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'DIVERSION WAY CAN AND MUST BE FOUND'-MAYBANK
Columbia, May 2.—Governor Bur
net R. Maybank, in a speech ringing
with criticism of the legislature and
the state highway department, said
tonight a method’ of diverting high
way funds “can and must be found”
before “I can approve any additional
taxes or extension of any present tax
upon the people of South Carolina.”
In an address, broadcast over a net
of South Carolina radio stations, the
governor criticized previous legisla
tures for “consistently” removing
from “the office of the chief executive
. . . insofar as legislation is concern
ed, the powers that are vested in
the governors of other states.”
He charged that “one of the seri
ous handicaps of our present day
government is the enormous influ
ence of the state highway depart
ment through its expenditure of
your money.
Must Remedy “Faults”
“It is my opinion,” he told his
radio audience, “that we can never
expect better government in South
Carolina until these faults men
tioned have been remedied and
there is returned to the executive
branch of government the respon
sibilities that the framers of our
constitution believed should be
rightfully placed there.” The gov
ernor said he knew that the next
year “millions will be spent on the
roads in South Carolina if the labor
is available” but that in the “last
analysis” the government would de
termine “how the money will be ex
pended.”
“Knowing this, I am now more than
ever convinced that one cent of gas
tax should be taken off for highway
purposes and one cent put on for
general purposes, and the legislature
should immediately proceed to li
quidate the debt of the highway de
partment.”
Two Recommendations
Recalling two previous attempts to
divert highway funds for general
purposes, the governor said the sup
reme court, “ruled, however, that the
acts of the general assembly approv
ed and recommended by me upon
competent legal advice were uncon
stitutional.”
Maybank made two recommenda
tions :
“First, one cent of gas tax should
be used for general puiposes.
and comissioners have done good
work on ths road program in South
Carolina.”
However, continuing his attack
against the highway department, the
g.veinor said he “was shocked and
disturbed to hear this year in the
senate that the law suit testing the
use of taxpayers’ money last year
was apparently instituted by the
highway department themselves—for
the reason that the attorney who
brought the suit again.,; the depart
ment, the state government of South
Carolina, and members of the general
assembly requested the legislature . .
through agents of the highway de
partment ,to pay his fee.
'"Second, a sane and simple liqui
dation of the retirement of the
bonded debt of the highway depart
ment be put into effect immediately.-'
The governor recalled the last su
preme court opinion which held div
ersion unconstitutional. “It was
quite heartening to me, however, to
read the opinion of the chief justice
. . . in which he stated in substance
that it was his opinion that it was
illegal for the high-wry commission
to refinance obligations by selling
bonds to take up. bonds that were
due. . . .
Would Curb Refinancing
“If we cannot use one cent gaso
line tax money for general pur
poses then let’s not refinance any
bonds.”
The governor added, however, that
“it is not my desire to hurt, curtail
or injure the highway department.
Many of the commissioners are
friends of mine and I will frankly say
it is my opinion that (the employes
Not Aware of Scheme
“I did not know of such a scneme
until it was aired in the senate.”
The senate finance committee in
serted in the general appropnation
bill a provision permitting the high
way department to pay “reasonable
fees" from its funds “for legal ser
vices of attorneys not otherwise paid
for representing all sides in litiga
tion involving and testing the consti
tutionality of acts of the general as
sembly for the years 1939 and 1940
relating to use of gasoline tax funds
for other than highway purposes.”
The provision drew sharp debate in
the senate. It was finally re
vised to provide that a committee
investigate the amount of fees and re
port back to the general assembly.
, Continuing, the governor said, “I
don’t think the people of South
Carolina realize that agents of the
highway commission were those
who brought the suit against the com
mission and the government of South
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Negro Shift To Other
Areas Is Seen
Columbia, May 4.—South Carolina’s
white population, over a million, for
the first time in the 1940 census,
showed an increase of 14.8 per cent
in the ten-year decade, 1930-40, while
the non-whites only increased by 2.7
per cent in the same period.
Thus South Carolina had 57 per
cent whites in 1940 as compared with
54.3 per cent in the 1930 census. The
shift in population to a comfortable
majority for the whites is believed
to be the result of the migration of
many negroes to Eastern and North
ern industrial centers.
In all three Southern divisions, the
white population mcreased at a
more rapid rate than the non
whites. In contrast the whites in
creased at a slower rate than the
non-whites in all other divisions ex
cept the Pacific. In New York state,
for example, the mon-whites increas
ed 48.1 per cent in the decade while
the whites increased only 6 per cent.
South Carolina’s total population
increase was above the national
rate, 7.2 per cent. The state show
ed at 9.3 per cent increase in the ten-
year period. The total population in
1940 was 1,899,804, of which 816,-
038 were non-whites. In 1930, there
were 794,716 non-whites. Of the
non-whites, 396,137 were males while
419,901 were females in 1940.
The total white population, 1,083,-
766, was made up of 543,014 males
and 540,752 females. Thus in the
state as a whole, the females out
numbered the males by about 21,000.
This means that there were 97.8
males for every 100 females—as com
pared with 96.3 males per 100 fe
males in 1930. In the nation there
are 101.1 males for every 100 fe
males.
South Carolina had the lowest per
centage of persons of sixty-five
years of age of any state. Only 4.2
pgr cent of the state’s population was
above the age where social security
payments begin. But this was a rise
from the 3.8 per centage in 1940—
which was lowest in that year. In
the nation 6.8 per cent of the popu
lation was over sixty-five: in three
New England states, more than 9 per
cent of the population was over 65.
The South Carolina people sixty-
five or over numbered 80,304. Malre,
which had for less than half as many
people as South Carolina (847,226),
had almost as many people over six
ty-five (79,886).
Nevertheless, there were in 1940
40.5 per cent more people over six
ty-five than there were in 1930—
while the population in the state in
creased only 9.3 per cent. In the
nation at large the increase was 35
per cent; Florida, a resort state,
showed an increase of 82.5 per cent
in old people.
PROSPERITY BOY
HONORED AT WOFFORD
The follow,ing article was taken
from the Spartanburg Herald Mon
day of this week:
“Leslie Mills of Prosperity and
Bob Major of Columbia were nam
ed president and vice-president of
Alpha Kappd Pi social fraternity at
Wofford college at a meeting recent
ly held for the election of officers for
next year.
Other new officefs are: Wihnot Mit
chell of Spartanburg, secretary; Bill
Shealey of Leeville, treasurer; Bill
Koopman of Spartanburg, sentinel;
and Ben Finch of Wellford, chaplain.
Mills, the new president of Alpha
Kappa Pi, is president-elect of the
student body for next year at Wof
ford and is one of the most popular
students on the campus.”
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Carolina. After, this scheme had been
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quest that the taxpayers . . . pay the
cost of the suit against the founda
tion of our government.”
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OIL FROM CALIFORNIA WELLS
HOLDS SOURCE OF MEDICINE
Richmond, May 2.—The oil wells of
California may supplant the cinch
ona trees of Java in the Dutch East
Indies as the source of medicine for
the 1,000,000 malaria sufferers in the
United States, a research chemist told
the Virginia Academy of Science to
day.
Experiments are well advanced
with compounds whose base is ob
tained from petroleum, said D>. Al
fred Burger, chemistry professor at
the University of Virginia. These
compounds give promise of having
more effectiveness than the univers
ally used specific quinine, whose
source is a virtual monopoly of the
East Indies, or the synthetic coal tar
derivatives plasmochin and atropin.
Petroleum from California has a
chemical structure best adopted to
his research for a quinine substitute,
Dr. Burger said.
The drug from the oil wells is
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