The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, December 12, 1963, Image 6
THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clnion, S. C, Thursdaj, December 12, IMS
Johnny Starnes
Laurens — Johnny Cleveland
Starnes, month-old son of Mr.
and Mi3 A _Ro&? David Starnes
rf 108 Rosemary Lane, died
Lite last Wednesday night at a
local hospital.
Surviving in addition to his
parents are a sister, Peggy
Elaine Starnes of the home;
the maternalgrandmother,
Mrs. Jessie Bdle Parris of
Clinton; and the paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
John C. Startles of Laurens.
Graveside services were con
ducted Friday at 11:00 a. m. at
the Laurens County Memorial
Gardens by Rev. Grange S.
Cothran.
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Fire Department Dinner
Personnel of Clinton’s volunteer fire department
enjoyed their annual Christmas dinner party last
Thursday when their wives and friends were guests.
Part of the group is shown here in the recreation hall
of Broad Street Methodist Church, where the dinner
was held.—-Photo by Paul Quinton.
By SPECTATOR . . .
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278x6/8
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I’ve been thinking about fig
ures. You will understand that
my thought is about arithmetic.
Ordinarily we say that figures
don’t lie, but that liars figure.
Boiled down to the basic truth
figures are sometimes padded,
even figures in arithmetic. So
now: Let’s see what’s what, boil
ed down to fundamentals. The
teachers want more pay; Mr. An
derson calls for astronomical
flights up into the millions. And
why not? It is just aa easy to
suggest thirty millions as it is to
dream of one million. The Tax
Commission dreams of more
pay« everybody wants more
money.
That is natural. Today we
must ride all the time. Someone
has said that there are so many
gadgets to simplify the arduous
and monotonous labors of house
keepers that the women are rush
ing to clinics and hospitals, or
enriching the pharmacists, with
ailments sometimes due to lack
of the vigorous efforts of our
grandmothers; and the men
must ride even a few blocks and
eat even more than their grand
fathers, so now the grandfathers,
lose with the sun to eat the
abundant breakfast prepared by
grandmother before sun-up.
So today we substitute pills and
wwders and liniments and shots
or the ailments due to easy liv-
ng.
Whereas grandfather wielded
an axe and grandson turns a
Sutton and reoices in electric
heat and power, or gas or oil.
But the figures; if everybody
on the public payroll draws more
money, where will the money
come from? Can we in South
Carolina do as they do, in Texas
and Oklahoma, bore a well in the
yard and find a gusher of oil?
If noL. Jill the pay and the in
creases thereof must come from
somewhere or somone.
If the budgets of the public
services are increased there is
only one source for all the money
hopd for: where is that source;
or who is that source? The tax
payer is the source of all our
public revenue. He is the one who
must “foot the bills.”
Now is it a fair question? Is
everyone to enjoy more? Well,
shall we pay more to all except
the poor taxpayer? If he bears
him a bonus? Alas and alack;
all the burden who will grant
the taxpayer pays to all but he
must grin and bear it.
The only boon for the taxpay
er would be to reduce his taxes.
Surely he deserves consideration.
But if the taxpayer must pay
more how can his taxes be re
duced? Will no one say a word
for the taxpayer?
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$2.36
5/6x6/8
$2.S5
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678x6/8
$2.58
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LOCK SETS
Yale Sargent
Passage $1.35 $1.58
Bedroom $1.88 $L88
Bath $1.78 $1J6
Exterior $3.25 $3.58
CLINTON
STORE HOURS
Friday, Dec. 13 until 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 14 until 6:30 p.m.
December 16 Through 24 until 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 25 Closed
Thursday, Dec. 26 until 5:30 p.m.
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Friday, Dec. 27 until 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 28 /. until 6:30 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 30 —.£55 l until 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Dec. 31 until 5:30 p.m.
Why do we waste time and suf
fer indignities and insults from
the Russians? Time passes rap
idly, so many citizens and voters
of today do not remember that
our nation shunned the Russians
until Mr. Roosevelt took them to
his bosom. There are so many
afflictions of today that grew out
of Mr. Roosevelt’s blundering
that I am reluctant to enumerate
them. All our trouble with Russia
grows out of the incredibly stu
pid blunder of dividing Berlin
and givng the territory ninety
miles west of Berlin to Russia.
Just imagine. Berlin sits within
an area surrounded by territory
ceded to Russia. In order for us
to reach our side of Berlin we
must pass over ninety miles of
land between Berlin and our side.
Can you conceive a more colos
sal blunder than that?
Today, because we still meddle
in Europe, Asia and Africa Rus
sia slips into Cuba—at our very
doors. And we negotiate and ear
nestly plead, whereas all this
might have hem adjusted sen
sibly in the beginning..
Just as the one-sided unem
ployment tax, resting entirely on
the employer, hitting him hard-
That is a piece of incredible
folly, unsound, unfair and In
iquitous. If a tax of 2D per cent is
fair all should pay 20 per cent.
If a man has an income of $100,-
000 isn’t $20,000 enough in all
conscience? If he has an income
of a million isn’t $200,000
enough? Why the graduated tax?
It was frankly a scheme to dis
courage wealth. It is one of the
Communistic ideas which Mr.
Roosevelt adopted and which the
Congress accepted and endorsed
in a day of weakness beyond ail
understanding.
Lets’ boil it down in reverse.
Suppose you say that a home-
owner whose house is worth $3500
shall pay 20 mills to his town and
county, but the levy would be
graduated so that a man with an
estate worth a million might pay
90 mills.
That would he on a par with
our graduated income tax.
Just why the Congress sits su
pinely while all the Roosevelt
Communism flourishes I can’t
understand.
What we need in America is a
serious consideration of and for
Americans and let the foreigners
manage their own affairs.
I value more our South Caro
lina standard of ethics than I do
Government contracts. But, just
for your information ponder
these figures:
“The United States govern
ment in the first half of this
year bought goods and services
in all states valued at some $13,-
778,509,000 of which firms in the
South received nearly a fifth of
the total value of all contracts
awarded, the Charleston field
office of the U. S. Department o'
Commerce reported.
Passing along the data com
piled by the Department of De
fense in Washington, the Com
merce Department said business
men in Alabama, Florida, Geor
gia, Mississippi, Tennessee, the.
Carolinas and Virginia, Arkan
sas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tex
as, Kentucky, Maryland, Dela
ware and the District of Colum
bia participated in then atkm’s
buying program for military
purposes from January through
June of 1962 to the extent of ap
proximately $2,476,186,000, a 15.3
per cent increase over the same
period last year..
Contracts awarded this year
in Arkansas totalled $24,010,000
Louisiana, $57,441,000; Okla
homa, $50,927,000; Texas, $575,
390,000, sixth largest amount of
all states;Delaware, $33,367,000
Maryland, $336,589,000; Virginia
$213,996,000; West Virginia, $102,
036,000; Kentucky, $30,355,000
District of Columbia, $111,324,
000; Alabama, $112,916,000;
Florida, $223,522,000; Georgia,
$217,898,000; Mississippi, $122,-
615, 000; North Carolina, $156,-
Pennsylvania turned out 13,061,-
000 yards; New Jersey, 2,530,-
000; and New York, 210,000.”
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est when failure of business com- 614,000; South Carolina, $30,472,’-
pels him to lay off help. In his 000; and Tennessee, $76,714 000
misfortune the employer is tax
ed.
Then we have the indivdual in
come tax, which ranges from
about 20 per cent to 91 per cent!!
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But, due to the genius of our!
industrialists we have great cot
ton textile plants—our greatest
industry..
. . . The South’s production
of cotton broad wovens, concen
trated primarily in the state* cf |
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,
and Texas, with smaller quan
tities coming from some of the!
other states in the region, was
84.7 per cent of the national out
put of 4,492,573,000 yards of that |
product, Paul Quattlebaum, Jr.,
director of the Commerce De
partment field office, said.
South Carolina continued to I
lead all states wfth 1,937,066,0001
yards, foUowed by 854,396,000 in
North Carolina, second largest!
producer, Georgia’s 750,,944,000,
1 third in the nation, Alabama’s ]
1387,833,000, fourth; Tennessee’s
82,842,000 fifth; and Texas’ 61,-1
1410,000 yards, fifth down thel ist.
Elsewhere in the nation, mills in I
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