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ONLY NEWSPAPER IN AIKEN UDATED 1935 SEVENTIETH YEAR AIKEN, S. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939 1MB The' Smth Oasettc VOL. 50 Sheriff Reports Large Number Of Tax Executions Intensive Drive to Collect Delinquent Taxes Being Made by Sheriff The Sheriff's Office reports that as May 1st, 10,011 Tax Executions amounting to were received from the Treasurer's Office. Of this amount, and was school taxes. This is "the greatest number of turned over to the Sheriffs Office for collection and the reason as given by Thos.

H. Williamson, County is that as a result of legislation requiring the State Highway Department to forward to the County Auditor a list of all automobiles registered in his county, and from this list the Ac- clitor assessed personal property taxes against the owners of the vehicles. in the addition of some 2,000 names on the Tax Books of Aiken County. The Treasurer reports that of the total levy for the county and schools o-f was collected before May 1, at which time the remain- ing of the levy, was turned over to. Sheriffs off ice.

However of the 82 collected by the treasurer's office this only represented one-half the tax payers, leaving and equal number for the Sheriff's office to collect. The Sheriff's Office is 'making an extensive effort to collect these delinquent tax executions, and advises that all persons wishing to pay before September 1st may save additional costs, as at that time all Executions will be checked out to collectors and mileage be added. Measure To Honor Dr. Fred Brinkley The house passed and sent to the senate Tuesday night the Ai- keTTdelegation measure providing markers, on the Ellenton highway commemorating the services of Dr. Fred C.

Brinkley in connection with the highway. HAMBLETONIAN ENTRY POLICE ASKS AID OFffllZENS Chief tion George Mailer of El Chief of Police J. E. George, has requested that the citizens of Aiken cooperate with the police department in the of eliminating loud noises in the City of Aiken. There are certain cases of sickness, and during the hot weather complaints have been received that persons who arc trying to rest at night arc disturbed by the loud blowing of automobile horns, and the.

playing of radios in automobiles and in the homes. Auto Dealers To Hold Meeting Myrtle annual conclave o-f the South Carolina Au- 1 tomobile Dealers' association will convene at the "Ocean Forest hotel, Monday and Tuesday. June 26 and '27. Charles G. Vogell, president of the association, Columbia will preside at the meeting and the program plans arc being formulated by C.

P. Johnson, Charleston and Ernest Burwell, Spartairburg. More than 300 members will be in attendance. With many of the visitors arriving on Saturday for a weekend at the beach the official program will be inaugurated on Monday morning when the distinguished guest speaker will be William C. Callahan, managing editor, with a vast knowledge of the manufacturer's and dealer's John E.

Smith, Atlanta, Georgia, one of the oldest automobile dealers "from the point of service in the with a record of thirty years as.a dealer and a director of National Automobile Dealer's association will also appear on the program. L. J. Buckland, New editor, "Buck Sez Bulletin" will ap- Aiken Electric Association Plans Cold Storage Plant Plans Being Made For Meat Curing Plant to Be Established In Aiken County REA to Make LoahS For The management, of the Aik en Electric Cooperative Associate states that there has been co nsidurable. interest, plan of company to erect and a cold storage and moat; curing plant, at some point near the; city.

of-. 'it is felt that the merchants of Aikcn would firid considerable use for.a> plant of this sort to store certain perishable merchandise other articles and many- 1'arni- keenly interested in having available a 'place for cold sld'airo of 5v meats. chickens, and other commodities. The curing. feature is alsci allrae.tivo anil 'many farmers are today taking meats forty and lifty miles in- ici to be cured!" The- Aiken Electric Cooperative Asso'chi lion's plan material- rf.i-f.

a modern, up-to-date plant will lie conslructed and those. laky advantage of the oll'e red will be allotted compartment or 'storage spaces according BROTH OF A were two star trotter, and Pat O'Connell, crack reinsman. Pat is the one above with the beard an da pipe. The two of them won at Soshen, N. last and they're gojng to try egatn on Historic tracjc.

at July 3-7. The Aikcn County Rural Electrification Authority in. Its mcet- injrfc Monday -set aside certain fund? Hi be loaned to subscribers' i for the in.v.allatioi! of plumli- ins- pumps and for i ho purchase of 'electric' ap- pliances, according tb Monson 11 orris, president of the associa- i tion. These loans will he repaid by smalt installments. Mr.

slated that bids will lie. asked iicxl week for construction additional lines in Aiken, KdgefYeld, Orangeburg'. and lud'a counties. Rotary-Discusses School Problems to the needs. required.

The manajscme.nt all Rep. Craig Cites Reason For Present Long Session Legislators Have No Personal Axe to Grind, Asserts People to Place Blame on Right Source Representative E. J. Craig in discussing the long session of the legislature said yesterday th at he felt the "blame should be placed where it belonged and that he did not believe that there was a single, member of the legislature trying to prolong the session for personal reasons as has been said by some critics." Rep. Craig's statement follows: Just critics are comendable, pear on the program in a question and' answer forum.

Well versed in the subject of information the speaker will have a real inspiring and enthusiastic exchange of ideas. The convention will be one of they should be placed where they belong. The State of South Carolina has been placed in a position over a period of years that provision will have to be made to change the tax structure in the State. You have two schools of thought: 1 The- first one is taking care of the overburdened tax payers; 2 Second for the administration of a sound economic government, You must remember the largest assemblages of nvu commendable when' just; it is for the general public to pass upon with clear conscience without prejudice or personal reasons." Biggest Says Ed Smith Complaints have been registered about persons making these noises, and Chief George says that he realizes that they do not mean lo people, and that they do these things without any in- with an evening dance tention of disturbing the quietude and peace of the city, still with a mobile dealers ever held in the state. The entertainment committee has a special program of events for the ladies and the Ocean Forest hotel will entertain amount of cooperation and thought on the part of people, he feels that it can be reduced to a It is sincerely hoped that the citizens of Aiken will keep this in mind and give Chief George the cooperation requested, in order that the summer months will pass off quietly wtihout further complaints from people about these matters.

on the Patio on Monday. Hear Rutherford On Government and On Sunday, June 25, 3 P. Judge Rutherford will broadcast over many Radio stations the subject "Government and Peace" from New York. There will a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses' and that the property state tax was removed and the three mills lax also. When you consider thai the stale has put on Social Security in addition to their already heavy burden of expenditures and to do this without adding new taxes is where the real no new industries of note coming into Ihe.

Slate to tax. The governor and the General Assembly wanted to find out Ihe deficiency apd what would cost the State and where the tux could be placed without new tax on those now over-burdened with taxes. There was a of nine to study Ihose prOblcm'sT iiird "find- Livingstons to Be Heard On Air Friends of the -Vance Living stons family will tio doubt interested in a' Radio Broadcast over W. IJ. T.

(Charlotte) on Thursday, June at I o'clock in which Mrs. Livingston and four daughters, Misses Itulah, Madaliene, Mary and Gretchen will participate. 'IJoth Livingston and her daughters have been outstanding in Home Demonstration and 4-11 club work and their broadcast will lie of peucliar interest lo their many friends not only -in Aiken and Aiken County but all uvi'r the the State. Charleston, June E. D.

Smith said here today Ihe United States was "facing the greatest crisis" in its history as a 1'esult of the international developments in Europe. Speaking at launching exercises for the destroyer Roe, the veteran Democrat "Some of us must hold on to the course as.set by the constitution of the United States, I know I am in the 'dog house' now bui still bark and can still bite on occasion when pushed too His comment was taken to refer to the unsuccessful New Dea purge against him in his las 1 campaign. Smith himself lo work for improvements at. the nav.v yard which would include a dock enough to handle any vessel operating on the Atlantic. Makes Application For Bus Service Dr.

Burbage Returns To Commercial 25 at Columbia, Columbia Town- I ings, make recommendations, and auditorium, Taylor St. New Books Added To Dibble Library A splendid set of books have been added to the Dibble Memorial Library, the Smithsonian Scientific Series, 12 vols, with in book. Also the following new books have been purchased. Autobiography by Wm. Lyon Phelps.

My Memoir, Mrs. Edith Boiling Wilson. I' A Peculiar Treasure, autobiography of Edna Ferber. America in Passage, Chas. A.

and- Mary R. Beard. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck. Seasoned Timber, Dorothy Canfield. The Single Hound, May Sarton.

The Sea of Grass, Conrad Richter. Summer hours 9:30 to 12 M. students and children cmn get books PRISSUtI ol all German police, who was to to take charge of the city. believed, he would at once harihly impose wiU. they did so.

The Ways and Means committee, composed, I believe, of as frood business men'as were in Jhe General Assembly, after workinK un- tirinfly and faithfully, brought in to the House the appropriations committee, proposal. With a few slight changes by the House it wenl tn the Senate in two days and when it WHK amended and sent hack to the Mouse wilh more than four million dollars than the House- passed: naturally, the House diil not concur ami this put the appropriation bill into free, conference Ihe second day after the House received it. It remains there to this day, with, I 'belive, us jrooil of business men as there is in ihe Senate and trying lo save the taxpayer and provide for an economic administration of Slate Government. I do not believe thai thorc is a person trying to prolong the session for any personal reasons, or to benefit himself as has been said by sonic critics. Place the cause of the long session where it belongs, and no one fears is The many friends of Dr.

W. H. Burbajfc will be delighted to learn that he is back in Aiken to again take up his duties as pharmacist a Ke oTiTm i'c i a 1 ha 1111 11 will begin his work there next Monday. Some weeks afro, llr. Burbage resigned his position to accept work in Ilartsvillc.

Many weeks of drought ilamag ed crhp.s in Scotland year. The Valley Coaches, -has made application for Class A. certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to render motor bus service- between Warrenville and Aiken via Stiefeltown Efron's Place'over U. 1 from Wiii rcnvillo lo the intersection of that highway and State Highway 215, thence over No. Public hearing in the above on- titled mailer will held in the.

commissions offices in Columbia at. -I p. in. July to determine the requirements of public con- necessity in the Cleveland; June of in proving- schools received intensive discussion today at the 30th uniuial convention of Rotary. Concentrating on ways of encouraging world youth in troubled times, Kotarians in one of seven separate forums agreed that time- honored educational traditions should be discarded if they caused youth to school and go wrong.

One suggestion advanced at the forum led by Chairman Carl L. Millward of Scranton, was that schools might grant sabbatical leaves to their instructors, enabling them to tour the nation's industrial and commercial establishments to get business" point of view. Othor ideas from various Rotarians included a proposal foi doubling America's investment in education to pare the cost of crime in half; provide college scholarships to worthy youth-; from Kotarians financially able; place more concern on selection of parly elementary teachers who g'uide children in early years and determine pupils an- to love or hate schools; and financing of boys clubs of Rotary oi 1 ganizalions keep youth busy with recreation and hobbies. The 0,000 delegates from every continent paused in convention activities this afternoon to take Lake- Erie cruises, visit 0-1 eve- who are interested-or who would to take advantage of the services offered through plant of this nature to communicate with T. Henderson, mana- iic.r uf the Aiken Electric Cooperative Association, at its office on Curve Street in Aiken.

If enough "merest is shown arrangements will immediately be made to re- luisitioir funds for this project. FARMERSTO" RECEIVE FUNDS Lilt of Tho.e Ginning In Aiken Only In order lo save confusion on the part of the- farmers seeking a refund of cotton taxes we print the names, those farmers handed to us by Senator John Williams. The list is those farmers who had" their cotton ginned cither at. Prothro's Gin or Planter's Cotton Oil Company. According.

to Senator Williams, those- ginning elsewhere should secure their blanks direct from W. U. Uowers, collector of revenue. Columbia, except those who ginned at Hrinkley's 1 which Ellcntou venicnce- nnd premises. land jioints of interest, iiu'Iudiiifr industries and for golf and other sports.

The convention Fridav. 11 r. Fred Brinkley of Ki-nry Ihiivi, Henry Hall. John Richardson, l.crs Ahney. li.

llarlcy. Frances Hall, dims. W. Kd Tyler, I'lall Mosn- h-y, M. ISlack.

Plait I'latt Han II. Taylni- Louie Moseley, II. Moseley, 1'latt Moselcy, Chas. K. G.

Gai'rctt, Lucius Barton, Hcywarcl Give Barbecue at Mayfield Plantation American fanners received about S.i(>3,0()0,00n for their products in April, five per tent less 1 than during the same month in Cooperate With Health Department It is liic jian-nls children will cooperate, with iho Aiken Hi-allli and hcitcJ tin; warnings iss'ucd hy )'i'. Hair, numly licaltli ficor. hi brriinu: lliere is, as we see it, a necessily lo kccy link children in iheir own yards and away from public Tlic Sunday Schools, movies ami all pultlic have hccn closed lo children under 12 of age. Itul unless they slay off ih cslreets and away from swimming pools, lh'! Hosing of liiese oilier will ho of lillh' avail. On Salurdays our Jmsitioss- soclion is crowded nnr! wn have nolkixi, a large niimlirr of children, holh while and coorfrd, on iho streets.

Lot's cooperate with ihe Health Department and slop 11 ic spread of poliomyolitns. If precaution. will save just one little child from this dreaded diseafe is it not worlh ihe John A and Klber.t Steadman were join', hosts Wednesday nifrht.at a barbecue dinner for tlir (iiri'clcn's and t'ln- ployecs of Aiken Klectric ('orpor- alive Association at Mayfield's Plantation about' livi- miles north of the City of Aiken. A most delicious wsi- 1-11- 1'V tluv-c present Jii which H. L.

Harper, nn official of thf l-'cder-il 1C. a short talk in which tho of the' Corporation. Maylields. now lighted ihriiujrh this rural trilicatinn aptt-ney and it. was in recognition of illis service that vvji.s ti-ndcri'd the of- licials of ihi- Ileadciuarlei-s of (leneral Jolfll- ston, connnaiiiler of the last Army of the Confederacy, have been restored and opened to the public at llillslioro, X.

C. Weather Outlook U. S. Bureau Frklay: I mucd wurm. fa A.

T. Mdselcy, Louie; Gibson, John. Cobh. W. W.

Hollny, Jesse Hammond. W. M. Black. li.

F. Owens, A. B. Couch, Courtney, Henry Harrison Charlie Williams, IJoy.l Gomillion. Ceorjii' Davis, E.

Williams. Wade II. Heath. S. Kdney.

(Icorjre Moseley. W. p. Tay- -Im-atid l.it'ejns.- John and Bert Blnkeley. J.

HiirckliaHcr .1. Arthur, Wade. Henry Robcrson Charier- H. Howard. Charles 1-1.

Howard. Joseph A. Eu 'Krnest Koborson. I). II.

Taylor. -Mrs. Will Dmihar. ii-usiee. lioheri: Wise-.

liut- ler. W. W. Roe. W.

H. John ones, Tal'i Mell. Ahliir Willie Koln-i'tson. K. Simon llankinson.

Kriiesl l.amar, Kichai-d Wallace. li. t). Taylor, John K. Anderson.

J. H. Anderson. II. S.

Walsh. Kcn-y Roberson, W. M. Lewis. M.

Moseley. K. W. Mnoiv. F.

K. Culluin. H. Ci. W.

Moseley. P. T. Cnlhim. Oscar S.

Kdney. Jin-dan. W. I'. Kallaw.

Clem Moseley, H. T. Heard, Will H. Heard, f'oleniiin, Hcrry Fiolierpon Isaac Atkinson, Joseph A. Hubanks, liacon, W.

Moseley, L. Toole. L. May Stend- inati. X.

Stewai-t, John New- sonic, .1. Hell. A. C. Calhoun, li.

Henry Shillings, Hessic Hall, H. O. Taylor, K. C. Lawrence, K.

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