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- I ¥ - THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable V If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News f ■ ,. i— — B ^ Volume XLVIII % - . Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 8, 1948 ' - % Number 28 a -• X *• teams puying FAST BALL IN MID-STATE LOOP Brandon and Mills Mill Lead In Close Standing. All-Star Game Here Last Night. Eisenhower Says Could Not Accept 'Any' Nomination New York, July 6. — Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, just when a draft- ike-for-president movement was be ginning to gather important steam in the ranks of the Democratic party, ! said Monday ngiht that he "could not accept nomination for any public of fice or participate in partisan politi cal contests.” In a memorandum written to his Brandon’s Bombers of Woodruff representative for release to chalked up their third straight v ic-, ne Y s P a P en " en - E u ls « nhow f r , re P e f ted tory over arch and intl-a-city rival,! a statement . t ^ lch he ^ last Jan- Mills Mill, on Monday night to boost ^ in withdrawing himself from their Mid-State league lead to two presidential picture, and a half games. Spec Padget pitch- Jt said in part, “I will not, at this ed a six-hitter to win for his team, time, identify myself with any po- 1 3-0. , litical party and could not accept I Harold Dunn pitched no-hit ball non ? inati o n , for ^ Public office or j for seven innings Monday night and! Pf^^P 3 * 6 in P artisan political con then coasted in with a three-hitter to spark Laurens in an 8-0 victory YOUNG CLINTON CITIZENS ;tests. The General’s statement was is- over Riverdale. Landon Shelton, themed as prominent Democratic party Cooperative Credit Grows With Farmers, Conference Reports Show Rex Lanford, secretary-treasurer I of the Clinton Production Credit as sociation, and J. T. McCrackin of Newberry. J. F. Hawkins pf Ne>v^ i berry, Wallace L. Martin o_f ..Gray Court, Lawrence F. Davis J. R. [Crawford of Clinton, have returned •from a group confenwice of the 22 Production C r e d>d associations in South Carpiimj/neld at Charleston June 29 ancL'SO. Accordrhg to Mr. Lanford, the pro- ncluded a panel discussion of DEMOCRATIC PARTY MOVES INTO I94S PLATFORM BATTLE Leaders Facing Hectic Job of Preparing Docu ment for Philadelphia Convention. Washington, July 5. — The Dem*r=- cratic party moved Monday into what prom-ises to be one of the most policies and an open^iorum on ^ eL -^ lc periods of its battle-scarred >|eneral topics and legal matters. Ju- 'history ' / I 1 i fvr* W Qr» o icr r\ t*oc t/-ton t r\f tho This week a new fight, the battle [ granvdncludi credit policic of the 1948 plaform, starts at Philu- ftgures across the country crawled aboard an Ike-for-president band wagon that looked as if it might end with his being drafted as the party _ . _ nominee at the convention opening Ralph Harbin, the Brandon Brave ! M da : Philadelnhia of Greenville, blasted a home run and The ^ from president Truman toj 105 ArrCStS Mode the wartime Allied commander id ’ p v fjfv Pnlirp chief took on major proportions Sun-I D Y ^- ,r y rONCe Down at Gpldville Hoot Whitmore,:day when New Jersey Democratic! Month of June the Newberry college star, turned in political boss Frank Hague came out Furman luminary, collected a home run and a single. Tuesday night Laurens won over Brandon, 8 to 5, in a play-off game. a single to lead his team to victory over the league leaders Top row, left to right: Carroll Barker, Sara Ray, and Georgia Young Bottom row: Rebecca Kirby, Lois Marie Haselden, and Bobby Jordan. lian*H. Scarborough, president of the Production Credit corporation, of Co- i lumbia, keynoted the conference in ... . . , Q el Pbia. A resolutions committee i an address in which he emphasized . . . ... . ,,, th* growing importance of cooper- 7 rk »" T'v . T ative credit to South Carolina farm- n ' s<ia), -,. f,ve da),! b « (or » ,h ' I i , „ 0 convention opens. ers and stockmen. In 194 ( 9,118 [members obtained loans amounting: cent ^ r °f the platform fight ^ to $10,422,000. Wil1 b* the question of Civil Right-i. Dr. George H. W’llds, distinguished ^ n 8 r y disiagreement over that prob- Mrs. Hugh Ray, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Young, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Kirby, Mr. and Mrs. J. K.Haselden, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jordan a masterful four-hit pitching job to win for the Joanna Hornets, 9 to 0, over Clinton Mills. Bill Ray Kenne dy, Pete Metrus and Whitmore hit homers to for Eisenhow r er. Parents of the children are: Mr. and Mrs. Marcell Barker, Mr. and plant breeder of Hartsville, told the lem 1S one the reasons for the cur- conference that the advancement rent fast-moving drive to draft Gen. made in agriculture in South Caro-1 p wi i>b‘ ^ Eisenhower as the party’* llina is due to a great extent to the ’ candlf,ate i sponsors of the five-acre cotton con-' So it’s an important fight and it 'test which has been conducted by the i shows every sign of being a fierce Clerhson College extension service one. since 1926. Also, he said, much credit j The preliminary uproar over the is due the Farm "Credit Associations platform s Civil Rights plank has , i for making available a farm type been so furious that students of „ credit to the farmers, and the experi- American history can’t help think- Executive Committee To Consider State Rules At Meet Today The.report of the city police de-, Enrollment by 18-year-olds hit own 5-star stationery to a hastliy^y the OTOUnted t0 $1 . 58 f 75 ^ V nsldered a , a special <<«««. terW«.t»n and market,ng form.' Then, as now. most „f 'he highlight Joannas 14-hit assembled group of newspapermen. Ac ♦’ r — Certainly attack on two Clinton hurlers. All-Star Game Last Night group 1 In : that Harron- .. , , , , T * r\ - j a lot of credit must also, fury came from the South it Eisenhower said he knew 1 As , 4 f re P°/ ted f ^ ach the meeting of the Laurens County Dem- be given to th e farmers themselves The 1860 sTran was the Demi- n, r-isennower sam ne Knew greatest number of arrests, 56, were ocratic Executive committee at 10 .f nr ,h P ir nnt .• . ^ P d n , ... Iarron ' ha d been overburdened for drunkenness, for which fines of o'clock this morning (Thursday) at 1 tice manv f th d h d " vra ’ v ri 4 los one The Two power-laden all-star clubs, with innumerable queries concerning $68 4. 5 5 were collected and 183 days the court house in Laurens. tice many of ihese ideas, he ,d,d. :; :e ex.ension of slavery mt > new representing the cream of the crop of my intentions in regard to the cur- g4ven in recorder’s court. Four ar- James P sloan of this citv cha ir-' A . ' , * , u Bef ° re lt ende<1 ’ the pai ly players in the Mid-State and Central ren tpohtical situation.” rests were made for d rivmit under J ameshv bioan, or tnis city.cnair 1 AurtlOfl So C Of had broken a P arl with a historic Carolina leagues were scheduled td! The general then pointed out that tS influence of liquor w h fines of man ’ Called th ^ special sessi ° n to ^ ^ .J l. o. . . 'biash.. This opened the way for the clash here last night at the Clinton his "decisions and earnest convic- $5l6 00 Yi™ °ur position on enrollment by, Blalock election of the first Republican pres.- Mills park in the second annual Mid-, tions” concerning his connections; F _ r 1 18 -y ear ‘ 0l< h> and to take such ac '[p . . i -i-j dent, a man named Lincoln Central all-star game. with any political contest this year hShting, » persons were ar- tion as is deemed appropriate Property July I / The i 860 convention met in It was stated last meht that a n lhad been outlined in his letter of last i9 eSted i’ Cd i W a aPOr l S ’ " Mr - Sloan said at a " ieetin S of s °me, ' . | Charleston, S. C In that dark and over-flow crowd of ?000 was exoect- Januar y and that he sti11 adhered to 2 ’ vlolatin « tbe h ^ or law - ^ drunk - committeemen with State Chairman A big land auction saie at Goldville om.nous year the nation was divid- e^t^ s^e Se tMni batTle them - ' ’ enness, 56; disorderly conduct 12; W. P. Baskin last Friday he would is announced for Saturday, July 17,i e d into several points of view on classk The seaUn^caicitv of the He add ^ that he was “prcxfoundl>- dnvi . ng . under , the influence of ^tox- recommend that the committee re-, by the Southern States Realty com-|siavery. Northern abolitionists want- D^k Ld been enSfledtv the addk' by the renewed suggestion, 4; s P €edm « and reckless dr \ v - scind its recent action in permitting pany of Spartanburg an old expen- e d ;u wipe it out wherever it existed. Er SLStirJ; that I could satisfactorily fill high 'mg, 1; operating autos without 1- enrollme_n and voting bjr tion of bleachers from Presbyterian college. - Games Today (Thursday): Laurens at .grandon. — Joanna at Riverdale. Mills Mill at Clinton. Saturday: Brandon at Laurens. : - Riverdale .at Joanna. Clinton at Mills Mill. How They Stand (Games Through Saturday) ' - I * ^ ww ‘ t- 1 '- * ^ ^ vvii^iCVCl AC C \ is nr i _ _ persons pn- enced auction organization since 1919.1 Aijrahahi Lincoln, an Illinois Re public office” cense, 5; damaging private or public der 21. Otherwise, the chairman indi-t The sale will begin at 10 a.m a _at j pohLvaii, disagreed He warned only His statement immediately touched' prope !; ty ’„ 6; i pvest i gatl0n ° r suspi ' cated the committee probably would which rime Wgialock estate sub-; t0 keep slavery- from spreading into r iuhilant rpartinn fmm T,., I clon - 7: aU other offenses. 2. , ^tand-rtast in^-its determination to divisioTTwIITbe sold for the high ddl-lnew states and territories [ofLiubilant ‘reaction from .pro-Tru-, . man forces ancl leaders of the draft- No charges f or violating parking flout certain state rules which com-1 lar by the heirs. The property has Eisenhower movement themselves' lawS Were made during 1116 month. ( mitteemen believe to be illegal. The been sub-divided into a number of ! admitted that it had brought the' 225 days we f e given law violators in , committee is keeping books open un- business lots, home sites and small President again to the front as the^® rfecorder s court. , til July 26, permitting Negroes to en-, acreage tracts. Electricity is available chief prospect for the Democratic nomination. Brandon ... .... 18 9 .667 Mills Mill . 17 11- .630 Clinton .... . ..♦ ; i4 14 .500| Laurens ... 14 14 .500 Joanna 12 15 .444 1 Riverdale 9 17 .346 Handsome New Post Office Building Opened At Goldville Randel X. Cleland Passes At Hospital roll and plans to use the 1946 voter's and most of the lots have water and not. Stephen A. Douglas, an IlUnoi, Democrat, took- another view: Leave it up to the people in each new ter ritory whether they got slavery or The handsome new post office * wo Randel X. Cleland, 80, well-known [farmer of the Mountville section of [Laurens county, died Sunday after- inoon at Hays hospital here after a weeks’ illness. He was a na- But Southern Democrats dertand- oath instead of the lengthy one sewerage available due to the coop- adopted by the 1948 state-eon vention.'eration of the Joanna Cotton Mills e d that slavery be permitted" n all * jeompany. ; areas At Charleston a major- The Property is located across the )ty of the resolutions committee j highway from the Joanna mills and [ brought forth a platform on;, n.rik> Chapman Again Heads Local* Legion Post Bailey Family Makes Gift To lia Mills School offers desirable building sites to those thafview • who may. desire to build and reside; However, a savage debate was.held ■ m that community. on convention floor—just as * i A band will furnish music for the convention debate postal department by the Joanna Cot- ^ he late Charles S. and Luinda Tegion^for^a fourth ® n away dur:ng the sale Interested week- Grimes Cleland. He was a member g „" .. parties are invited to inspect the beaten. R. Pope Chapman has been unani- ously reelected commander Luinda C°P e I and "Bavidson Post No. 20 of ton Mills company has been complet-; . , ^ ed and is now being occupied. [of the Mountvilfc Baptist church, and The postmaster, Mrs. D. M. Carr, was never married. . . moved last week from a small wood-!,, H e e survived by^ two brothers Lydia Mills School ien building near the Joanna Mercan- ^bitmire and A. A. CJeland ^ tile company into the enlarged quar-[°^ I^wberry, tw’o sisters, Mrs. Thom- In the school expansion program , ters which are adequate to handle the , a f Ha i| 0 " of „^i gh , Poi . nt f C ’’ ^r d which is now . underway in Hunter business of the office. , M ^ s ^ y Cleland of A f la , r \ ta ’ Ga ’ school district the officials of Lydia 1 The new building is 60 feet long Funeral services were held Mon- Mills were very anxious that a large and 30 feet wide, has tile floors, over Civil Right:, held at Philadelphia next and the majority report was Mr. Ct,apm V .n er h“ held “me ^ ,h * conv ' n,i “" .nger.than any predecessor. be fo ^ d on th,.'p ro p e P l3 , A luma> w,th Douglas and adopted a plat- day afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at the specific lunch room be included in the pro- steam heat and other conveniences!. at T he B Rev. wire" Maddln \t^an^Wy 6 ^ , ^ Hiflsdale, Illinois Since it would cost more than The equipment consists of the new consecutive term. War I, office longer ^than any predecessor. Other officers are B F Wingard tk ne P ro P e ‘[form which avoided any first vife commander; Edward LV t.on W.U b^LTd* m aUC ; d «f rl “ ion »" ^vory. enport, second vice commander; Torn co i umnc 0 f . )da v’ s yarje.r- ® r l3ing f ThiS act:o ^ caused the delegates vi.o tolumn - 0 * ‘Oday s paper. from seven Southern states to walk [ out. and the convention adjourned in ! ct*(i#Usion. [ (Some of the Southern delegate., have treatened to walk ou"."of the ; Philadelphia convention, too, but no exodus as that of 1860 seems Burnette, third vice commander; Mac B. Hipp, Jr., adjutant and finance of ficer; W. S. Horne, assistant adjutant Regnery Reunion ing program at Providence school, combination locks are provided, with Da !. is, r ?' ^ a ? lu ® 1 , Gle " , Win ’ mem b e - hl P chairman. Supt. W. R. Anderson said yesterday, ample work space and equipment in[^barles Wallace and William Illinois, and in Philadelphia, Pa. The trustees and administration of the schools are deeply grateful to the members of the Bailey family the,rear. Mrs. Carr has two full-time assist-! ants in the office, Eugene Craven and who have so generously made this &iss Mary Kate Carr, addition to the school possible, they said. It will mean much to the munity, they said. City Observed Holiday Monday New Patrolmen Graduated Last Week 1 Mill Employees Enjoying Vacation The J. B. Harts To Move To Goldville Employees of the Clinton and Wlll ’ move \ 0 Go ldville during the ieturn Sunda >- Lydia Cotton Mills are enjoying a week’s vacation. The mills will re sume operations Saturday morning. — —,, The Joanna Cottoh Mills company Craven of Goldville, and David A. is closed down for the week for their bead „ residence recently vacated, and Reighley of Laurens, were among the employees. The mills will resume w bich is now being painted and ren- new highway patrolmen to be gradu- ©Derations Monday morning. ovated prior to their moving in the tated last week following a three- Willis T. Curry of this city, Isaac Clinton was literally closed w . , . , , - - Monday in observance of Independ-,^ ! g |- ad “- operations Monday morning. ence Day. Stores and business houses were month patrol school, held at the Area ATTENDS DRIVER COURSE *'*«*'-*‘^ "V V'* , ¥ V nlace in' th.* . m • .i .. , Trade school at the Capital City air- 1 James C. Pace, local state highway company of which Mr. Hart was re- bot * k ®£ per a £ d erit ered upon his ^ ’ • oriJ l art,K1 • act -‘ rwrf 'ru-. I. ^ r. n centlv elected treasurer and a mem- work this week. , ^eiauonj,. 1860 Democrats met again at imore. Five more Southern ,.. . ^Slales-.walked out.—The delegationx - June 30tT> was the 45th wedding that* remained nominated ' Douglas anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. for President. Regnery, parents of Mr. Regnery. j The delegations that bolted held The Regnerys’ four sons, one daugh- their own convention at Richmond " 1 —• ter and 19 grandchildren gathered at 1 and nominated John C. Brecken- Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hart and chil- HinsdaI e for the special occasion and ridge of Kentucky dren, Carol, Lillian and Katherine, ^ b ® Regnerys will lh;s party crack-up handed the brand-new Republican , party tho election on a platter after 60 years ;tf almost unbrolten Democratic rule Today there is no slavery issue and the Civil’ War of 1861-1865 [rumbling far back in the erns of history. ___ ■ But the Civil Rights fight is like the slavery issue in that it take> summer where they will make their home. Hunter Now With The Harts will occupy the Moor- 1 _ ^ v i _ _ . • 1 :ad.residence recently vacated, and Joanna »VierCanriie V-O. John H. Hunter, of this city, has next few weeks. The residence is the accepted a position with the Joanna property of the Joanna Cotton Mills Mercantile company, Goldville, as i> coo ca\ kS. f c 0 I ir ^ mth Jfa n ^ a ! P° rt in Lexington county. The course paWl officer," and Gaines ^ Boone', cently elected treasurer and a mem- . 1 rtKrv. »♦ ^ *** LVJli LUUIIIJT. A 11C LUUi pdLTUi UlUCei, dllU O ell II W. JDUUI1C, 7 ^ . 7 ' the city ' included two weeks of actual road a Clinton teacher, attended the driver ber of the board of directors. work. 1 No new Clinton area for assignment. Mr. Hunter until recently was con- ^hats it all about’.’ The Harts plan to sell their home nert ' d wi,h *»? N Pres,dt, ' t Trum '* n «"• » ^education and training course given, The Harts plan to sell their home ‘ l ‘‘^ '“"a “7 to congress Last Febnlarv^ S a 5 r r.°. 1 T. a .".™L? nt ,0 th 'll coMe **- R0ck Hi "’ ;iune ?"„ W ,t‘ nU i„ S ‘ reet t0 He had announced that he would'bc eomprehens.ve C.»,i R.ghU Clinton Boys Attend Boys State 1 “ , *. ^ Three Clinton boys, Ted Mears, MlS. MOOfnead tlOSteSS Bobby Westmoreland and Don Wild- r er, attended the Palmetto Boy’s State ' 0r JOOnna Community held in Columbia the past week, i . T ~ They were sent by the local Ameri- 1 . w - A - Moorhead moved dur- can Legion, Kiwanis and Exchange ! ng tram ber former home c j ubs in Goldville into an apartment in the large new apartment house recently completed by the Joanna Cotton Mills company. Mrs. Moorhead will retain her resi dence in the Joanna community where sK>TS how hostess at the. Jo anna clubhouse, succeeding the late Miss Blanche Durgin. 21-25. from the city. 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We take your rinessages directly into the homes of the heart of your business—your potential customers—where they are read at leisure through the week by all members of the family. 1 ' t There Is No Substitute For NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING connected with a Rock Hill firm but I aws ” said. "We must correct changed his plans during the week t * le reinair Nng imperfections in our when he joined the Goldville firm. practice, of Democracy.’’ Many Souehtrn oubhe men raised jebjeetions to. that program In fact, .they raised the roof. *; They accused the President of seeking only to please Northern T ^ D ,T7^Tr - , Negr 9 Voters. They said such laws L. C. Barksdale, of Laurens, is the are unconstitutional, and viola’e the newly elected president of ihe Lake- principle of states’ rights. Barksdale Heads Lakeside Club side country club for the coming year. Mac Adair, of this city, is vice- president. and d. P. Cook, of Laurens, secretary-treasurer. Directors in ad dition to the officers are C. C Hough, Dr. L. L. Long arid W. T. Bolt, of Laurens, and Fred Oxley of this city. Now they wafit -to keep .T Civil Rights program oiit of the 1948 p!at- >rm. Many of them, wanting to keep Mr. Truman out of the White House, are helping push the fast- moving—Eisenhower bandwagon. 1 ' ---- * ' _ . Patte Receives Degree Doctor of Theology Brig. Gen. Godfrey _ At Fort Jackson The Rev Edouard Patte, professor • I of sociology at Presbyterian college. Brigadier General. Ansel B. God- has .been conferred the degree of frey is spending two weeks at Fort doctor of theology by the American Jackson, Columbia, for the annual Bible college. He had earned already summer encampment of the 51st ar-| several degrees in literature, theology tillery division of the South Carolina and sociology from the University ol National Guard Geneva. t ’ ■v