The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, March 12, 1970, Image 9
Road Costs In '60's: $9.2 Million
During the decade of the ’60s,
the South Carolina Highway De
partment made highway con
struction improvements in Lau
rens County with a total value of
$9,269,930.
Chief Highway Commissioner
Silas N. Pearman gave a decade’s
end report for Laurens County
which showed the breakdown in
Highway construction awards and
related spending between Jan. 1,
1960 and Sept. 30, 1969 as fol
lows:
--Interstate highways: $301,-
659 for roadways. (Prior to 1960,
$4,169,500 had been spent on 15.5
miles of roadway and $803,404
on bridges.)
—Primary highways: 85.4
miles built or improved, at a
cost of $5,294,656 for roadways
and $452,104 for bridges, for a
total of $5,746,760.
--Secondary highways: 169.3
miles built or improved, at a cost
of $3,007,505 for roadways and
$230,202 for bridges, for a total
of $3,237,707.
--Total of all improvements:
254.7 miles built or improved,
at a cost of $8,603,820 for road
ways and $666,110 for bridges, for
a total of $9,269,930.
This report includes aU but one
quarter of the 10 years. Work on
the final quarter will not be com
pleted for several weeks; in any
event, there will be no appre
ciable difference.
Mr. Pearman said improve
ments in Laurens County had been
made on the basis of traffic
volumes showing need in the case
of primary highways, and on the
basis of a formula provided by
the legislative act for farm-to-
market roads for secondary
roads.
When the General Assembly
added one cent of gasoline tax
for farm-to-market roads in
1950, the act provided that the
money be allocated on a basis
of population, area and rural
road mileage. This same formula
has been applied to state Fed
eral Aid secondary allocations.
The present gasoline tax has
remained unchanged since 1950
when one cent was added for
farm-to-market roads. That was
the only change made since 1929,
when a six-cent tax was enacted,
with five cents going to the
statewide highway fund and one
cent going to the counties for
road purposes for roads not in
cluded in the highway system.
Mr. Pearman has recom
mended a two-cent increase in the
tax to meet the needs of the’70s
and Gov. McNair has recom
mended aone-centincrease to the
General Assembly.
City Officials
Complete Course
Clinton Mayor Noland Suddeth
and three City Councilmen com
pleted a governmental adminis
tration course last month in
Greenwood.
Suddeth, Councilmen Truman
Owens, Fred Bragg and Dewey
Oxner completed a Budgetary
Methods and Fiscal Adminis
tration Course sponsored by the
University of South Carolina Bu
reau of Governmental Research
and Service.
The course started Feb. 12 and
concluded on Feb. 26.
The course included such sub
jects as billing and collections of
taxes; licenses; parking meter
receipts; utilities; security of
municipal deposits; investment of
idle funds;purchasing;long-term
financial planning; financing
capital improvements; sources of
revenue.
Deadline Near
For 'Doctor
Bill' Sign-Up
'March 31 is not only the last
day of the month, but it will be
the last day ever for some older
people to sign up for the “doctor
bill insurance” of Medicare,” J.
E. Gunter, Greenwood Social Se
curity Field Representative,
said.
He explained that under Medi
care law an individual, who did not
enroll at age 65, may enroll for
this supplementary medical in
surance (that helps pay doctor
bills and certain other medical
bills) duringanenrollmentperiod
that begins no later than three
years after the close of the period
in which he had his first oppor
tunity to sign up. Under this rule
March is the last month for people
who were born “after October 1,
1901 and before October 2, 1902”
to sign up for this protection.
He said anyone who has en
rolled and later dropped out may
re-enroll just once; and the re-
enrollment must take place with-
m three years after the month
the first enrollment period end
ed. “Under this rule March is the
last chance for anyone who had
this coverage but let it ‘lapse’
in 1967," he said.
He explained that individuals
who were bom after October 1,
1902 and have never enrolled for
this doctor bill insurance--or
who had the coverage but dropped
it in 1968 and have not re-en
rolled--should sign up before
March 31. While they may have
one more sign-up chance next
year, should they wait and sign
up then they would not have the
protection until July 1971.
RUBBER PRODUCED IN 60 SEC
ONDS — Mix two liquids in a pop
Lottie, shake well and in one minute
a mass of synthetic rubber 15 times
the volume of the bottle leaps forth—
that’s the recipe for one of the fasci
nating sequences in the 4(>-minute
General Motors science show, Pre
views of Progress. The admission-
free stage show dramatizes the won
ders of science in non-technical terms
l>efore two million American students
and adults each year.
’Previews Of Progress'
Shows Set At Schools
Local students will get a peek
at the future when General Mo
tors “Previews't>frPwefres* r re
search-in-action science show
appears at four Clinton area jun
ior and senior high schools <>n
March 18 and 19.
The schedule:
Clinton High School, March
18 at 10 a.m.; Bell Street High
School, March 18 at 2 p.m.jClin-
ton Junior High School, March 19
at 9:30 a.m ; Thornwell High
School, March 19 at 1 p.m.
The non-commercial show, ac
cording to General Motors Pre
sident Edward N. Cole, “seeks to
inspire more student interest in
science and engineering careers
to provide the trained talent A-
merica needs to keep pace with
the promise of the future."
“Previews of Progress" de
monstrations depict work being
DISTRICT 56
Week of March 16 - 20, 1970
MONDAY - Milk, Buttered
Peas with Vienna Sausage, Cole
slaw with onions, carrots, cab
bage, carrotstrips, biscuits, but
ter, gingerbread with hot raisin
sauce.
TUESDAY - MUk, fried steak,
corn, turnip greens, rice and
gravy, cornbread, butter and cho
colate pudding.
WEDNESDAY - Milk, peanut
butter sandwich, vegetable soup
with ground beef, onions car
rots, tomatoes, potatoes, corn,
and peas, loaf slices, cornbread,
butter and applesauce.
THURSDAY - Milk, barbecue
ham, green beans, strawberries
in jello with topping, candied
sweet potatoes, rolls and butter.
FRIDAY - Milk, hamburger,
onions, lettuce, tomatoes, toma
to catsup, mustard, french fried
potatoes, buns, butter and peach
pie.
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BY NANCY PHILLIPS
Week of March 9, 1950
Dr. Edouard Patte, Presbyter
ian College sociology professor
and a native of Switzerland is
one of the United States newest
citizens. Dr. Patte, his wife and
young son recently passed citi
zenship qualifications after living
in the country more than the re
quired five years. Dr. Marshall
W. Brown, president of the col
lege and Mrs. Brown acted as
the Patte’s sponsors.
Power Completes
Language Study
Airman First Class Williams.
Power, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Power, 701 Shands
St., Clinton, completed a 47-
week study of the Vietnamese
language, Feb. 6 at the Defense
Language Institute Support Com
mand at Biggs Field, Ft. Bliss,
Tex.
He received instruction from
native speakers of the language
and was briefed on the culture,
history and geography of Viet
nam.
The Defense Language Insti
tute provides training in some
65 foreign languages and Eng
lish for 200,000 students an
nually.
Airman Power entered the
Air Force in January 1969 and
received basic training at Lack-
land Air Force Base, Tex.
He is a 1967 graduate of Clin
ton High School.
A lovely party complimenting
Miss Margo Martin and Reese
Young, whose engagement has re
cently been announced wa&%iven
on Friday evening by Mr. and
Mrs. Ansel B. Godfrey and Mr.
and Mrs. Gaily Gault at the God
frey Home.
The ladies of the Shady Grove
Community have begun plans and
activities for the organization of
a Community Club. Several
rooms in the community school
house will be used for the
meetings.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Garner
accompanied Den No. 1 of the
Cub Scouts to the Gene Autry
Show in Greenville Monday.
The total spent in Laurens
County on public welfare assist
ance during the first seven
monts of the 1949-50 fiscal year
was $285,021, according to a re
port of the South Carolina De
partment of Public Welfare.
Lee Willard, Alec Henry and
Bill Glenn are spending this week
with relatives and friends in Or
lando, Fla., and while away will
visit other points of interest.
Hava You Made Yoar Wfll?
Would you like to make a will and leave aoma-
thing REAL beneficial to someone else and at the
same time COST YOU NOTHING?
WHY NOT WILL YOUR EYES to the S. c!
Eyebank? Within 48 hours after your death, £
part of you will be living in someone else and giv
ing them one of the most precious possessions in
life . . . SIGHT!!!!
HOW CAN YOU DO THIS??? See Gary HoL
comb at Sunshine Cleaners . . . or W. S. “Shorty”
Horne at the Post Office or any member of the
Lions Club and get a form to make your Eye Ban](
Will. Either of the above named persons will help
you fill out the form.
DO IT NOW!!! Give a “Gift of The Gods”. En
able some person (now blind and waiting for a
donor) TO SEE AGAIN.
See Gary Holcomb or “Shorty” Horne and
WILL YOUR EYES! You’ll be glad you did.
Camper Law
Is Enforced
done today in America's research
laboratories and point out the
contributions of research to mo
dern living. A two-man team nar
rates the live show in non-tech
nical language.
More than 30-million students
and adults in the United States
have seen Previews since 1946.
Millions more have seen the GM
show in Canada and 25 foreign
countries, including special pre-
sentalions made i verseas at the
request of the U.S. Department of
Commerce.
Featured in the current show
are several energy conversion
demonstrations. They include gas
turbine engines, fuel cells and
solar cells. Fuel cells convert
chemical energy into electrical
power and solar cells change sun
light into usable energy.
Another demonstration, based
on information obtained over the
years in GM automotive safety
engineering tests, emphasizes
the importance of wearing seat
belts when driving or riding in
an automobile.
In all, students will see nine
examples of research-in-action.
The South Carolina Highway
Patrol has begun enforcement of
the requirement in the motor ve
hicle inspection law that camper
trailers must be inspected at
least once a year.
South Carolina law defines a
camper trailer as being no longer
than 30 feet and no wider than
eight feet, which is primarily
used for private living quarters
for one or more persons and is
towed by a motor vehicle.
House trailers are defined as
being longer than 30 feet; they
were exempted from the motor
vehicle inspection by 1969 act of
the General Assembly.
Enforcement of the require
ment that campers be inspected
was waived until now.
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