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TRUE TO OURSELVES. OUR NEIGHBORS, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD.
Forty-Fifth Year
Established June 5, 1902 McCORMICK, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1946
Number 14
UNOFFICIAL RETURNS OF COUNTS PRIMARY
Complete unofficial returns ,of
the second Democratic primary in
McCormick County Tuesday show:
C. E. Wilkie elected supervisor.
Paul T. Ludwick elected game Timmerman, Jr., for lieutenant
warden. governor, and Jesse T. Anderson
J.. Strom Thurmond carried the
county for governor; George Bell for State superintendent of edu
cation. ;
The unofficial returns by pre
cincts are given below:
FOR SUPERVISOR:
E. C. CHEATHAM
C. E. WILKIE
FOR GAME WARDEN:
PAUL T; LUbwICK
D. M. McGRATH
For Governor
JAMES McLEOD
J. STROM THURMOND
Fcr Lieutenant Governor
pEORGEBELLTIMMERMAN, Jr.
JOHN O. WILLIAMS
For Superintendent of Education
JESSE T. ANDERSON
W. D. NIXON
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.Thurmond Elected
Governor; Timmer
man, Lieutenant
Governor; Anderson,
SupJ. Education
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J. Strom Thurmond was nomi
nated for governor in Tuesday’s
prinwy over Dr. James McLeod.
George Bell Timmerman was
elected over John C. Williams for
lieutenant governor, and Jesse T.
Anderson was named the next
jtate superintendent of education
*>ver W. D. Nixon.
Returns from 1,496 of 1,544 pre
cincts gave Thurmond 141,862
votes,* McLeod 108,338.
Late returns from 1,494 pre
cincts of 1,544 gave Timmerman
133,241 votes to 113,148 for Wil
liams, and Anderson 151,628 votes
to Nixon’s 90,981. • '
J. Walter McDonald
Claimed By Death
J. Walter McDonald, 54, died at
McGyire General Hospital in Rich
mond, Va., Friday following a
three months’ illness. Funeral
services were conducted from th
Parksville Baptist Church at 4:30
o’clock Monday afternoon. Inter-
.nent was in the Parksville ceme-
:ery. The Rev. H. E. Stephens of-
.‘iciated.
Mr. McDonald was the son of
the late T. C. and Elizabeth Gres-
• >om McDonald of Parksville. Hi
was a graduate of Clemson col-
,?ge. class of T4, and later studied
at the U. S. Naval Academy, An
napolis, Md. He served as a lieu
tenant (ig) in the U. S. Navy dur
ing World War I. After his mar-
ripge *o Miss Marie Keefe of Pitts
burgh, Pa., he Jived in her home
state for a number of years. Fol-
.owing her death, he married Mis:
..nnle Laurie Wood, of Parksville.
During World War II Mr. McDon
ald worked with the government
at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and in
Washington. He was a member of
the Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. An
nie L. Wood McDonald; three
young sons, James Walter, Alex,
and Pat; one brother, Eugene Mc
Donald; and two sisters, Mrs. J.
P. Brunson and Miss Annie L.
McDonald, both of Parksville.
Strom’s service.
Death Claims Mrs.
Mary Youngblood
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
Alice Youngblood, who died ^ct the
residence of her sister, Mrs. John
E. Stansfield, of Aiken, Saturday,
were»conducted at the Plum
Branch Baptist Church, Plum
Branch, at 11:30 o’clock Monday
morning. * The Rev. A. D. Howard
officiated, assisted by the Rev. T.
D. Lide. Burial was in the Plum
Branch cemetery.
Mrs. Youngblood was a native
of Plum Branch, but had made
her home* with her sister for the
past eight years. She was the
daughter of Abney G. and Sarah
Howell Collier. Her husband was
the late John W. Youngblood.
She is survived by five sisters,
Mrs. Leila Watkins, Isle of Palms;
Mrs. Max Hair, Sr., Jacksonville,
Fla.; Mrs. P. B. Tompkins, Colum
bia; Mrs. B. N. Robertson, Plum
Branch and Mrs. Stansfield.
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Mt. Carmel News
Sullivan News
The meeting at the A. R. P.
Church in Mt.. Carmel will begin
with the evening service at 8 o’
clock on Thursday, Sept. 12. Dr.
\ B. Williams will be the preacher
for all night services. Rev. W. G.
Kennedy will preach Sabbath
morning at 11 o’clock and con-
luct the communion service. Dr.
Williams will preach Sabbath
night. We* cordially invite all the
people to be with us during the
meeting. We extend a hearty wel
come to all.
Misses Reba Wells and Thelma
Campbell of Anderson were wel
come visitors in Mt. Carmel one
afternoon last week.
Dr. and Mrs. Edwards spent sev
eral days last week with Mrs. J. B.
Curtis.
Mrs. Lane Smith has been
spending some time with her sis
ter, Mrs. Curtis.
Miss Emma Lanier and Mrs.
Alice Frazier were visitors in Mt.
Carmel one afternoon last week.
Misses Carolyn and Flo Hester
are spending some time in Mt.
Carmel, but will leave for Win-
throp College very soon.
Prof. George McCelvey of York
was a recent visitor here.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunaway and son
passed through Mt. Carmel one
afternoon last week. They were en
route to Ga. to visit relatives
there.
Mrs. J. M. Johnson and daugh
ter, Ramona, of Millen, Ga., are
visiting Mrs. Johnson’s parents,
‘Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Reames.
Mrs. Margaret R. Seigler, we are
sorrs to report, continues on the
sick list. She is at the residence
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Reames.
Mr. and ~Irs. Tommie J. Stevens
of Sweetwater community and
two little sons are spending sev
eral cays with Mr. Ebert Shuford,
while Mr. E. Commodore Shuford,
Betty Carolyn and E. C. are visit
ing with relatives in North Caro
lina.
Mrs. Virginia G. Bailey and
children attended the association
at Little Stevens Creek Church.
Mrs. Wilbur Whatley is recuper
ating after a tonsilectomy in Dr.
Workman’s office at McCormick.
Master Tandy Bailey is to have
a tonsilectomy at McCormick this
week end. We hope he gets along
fine.
Miss Maggie Winn of Asheville,
S. C., was a most welcomed visitor
in the cvnmunity during the week
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Mr. and Mrs. Luther Trussell cf
Char.ston, S. C., are receiving
congratulations upon the arrival
of a s*-i, Luther Stanley Trussell.
Mre. Trussell was formerly Miss
Thelma Jo Gilchrist of this com
munity.
Friends of Mrs. Kate Mayson
regret to learn that she is indispos
ed, being necessary to see her
physician Sunday.
Mr. J. R. Hendrix, Jr., has re
cently been sick, but is able to be
up.
.tu ssts in the home of Mr. L.
E. Reames Sunday were Mr. and
Mi’s. Wilbur Reames and son. Bill.
of Edgefield. Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Anderson of Greenwood.
Miss Betty Ann Lawrence of At
lanta, Ga., and Mrs. Joe Hanks
if Belvedere were visitors of Mrs.
Margaret R. Seigler in this com
munity Sunday afternoon.
M:. Johnnie Hughey of North
Augusta contiues very ill at the
IJniversitv Hospital in Augusta,
Ga., awaiting a major operation in
the near future. ^
Master Billy Jaynes has been
spending a while with his grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. May-
son. Other visitors in this home
during the week end were Miss
Ruth Jaynes of McCormick, Mr.
and Mrs. Holly Whatley and chil
dren. Roxie and Wayne, of Green
wood, S. C,
Honorable Discharges
ARMY
Sgt. Ralph M. Winn, Jr., entered
service June 6, 1944, discharged
June 13, 1946. Wears Meritorious
Jnii Award, American Theatre
RibbOn, Good Conduct medial, and
Victory ribbon. Served with Ser
vice Command Unit 1747, Fort
Riley, Kansas.
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Young Reunion
Saturday, Sept. 7th
The reunion of the Young fam
ily will be held at my home near
Troy on Saturday, September 7th.
All relatives and friends are cordi
ally invited to attend and bring
picnic baskets, if that suits you;
if it doesn’t, come on anyhow.
J. A. Young.
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Picnic At Buffalo
School House
September 12 th
There will be an old-fashioned
la'sket picnic at the Buffalo
school house Thursday evening,
Sept. 12th, at 7:30 o’clock.
All members of the Buffalo
Grange, church, Sunday school,
friends, relatives, and connections
are invited to attend. Please bs
present at 7, as the picnic will be:
served at 7:30 p. m.
Buffalo Grange.
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Church Notice
Sunday school at the McCor
mick Pentecostal Holiness Churcb
every Sunday morning at 10 o’
clock, and preaching service at 11
o’clock every first and third Sun
day mornings.
A cordial welcome to all.
Arthur Davis,
Pastor.
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Panthers Begin
Practice
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In the face of determined efforts
to remove farm credit agencies from
the jurisdiction of the Secretary of
Agriculture, the passage and signing
by the President of the measure set
ting up the Farmers’ Home Corpora
tion, sponsored by Representative
Harold D. Cooley, (D-N.C.) is viewed
here as a victory for Secretary Clin
ton P. Anderson.
Tbe Secretary had vigorously op
posed all attempts to “take farm
-credit out of politics” and set it up
as an independent agency. The new
law consolidates farm credit activi
ties of the government for low in
come borrowers into a single agency
under direct authority of Secretary
Anderson. The purpose as explained
by Congressman Cooley is “to give
only one agency the powers to make
direct loans to farmers and to limit
those loans to farmers who cannot
get credit anywhere else.”
Under terms of the bill the Farm
Security Administration is abolished.
Some activities of the Farm Credit
Administration are curtailed and all
activities of the National Housing
Agency which pertain to property
and other assets formerly managed
by FSA are curbed. The measure
also requires liquidation of all sub
sistence loans made by FSA.
As far back as April, it was pre
dicted that Secretary Anderson
would wiq out in this fight to separ
ate Farm Credit from the Depart
ment of Agriculture. It will be re
membered that the Flanagan bill
then was the focus of attention,
backed as it was by three of the four
large farm .organizations, the Farm
Bureau federation, the National
Grange and the National Council of
F’armer Cooperatives. With the pres
sure of these groups behind it. the
measure, which would have set up
an autonomous bi-partisan board to
govern all farm credit, sailed
through the lower house by a vote
sf 239 to 80. In the Senate it was
•tailed effectively in committee.
Meanwhile, Representative Cooley,
who usually is a staunch supporter
of the farm groups, plugged away
doggedly for his Farmers Home
Corporation Bill and finally obtained
a priority out of the powerful House
Rules Committee and got it to the
floor for action. And house action
was followed by senate action.
President Truman, however, does
not like one section of the law, and
in signing the measure he expressed
the hope that the next Congress
would repeal that part. It Is section
nine, which provides that “any con
veyance of real estate by the gov
ernment or any governmental agen
cy under this act shall Include aS
mineral rights.** * The ’President
doesn’t like that.
"It is very important to the beat
Interests of the nation that fission
able materials in lands now
Federal ownership be reserved for
the control and use of the United
States," he said. “It Is equally Im
portant that the government reserve
ownership of oil, gas and other min
erals critical to the national .defense
and economy."
The President pointed out that tbm
recently enacted Atomic Energy Act.
which sets up control for domestic
use of atomic energy, provided tar
such reservation of fissionable ma
terials in the disposed of pubhc
lands.
President Truman ataj sighed the
new research and marketing act.
which provides additional mill tacts
of dollcurs in the nature of a subsidy
to the entire farm Industry. These
research funds will be increased over
a period of five years, from 31 mil
lion dollars in 1946 to 38 million dol
lars in ’47 and on up to 72 million
dollars in 1951. Intent of the meas
ure is to provide financial means for
stimulating research into new uses
for agricultural products, both food
and fibre, and then to provide, also,
the funds for marketing research to
get them into the hands of the con
sumers. * '
The Department of Agriculture has
conducted research in marketing for
several years, but never on a legal
basis. This measure legalizes the ex-
penditqres next year* of 2.5 millxm
dollars in this work and boosts the
expenditure to 20 millions in five
years. New seeds, for greater yields,
hybrid animals for greater produc
tion, new uses for cotton, for airy
beans, for any of the dozens of agri
cultural products, is the goal.
The Department may now legally
make its appearance in freight rate
cases and in addition may play a
part in revamping marketing in the
wholesale markets. More government
“interference,” but important to the
whole agricultural picture, say the
experts here. These research pro
grams are long range programs ar»l
the chief difficulty in carrying then*
out is to obtain men trained to da
the Job.
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The Question Box will be taken up
this week and next, answering many
questions concerning the new legis
lation for veterans, including en
listed men’s terminal pay, increased
pensions for hospitalized veterans
and new automobiles for certain
amputees.
Increased pension legislation ap
plies to some 2,000,000 veterans and
about 400,000 dependents of both
world wars, who are now in hospi
tals or other Veterans Administra
tion institutions. It does not affect
the $1,500 accumulations now per
mitted for veterans declared mental
ly incompetent.
The new law signed by the Presi
dent will hivolve approximately
$298,500,000 the first year, and pro
vides that a veteran may draw his
full pension while in a VA institu
tion instead of as low as $8 now
permitted. •
Suppose the Veteran is award
ed a total of $60 per month.
While he is In tbe hospital he
will receive the full amount in
stead of the amount now drawn,
unless he remains in the hospi
tal more than six months. In
this case he can draw $30 per
month after his six month per
iod as long as he remains in the
institution, and when he is
properly discharged he will be
paid in a lump sum the differ
ence between the amount he has
drawn and his total pension. If
he dies while' in the hospital the
amount due him will be paid htw
dependents. Veterans’ Adminis
tration urges veterans not to
make application, write letters
or make inquiries about this in
crease, since it will only hindev*
the claims section. Action of the
law is automatic and the veter
ans will receive their increase
automatically with their Octo
ber 1 checks. *
Amputees with one or both legs off
at or above the ankle, or who havw
lost the use of one or both legs, am
entitled to a new automobile, toge
ther with appliances necessary ta
permit him to operate it, the total
cost limit being $1600. The new law
signed by the President appropriates
$30,000,000 for purchase of these
automobiles.
The law places upon the Veteran#
Administration the responsibility for
determining that the veteran will be
able to operate the car safely and
that he will be licensed to operate it.
Complete details for machinery for
handling the problem have not been
worked out, but the veteran is to
make application for his car at his
nearest VA office. When the appli
cation is approved he takes it to his
dealer and makes his own sales
agreement with the seller, after
which the VA pays the total pur
chase price to the dealer. ~
The 1946 edition of the McCor
mick High football team began
their fall drills August 19. This
year’s team will be comparatively
light and inexperienced, but the
boys are trying hard. Included
on this year’s roster are the fol
lowing: Dewey Jennings, Perry
Brown, Bill Bosdell, Tommy For
rester, Bobby Huguley, Frank
Loveless, Grover Davis, Marion
Davis, Albert Campbell, Bill
Creighton, Thurmond Brown, ii-
rome AJverson, Cecil McDooa'i.
Philip Jackson, John Strom, /chi
W. Price, Bobby McKinney*.
Sanders, Joe Brown, and Sjn:.|r
Simpson.