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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 ?
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**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
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