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PAGE rOUB THE NEWBERET SUN FRIDAY. March o. i»42 QUARTERLY REPORT County Board of Commissioners April 1st, 1941 to July JM 1941 SCHEDULE FOR CLAIMS ALLOWED Salaries H. K. Boyd $600.00 Clerical held for Clerk of Court 75.00 T. M. Fellers 624.99 H. J. Quattlebam 450.00 J. C. Neel 450.00 Claude W. Sanders 450.00 Clerical help for T. Coll. .. 160.00 Ralph B. Black 225.00 Clerical help for Treas. ... 75.00 P. N. Abrams 225.00 Neal W. Workman 600.00 C. E. Hendrix 499.98 T. H. Pope 124.98 I. H. Wilson 150.00 Eugene H. Spearman 499.98 Wilbur E. Epps 124.98 Charlie C. Lominick 124.98 Frank Sanders 450.00 B. V. Chspman 99.00 J. L. Ki.ig 300.00 J. G. Watts 124.98 Ben F. Dawkins 300.00 J. L. Bowers, Jr 124.98 W. D. Hatton '... 75.00 John C. Wilson 75.00 W. H. McCall 99.00 Rufus Livingston 129.99 J. D. Quattlebaum ....... 99.99 W. R. Koon 68.73 J. H. Boozer 75.00 F. B. Dawkins 225.00 Theresa Lietzsey 300.00 J. C. Sease 399.99 Jake R. Wise 300.00 County Home S. C. McCarley, Sal 180.00 Nby. Elec. Coop 37.90 C. D. Coleman Co., Kero .. 2.00 Jas. R. Leavell, pauper’s burial 70.00 Lominack Hdwe. Inc., Hdwe. 1.85 C. T. Summer, Inc. Gro. .. 231.55 R. M. Lominack Hdwe .... 4.20 So. BeU Tel. & Tel. Co. .. 10.80 The Fashion. Clothing .... 11.96 Efirds Dept. Store, clothing 3.93 Belk-Beard Co., clothing .. 34.38 Prosperity Ice & Fuel Oo., 19.40 Thomas & Howard Co., Fencing ' 9.45 I. T. Cousins, nitrate soda 198.90 Bedenbaughs Ginnery, Guano 149.55 Southern Cotton Oil Oo., Cotton Seed Meal 30.00 Joe’s Department Store, clothing ■ 63.79 W. E. Elmore, Extracts .. 12.60 Newberry Drug Co., Drugs 6.03 Dick Boulware, cutting grain 2.50 O. B. Cannon, cow and calf 60.00 Reagins Shoe Shop, repair shoes ' 2.60 Lominick Drug Store, drugs 3.05 Johnson-McCrackin Co., Repair harvester 1.10 Thomas & Howard Co., ayrup 11.00 Sou. Scale and Refrigerator Co., Refrigerator 375.00 Gilder & Weeks Co., drugs 40.37 Richard L. Baker, bed spring, mattress, sheet and pil lows 39.40 G. B. Summer & Sons, shades ' 3.75 O. H. Lane, peas 1.50 Davis Motor Co., repair on combine 0.85 McSwain Funeral home, pau per’s burial 50.00 Hal Kohn, Labor with tractor 68.50 Rembert Co., disinfectant. 16.60 L. Morris, shoes 3.96 CHAIN GANG Salaries 1465.01 H. W. Lominick, shoes ... 82.80 C. D. Coleman Co., s^ap .. 8.00 C. T. Summer, Inc., food .. 187.16 Clary Clothing Co., stripes 137.07 F. R. Higgins, clothing .. 6.75 J. H. Clary, Jr., clothing.. 7.20 L. Morris, clothing 6.75 Dennis Shoe Shop, shoe repairs 1.90 L. G. Wright, cooker 2.50 Dr. J. R. Boozer, medical service ■ 1.00 Joe’s Dept. Store, clothing 22.12 H. C. & L. E. Havird, clothing 6.75 W. E. Elmore, extract ... 1.80 J. H. Summer, clothing .. 6.75 T. M. Sanders, clothing ■.. 18.12 J. H. Clary, Jr., clothing 6.75 J. L. Long, clothing 10.75 Cromer’s shoe shop, shoe repairs 7.30 L. L. Koon, shoe repairs i.. 9.65 Newberry Electric Co operative, lights 18.95 Thomas & Howard Co. food 20.00 Sou. Bell Tel. & Tel. Co. .. 213.90 Gilder St Weeks Co., medi cal supplies 22.60 C. D. Coleman Co. soap.. 20.00 New South Expess Lines, express charges .60 C. T. Summer Inc, food... 148.84 W. E. Elmore, extracts ... 2.85 The Rembert Co., soap ... 20.68 J. H. Summer, clothing .. 7.16 J. H. Clary, Jr., clothing . 10.50 J. L. Long, clothing > 8.60 H. C. Martin, food 21.04 Jaques >Mfg. co., food .... 5.64 Roads and Bridges A. E. Bedenbaugh, lum ber 16.00 Coleman Chick, salary ... 60.00 Lominack’s Hardware, Inc., Hdwe. Supplies 40.00 R. M. Lominack, Hwde. supplies 61.40 l^or, Reese road 279.93 W. P. Derrick & Co,, lum ber (bid) 1476.68 John A. Nichols, lumber . 12.81 H. D. Smith, engineering services 30.00 Lotnlnack’s Hardware, Inc., pipe 211,05 Repairs Public iBuilding M. A. Counts, repairs at jail i.. 6.00 Commissioners of Public Works, lights & water . 268.40 Lake’s Machine Shop, chair repair ....' .25 Lominack’s Hardware, Inc., Hdwe. supplies for jail. 32.41 C. T. Summer, Inc., jail supplies & plumbing ... 80.11 R. M. Lominack Hdwe. paint for jail 189.70 Sou. Bell Telephone and Tel Co. 297.54 H. C. & L. E. Havird, clothing for jail 2.40 The Rembert Co., disin- fecant 47.70 John F. Banks, court house repairs 10.00 G. B. Summer & Sons, table . .i s.26 Peonix Oil Co., towels ... 6.06 New South Express Lines express charges 1.75 Royal Manufacturing Co. deodorants 16.81 G. B. Summer & Sons, repairs Auditor’s office . 20.10 Newberry Drug Co., drugs i 4.50 Lominack’s Hardware, Inc., hardware supplies 16.61 Gilder & Weeks Co., drugs 16.39 Richard L. Baker, chair repair i.oo G. B. Summer & Sons, stove repairs 39.30 Association of The Blind, Brooms 6.50 The Selig company, cuspi dors 27.00 Isaac Scott, baskets 2.60 Otis Elevator company, oil 2.42 Paramount Chemical co., pygmy cakes 31.17 Gulf Oil Corp., Gulf spray 28.50 Books, Stationery, Postage, Printing C. E. Hendrix, stamps 6.00 P. N. Abrams, stamps and box rent . 16.00 The O. K. Printery, letter heads 2.26 Peoples Book store, office supplies 25.66 Walker, Evans & CogsWell Co., record books ....... 155.68 The Newberry Sun, print ing & office supplies ... 249.75 News Printing house, rec ord forms 6.10 Newberry Drug Co., pen repairs 1.40 Central Drug Store, office supplies 13.26 The Newberry Observer, printing 1 162.76 The R. L. Bryan Co., rec ord book t 14.00 Columbia Office Supply Co., office supplies 18.10 W. R. Watson, supply hill 6.67 H. K. Boyd, stamps and box rent ..1 36.30 Court Expense Ralph B. Black, Treas. ... 412.30 J. C. Neel, conveying prisoners 1.... 76.76 Tom M. Fellers, conveying prisoners 16.00 John C. Wilson, convey ing prisoners . 4.00 John H. Boozer, conveying prisoners 2.00 B. C. Bedenbaugh, Treas... . 3.00 Sheriffs’ Dieting Tom M. Fellers, Sheriff 646.80 Post Mortem & Lunacy Dr. R. W. Houseal, lunacy exam St post mortem .. 26.00 Neal W. Workman, lunacy papers 110.00 I. H. Wilson, travel expense 24.70 Dr. H. B. Senn, post mor- tum & lunacy exams .. 10.00 Marie K. Brown, testi mony inquest 25.00 J. C. Neel, conveying lunacies ... g.go Dr. J. E. Grant, post mor tem exam 6.00 Dr. T. H. Pope, post mor tem and lunacy exams . 30.00 Dr. E. G. Able, lunacy exams 1 5.00 Miscellaneous Contingent Shealy Motor Co., automo bile of sheriff’s office A Supervisor 936.90 Board of Registration, salary 226.00 J. C. Neel, conveying prisoners 1 49.03 Tom M. Fellers, gas oil, and repairs for deputy^ car 150.00 Ralph B. Black, trustee, rent for Health offices . 138.00 Security Loan & Invest- l ment Co., Rent welfare •office 76.00 Geo. W. Summer, rent WPA office 90.00 H. O. Long, rent for NYA shop 60.00 Sam Johnson, rent for NYA office 16.00 Demmie C. Summer, rent for housekeeping aide .. 45.00 Theresa Leitzsey, support of housekeeping aide ... 16.00 J. M. Morris, support NYA boys and girls 30.00 Ralph B. Black, travel ex pense 21.66 John H. Boozer, conveying prisoners 8.00 H. J. Quattlebaum, finger print expenses 46.00 J. L. Bowers, Jr., office expense 1 16.80 Eugenia Epps, salary 62.53 Laura Maney, salary 76.00 W. H. McCall, salary .... 120.00 Mary Jane Rice, workmen’s compensation act 875.00 W. S. Alewine, salary 226.Os' J. L. Welling St Son, audit 68.76 C. T. Summer, Inc., supplies for central kitchen .... 6.00 The Newberry Observer, quart erly report 71.00 P. B. Ezell, Steno. work & Misc. expense 127.49 Carolina Orphan Home, support of children .... 60.00 The Newberry Sun, quarterly report 79.00 Girl Scouts of America .. 76.00 A. E. Reese, Lyles-Ford Authority 141.01 R. M. Lominack Hdw. sup plies for Com. warehouse 1.00 Steve C. Griffith, attorney, legal services 100.00 B. V. Chapman, legal services 1.. 50.00 Ralph B. Black, Treas., vi tal statistics 14.25 Gilder & Weeks Co., drugs 2.65 Geo. W. Summer, rent NYA office 14.26 Road Maintenance Salaries 855.00 Labor pay rolls ■ 2938.64 B. B. Schumpert and Co. shovels 30.00 C D. Coleman Co., oil ... 78.09 Hill Bros. Tire and tube .. 9.90 Murry Sheppard, gas 1.08 Brown’s Ser. Sta., tire & tube ‘ 14.75 Pure Oil Co., gas 1.10 R. Derrill Smith, T. tissue 4.00 C. T. Summer, Inc., ten oil ■ 46.80 Frank Sanders, license plates for county trucks 3.20 Shealy Motor company, 2 new trucks . 2051.72 W. P. Derrick & Co., lum ber 664.21 Security Loan A Invest ment Co., insurance .... 50.74 D. L. Laird Radiator works, radiator repair 4.00 J. W. Hipp A Sons, parts . 1.06 Jenkins Automotive Parts service, parts 3.88 Johnson-McCrackin Co. axe handles 2.60 N. H. Summers Road Mach. Co., roller 782.04 L. A. Wilson A Son, nails ....’ 22.40 Jeff Hunt Road Mach. Co., parts 699.22 N. H. Summers Road Mach. Co., parts 201.36 Tidewater Supply Co., parts 90.61 Smith Motor company, parts for trucks . 53.89 Davis Motor Co., parts for trucks 35.30 Shealy Motor Co., parts for trucks > 73.86 R. M. Lominack Hdwe., hard, ware supplies 124.96 Lominack’s Hardware Inc. hardware supplies ..... 80.87 Johnnie C. Johnson, labor 7.50 Newberry Mach. A Weld ing shop, welding .* 90.00 City Tire A Recapping Co., recapping tires 28.18 The Texas Co., diesel fuel 1 456.41 Standard Oil Co., of N. J., gasoline 1268.65 Wallace D. Dupre, parts w 29.47 Sunrise Auto Supply Co., parts ' 7.82 Geo. E. Stone, express charges 22.56 S. C. Granite Co., granite . 26.20 Lake’s Machine Shop, labor ' 11.95 Sou. Bell Tel. A Tel. Co. .. 22.37 Gulf Oil Corp., gas 11.13 Brown’s service station, gas 1.10 Goodyear Service, tires and tubes 146.81 South Carolina Should Not Pay Cost of Democratic Primaries PENSIONS AND THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Late Thursday, the United States Senate reversed itself on the pension bill for congressmen by a vote of 75 to 5. At the same time, it voted to increase the pay of Americaa air fighters serving abroad. This is sensible action. Our law makers can somehow manage to get along without pensions. Our brave defenders deserve better pay—the more we can pay them the better for fighting morale. We should go the limit in support of the men who are dellending this country with their lives. , Death of the pension bill is a good omen—it means that democracy still is functioning here and that the people can make themselves heard in the councils of the nation. But for the opposition of the people, led by a Virginian, Senator Byrd, the pension bill would have become law. The fact that it is dead is proof that the voice of the people still is po tent in defeating bad legislation. Keep the Home Fires ^Burning / (uxmmca^COAL C T. Summer, Inc. BY SPECTATOR Our most urgent need is for ships which we can risk. If a battleship goes out, it represents 880,000,000 of cost, 1,500 men in the crew, and four or five years of construction. Think over that: if we lose a battleship or a battle cruiser we need four years to replace it. Of course the $80,000,000 does not amount to any thing. Furthermore, we risk 1,500 trained seamen ,and trained seamen can’t be easily replaced. One bomb, one torpedo, one mine—and the great battleship rests on the bottom. Pro bably $2,000,000 worth of airplanes will sink any $80,000,000 battleship. One submarine is to a battleship as a rattlesnake is to a man walking through the woods. Even sub marines have become costly, as well as big and intricate, requiring a year or two and several million dollars, as well as a highly trained crew. If.we send out big cruisers and battleships they must oe protected by flotillas at sea and planes over head. Even then they may run into submerged mines. Why do we need battleships? Primarily for gun po wer and long range. One batt'.evhip may have eight twelve-inch, four teen-inch or sixteen-inch guns, as well as numerous smaller guns. Roughly speaking, those guns have a range of sixteen miles or more, and the terrific propulsive i*/wer enables them to hurl a shell weigh ing nearly a ton. But what does it amount to if the ships are so vul nerable that all are afraid to use them? It seems to me that a monitor type with two big guns or with several small guns could be ihrown into bat tle or could be used freely to move in the enemy’s territory. Ten moni tors, altogether having the same number of guns as one battleship, would be much more effective and much less vulnerable. And if we had hundreds of mosquito boats to ram submarines and use a torpedo— even battleships would dodge a small squadron of them. And we could risk them and run the enemy down and fight anything from a battleship to a submarine. Battleships are out of date. If we were to suffer a com plete disaster at sea with what we have we could easily improvise na val fighters, mosquito boats, moni tors—or whatnot—to make any ene my afraid to venture here. But the same fixedness of mind which has cost France her sovereignty is still the mind in authority. What we and the British need supremely is to take the iniciative, but we are afraid to risk our ships—and rightly so. What we need is a different type, one which we can ax-ord to risk, carrying fire and sword, shot 'and shell, torpedoes and T.N.T. to the enemy, wherever he may be. Shall the State pay the expense of the recent Democratic Primary Of course not. The Democratic Party controls in South Carolina, it is true, but our Democratic Primary is our private affair, choosing among our selves for a person who will repre sent the Party in the ‘election. But in truth, notwithstanding statutes relating to the Primary, it is a pri vate matter for Democrats, not a State matter to be operated at the expense of taxpayers. If the Re publicans ordered a Primary would the State pay for it? Yet, as a matter of law, we must not discrim inate against Republicans. And if the Socialists call a Primary; or if oui Old-Age Association has a primary shall the State bear the cost of it? There really would be money in the treasury of our State Democratic Party if the Executive Committee had not so generously given it to the National Committee two years ago, as I recall. In view of the tendency of the day for the federal courts to assume jur isdiction in almost all matters, it would be wise to keep our Primary free from the State Treasury. Just how large a slice the Govern ment takes from a big corporation may be seen from a statement pub lished about the largest business en terprise in the United States. The net income of the Corporation in 1941 was $191,770,694, compared with $201,497,453 in 1940. The company’s stock pays $9 a share in dividends and the company earned $11.26 a share in 1940, against $10.26 in 1941. Since this company’s operations have increased enormously, how can we explain this condition? The differ ence of eighteen and three-quarter million dollars was a part of the in crease in taxes. For 1941 this com pany paid in taxes $288,593,000, or $88,279,000 more thaa in 1940. This was an increase of 44 per cent, and figures out as a tax of $15 a share. The company pays to its stockhold ers $9 a share and to the government $15 a share. The company earned $54,406,000 more in 1941 in net re venue, after deducting all costs ex cept taxes, but the taxes swallowed up all the increased net income—and then a lot more. to the newspapers explaining the peculiar circumstances of the ease, particularly the extraiordlnary fact that the colossal volume of water carried by the Santee is at an alti tude forty-two feet higher than the level of the Cooper River, at a point where they are only twenty six miles apart, That, by the way, is the cen tral and controlling reason for the Santee-Cooper Power Project. But I did not know that we were embark ing on a flood tide of politics; and neither I nor anybody else, I think, foresaw the danger of a State mo nopoly of power, together with a power monopoly of the State. All the dangers which our people fear from a State-opera ted liquor business will be multiplied, in course of time, if we operate a State mono poly of power. The Santee-Cooper Authority should not be expanded by one jot or tittle; it should operate as was contemplated, in competition with existing power enterprises. I am not expressing the attitude of the power companies; I am speak ing as a citizen of South Carolina who has enough knowledge of our State politics, and enough imagina tion, to foresee, even at best, a great loss to our State through the kill ing of competition; and the inevi table political control, for personal political interests, of the energy which moves the wheels of industry. A group of politicians would event ually—not now, perhaps, dictate the business of the State through con trol of power. That is no far-fetch ed idea buzzing in a cracked brain; I have seen men put out of business because of political control of water, in irrigated regions. And if you think our politicians too good for ; that, let me cite a case of four years ago. A dairyman lost all his cus- itomers because he refused to support !a certain man for office. Threats were made against his equipment, even. And music instruments were thrown out of windows because «hey had not been bought from X or Y, who had political connections and protection! Keep the Santee-Cooper just where it is. Let is generate power in competition with the present power entenprises. Let us not fool ishly set up another political octpus in South Carolina. By the way, how has the Santee Cooper impressed it self on the State ? As a great busi ness organization? Or has it seem ed to be a fountain of political fav ors There are good men connected with it; some of them I appreciate and Let’s Be Patient American patriots who are urging hasty a«tion in the Pacific war zone, were no doubt sobered somewhat by the reports of the poor equipment with which the allied infantry brave- '.y defended Singapore. A newspaper man on the scene cab led his paper after the fall of the jase, that a thousand Chinese vol unteers, fighting with the British, were armed only with old shotguns; that British sailors and marines fought with pistols and daggers. If British empire soldiers were so poorly equipt after two years of war, what must be our case after just two months of war and two decades of pacifism? With the exception of the navy, we were practically un- ar.ned. Even now, we are just get ting into the initial stages of pro duction of vital war tools—tanks, bombers, and the modem Garrar.d rifles. This lag accounts for the fact that we have not been able to strike tell ing blows at the Japs. Do patriots want to rush our men into battle armed with clubs ana squirrel rifles against a foe equipt with the latest weapons of warfare? We must be patient. President Roosevelt knows more about when we can strike effectively than does the layman. We must trust his judgment, and work and hope for the day when America’s vast poten tial military might will brake like a besom of destruction upon the heads of our foes. WHERE FOOT WORK IS NEEDED NEWBERRY BOY TO ATTEND OFFICERS’ SCHOOL Fort Benning, Ga.—Master Ser geant Victor W. Bradley, a native of Newberry, and now soldier with the Second Armored Division was re cently chosen to attend the Armored Force Officers’ Candidate School at Fort Knox, Ky. Upon completion of the rigorous three month’s course, Sgt. Bradley will be commissioned second lieu tenant. Bradley is the son of Mrs. Victoria Bradley of 1307 Second street, New berry. MISS CROMER HONORED The Johnsonian, student publica tion of Winthrop college, has the following in a recent issue: “Six new members were taken into Alpha PsI Zeta, honorary physchology organi zation, recently. A banquet was given in their honor at the home of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Rogers. The new members are Madeline Brown, Catherine Bailey, Dorothy Pruit, Frances Cromer, June Cannon, and Frances. Holmes. The group enjoy ed a delicious supper at the Rogers home.’’ Miss Frances Cromer is a daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Cromer of this city and finishes a successful four years at Winthrop this spring. Benjamin Anderson, Jr., who is enginer draftsman in office of U. S. Area Engineers, Fort Jackson, spent the past weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. Anderson. Resignation of Mrs. Roosevelts dancing girl, from whatever position she had made the country feel bet ter. The bad effect which her em ployment had was reflected in de fense bond sales in a Northern city. Bonds were selling in large volume until the dancer tripped out on the stage. At once there followed a ter rific slump in sales, which was attri buted to this boondoggling. There is a time for all things, as scripture declares, but this is ho time to dance at the expense of the taxpayers. We need foot work now, and plenty of it—on „ne battle field in the munitions plants, in the bomber factories—but the brand that Mrs. Roosevelt promoted is definite ly what we do not need today. cherish as personal friends; I am not imputing anything wrong to them: but do you know of anything in South Carolina, operated by or thru the State, which is not so full of poli tics that a citizen is almost com pelled to deal with it thru politi cians ? T Classified Ads CORN FOR SALE—2000 bushels or more Shelled and in shuck at Pros perity. Those in need of corn see me at once. I will only be in Prosperity for 2 weeks. Leo T. Adams. 6-2tp CERESAN—Get yours now and treat your seed early. JOHNSON- McCRACKIN, CO. 16-4t AUTO KEYS—Made while you wait at DAVIS MOTOR CO. LOOK HERE—Add 2000 to 3000 miles to the life of your tires by having them re-grooved, thereby cut ting out road friction which wears your tires so rapidly. DAVIS MOTOR COMPANY. JoRtlievw Misery CMJ666 **i^uauu»BUis. saivs. no» e«ow I was one of those who publicly advocated the Santee-Cooper project. At that time I not only urged many legislators to vote for the creation of the Authority, under which the work was done, but I wrote articles G-E Refrigerators We Have a Limited Number No More Will be Available After These Have Been Sold Select Now for Immediate Delivery Minimum Terms Smith Motor Co PHONE 172 NEWBERRY, S. C.