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Forty-Fowrth Year
Established June 5, 1902 McCOHMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1945
Number 22
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Washington, D. C. — Why did
John L. Lewis call off the coal
strike? That is one of the most
widely discussed topics in Wash
ington today—and if anyone had
the right answer it would un
doubtedly have a major effect on
plans which are in the making for
attempting to establish perma
nent peace on the labor front.
We have heard dozens of
guesses—but the most reasonable
one is that Mr. Lewis simply de
cided it would do labor more harm
than good if homes were cold and
factories were idle this winter.
Mr. Lewis says that he called off
the* strike “in the public interest”,
which indicates that he is anxious
to get back in the public’s good
graces after having alienated
practically the whole American
public during the war.
If other union leaders follow
Mr. Lewis’ example, which appears
unlikely at this time, it might
cool off the growing desire of
Congressmen to enact legislation
which would curb union activities.
Senator Ball of Minnesota is
pushing for action on his bill
which would make collective bar
gaining a two-sided affair, would
require unions to live up to con
tracts and would set up machin
ery for the peaceful settlement of
labor-management disputes.
“If a program of peaceful set
tlement of disputes among na
tions is sound,” the Senator said,
“well, then a program for peace
ful settlement of disputes between
management and labor, with ap
propriate sanctions on the few
outlaws, is just as sound. And
tthe need is just as urgent. Unless
some such program is worked out,
we are headed for industrial
chaos.”
In the House the Republicans
are lining up behind a program
outlined by Representative Arends
of Illinois, the Republican whip.
His program, which he describes
as one with “bulldog teeth in it”,
also prohibits contract breaking
by unions, government seizure of
plants while employees and em
ployers discuss differences which
might result in strikes, and the
denial of unemployment compen
sation to all persons on strike.
While the tax discussion was
going on interesting figures were
released showing the amount of
income tax now being paid by al
income groups. They showed that
a married man with two depend
ents pays a $45 tax if he earns
$2,000, a $755 tax if he earns
$5,000, a $2,245 tax if he earns
$10,000, a $68,565 tax if he earns
$100,000 and if his income is
$1,000,000 he pays all but $100,000
of it in tax. The figures make it
clear that the day of millionaires
is over—that it is practically im
possible, under the present tax
set up for anyone to amass a mil
lion dollar fortune.
For the time being there seems
to be no meeting of the “Big
Three” contemplated for ending
the political impasse which re
sulted from the recent meeting of
the Council of Foreign Ministers.
But President Truman has re
vealed that he is attempting to
remedy the situation by corre
spondence.
If the correspondence develops
satisfactorily, to the point where
a personal meeting will help, it is
believed here that the President
will urge that such a meeting be
held.
McCormick Defeats
Iva 7-0
War Fund Drive
The McCorzhick Panthers edged
out Iva in a hard fought game
here Wednesday evening of last
week with a score of 7-0.
Iva received' the kick-off and
the ball was swapped baek and
forth during the first quarter.
McCormick started a drive in
the second quarter which Ed Rice
completed by running around his
own left end for the touchdown.
Rice then went over for the extra
point.
During the second half McCor
mick held the upper hand, but
did not score, although the game
ended with the Panthers deep in
Iva’s territory.
McCormick will meet the Abbe
ville team here this afternoon at
3:30.
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Troy Church News
The hour for the services at the
Troy Baptist Church on the j
Fourth Sunday afternoons has j
been changed. The Sunday School I
will be held at 2:30 o’clock instead
of 3:30. The preaching service
will follow the closing of the
Sunday School. On second Sun
days, Sunday School is* at 10:00
a. m. followed by preaching.
Miss Mable Lyon was elected by
the church last Sunday P. M. to
be the director of the Baptist
Training Union. There will be a
meeting at the church next Sun
day evening, Nov. 4, at 6:30 o’
clock to organize the union.
Other officers were elected to
assist Miss Lyon:
Associate Director, Mrs. Hal
Harris,
General Secretary, Miss Mar
garet Bowen.
Pianist, Mrs. J. F. Rush,
Chorister, Mrs. Pal Roper,
j r . mt. Leader, Mrs. Joe White,
Bible Story Leader, Miss Frances
Rush. _ .,
We have reached the $1,200
mark in our effort to reach a
$1,500 goal in the W&r Fund
Drive. This report is not com
plete, as all the communities have
not reported, and we have no re
port from the colored people. 1
am asking that all workers finish
the job as early as possible and
make their reports. This drive
will run until we have completed
the job.
Contributions of $5.00 or more
are as follows:
Ralph Creswell __ $ 5.00
G. W. Mitchell 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gable — 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Smith __ 5.0C
Mrs. W. M. McCue 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hodges. 5.0C
Edwin Parker and Family— 5.0C
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Brock... 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Hemminger 35.00
D. J. McAllister 5.00
W. H. Hester 10.0C
Mrs. N. S. Scott 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Talbert._ 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Robinson 5.00
Mr. and Mrs. George Dorn.. 5.00
B. W. Crouch,
County Chairman.
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2,519 Bales Of Cotton
Ginned In County
To October 18th
Victory Loan
Drive Begins
In County
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE,
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS,
WASHINGTON.
COTTON GINNING REPORT
Census report shows that 2,519
bales of cotton were ginned in
McCormick County from the crop
of 1945 prior to Oct. 18, as com
pared with 2,814 bales for the
crop of 1944.
Very respectfully,
J. W. Britt,
Special Agent.
Date 10, 29, 45.
The Victory Loan Campaign,
last of the great bond drives of
he Second World War that
Drought purchases by millions of
Americans, began in McCormick
county this week, with Chair
man G. J. Sanders, Jr., and his
co-workers hopeful that early
ouying of bonds would quickly as
sure the reaching of the county’s
quota of $108,000.
In this and all other South
Carolina counties the drive began
after long and careful prepara
tions, made under the campaign’s
theme of “Let’s Finish the Job”.
Throughout the county volunteer
workers are pressing the cam
paign.
Christie Benet, of Columbia,
State Bond Chairman, has urged
all county chairmen to prepare to
have “more people see more peo
ple” to sell the bonds.
Mr. Benet has pointed out that
although the fighting part of the
war is over, the great conflict ac
tually is not finished and paid for,
and there is “a tremendous need
by our government for money”.
The chairman said this country
must fortify itself for the threat
of the atomic era, that money will
be needed for this country to
scientifically prepare for defense
in such an era.
More immediate, he said, is the
need for funds to meet the con
tinuing heavy military costs, in
cluding the expense of caring for
the wounded and sick, for bring
ing men home from the far cor
ners of the earth where they
fought under our flag for muster-
ing-out pay and for many other
expenses of the war which for
some time will go on.
'Plum Branch School
News
Autumn Leaves
We gathered some autumn
leaves. They were pretty colors.
We made spatter paintings of the
leaves. It was fun to make spat
ter paintings.
Winkie Langley,
second grade.
Chapel Oct. 26
The sixth and seventh grades
planned a chapel program this
week. Rose Marie Creswell played
the piano, and Melvin Finley pre
sided. We presented the follow
ing program: Scripture, Rose
Marie Creswell; Prayer, Dot Wall;
Group, reading of original Hallo
we’en poems; an original story by
Betty Ann Langley; “Little Or
phan Annie”, by two girls; special
music, Elise Langley. The group
sang two songs.
By Mary Jane Lindley.
Party, Nov. 2
Don’t forget our Hallowe’en,
party on Friday night, Nov. 2, a J
7 p. m. There will be a special
feature of string music by Jack
and Leslie of WRDW, Augusta.
Readers’ Digest
Fifteen homes have subscribed
to Readers’ Digest through the
special school offer. Many of
these homes have more than one
child in school, so we estimate
that twenty of our pupils have ac
cess to the Digest.
New Stove
Our parents and trustees are
sponsoring a new coal-burning,
hotel range for our lunch room.
We hope to begin using it next
week. Thank you, to all those
who have worked toward getting
the stove.
Grange Meeting
November 8th
The Buffalo Grange will meet
Thursday nfght, Nov. 8th, at 7 o’
clock at the Buffalo school house.
A hot lunch will be served before
the meeting, so all members
please take notice.
S. L. Britt,
Master.
Plum Branch
Baptist Church
Announcements
The Sunday School will open at
10:00 o’clock Sunday morning.
The preaching service will be at
11:00 o’clock. The Training Union
will meet at 6:30 Sunaay P. M.
There will be a special week of
training for leaders and members
of both the Sunday School
and Training Union organizations.
The hour for meeting is 7:30
each evening, Monday, Noy. 5,
through Friday, Nov. 9.
• Mr. Courteney, Associational
Sunday School superintendent, has
asked Mr. Brant, the Plum Branch
pastor, to teach the class for the
Sunday School. The book to be
used is “The Place of the Sunday
School in Evangelism”. This class
will include those in the Training
Union above 14 1-2 years old, as
well as those interested in the
Sunday School.
Miss Louise Bracknell, B. T. U.
Associational director and director
of the Pum Branch Training U-
nion, has secured the services of
Mrs. Brant to teach the book,
“This is My Bible”. Those under
14 1-2 years old will be in Mrs
Brant’s class.
These two classes will give every
member of the B. T. U. an cppor
tunity to get in their require
merits on their annual study
course.
The neighboring churches, in
the association, have been invited
to join in this week of training.
These are non-sectarian texts and
will prove invaluable to any per
son of other denominations who
will attend.
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McCormick School
News
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Mr. Lewis Visits School
Mr. D. L. Lewis, State Super
visor of Elementary Schools, held
a conference with the local teach
ers at the high school. In his
talk he advocated a more com
prehensive study of functional
grammar in the intermediate
grades and a more thorough
teaching of the core subjects in
all the grades. .
District meeting of the South
Carolina Educational Association
will be held at Anderson on Fri
day, November 2nd, at 16:30 o’
clock. It is hoped that all the
teachers of the county will plan
to be present.
Visit to State Fair
We wish to commend the high
school students for their excellent
behavior and fine school spiri’
during the visit to the State Fair.
All those attending report an
enjoyable and worth-while trip.
Panthers Win Games
For the second consecutive timr
the Panthers have won out ove-
their opponents. On Wednesday
of last week they defeated the Iva
team by a score of 7-0. We wish
for them continued success wher
they meet the Abbeville team at
the local field on Thursday, No
vember 1st, at 3:30 o’clock.
Girl Scouts
The Girl Scouts met Tuesday
-right, at Mrs. Connor’s. We dis
cussed our program for the nex’
vear. We had seven present at
the meeting.
Chapel Exercises
On Monday, October 22. chane’
exercises were conducted by tlr
fifth grade. The following pro
gram was carried out:
Song — Onward Christian Sol
diers,
Scripture—Nellie Jean Lawton,
Prayer—Betty Boozer,
Poem—October’s Painted Lanes
—Joyce Walker,
Song — Marine’s Hymn — Ac
companied by Jan Parks,
Reading—Sister Caroline Speak
ing—Rose Weldon.
Other Outstanding Citizens
Ruth Jaynes’ name should be
added to the Outstanding Citizen
ship Roll. She was unable to at
tend on account of the illness of
her brother and did not finish^
Ed. Note: This newspaper has
arranged with the Washington
Bureau of National Weekly Ser
vice, 1616 Eye St. N. W. Washing
ton 6, D. C., to answer questions
pertaining to servicemen and vet
erans. These questions will be
answered in this column if ad
dressed as above. No replies can
be made by mail, but this paper
will print answers to all questions
received.
Q. My husband is an enlisted
man in the navy? How are their
points figured out?
A. The navy point system as of
Oct. 15 includes: 1-2 point for
each year of age; 1-2 point for
each month of active service; 1-4
point for each month of sea duty;
10 points for dependency. A recent
ruling provides that any naval en
listed man with three children b
automatically eligible for dis
charge.
Q. When I was 18 years old and
in my first year of college, I en
listed in the army intending to
finish my education when the war
was over. I will be discharged
soon and I thought I would be
sent to college for as many years
as I had been in the army. My
C. O. tells me I canno;
prove that my education
was interrupted as I enlisted in
stead of waiting to be drafted.
Please tell me what amount, if
any, education I may expect to
receive?—S-Sgt. H. R. M., Denver,
Colo.
A. The Veterans administra
tions says your commanding of
ficer is wrong and that if you re
ceive an honorable discharge you
are entitled, first, to one year of
.college education in the school of
your choice for 90 days of active
service, and in addition, if you
pass this year satisfactorily, you
are entitled to additional educa
tion not to exceed the length of
time you spent in service after
Sept. 15, 1940, not to exceed four
years in all.
Q. Does a man who served only
4 months in the navy and wh>
was granted a discharge on de
pendency, then deserted his wife"
in 18 days, get the GI bill of
rights to go to school? Would he
draw the subsistence allowed him
or would she draw any of this?—
O. G. R., Colorado Springs, Colo. •
A. Yes, the Veterans adminis
tration says he would be entitled
to up to one year of schooling
under the GI bill and would get
$75.00 per month subsistence if
he proved he had dependents. He
would not get mustering-out pay,,
since he was discharged for his
own convenience, but would be
entitled to all other benefits.
Q. If a service man spent a year
and five months in service and
then got a blue discharge, can he
get a bonus and can he get mus
tering-out pay. Where can he
find out about it?—E. A. McQ.,
Joliet, 111.
A. The war department says
that while a Blue discharge is not
dishonorable, it is not an honor
able discharge and therefore the
man is not entitled to mustering-
cut pay. There is no bonus fer
World War II veterans.
Q. Why can’t my son who has
been in the ATC and overseas a-
bqut 2 1-2 years and gone from
home three years the 10th of ^eb.
and never had a furlough or been
home since he left, get home from
India when his rotation time was
up in August?—R. F. R., Smyrna
Mills, Maine.
A. The War Department says
there may be many reasons why
your son has not been home from
India and that it is possible he
has been furloughed, but with in
sufficient time to get home. They
suggest, however, that you write-
to the office of the Adjutant Gen
eral, War Department, Washing
ton, 25 D. C., for more complete
^formation.
standing her tests until this week.
We regret that Georgia Britt’s
name was inadvertently qmittjpd
from the fourth grade Outstand
ing Citizenship Roll last week.
The fourth grade had charge of
the chapel program at the gram
mar school Monday morning. The
program was planned in obser
vance of Temperance Day. The
following program was given:
Song—“God Bless America”,
Prayer, /
Salute to the Flag, led by Bobby
Faulkner,
Bible Temperance Catechism —
Georgia Britt, Harold Brock, Grace
Deason, James Robinson, Larry
Moon. Barbara Maddox, Martha
Rogers, and Bobby Faukner.
Violin solo—Old Black Joe-
Buster Sanders,
Playlet — “The Health Brigade”
—Buster Sanders, Sara Will Tal
bert, Kathryn Lott Dorn, John
Edwards, Marie Seigler, Billy La-
Groon, Junion Lawton, Dorothy
Dillashaw and David Dillashaw.
Good Citizens
We can be good citizens by not
breaking the rules of our school.
We can be good citizens of our
town by keeping our yards and
streets clean and by picking up
papers wherever we see them. A
good citizen has respect for others
and does kind deeds for old peo
ple and sick people. To be a
good citizens, we must be kind to
others and play games fairly. Not
all people obey these rules. Let’s
try our best to be the best kind of
citizens. ,
Billie Jaynes.
Citizenship
All the pupils in school should
try to be good citizens. To be
good citizens we have to be loyal
to our teachers, obey the rules of
the school and work and study
hard. Good citizenship is what
we work for in the McCormick
school. Come op, girls and boys!’
Let’s pull together!
Margaret Dansby.
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Fourth Class Post
master Examination
The United States JSivil Service
Commission has announced an
examination to fill the position of
fourth class postmaster at Clarks
Hill, South Carolina.
The examination will be held at
McCormick, South Carolina.
Receipt of applications will close
on Nov. 20, 1945.
Salary, $984.
The examination is open to all
citizens of, or nationals who owe
allegiance to, the United States
who reside within the territory
supplied by the post office for
which this examination is an
nounced and who are at least 21
years of age, but not yet 65, on
the date of the close of receipt of
applications for this examination.
Application blanks and full in
formation about the requirements
of the examination may be secur
ed from the post office for which
this examination is announced, or
from the United States Civil Ser
vice Commission, Washington 25,.
D. C. Applications must be on
file with the Commission at
Washington, D. C„ on the date
specified above.
The date of examinations will
be stated on admission cards
mailed to applicants after the
close of receipt of applications,
and will be about 15 days after
that date.