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•■V ' / r- K”'i iSW ■iv T THE CHRONiaE iKf Strires to Be A Cleon j *>/ Newspaper, Complete, ibk Newsy and Reliably ®bp fflUnton Olhrnmrlp If You Don't Reod THE CHRONiaE You Don't Get the News Volume XU Clinton, S. C., Thursdoy, Moy 15,1941 Number 20 aiNTON HIGH FINALS TO BE HOD MAY 23-26 Class of 73 Seniors To Receive Diplomas. McGee To Preach Ser mon. 'Closs Night' Opens ’Program. Commencement exerdees of Clih- ton hi^ school will begin May 23rd and continue through the 26th, it was announced yesterday by W. E. Monts, superintendent of city schools. The Ouree-day program will open on Friday evenli^, the^ttrd, wiOi the annual class day exerciM at Florida Street school. The baccalaureate sermon will be preached by the Rev. L. P. McOee, pastor of Broad Street Methodist church on Sunday evening, the 25th. The union service will be held in the auditorium of the First Presbyterian churdi, with all ministers of the city churdies invited to participate. On Monday evening, the 26th, the graduating exercises will be held, at time medals will be presented to ^dents of outstanding addle ment for the year. Supt. Monts will -deliver diplomas to the graduates. Miss Betty Hunter will be the class valedictorian. Miss Virginia Sumerel the salutatorian. Harold Pitts, presi dent of the class, will also speak. Following a practice of recent years, no guest speaker will be heard. The time of all three prc^rams will be 8 o’clock, with the public cordially in vited. Following is the list of the 73 grad uates as released yesterday: Girls SPEAKERS NAMED FOR ORPHANAGE COMMENCEMENT Dr. James McDowell Richards, president of Columbia Tfieological seminary, .Decatur, Ga., will preach the baccalaureate s«rmon before the Thomwell orphanage graduating class on Sunday morning,A June 8th. The lit«*ary address before the graduating class will be delivered Tunday evening, June 10th by Rev. John J. Hayes, pastor of the first Presbyterian chuidi of Laurens. The usual senior class play will oc cur on Monday night and the annual meeting of the board of trustees will be held on the morning of the 10th at 11 o’clock. I County 4-H Clubs Have Gala Day Spring Rally Held At Training School. 230 Boys ond Girls Present. Hazel Adams, Henrietta Ammons, Mildred Arnold, Eula Gray Blakely, Ellen Boyce, Doris Bozard, Lillian Bragg, Joyce Braswell, Violet Brown ing, Gtfolyn Copeland, Miriam Dav enport, .Essie Mae Didcey, Louise BiUs, Sotfliqr fiidcew, William Evans, Sara Frances Falls, Edna Fanner, Margie Flow, Agnes Fuller, OayneUe Hairston, Lotnrice Rarrelst^ Wilma Hawkins, Margaret C. Hipp, Jacque line HolUday. j^tbtosn Howard, Betty Hunter, "EiBgbeSr JacSomn, Jane jLJttle, Mery Loftis, Banna P. irgie aniler. Martin, Margie Bimier, Ruth McMU- lan, 4onette MoorfaeMl, Mar^ Owens, Irvfoe Painter, Evelsm Pit^ Helen Pugh, IJllian Speake, Ella Mae Stil ton, Virginia Sumerel, Henry Etta Young, Carolyn Young. Boys William Anderson, James Arnold, W. Frank Bailey, Harry Baldwin, Jack Barnes, William Bell, David Boyd, Charles Burnett, Charles Campbell, Sam Cauble, Jimmie Cobb, Maurice Davenport, Scott Dawkins, The Laurens county 4-H boys and girls held their sixring rally meeting at the State Training school near here last Saturday with 230 members present and twenty local leaders and visitors. The rheeting was held in the gym- nasiiun of the school and was called to order by Miss Opal Cqpelahd, president of Laurens coun^ 4-H clubs, with George L. Finley serving as secretary. Song, “God Bless Amer ica,’’ led by Mrs. Harold Wallace, opened the meeting. The devotional was conducted by Miss Inez Laih- bert of the 4-H club at the Training schooL Welcome addresses were giv en by Miss Ethel Alien, president of the host school girls’/ dub, and Dr. B.jO. Whitten, superintendent of the institution. The response was given by Clyde Brady, president of the Tikomwell orphanage 4-H calf club. Each club throughout the county was represented and each gro«q;> ac companied by one or more local leaders. Greetings from the Laurens County CotmcU of Farm Women were brought by Mrs. Harry L. William son, president-elect. C.'B. Oumon, county agent, intro duced L. B. Massey, district farm agent, Spartanburg, who made the prindpal talk. A variety program by the diflermit clubs was an enjoyable feature of the day*s program and consisted of songs, folk dances, skits, and read ings. At the noon hour a picnic ^dinner was served by the teachers of the Training school on tables scattered throuidrout the auditorium. One of the most attractive of the programs by the clubs was “The ANDERSON PASTOR TO DELIVER COLLEGE SERMON SENATE PASSES COMPROMISE BILL The Rev. James "Appleby, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Anderson, will deliver the baccalau reate sermon before the Presbyterian [college graduating class on Sunday morning, June 1st, at the First Pres byterian church. As already announced, the address before the graduating class will be i delivered on the morning of June 2nd by John Temple Graves of Bir- FIX! STATE FUNDS J. Browning Dicus, Mac Fiiuiey,|Blue Danube” folk dance and several Marion pardna:, Weiidell Hair, Fred songs by a group ef Training school HUl, Mayer Jcdmscm, Gene King, Ma- girls and boys imder the dir^on bry McCrary, Jcdmnie Nabors, Har-; of Miss Norma Hallett. old Pitts, Sterling Pitts, Guy Prater, James lUiodes, Charles Ross, C. B. Sharptop, Jr., John Spratt, Roy Workman. Baptists To Hear Boyd Sunday Prof. B. H. Boyd of the Presbyte rian college faculty Vill occupy the pulpit of the First Baptist church Sunday morning in the absence of the pastor. Rev. W. N. Lrmg, who is attending the Southern Baptist con vention in Birmingham this week. The Baptist Adult union, under the leadership of Rmnbert Truluck, con ducted the mid-wedc prayer services last night. Finals. Planned For MounWille School G>mmencem6nt Exer cises Announced For May 18-22. Goldville Camp Has Good Record Completes Year Without Single Lost Time Accident. The commencement exercises of the Mountville high school will be gin Sunday evening. May 18, at 8 Goldville CCC camp, SCS-20, one of the 64 camps directed by the Soil Conservation service in the South- o’clock, when the baccalaureate ier-iggj^^ completed a year’s work vice will be held in the Mountville Baptist church. Rev. J. H. Byrd, Bap tist minister of Mountville, will de liver the seim(m. On Wednesday evming. May 21, at 8:30 o’clock, the seventh grade grad uates will present a class play, “Gateway To High SchooL” J. Leroy ^arns, county lupezlnteQdeDt of edu- catkM\ will make a short address and award the certificates to the seventh grade graduates. Twenty-three stu dents will receive prmnotion certifi cates to the hiifii schooL Class day exercises for the hi^ school graduates will also be held on the night of May 21. The thirteen members of the graduating class will present a play entitled “Reunion of the Class of 1841.” without a single lost time accident, J. E. King, camp superintendent said yesterday. The camp will be awarded a cer tificate signed by Dr. H. H. Bennett, chief of the Soil Conservation ser vice, in recognition of its achieve ment in the interest of safety. Twenty-<Mie of the 64 soil cons^ vaUon camps in theRiaaChewt completed a single year without a lost-thne accident. Three camps fin ished two successive accidmt-free years. “Safety records are impertant only as a symbol of the real achievement they represent,” Superintendent King explains. “Most of the enrollees are less than 19 years old, and boys are often careless in their work. In per- Action Taken In Short Order On '41 Appropri ation Measure. Ni Goes To House. low . . ... Columbia, May 13.—The $13,483,- mmgham, Ala., distinguished author, | conference committee report lecturer and editor. Farm Women Ask For Trustee Posts Council Wants Women Placed On County School Boards. A farm woman trustee on every school board of trustees was adopted as one of the aims of the Laurens County Council of Farm Women at their annual spring meeting held last week at Haimony church in the up per i>art of file county. The resolu tion was presented by Mrs. L. C. Taylor, chairman of the council’s committee on education, and approv ed by the body, * Mirs. H. L. Williamson, the new president-elect, said following the meeting that the council felt that women are equally as interested in the educational welfare of their chil dren as men and, in many cases, hav^ more time to devote to consideration of the school problems than do the men. She branded as unfair both to the parents and the children the ab sence of women on the boards. A copy of the resolution was to be sent each member of the county board of education, the county legis lative delegation and to the county superintendent of education, Mrs. WiUiamson said. There are only two womm trus tees in the county, according to the records, Mrs. R. A. Knight who suc ceeded her husband to a place on the Mt. Olive board three years ago, and Mrs. W. A. Mooriiead, membw of Joanna MiMBUn'fflTlMdflllB. A F. MARTIN, SR.. DIES AT UURENS On Thursday evening. May 22, at. fonning die field work of the camps 8:30 o’clock, the graduation exercis- they operate tractors, trucks, grad es for the seniors will take place in the school auditorium. Dr. C. C. Norton of Spartanburg, will deliver the literaiy address, llie followiifg ers, axes, saws, and many other tools which are dangerous unless op erated carefully with due regard to the safety of others near /the oper- seniors wiU receive state high school During the afternoon session a dress review was held by the 4-H club girls as a culmination of their Nothing iMToject. Acting as Judges for the contest were Mrs. T. H. Owings and Miss Ida Kate Moody, hovofi su pervisors of the Farm Security ad ministration, who announced the winners as follows: . Blue ribbon group, first-year girls: Doris Coates, MoimtviUe; Mildred Bishop, Poplar SiNringst Nena Bishop, Pedlar Springs; Mary Ann Jennings, State Training school; Wylomi Dris coll, State Training sdxool; Blanch Parsons, Central club. Red rlbb<m groiq), first-yeat girls: Ruby Franklin, Long Bran^; Louise Sun^t, Long Bran^; Ethel Poole, (C^tintied on page sevai) COMMITTBS TO BEDS DHVE TO SBl STOCK FOR MT FAaORY The May meeting of the Chambw of Commerce Was held Tuesday eve ning with the re-elected president. Dr. L. E. Bidio^ presiding, p The meeting was given over to a cemsideration of locating a idiirt fac tory in Clinton, the effort being spon sored by the Clinton-Laurens Cham ber of Commerce. B. K. WoodWidrd, Jr., secretary- treasurer of the Hallmaik Shirt Com pany, Inc., New York, was present and gave a fuR explanation of tiie company’s suhmittad prospectus, which sets forth its financial condi tion, background and future plans. The eompeny, which is weQ estah- UsImkI, manufactures the faaioas 9^* mark, Halkraft, Hallcrael ind BiU- tex ghirts which are dtstrihuted from to Thxas and from |6ori4a to Oregon. After a full preesotstion of pm plan iqr Mr. Woodward end Rresi- dant Bishop, the chib endecaed the proposaliand immed committees in coi^incuon witii tiie iLaisiens or- gn^tion, to launch a drivn for the ssiBng of stodt in the ewporation. Prsddent Bishop, in speaking of the progMaL stated that a full mid eare- fuiiinvndigation had been^made of It. jj-JWiWrt W volume, esc., been received by the Joint Clinton- Lsurens committee \rtiidi has been working on the proposition for the past severs! montlm. The Hallmark Shirt compaffy has an option on the former Stutz-Had- fleld slBc mill building of this dty in which it is proposed to house tiM plant if the entopriee locatee here. The plant. will employ about 100 women and girls, according to its of ficers, with a payroll at the begin* ning of ^ipraKtaatsly |l,goe -per eek. It is planned Presidtnt Bishop statat,^to bigin tike (q;ieration of tbe plant aa aoon as tire stodc can ba sold and the new organizstion plans diplomas: Jack Alexander, Hxigh Bryson. Mary Frances BagwelL Liois Benja min, Lucy Cannon, Dorothy Chap man, Gerald Coates, George Finley, Olive Hazle, William McMahan, Thomas Moore, Richard Watts, Betty Wham. DID YOU KNOW? Safe performance decreases the costs of operation. More work can be accomplished if the enrollees report 100 per cent to their field assign ments instead of some being absent because of injuries. “Beyond the purely material ad vantages of a safety program is the recognizable fact that CCC enrollees are still in the formative stage. If we Laurens, May 13. —A. F. Martin, Sr., 80, retired building contractor, died early Tuesday at his home here, following several months of illness. He was a son of the late James Mar tin and Mary Ann Watkins Martin, members of two well known and in fluential Laurens county families. on the general appropriation bill was adopted tonight by the senate after less than two hours’ consideration. Only One change was made in the bill and that removed an objection raised earlier by Gdveimor Burnet jMaybank, The change eliminated a- provision that would have given the chaiiTnan of the tax commission au thority to name the commission’s employes, but left unchanged the stipulation that the chairman should select the person for the newly- created office of executive assistant at $4,500 a year. The 'house delayed consideration of the bill until 11:05 a.m. tomorrow. The appropriation bill totaled $13,- 483,937, compared with the senate- appit^ed amount of $14,489,309 and house figure of $13,518,325, "nie cur rent money act aggregated $13,054,- 254. Chairman Winchester Smith of the ways and means committee, a con feree, urged the house to take up the report tonight, apparently feeling that final legislative adjournment might then be speeded. Members fa vored a day’s study of the 94-page document, however, and adopt^ a motion of Representative Reid of Greenville to defer discussion until tomorrow. The house gave second reading to its social security committee’s bill to outlaw the unauthorized use of names of public welfare aid recipi ents. Committee Chairman C. H. Gresh am said that federal authorities were demanding this law in all states on the threat of withholding matching funds beginning July 1. Legislators and other state officials could still obtain the names, he said. Also given second readings were m senate bill to authorize a $400,000 tiorraitory to tkr tratWi! it Winthfop college, $100,000 to be a direct ap propriation and $300,000 to come from bonds, and a bill to appropri ate $1,550 to complete the fund for erection of a Spanish war memorial on the State House grounds^ ■4- PRESBYTERIAN YOUTH MEET AT GREENWOOD About one hundred boys and girls _ I from South Carolina Presbytery, in- For aWl5"yearaMr.Martto“had been engaged in the bundling busi ness here until failing health set in more than a year ago. He built many of the beautiful homes and super vised construction of numerous pub lic buildings in Laurens and' else where in the Piedmont section of the state. He was a member of the Bap tist church and possessed fine traits Thornwell Memorial and Firrst Pres byterian church of this city, attended the pioneer conclave held Saturday in the First Presbyterian church of Greenwood. The topic was the year’s theme, “Living As Christians.” Following a picnic lunch at the church, the body divided into groups for a study of worship and world re lations, with Miss Elizabeth Akers of of character. His wife, Mrs. Lucy ,^. Hudgen. Martin, died 39 year, ago.! orphwuMa Jaaehi^ nm in ina lormauva .tala it wa »« “ •>in-ivad by three *>na, ^ itui m tne lormauve stage, ii we _ MArtTn runton- a Vnrri.. luor ' Miss Ann Holloway of Greenwood. can help them learn the “^vantages Martin, Rev. J. J. Hayes of Laurens, the of doing a job_ with safety to them-Waldo ^M^i^ Jf“:^Rev. G. M. Telford of Abbeville, the THAT —Here ii is time buying graduation gifts and folks are still paying their Christmas bills. THAT—National Cotton Week be gins tomorrow, to continue through the 24th, and that there are 14,000,- 000 Americans who depend on cotton for their livelihood. THAT — Money in circulation has gone up $11.11 per perwm in the last yeai^, that according to the treasmy, on ^jiril SO there was $9,070,707,797 of coin and currency in circulation outside the treasury and federali Aiiicn DV nCATU hAtikM, and that the average of cash! B¥ I n selves and their co-workers we willlff’“',°“* Loulee Mar broth- Frank to begiri made an important contribution i four grandchik^n; two a lot of 1 jQ their future value as employees Martin and A. und citizens.” Safe use of tools is a part of woric. instruction, Mr. King adds. Group safety meetings supplement instruc tion in the field. No little credit for the camp’s safety record is due to the camp supervisory personnel, whose job it is to give instruction in Rev. J. A. Flanagan of Whitmire, and Chairman R. C. Long of Greenwood, as leaders. Julia Taylor, daughter of Mrs. George W. Taylor of this city, is Martin, Sr., Laurens. Funeral services were held frtwn the residence Wednesday morning at j . . , 11 o’clock, with Dr. A. B I.Ang«ton [ ^ the conclave group in charge of the rites, which were concluded at the graveside in Chest nut Ridge Baptist church cemetery at the family plot safety practices work. and rtipervise the J. BURKE WILDER Tlia McuritiM to ba oifored f(» aala locally havt htm nfifterad af ra- quirad by law, frtili the cnmtnitikm- ar of Iniuraikea in Columbia. Can- yasMCi who wfilin^ tha driva plan to tall $2l.0t6, pvafarrad and aon- bn atoek. Tha Joint coounittaa working on tha undaAaldng apoka yaatarday in tiw higtkaat tmna o< Mr. Woodward and hia aaaodataa, and of ttia advan- lagaa and opportiibitiaa to ba offlarad Laurwia cou^df tha factory is aa- tahlMjad Bwt. Aa annotmramant to iXim sala of tba stock an advaraa crttiidkm Jbgopgb' tha Chambar of Commaroa. appcAra m looajra papar. for each man, woman and child is $68J9. $ THAT—The annual National Coun cil meating of the Boy Scouts of AmaHca will ba held in WaahingUm on Friday and Saturday of thia wedc; that tha tbama for tha ooo- farence will ba .“Fhyaiealiy Strong, Mentally Awalw afid Morally Straii^t”; that tbara are in tha Unit-, ad States 545 local councils adminis tering movamant, and that th* maattng will ba attaod- ad by 2,000 poblie-qiiritad buaineaa and profaaatoil man because ’of thrir common intarasl in American boyhood. Activa Duty Awaits ROTC Studoiits Naa^ <500 ROTC atodanta, follow ing tbii^ graduatkm naxt montii. to tour South Caroltea collages will ba assigned to ictiva ditity as second liautenants in tiia grmy, Fourtii Corps area headquarters In Atlanta ham an- Douikead. They wUl induda M from Prasby- tmian-coUaga, 270 from Ckmaon, 158 from The Citadel, and 14 from Wof ford. ^ ATTENDING SCOUT MEET R. E. Ferguson leaves this morning for Washington, D. C., for the annual meeting of the National Council of Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Fergu son is president-of the Blue Ridge Board Must Have Present Addresses J. Burke Wilder, y 54, well known {council. Boy Scouts, resident of this city, died suddenly last Friday night at his home on Fer- (j^ison street after being in declining health for several years. Tha laat rites were held from the home Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock with Rev. L. P. McGee bfficlating. Interment followed in Roaemont cemetery. Mr. Wilder waa a native ot North Carolina, tha ton of tha late G. C. ’The local draft board again re quests all employers who have em ployed a regLstrant in the draft age since last Cktober 16th to advise hun that he must furnish his address to the board. ’Those failing to comply with this requirement are classed by the board as delinquents. ItUSIEES RE-mi PRESENT TEACHING STAFF FOR 1MI-42 SESSION The board of trustees of Hunter school district No. 5 in meeting the past weric, re-elected the prcaant teaching staff for tha 1941-42 aes- and Florence HamiUon WUdar. He.gion, it was announced yesterday by had bean a reaident ot thU city for w. E. Monts, recantiy ra-elerted by the past 28 years. Until forced into the board as suparintendent for his retirement by ill health, ha was a seventh year. traveling salesman. His friends herej According to tha siiperintendent. and (lstwdk«r« will regret to laam of his paaaiag. Th deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lou Allen Dillard Wild er; <me son, Gaston C. Wilder of Mc Cormick, and a sister, Mrs. G. C. Perkipson of Knightadale, N. C. MUSICAL CONCERT TONIGHT The voice pupils of Mrs. J. P. Johnston of Woodruff, aasistad by the P. C. tripla trio, will give a recital in the orphanage chapel this evening at eight O’cloek to which tha pofolk is cordlaUy invited. four merabara of the faculty this year did not stand for re-elation: Miss Collette Griffin, Miss Christine Derrick, Miss Alice Gaines and Miss Clara Bowers. Mist Helen Wham of Cowpens, has been elected sixth grade teacher at Florida Street schooL succeeding Miai Derrick. An- nounewnent as to the filling of the other three vacancies will be made later, Mr. Monts stated. The school staffs as announced by the trustaas follow: Htoh Behaal John B. Gentry, Jr., principaL R. P. Wilder,-F. M. King, Miss Irene Hipp, Miss Rosa Mahaffey, R. M. Burts. Jr., Miss Margaret Webb, A. T. Ferguson, Miss fioise Mttler, Miss Jessie Newby, Miss Ada GanibreU. Sam H. Arnold, Joe W. Wray, nerlda Street Seheel Miss Irene Workman, principal,' Miss Lily Yarborough, Miss Caredyn Lane, Miss Nancy Owens, Miss Ag nes Davis, Mias Evelyn Jones, Mias Ella Little McCrary, Mrs. Myrtle Blakely. Mias Elizabeth Boland. Academy Mreet Sehaal J. B. Ouzts, principaL Miss Eliza beth Copeland Miss Mary Johnson. Miss Elizabeth Nelson, Miss Kate Milam, Mrs. J. H. Donnan, Mrs. NnKT D. Workman, Miss Martha Davidson, Miss Odetta Mauney, Miss Nancy Young, Miss Elizabeth Brooks. ProvMsncc Seheel Mrs. H. A. Copeland, principaL Miss Lou Belle Nabors, Miss Beatrice Highsmith, Miss Jane Goodman, Miss Margaret Blakely, Bfiss Macie Devis. t