recently retired to Spar
tanburg and bis present consulting
role after 30 years in the New,
York City investment field For the
last 15 years before coming South,
Ire was a member of the trust in-
WONDERFUL GIFTS—I met a lady the other day who
had received a boior telephone for Christmas. She said it
was one of the most original gifts she'd ever had and was
so pleased with it she wanted to order several for coming
birthdays. Together we made the selectiop^Tfor her friends,
and she also decided to order another for herself (the
first is in 4ier bedroom; the second is for the kitchen).
How about you? Got any birthdays or anniversaries com
b
ing up’’ Why not give extension telephones in color-
they're original, -practical and so beautiful! Easy to give,
too. Just call our Business Office and we'll handle all the
details.
Spartanburg Man
At Meeting Tonight
Pvt. Billy J Willard
At Fort Jackson
Private Billy J. WiHard. 1 ,§on. of
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Willard, 86
Palmetto St., Lydia community, has
been assigned to Co. A. 3rd Bn., 1st
Regt., at Fort Jackson, Columbia,
for his basic in(antry_ training.
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Mr and Mrs. J. G. Greenway,
their daughter and son. LaJaliha
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vestmeitt committee of the City
Bank Farmers Trust Company,
trust affiliate of the First National
City Bank of New York. He also
taught security analysis and invest
ment management at evening schools
of the American Institute of Bank
ing and Practicing Lawyers Insti
tute.
President A. C. Young will pre
side over tbe program, beginning at
7 p. m in the Hotel Mary Musgrove,
and program chariman Joel Cox will
introduce the guest speaker.
Kiwanis International celebrates
its 43rd year during thq^January
19-25 anniversary week observance.
The organization was first formed
when 15 of the existing 20 local
clubs met in a convention in Cleve
land in 1916.
The Clinton Kiwanis Club, mean
while, approaches its 35th birthday.
Its founding date of July 17, 1923,
marks it as the oldest civic organi
zation nqw functioning in Clinton.
Eston W. Page Elected
Fund Drive Chairman
County Red Cross Unit
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BEEN TALKING SINCE
_■ HALF FAST JANUARY I"
WHO’$ NANCY? Nancy is ^ girl we all know. Lives
i girl
f. She's
right here in our community. She's ftfetty. popular, and
very grown-up. Often she’s wrapped up in a world of Tier
own. But just let the phone ring, and watch her snap to
attention. ThM ring may mean a date, a party, big news
or just 'anything But no matter what, it’s IMPORTANT
.. and she ^ust couldn't be without a phone. In case
you've guessed, Nancy is not really one,girl but a com-*
posite of our local teenage misses, who are just finding
out what we older folks have known all along. The tele
phone is important because it keeps us in touch, lets us
do so many things quickly and easily.
E-ston W. Page of Laurens was
elected as fund chairman for the
fund drive of the Laurens County
Chapter of the American Red Cross
on Friday evening at a meeting of
the board of directors
Elected along with Mr. Page as
.the fund planning- committee were
Gordon jCollins. Morton Brightwell
and Bennie B. Blakely. Mrs. Eula
Bolt was elected as public informa
tion chairman,
F J. Hamrick, chairman, presid
ed at the meeting which was held
for tht? -ffUrpose of setting up the
1958 fund campaign. Other directors
attending in addition to Mr. Ham
rick were Claude Crocker of this
city, Morton Brightwell, Mr ; Col
lins, and Miss Bettie Richards. Also
attending were. Howard Anderson,
field representative of the American
Red Cross, of Greenville, James E.
Wolfe of this city, who is regional
vice-fund chairman of South Caro
lina, Mrs. Irby Hipp of Clinton,
home service offjger, and Mrs.
Caroline Coleman.
Plans for a course in home care
of the sick, reorganization of Gray
Ladies for hospital and first aid
training were also discussed.
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