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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, February 6, 1958
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ESTIMATED INCOME
Income Other than Special School Tax:
CLINTON. S C., THURSDAY. FEBRUARY fi, 1958
A Worthy Good Turn - .
, The Boy Scouts of. America observes its
48th anniversary during Boy Scout,Week,
February 7 to 13, by launching a yearlong
nationwide Good Turn. The Safety Good
Turn, undertaken at the suggestion^»f Pres
ident I>wight P. Eisenhower, will find 4,-
700,000 boys and leaders engaged in promo't-
traffic safety, outdoor safety, and home
safety.
We are accustomed to great achievements
from our Boy Scouts. Their outstanding work
.in the 1952 and 1956 Get-Out-therVote cam
paigns, their Conservation Good Turn in 1954,
their, collection of nearly two million items of
clothing, foodstuffs, and supplies for the
needy in 1934. and other activities in behalf
of their fellow Americans have given us ap
proximately twenty million past and present
Boy Scouts who have learned the real mean
ing of service. ' ,
Calling the Safety Good Turn "an oppor
tunity for-service to your country in the high
est tradition of the Boy Scouts of America,”
President Eisenhower said, “We must seek
new ways to save the basic resources of our
nation: its people.”
He told the Boy Scouts that "he was en
couraged by the splendid results of their Con
servation Good Turn. “I now urge you,” he
-wrote, “to adopt Safety; as your service pro
ject for 1958. Through the concerted action
of your members, and in cooperation with oth
er organizations, you can alert the public t6
the urgent need for reducing the tragic toll
of accidents.” ' .
We congratulate the Boy Scouts on past
achievements and wish them well as they
undertake this great public service to the
comrpunity, state, and nation.
big slump would inevitably cause the govern
ment to go into pump-priming on ^ huge
scale—and then we'd be set^for runaway in-
x flation.
The merchants didn’t create inflation and
high prices—they, like the rest of us, are
among the victims. Their* profits are general
ly moderate. And competition forces them to
sell at the lowest possible prices.
Miss Porter advises us to shop carefully,
look" for bargains and cold-shoulder any prof
iteers we may find. Thafs only sensible. But
a buyer’s strike would amount to cutting off
the nose to spite the face.
Editor John Fischer of Harper’s Magazine
tells of the policy certain California judges
have adopted toward litteybugs: ‘‘When a
culprit is hailed into their courts for littering
the roadside with beer cans, sandwich wrap
pers, and similar debris, these judges do not
impose a fine. Instead they sentence the guil
ty motorist to a term—ranging from a few
hours to a few days — of picking up trash
along the highways.”
Basic Issue
Senator Holland of Florida recently had
some forthright things to say about the ef-
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fort to extend the federal wage-hour law to
retailing and to certain other service'enter
prises which have been exempt ever since the
law was first passed some 20 years ago.
The basic issue, as tl^e Senator>sees» it. is -
whether we shall permit^further encroach
ment upon local and state affairs by a cen
tralized federal government which is already
’too large to b^ efficient or economical, and
too powerful to be soundly democratic.
In the course of his talk, he brought up
some interesting quotations out of the past.
In May, 1937, ITesjdent Roosevelt requested
the wage and hour legislation for those ‘‘who
toil in factories.” Then the President, w'hom
no one could term anti-labor, stated that
. there are many purely local pursuits
and services which no federal legislation can
effectively cover.’”
The wage-hour bill was introduced in the
Senate by the liberal Senator Black—now a
Supreme Court Justice. Senator Blaefr said at
the time: - “It is not intended to, and does not,
attempt to provide by federal-legislation the
fixing of minimum wages and* maximum
hours of employment in all the varied pe
culiarly local business units of the nation.”
The city of San Francisco operates three
municipal utility services—a street railway,
an airport, and a bureau of heat? light and
power. During the last fiscal year these op
erated at a loss of nearly $6 million, which
was made up by the taxpayers.
School Board Submits Budget
W. R. Anderson is superintendent
of the district schools, and G. N.
Foy, assistant superintendent.
Following is the itemized propos
ed budget:
Publisher Tom Anderson of Farm And
Ranch quips: “The Russians may beat us to
the moon with a Sputnik. But I’ll bet we get
there first with Foreign Aid.”
SENSING THE NEWS
By THURMAN SENSING
Exocutiv* Vico Protidonl
Southern State* Industrial Council
How To Produce
A Slump
Sylvia Porter, the popular syndicated writ
er on business and financial affairs, tells of a
letter she received from a reader who signed
herself “simple housewife.”'This reader, an
gry at today’s high .prices, wanted Miss Por
ter to advocate „what amounts to a buyers’
strike. As she put it: “Please tell our people
to ask prices and pointedly to refuse to buy
too highly priced items, no matter how' badly
they seem to be needed. . . . Let’s stop buying
. . . until merchants are forced to reason.”
Miss Porter’s reply to that propo^kl~hfcgins
with a one-word paragraph—“Well!” — and
consists of an unequivocal and forceful NO.
There is. she says, only one stimulant which
can prevent a business slump of some dimen
sions next year, and that is continued strong
buying by America’s consumers. She contin
ues: “If we, America’s consumers, pull back
now—if we go in for massive resistance to
buying any food, clothing, furniture, appli
ances, etc., etc., we don’t absolutely need—
we’ll turn today’s slowdown into a slump in a
. matter of weeks./-
“If we follow my neighbor’s urging and
‘stop buying . . . until merchants are forced. - ;
to reason,’ we’ll force them “to reason” fast.
We’ll also force countless numbers of them
into bankruptcy, we’ll send joblessness sky
rocketing, we’U create a general crash.” And
that isn’t all, as she also makes clear. For a
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THE GREAT FARM FOLLY
Our farm price sapport program, which might
have been justified for a time as an experiment, can
no longer be viewed in any other hght than as monu
mental folly. It is a reflection upon our form of gov
ernment that a program which can in no way be sup
ported by common sense should be continued—and
with no end in sight.
Right now when various reports, published and un
published, indicate that we are in mortal danger as a
nation and when we are searching desperately for
ways to cut the budget where possible in order that
more funds may be available for defense, is when we
should take a long, steady, serious look at our farm
program. Of all the non-de'fense items in the national
budget .^spending on agriculture should be hsted as
the nurriber one area for cuts. ■
Farm outlays are the third largest item in the fed
eral budget, exceeded only by defense spending and
interest on the public debt. The cost of the agricul
tural program in the current budget is now estimated
at $5 billion. It has amounted to a total of $27 billion
over the past ten years. 6ut the farm problem is no
nearer being solved now than when this program was
started. •
The farm program, as now administered and as it
has been administered ever since the federal govern
ment started meddling in it. has completely failed to
cure the farm ills which caused it to be begun. ‘ In
stead of that, it has served to perpetuate the problem
of mountainous farm surpluses, it has contributed to
inflationary pressures in our economy, and it has cre
ated ill will abroad.
The most recent example of the farm program fail
ure is the Soil Bank pl(pn—an operation launched in
1956 which pays“Tarmers to leave land idle. The ac
tual result has been that crop production continues at
record levels, despite estimated outlays of some $763
million for this purpose in the current fiscal year. In
tensive cultivation of the land used and the planting of
unrestricted crops on otherwise fallowed land or pas
ture land have actually pushed agricultural production
to new highs. * - —
This $5 billion cost of our agricultural program is
a lot of money. It amounts to more than $1,000 per
farm. It takes all the revenue the Treasury gets from
personal income tax rates beyond 22 per cent to pay
for it. It is half again as much as was spent last year
to build schools in this country. It is more than ten
times total national expenditureA-govemment, indus
try and universities—for basic scientific research.
Perhaps the most illogical and foolish aspect of
this whole farm program is that the taxpayers must
pay for it twice. First, they pay the annual cost i*
billions of dollars to support farm prices at a high
level. Second, as a result they pay higher prices for
►the food they buy in the grocery store. Without price
supports tor butter,* cheese, milk, rice, wheat, etc.,
etc , the consumer’s food dollar would go further and
his standard of living would be higher.
One of the costs borne by the taxayers in connec
tion with the farm program is the sale of agricultural
commodities abroad at bargain prices, at less than the
government (the taxpayers) pays for them.” This may
seem like a charitable gesture and a good way to get
rid of surplus goods—but it is far from it. In the first
place, charity might well begin at. home, and in the
second place it actually creates ill will in many na
tions abroad by disrupting world trade patterns, de
priving friendly foreign countries of their normal mar
kets, arnd opening ourselves to accusations of “dump
ing.’’ 1
Finally, the most damnable cost of the farm pro
gram is its impairment of the farmer’s freedom and
independence. For being allowed to step under the
subsidy umbrella, the farmer is told what he can
grow, where he can grow it, and how much he can
grow He is no longer the most traditionally free of
all Americans, but is a ward of yncle Sam. The crop
farmers should look at the cattlemen of this country,
who refused to be bound by government controls and
who are prospering without them.
State Aid for Salaries
$362,000.00
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State Aid for Maintenance and Operation
20,800.00
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Vocational Funds:
Agriculture
5,000.00
Home Economics . *
5,000.00
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Distributive Education
450.00
National Forest Fund
5,000.00
Miscellaneous (Fees, Rent, Junk, etc.)
1,800.00
$420.850 00
Local Taxes Other than Special School Tax:
Poll Tax .. 1
$ 2,400.00
Dog Tax ~.
400.00
Penalties . . . .
500.00
Delinquent Taxes
8,000.00
$ 11,300.00
Estimated Income from 30 Mill Special Levy
$178,832.00
TOTAL ESTIMATED INCOME
^610,982.00
ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES
Administration: Salaries
$ 19,042.00
Contracted Services—Legal Fees
500.00
Arbitration Costs
800.00
Audit
1,000.00
Misc. (Studies, surveys, etc.)
700.00
Office Supplies
- 800.00
Travel
1,000.00
Misc. (Conferences, meetingsto which
school personnel are sent)
506.00
$ 24,342.00
Instruction: 1 •
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Supervisory Principals
$ 10,065.00
Teachers and Teacher Principal
485,000.00
Other Instruction Staff
5,906.00
Clerical Assistants . '
2,700.00
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School Libraries and Audio-Visual
4,000.00
Teaching Supplies ■r
4,400.00
Other (Commencement, books and subscriptions
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for in-service training)
600.00
$512,665.00
Health Services:
First Aid Supplies
$ 500.00
$ 500.00
Transportation: (Contracted Services)
$ 1,000.00
$ 1,000.00
Operation:
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Salaries ■ . ■
$ 27,000.00
Contracted Services r
500.00
Building Heating .,
8.750.90
Utilities
8,000.00
Operational Supplies
4,400.00
Other .Station wagon, lawns, flags,
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laundry, etc.) .
600.00
$ 49,250.00
Maintenance:
Salaries
$ 3,400.00
Contracted Services
1,500.00
Replacement of Equipment
1,200.00
Other—Bldg, repairs, etc.' ..
3,000.00
$ 9,100.00
Fixed Charges:
Insurance — Buildings
$ 8,500.00
Workmen’s Compensation
625.00
Other —. Interest on Current Loans
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1,000.00
$ 10,125.00
Capital Outlay: / 1
Equipment
$ 4,000.00
$ 4,000.00
TOTAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES
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$610,982.00
Lakeside Country
Club To Be Host At
Tourney On Feb. 16
The first annual championship
pro-am golf tournament will be
played at the Lakeside Country Club
Course between Laurens and Clinton
on February 16, Mike Lucas, pres
ident of the South Carolina Profes
sional Golfers Association, has am
nounced.
► Each PGA member in the state
will select one amateur of his club
to be his playing partner in the tour
ney. Each twosome will play best
ball. Prize money of $100 will be
offered.
The winners will be recognized as
the state championship pro-am
team
U. S. 276 Construction
Contract Announced
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A contract for the gradirtg and as
phaltic concrete surfacing on the
construction of 12.698 miles of U. S.
Route 276 along a new location in
Laurens County has been awarded
by the State Highway Department
to Robert E. Lee & Co., Inc., of
Manning, and Fox Construction Co.,
of Lexington.
The contract^wSTYnnounced Jan
uary 29 in a letter of award from
Chief Highway Commissioner Claud
R. McMillan. It was based on a low
bid of $2,069,841.51 submitted joint
ly by the two firms when bids for
the project were publicly opened in
Columbia November 26.
Included in the project are the
grading and surfacing of the 12.698
miles of Route 276 between Foun
tain in and a point on U. S. Route
221 north of Laurens. The new high
way will be of the four-lane divided
type, and will feature access con
trol. An entirely new location will
be followed throughout the project.
Construction of this section of U. S
276 is part of a long range project
to provide a modern highway conec
tion between Qreenville and a point
on Interstate Route 26 near Clin
ton. The Interstate route when com
pleted, will complete the high ca
pacity highway link between Green
ville and the east and central por
tions of the state.
Johnson And McCoig
Finish Oldsmobile
Servicing Course
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Jame sD. Johnson and Cecil H.
McCoig, members of the service
staff of the Palmetto Oldsmobile
Agency in Clinton, have completed
an intensive course in servicing and
maintenance techniques at the Gen
eral Motors Training Ceiter in Char
lotte, N. C.
Whitten Village
Seeks To Dispose Of
Land On Hwy. 72
The governing body of Whitten
Village would be authorized to dis
pose of a 10-acre tract of lariA under
legsilation introduced in the General
Assembly last Friday.
The land, located on Mate High
way 72 bewteen Clinton and Whit
mire, could be traded for other land
or sold to pay for the pruchase of
another tract. i
Another bill would increase 'to
$30,000 the amount Whitten Village
could keep from the sale of Umber,
all above that going into the state’s
general fund. . A. 1956 act set the
limit at $20,000.
Both bilLs were introduced by
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee. •
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Marin$ Recruiter
Here Twice Monthly
Marine Sgt. Billy L. Powell, Unit
ed States Marine Corps recruiter
for this area, yesterday stated his
planned visits to Clinton.
Sgt. Powell plans, to be in Clinton
and Laurens every second and
fourth Wednesday of each month.
He will be in Clinton from 10:00 a.
m. to 12:30 p. m. at the post of
fice building on his bi-weekly visits
and in Laurens the remaining part
of the days.
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leather.
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CLINTON, S. C.
Air Conditioning—temperatures node lo e«de« —
ter oil-weather comfort. Get o demortstrottoeI
John
L.
Mimnauiih
about this question:
“Courts nowadays are
awarding $20,000, or even
$50,000, iri personarThjury
lawsuits that formerly re
ceived only $10,000. ,Poes
$25,000-50,000 Auto Liabil
ity insurance cost only a
few dollars more than a
$10,000-20,000 policy, yet
provide_2%rtimes as much
protection ?”
Wm. J. Bailey
Ins. Agency
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Phone l:
M. S. Bailey A Son
era Bldg.
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Newer and finer in every way. Yet—
CHEVROLET IS 1DWEST PRICED
OF THE UW’PRiCED THREE
IN THE MODELS MOST PEOPLE DUY!
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Chevrolet is by far the newest, nicest car in its field—the only one
that’s new from ride to roof. And in the models most people prefer,
Chevy costs you less than the other two low-priced cars.*
Chevrolet docs^porc for your dollars
than any other car in the low-price
field. Even the lowest priced models
share in Chevy’s unique new beauty
and cosdy car feel.
Etwy Chevrolet’s a full nine inches
longer—lower and wider, too. When
you hitch these new dimensions to
any of Chevy’s new engines, you’ve
got a big serving of spirited action.
See your dealer to find out how
little Chevy’s brand of fun will cost
you. You get more for your money in
every model—and Chevrolet is the
lowest priced of the low-priced three
in the models most people buy 1
Onlyjrmchited Gfuvrolet dialert
nu \ nou;r
display this famous trademark
Th. Btl Air Sport Coupe, fvery window
of ever* Chevrolet It Solely Plot. Gfoii.
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