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TAX NOTICE
The tax boks will be open for the
collection of 1945 taxes on and af
ter October 1, 1945.
The following is general levy for
all except special purposes:
Mills
Ordinary County 10 *4
Bonds, Notes & Interest .. 16
Roads a nd Bridges 2
Hospital Vi
County Schools 1%
County Schools Special .... 1
County Board of Education ?i
Total 32
The following are the authorized
special levies for the various school
districts of the County:
Dist. No. Mills
1— Newberry 17
2— Mt. Bethel-Garmany 6
3— Maybinton 6
4— Long Lane 3
5— McCullough 6
6 —Uromer 0
H—Reagin 12
9—Dead Fall 12
10— Utopia 12
11— Hartford 4
12— Johnstone 6
13— Stoney Hill 6
14— Prosperity 15
15— O’Neal 8
18— Fairview 4
19— Midway 4
21— Central 4
22— St. Phillips 8
23— Rutherford 4
24— Broad River 6
25— New Hope Zion 6
26— Pomaria 8
27— Red Knoll 6
28— Helena 4
29— Mt. Pleasant 8
39—Little Mountain 1614
31— Wheeland 3
32— Union 6
33— Jolly Street 8
34— St. Pauls 6
35— Peak 3
37— Mudlic 6
38— Vaughnville 6 -
39— Chappells 6
40— Old Town 12
41— Dominick 8
42— Reederville 12
43— Bush River 12
44— Smyrna 12
45— Trinity 12
46— Burton 12
47— Tranwood 12
48— Jalapa 6
49— Kinards 2
50— Tabernacle 8
51— Trilby 4
52— Whitmire 15
53— Molohon 4
54— (Beth Eden 3
55— Fork 8
57— Belfast 6
58— Silvertsreet 12
59— Pressley 4
60— St. Johns 3
There will be a discount of one
(l) per cent allowed on taxes paid
on or before October 31, 1945.
On and after January 1, 1946, the
penalties prescribed by law will be
imposed on unpaid taxes.
You are requested to call for your
taxes by school districts in whicn
the property is located.
Those who had their dogs vacci
nated for rabies during the fiscal
year eneded June 30, 1945 by a
licensed veternarian, and expect to
be exempted from dog tax will
please bring their certificate of
vaccination when appearing to pay
J. RAY DAWKINS,
Treasurer of Newberry County.
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Demonstration
By Ethel L. Counts
October the 6th will be a big day
for Newberry County Farm Women
as that is the time for the District
meeting. The honor does not come
to a county very often, so the farm
women are inviting friends to attend
the meeting. All council members
are urged to be present.
There will be a lunch for all serv
ed at Margaret Hunter Park at a
nominal cost. Newberry County is
very proud of the fact that the Dis
trict President, Mrs. W. E. Senn, is
a member of the Newberry council.
The program appears elsewhere in
the paper.
SWEET POTATO PIE: With so
many sweet potatoes coming on the
market soon, this is a good time to
be thinking sweet potatoes a nd sweet
potato pie. You make it somewhat
like pumpkin pie. First, combine one
and a half cups of boiled and riced
sweet potatoes with two cups milk,
Vi to Vi cup sugar. . .and a half
teaspoon each of salt and ginger.
Heat this mixture in a double boiler.
Beat two eggs, add a little of the
heated sweet potato mixture to them.
Then mix the eggs back into the
sweet potatoes, and add the butter.
Pour this hot filling into a baked
pastry shell, and bake the pie in a
moderate oven 350 degrees Farenheit,
i until the filling is set, about a half
an hour.
ENERGY SPENT: We hear much
about saving energy as sitting versus
standing. Well, maybe you’d like to
take these percentages down as to
the energy required to sit, bend, or
to lie down.
We naturally reason that lying
down requires least energy, which is
right; sitting requires 4 per cent
more energy than lying; standing
requires 12 per ct. more energy than
lying; and bending requires 55 per
cent more energy than lying. So
the more chores we can do to save
erergy, the better.
We might add that one calory of
energy is used when we arise from
sitting position and walk 8 feet away
and return to that position.
It is “sort of’’ practical application
of the term calorie which so many
of us don’t understand. Calorie is
a measure of heat or energy.
CONTROL OF PEACH TREE
BORERS
By P. B. EZELL, County Agent
Effective and safe control of peach
tree borers may be obtained by use
of 2 chemicals which are available:
namely, paradichlorobenzene and eth
ylene dichloride. Hand worming is
another method now little used. Each
material has its limitations and also
its definite merits. Paradichloroben
zene is cheaper but is not reedm-
mended for use on trees younger than
four years (summers) in the orchard,
and the time for its application is
limited. Ethylene dichloride requires
less labor and may be used in cooler
weather than paradichlorobenzene.
Apply P. D. B. and Ethylene dichlo
ride in Newberry county from Octo
ber 1 to October 10. Ethylene di
chloride may be applied a few days
later than P. D. B.—never earlier.
It may also be applied with less ef
fective results later in fall if weath
er continues warm.
How to apply paradichlorobenzene:
Clear grass and rubbish and smooth
soil around tree for a distance of one
foot from base of tree. When borers
are working much above ground,
mound sufficiently to raise soil level
so the crystal are above worm holes.
Apply paradichlorobenzene around
trees so that crystals are not closer
than 1 1-2 inches from tree. Spread
carefully several shovelfuls of dirt
over crystals and avoid getting them
against the tree. Place six or more
shovelfuls of dirt to form mound
around base of tree. Pack compactly
to confine fumes of gas.
What next? Remove mounds at
the end of 28 days for the trees four
and five years old, and at the end of
six weeks for the older trees, to
avoid possible injury from unspent
crystals. Be careful not to remove
soil from below the original soil
level.
If ethylene dichloride is used the
manufacturer’s instructions should be
carefully followed. Information for
the use of ethylene dichloride may al.
so be obtained from the county
agents office.
REGISTRATION FOR GENERAL
ELECTION
The supervisor of registration has
been ordered by the Council of the
Town of Newberry to open the books
of registration September 12, 1945,
to remain open until ten days be
fore the general election of mayor
and aldermen in December.
Required for registration, tax re
ceipts showing payment of all tax
es for 1942 and County and State
registration certificate.
D. L. NANCE,
Supervisor of Registration.
FOR SALE.—Hardwood for heaters
or fireplace, sawed any length de
sired. Order yours now befote the
bad weather comes in order to get
prompt delivery. Phone Saluda 2566.
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HEADQUARTERS - FOR — ' Candy,
Cigars, Cigarettes, etc. Big ship
ments in this week. Come to see
us. R. DERRTLL SMITH, Whole
sale Grocer, Newberry. 2t
WANTED—HOGS—will pay $14.40
ceiling price for top hogs. Will
buy anything from 100 to 300 lbs.
Price according to grade. THE
NEWBERRY ABATTOIR.
FOR SALE—1 two horse wagon, 1
McCormick mower, runs in oil and
in good shape. Seed oats, barley
and wheat. H. O. Long & Sons,
Silverstreet, S. C.
South Carolina is a good State to
live in; a good State to invest in. It
is a state of good people, good aver
age people Few brilliant people
sparkle here and still fewer cranks.
Very few try to preach new gospels
and very few wander seriously from
the path of recognized decorum.
Saints and sinners live here but both
are so moderate as to be able to
find common ground at times. Sel
dom do millionaires grow up among
us; and as seldom do you find pau
pers. South Carolina has few crit
ics and fewer freaks. Extremes of
cold are not common nor extremes of
heat; floods a n <l droughts are equal
ly rare. Few statesmen adorn our
public life and as few political
quacks becloud it. A good State, of
churches' and schools .people essenti
ally sound and sensible.
Look about you. The people are
at work. Farmers in the fields,,
others in the factories and shops;
still others in stores and offices.
Relations between management and
workers are cordial. How different
in some other States. What is the
trouble? What lies a t the root of the
labor unrest in other states? Is
this country to be in a state of per
petual warfare between the workers
and the owners with occasional arm
ed truces? Is this a problem beyond
solution ? Or may we hope to estab
lish a workable basis of mutual fair
ness?
There are three parties in every
strike; management, workers and the
general public. In recent years the
Government has become a party,
theoretically in behalf of the general
public, but generally to take the
workers’ sidel It is and has been a
mere political play for votes; the
w r orkers are more numerous than the
stockholders, as a rule, and are or
ganized to fight as a unit; there
fore the politicians find more votes
by taking the workers’ side. Jus
tice has become a secondary consid
eration; coldly the big politicians
count the votes, for votes are their
stock in trade. In order to maintain
themselves in power; or to gain
power deals with city bosses and la
bor bosses are common; justice sits
on a side line as blind as she is pic
tured to be. That isnt true in South
Carolina where we are still a fairly
reasonable people, proud of our
American stock and living an plan
ning in the good old American way.
As to the three interests: the
owners have built the plant; they
have provided the operating capital
so that the mill may operate—may
have fuel, raw products to process,
may pay wages. Obviously either
private individuals must put up this
money—must invest their capital, or
the Government must do so. If in
dividual citizens invest their money
they do so because they expect a
profit. Those of us who farm ex
pect a profit. The bountiful Provi
dence is the authority for that: He
gives us a harvest of a hundred
fold when we plant; He taught us
in the lesson of the talents that one
should be thrifty and should use his
talents so as to gain other talents.
So we see a t once that whether we
operate a farm, or a store, or a mill
we expect our capital to produce a
profit
If the Government should put up
the money there would be Govern
ment regulation, Government super
vision, Government control. Would
you like that? Did you ever have
any experience with Government
regulation, supervision and control?
How about it? Did you like it so
well that you would welcome it for
all your life and for the life of your
son and grandson? The OPA—
well, now, what say you to that? If
you like an army of politicians to
dictate what you shall eat and what
you shall wear—and how much—
then let the Government put up the
money and turn the bureaucrats loose
on you; but if you want individuals
to run our business let’s keep the
politicians out.
The strongest argument for indivi
dual control is that every man hopes
to run a business of his own some
day. He or his boy may rise to the
top. Most of our great business
leaders were poor boys and they
climbed to the top because our coun-
try has been a free, wide-open land of
opportunity.
Recently I sat with a great indus.
trialist. His record for labor rela
tions is outstanding in the Nation.
He said very simply “I was a boy in
Iowa.” He has, ne /er forgotten _his
struggles. Here in South Carolina
we have a native son, a great manu
facturer, who cherishes his memor
ies of boyhood on a farm in old
Edgefield.
The man who invests is entitled
to a substantial profit. If, in a
period of reconversion, this Country
is to have an era of strikes at the
whim of labor leaders, either all
management should organize and
stand like an invincible army, or we
should become a second Russia.
It must be possible to determine a
fair basis for both Capital and .la
bor, but strikes are not instrumen
talities of equitable adjustment any
more than shut-outs and shut-downs.
Both are arbitrary and settle noth
ing; both are measures of coercion.
But this country must find the means
of peaceable adjustment, adjustment
rooted in justice to all, not founded in
politics, political considerations or
votes.
Let us beware. Russia has no La
bor unions, no political parties, no
strikes. All these labor agitators Who
tell us of Russia are really preach
ing the doom of labor as well as of
Capital. Our Government should
either act with the fairness expected
of a court or it will compel manage
ment to unite a s cohesively as Labor.
In any case we Americans ate able to
solve our problems. Let us use our
brains more and our emotions less.
Recently I quoted letters relative
to economies in the Counties. I have
some others—from Marlboro, Wil
liamsburg, Darlington, Calhoun and
Horry. I quote former Senator Paul
Quattlebaum of Horry:
“In Horry County tax reduction
started early in my administration.
When I became Senator, Horry Coun
ty had a tax levy for county purposes
of 22 mills, and also had a bonded in
debtedness of close to $400,000. The
good financial basis & gave the tax
levy one mill, put the county on a
god financial basis and gave the tax
payers a year’s recess with no taxes
for county purposes. Following this
the tax levy was systematically re
duce dto ten mills. When I went out
of office the county nad a surplus
sufficient to operate for more than a
year without an additional levy. 'In
the meantime all indebtedness of ^he
county was liquidated, or provided
for leaving the county completely
free of indebtedness and with a sub
stantial cash balance. While tajees
were being reduced, and indebtedness
paid off, we did not neglect public
improvements. A county bridge was
built across the upper Waceamaw
river, a county office building con
structed, the jail rebuilt and prisoner
capacity doubled the courthouse was
completely rebuilt and enlarged.
These permanent improvements were
all paid for at the time. In short,
Horry County, during my ten "years
in the Senate, operated strictly on a
cash basis a nd on a business basis.”
Senator C. S. McCall of Marlboro:
“Our County is in the best financial
condition that it has been in for
several years. After making liberal
appropriations for all county institu
tions, we find that we have in the
bank at the close of our fiscal year,
funds sufficient to take care of all
of our outstanding indebtedness. For
the last few years we have been run
ning on a cash basis, and find that
this year we can cut our millage two
mills and give us ample money to
take care of all our appropriations.
Several years ago we issued bonds
for highway improvements and these
will be paid up within three years
and the county then will be free of
indebtedness.”
Senator L. Marion Gressette of
Calhoun: “The County Treasurer and
Auditor are authorized in our Supply
Bill to levy and collect a tax suffi
cient to meet appropriations. After
discussing this matter with the
Treasurer and certain other county
officials, we have decided not to re
duce the levy. At first we felt that
it could be reduced four mills. How
ever, there is great need at present
for road machinery, and when anu if
it becomes available we want to pay
for it in cash. Also, I am not so
certain that payments from the State
Income Tax to the Counties will
maintain the present level, and we
should be prepared for a falling off
of some a nd any other similar pay
ments from State funds. We are op
erating on a cash basis with a sub
stantial surplus and no Conuty
bonds.’’
Senator James P. Mozingo of Dar
lington: “I am sorry that I have hot
answered your inquiry relative to my
county levy but have for the first
time since I bgan to practice law
taken a vacation. It is no mystery
that 1 did not take one because for
the first five or six years I practiced
I did not make enough money and
was unable to afford one, then in the
past two or three years I have been
so busy until I did not feel I could
afford the time I had a nice time
at Pawley’s Island with my wife and
three boys and now feel fit for a
stormy session of the Legislature
and a vigorous campaign next sum
mer. I realize that you were not
asking for a personal letter but
wanted to give you my reason for
having delayed answering. In regard
to my county levy this year it will
be the same as last year. Frankly,
we could have reduced the levy a few
mills but I felt that we should pay
off our indebtedness at this time
rather than give the reduction and be
forced to replace the levy in depres
sion years. We have, however, kept
down our expenditures as much as
possible and I am a firm believer that
Counties, Municipalities and other
units of government, as well as in
dividuals, should use the “cheap
money” that is now being circulated
to clear up indebtedness. Some few
years ago we tried giving all of the
reduction at one time by declaring a
tax holiday and eliminating all the
county ordinary levy. Of course,
this could only be done for one year
and by using a surplus. We have
varied from this policy however, and
are assigning surplus amounts to
Postwar replacements and recon
struction of necessary items and ar
ticles—for example, school buses,
etc.”
Senator J. Frank Eatmon of Wil
liamsburg: “According to the re
port of the County Auditor, the over
all levy has been reduced some 6 1-2
mills in the county in the period li*41
through 1945. In 1941 it was 46 1-2
mills; 1942, 47 mills; 1943, 43 1-2
mills; 1944 and 1945, 40 mills. The
foregoing does not, however, correct
ly reflect the developments in our
tax program for the past few years.
In 1944 the present Legislative Dele
gation passed an Act whereby the
County educational system was re
vamped and a County unit plan in
augurated. This was done in order to
more equitably distribute the educa
tional tax burden over the entire
County and relieve some of the small
er districts from the heavy load that 1
they had been carrying for many |
years in their efforts to educate the 1
children of such districts. Before
passage of this legislation some of
the school districts were paying as
much as 30 mills special levy for
school purposes, which included sink
ing fund payments for retirement of
bonds Under the Act, a uniform levy
.was provided and for 1944 and 1945
! PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED
WILL BE HELPED
With the cooperation of industry
and labor, employment opportunities
will be found for the physically
handicapped worker, Mrs. Sudie
J Wicker, manager of the Newberry
! United States Employment Service
j declared today. Mrs. Wicker said
each of more than 1,725 USES offices
in principal cities in the U. S. is pre
pared to assist disabled veterans and
other handicapped workers in obtain
ing suitable employment where they
could establish by their own efforts
employment security for themselves
and families.
“The United States Employment
Service has the responsibility for
serving all employable persons who
come to it seeking work.” Mrs. Wick
er continued, “But some applicants
need special assistance. Among these
are the physically handicapped.
Through past experience the USES
has developed special services for the
handling of such placement, cases and
is well equipped to render top service 1
to employers and applicants interest-
fixed at 6 mills for each district
throughout the County. Thus, some
of the districts realized a reduction
of as much as 24 mills In fact, of
the 39 school districts^operating in
the County under the Act, 33 of them
experienced reductions ranging from
1 to 24 mills as before indicated, or
an average reduction of 9.48 mills in
each of these 33 districts One dis
trict was unaffected and only 5 in
the County sustained an increase in
millage which ranged from 1 to 5
mills. Two districts had an increase
of 1 mill, one district 4 mills and two
districts 5 mills. Our County is in
excellent financial condition. W© can
approach the post war era with c6n-
fidence. According to the jeport of
the auditing Accountant who audited
the books for the years 1944 to 1945,
the financial status of the County
has improved $126,889.99 in this
period.”
I repeat what I said several weeks
ago, there has been a lot of good
work done in some counties. W‘
should like to hear from the other
counties.
ed in the placement of the handicap
ped.
“As the eemmunity job center for
returning war veterans and displace*!
war workers, the USES office be
comes of the utmost importance to
both management and labor.
“At the USES office the employer
may list his job openings in terms’of
i skills required so that they may be
filled by qualified workers who have
! been given special attention- as te
j their skills experience and training
before referral.
“At the USES office the worker
will find that the office has been or
ganized to furnish the type of ser
vice he required in terms of the
propen job for the right person. In
formation about the job and what is
required of the worker to perform it
is obtained from the employer when
he reports job openings.”
The USES office is the govern
ment’s answer to the demand a few
years ago for a community job cen
ter that would have full information
regarding the labor market situation
in the area. The USES has the legal
responsibility to aid all workers in
obtaining employment. This respon
sibility, of course, included assistance
to displaced veterans and other
handicapped applicants.”
WORLD WAR II VETS HAVE
RIGHT TO FORMER JOBS
Who knows anything about munic.
pal government in South Carolina?
Washington, D. C.—Selective ser
vice is standing pat on its contention
that World War II veterans have an
absolute right to their former jobs.
The agency reiterated this view
today in a policy statement for the
guidance of * draft board personnel
designated to aid veterans.
The policy, based on selective ser
vice’s interpretation of the draft
law, has come to be known as the
super-seniority issue. It has been
under attack for months by union
leaders and some employees, but it
has been upheld by the federal dis
trict court in Brooklyn, N. Y.
The selective service interpreta
tion is that a veteran is entitled to
his former position, or a job of like
seniority status and pay. The agon-
cy says this is so even if it means
firing an employee who was on the
job before the veteran entered ser
vice. In some cases this could mean
discharge of a veteran of World
Ward 1.
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and save wear.
To give your car the same, sure
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offers Sinclair Opaline Motor Oil.
This famous oil stands up longer
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