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7 4 rv V X % \ X * K THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable * ST V. / •¥ If You Don't Read IHE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIX ton, S. C; Thursday, December 22, 1949 Farm Committees Named To Serve County In 1950 CLINTON FACES QUIET CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYSEASON Business Firms and Mills To Close. Crowds of Shoppers Throng Streets. Yuletide Spirit In Evi dence. The streets are crowded as Clin- tonians are doing their last minute shopping today, Friday and Satur day in observance of Christmas. Christmas coming on Sunday, Clinton business will be closed down Monday as employees and employers celebrate the season with a long hoi- ton Curry, and Milton S. Woods iday pointing to a happy observance.! Hunter: Stewart O. Brown, Charles Business firms will reopen Tuesday 1 r. Workman, and Milton H. Burns, morning and will close again bn New j jacks: J. Dial Neighbors, Tan M Year’s Day. the Merchants commit- R a y. and William E. Bell, tee has announced. The city schools closed last Fri day to reopen January 2nd. The or phanage schools closed yesterday and Presbyterian college closed last Friday for the holidays. % The postoffice will be closed all day Monday and no deliveries will be made. The Joanna Cotton Mills company,!.. Joanna, will enjoy a Christmas vaca-; f\ t ' i Youngs: William D. Lomas, Hosea M. Cook, and Albert B. Wingo. H. A. Ropp, of the Production as* ' .r*' At a meeting of delegates at the i Production Marketing Association j office on December 6, Hugh B. Work- ! man, of Clinton, was elected chair- ,man of the PMA County committee j for the year 1950. Grover C. Roper, ’ of Laurens, was elected vice-chair man, and Wallace L. Martin, of Gray Court, was elected the third member of the committee. Others elected according to town ships and in the order of chairman,! i vice-chairman, and regular members for the county committees are as fol lows: ^ —- Cross Hill: Charles, R. Turner, Thomas A. Robinson, and William W. Watkins. Dials: Fred S. Stoddard, Roy Wil- Laurens: John W. Tinsley, Elmore G. Bramlett, and John W. Moore. Scuffletown: William T. Blakely, Craig Hunter, and C. H. Sheppard. Sullivan: W. Fred Hellams, James D. Wasson, and Herbert O. Aber crombie. Waterloo: Joseph B. Odell, Robert L. McPherson, and Chester L. Phil- tion of seven full days for the first time since the beginning of World! War II. President Walter Regnery . ... ~. announced the past week. All oper-' “ a ; k f‘ ln S Association office stated ation will cease with the end of the ! h , at newly elected officials will last shift on Saturday morning, De cember 24, and will be resumed on Monday, January 2. [take office January 1, and serve ithrough the year. President P. S. Bailey of the Clin-, Q f QintOO Jo ton*«NLydia Cotton Mills has an-j^T .. ". .. 7 need that their plants will close Distribute Dividend To Stockholders nounced that their plants will close down at 7 a. m. Saturday, Decem ber 24, and will resume operation at the same time on Tuesday morn ing, December 27. The Hallmark Manufacturing company will close Friday at noon, j and reopen January 2. "Ye*. Indeed! "Virginia, your little Iriends are wrong. They have been af fected by the skepticism of a skeptical age — they do not believe except what they see — they think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. "All minds. Virginia whether they be men's or children's, are little. "In this great universe of ours, man Is a mere insect an ant In his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him. as measured by the intelligence capable ol grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. "Yes. Virginia there is a Santa Gaus. "He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion ex ist. and you know that they abound and give to your liie its highest beauty and joy. Alasl bow dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Gaus! It would be as dreary as U there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no en- )oyment. except in sense and sight The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. "Not believe in Santa Gaus! You might as well not believe, in fairies! "You might get your papa to hire men to watch In aD the chim neys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Gaus. but even U they did not see Santa Gaus coming down, what would that prove? No body sees Santa Gaus. but that is no sign that there is no Santa Gaus — the most real things in the world are those neither chil dren nor men can see. "Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not. but that's no proof that they are not there — nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseeable in the world. "You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, or even the united strength of all the strongest men. that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance. push aside the curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. "Is it all real? — ah. Virginia, in aD this world there is nothing else real and abiding. .... "No Santa Gaus! Thank God! - he Even, and he fives forever — a thousand yearn from now, Virginia, nay. Inn thousand A Uom now. he will coofimm , Tri »(R s President R. P. Hamer of Bank of Clinton, announced yesterday that a dividend of $3.00 per share on the j capital stock will be distributed at The Gwen-Evan Mills had not an- c l° se month to the more nounced their closing schedule'yes- ^ an stockholders of the insti- terday i tut * on - The payment of the dividend The’ Dapper Hosiery Mills will was authorized by the boartFof di close Saturday and reooen Tuesday recto * s a ‘ their December meeting, morning. * 1 and approved by the state bank Christmas cantatas and special board, programs have been presented in . are g ra tif ; ed to pay this div- the churches of the city and com-1 our s.oekholders, Pres- munity, and similar music and ^ 3rri C“ said, wdiich is due to Christmas sermons are planned for,^ e loyaRy of our friends and cus- Christmas l)ay. i tamers, and to the increasing volume Many will spend Christmas out business^ we have received since of the city visiting relatives and *be bank opened in the late fall of friends while others have returned 1 to their homes here lor the holi-. Officers of the bank are: R. P. (jays I Hamer, president, T. E. Addison and Christmas, of course, is the day 1 John T. Young, vice presidents, F. of days for children, the celebration Boland, cashier, Harry McSween, centering around the Christ-Child, assistant cashier, bookkeepers Misses Upon Santa’s annual visit here re- j Margaret Holland and Martha Ram- cently he was given a great wel- a £ e - Board of directors: R- P- Ham- come and reception by the thous- er > T. E. Addison, John T. Young, ands who jammed the streets. jJohn W. Finney, Sr., F. M. Boland, jQ reenwooc j i was aw arded contracts Indications point to a quiet, en- T. H. Copeland, W. W. Harris, W. f or ^e water and sewer work. Di- joyable Christmas for Clinton andjB°y Pitts, J- P- Prather, H. D. Hen this entire community. THE, r Y anc * S. G. Dillard. CHRONICLE wishes for its thous- ' • Ow OWMtar *r • It". V"** O'Hamlam .rot. I. I** N„ Y„» W. "I ami r««M M Saam al ait Klffc frwiWt *oj (A** i «o Santo Clmn Fapa tatK 'll roa ma it m Tka Saa. ifi m ‘ Haam tiU mt the troth—it thtrt • Son’j Claat* Tht jjuii it ta Virginia CHaaloa'l garttmi written a memer- si Seep iprritwat taught by franc* i Church, ttendi rran lode, at a teitomtmt raflrctmg t~o thawiaai taari ol taUk It hat been reprinted hart bacoute it ml*ai% will detent is be readagam All Contracts Let By City For Expansion Program All contracts for the City’s mun icipal expansion program as author ized recently in as special e.eetion have been let to the lowest bidders Mayor L. E. Bishop stated during the past week. The water and sew er expansion and contemplated im- I County Farmers Vote 194.0% for Cotton Quotas In 1950 Lauren* count* farmers voted for 90 per cent parity pri:e support bv a 94.0 per cem majority last Thu.a- day. This majority favored a 1950 cot ton marketing quota, which rre' , ns that cotton growers throughout the ands o! readers a season of joy ^ Ordinance Amended happiness, free of sorrow and anx-1 iety. provements totalled $336,733. country will receive next year 90 Ridlehuber and Company, Inc., of! per ent par ty price suppo-t ; nstead of the 50 cer cent support they would re eive if the quota had been v ted out. Thornwell Dunlap Wins Scholarship Twenty Sears Roebuck tion scholarships each worth were awarded this week to freshmen 1 vision One, which entails pipe work, was for $180,266.50, and Division Two, which includes construction of disposal plants, was for $113,895. I R. D. Cole Manufacturing com pany of Newnan, Ga., °ot the eon- i tract for insta’lat on of a 250,000- gallon elevated water tank, at a con tract price of $39,600. FeLaval Tur- City ordinance recently passed on bine company was awarded the con- making the payment of all taxes on tract for a new pump at a figure of | Founda- • P ersonal property or the owner of $2,972. an automobile, truck or other motor City officials state that it is ex- From the ballots were designated bo v e: 10?3 cast. 962 favorin' 1 the Number 51 CHRISTMAS WEEK IN CLINTON 17 YEARS AGO Items of Interest Then * About Happenings and People You Know. (Issue of The Chronicle. Decem ber 22, 1932). * Miss Emma J. Crawford. 90. die^ Tuesday at the home ©f her nephew. J. Roy Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. J F Bozard, of Greenville, are spending the holiday- with the latter’s parents, ^Ir. and Mrs. H. D. Henry. William Moorhead, meciic*i stu dent at Duke university, is spending | the holidays with his parents. Mr and Mrs W A Moorhead. Miss Mary Howze Dillard of the University of South Carolina spending the holidays with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B Dillard Misses Mary Pinson and Man* . Ella Bailey, students at Limestone | college, are spending the holiday; ! with their parents. [ Misses Redge Peake. Evelyn ; Chambers. Mary Emma Soeake, Ja- 1 mie Little and Beatrice Highsmitn of Lander college, are at home for i the holidays. j Miss Marian Leake of Bennetts- i ville, is spending the holidays witn her siste”. Mrs V. P. Adair. M ss Emily Ferguson lef* veste da. - for Montclair, N. J., to spend Christ- i mas with her aunt. Mrs. L H Jone- Isdac Copeland of Peabody col lege, Nashville, Tenn., is with his J parents, Mr. and Mrs. W D. Cope- . land for the holidays. Miss Mattie L. Copeland of Ware I Shoals is at home, for the holidays | with her parents. Mr and Mrs. John Copeland at Renno. Misses Kaffa Fuller and Odett . Mauney and Dudley Jones, student; at the Charleston Medical college, are spending the holidays at the:: homes here. Miss Sarah Buford of Columbi > , college, is spending the holidays wit \ her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G F Bi - I ford. Misses Jean McKee. Mary Ande - son and William Blakely. Erskin* ! college students, are at home fo • the holidays. Misses Almena Milling and Me- dora Browning, students at Conver.-i ! college, are spending the holidays jat their homes here. , c . T , _ ! Robert Vance of the McCall.e ;ext Saturday. Christmas^Lvc. sch(>ol Chattanooga. Tenn. is spending the Christmas season with- his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B I Vance. Mrs. James P.tts and children are I spending the holidays in Bishopvill- with her parents. Allen and B.U McSween, Frei Oxley, Ned Sprunt and Bailey Wil- i hams are at home from the Darling ton School for Boys. Rome. Ga. for the holidays. James O'Daniel -of Dublin. Ga . and Miss Frances O’Daniel of Rock ingham, N C., are with their par- Ccndielight Service At Lutheran Church On Christmas Eve o at 9:00 p. m., the traditional Cand lelight service will be held at St. John’s Lutheran church, according to an announcement by the pastor, .e Rev. James C. Dickert. This beautifully inspiring service in a setting of hundreds of lighted candles tells in a simple but impres sive way the story of the Nativity. It will consist of the re.iding of ap propriate scripture texts, the sing ing of the familiar hymns and car ols of the season, and a brief mes- age by the pastor. It reaches its Requiring Vehicles To Carry Metal Plate quota as against 61 dissident votes. _Growers :n the state approved ed- high point of insphation and beauty ents. Mr." and Mrs A O’Danle'^or e al marketing quotas on their c ? - each worshipper lights a small the holiiavs by a 46.439 to 3,297 vote Holond To Attend Insurance Meet the holidays. .udividual candle and the whole con- Herman Hunter* of College Park <• ation leaves the church singing \id.. fe spending W holidays wit Toy to the Wor.d, The Lord is his mother. Mrs. Myrtle Hunter ^• on ' e - ! Miss Isabel Witherspoon of Co- The pastor and congregation of lumbia. is spending the holidays, the church extend a cordial welcome with her parents. Mr. and Mrs J H to the public to share this hour ot Witherspoon. /$100,! vehicle to the Town of Clinton, a pected to begin work cn the pro- ^ em.teene prerequisite for the privilege of op- jects early in the new year, majoring in agricultural courses at a. ...l 7. . .r worship on Christmas Eve. Clemson college by Dr. H. ^ P. Coop-! "ty UrniU The ordm: ordinance becomes GIRLS HOME number of R. W. Buland. of th : s city, will be rrong the 200 managers and assist- t managers of the Liberty Li'e In- irmce Comoanv’s combination di- iy• • . — T r»nn Kiwonis Club To ision attending a series of con er- er, dean of the school of a Sri-ul- ^vy**t« wiNTHROP ture -- . I The ordinance has been amend- The Iarge number of g‘ rl s from, rn es on agency management during Included in the list of winners is . stited vecterdav The me- Clinton, Joanna and this community | December at the home offi.e in Thornwell Dunlap, son of Mr. and, , , . f, arrived Tuesday to spend the holi-1 Greenville. Mr. Boland is man ager Mrs. Thornwell Dunlap who reside | ^ ^play^d on all days at their ^oeMlve home . ' the Clinton office. near the city. Thornwell graduated; ^ ^ at the Ibcal h^h school in May past, the wh0 are J on and « a freshman this year at Clem- books Thos( . jn son. group Also listed among the twenty win- ” 1 ’ 0 have P aid , 25c ! or ' he Plf* ntey : ners Is R. T. Hollingsworth Cross Sen^ It^KaVd' ^ Our Big Christmas Edition i The following Winthrop college. , students arrived ye-derday to spen i ’the holidays ag their homes Misses j Sadie Chandler, Virginia Kellers. Li- die Leake. Elsie Little. Ella Little and Cop.e McCrary, Rachel O’Dan iel, Roberta Peay, Ruth Todd. Grace Davis, lone on Hollen, Caroline Mar- The Clinton Kiwanis club, follow- b n and Violette Wheeler irg reve-al years practice, will again' M r - and Mrs. R. H. Hatton move* serve as Santa Claus for the boys and this week to Whitmire where they Act As Santo For Orphanage Family ^i-’s of Thornwell orphanage. Bags will be presented to all the chi’dren containing an assortment READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY EACH WEEK It will pay you. It’* thrifty to shop first !■ this newspaper, In the steree s* prices be- READ THE ADS Owens To Succeed Sadler On Board I With pleasure we present to our licly expressing their thanks and ap- readers*today our annual “Christmas predation to their many friends and ,jj* IT,£ brlst ^ as , 7" 1 ^ i Edition” which has been issued un-^ customers for their patronage, con.fl- pv, • _ n • a > ! der difficulties due to sickness in our dence and fellowship during the year r s m s m 1 »• staff and mechanical trouble. But now drawing to a R. S. Owens, local attorney, has here we are on time djie to the hard wise wish for everyone 365 days o' Bishop-Walker To been named a member of the Lau- work and faithfulness of our em- health and happiness in 1950. .. , . will make their future home A quiet wedding occurred a: __ Fountain Inn Monday when Miss of fruit. They will bear the greeting. ^ va S lor y and David T. Pitts were and will be dis- ma w rna * e on The December meeting of the Am erican Legion auxiliary was held Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Julia Griffin. close tap! .. w W- Watts Davis left this week for faithfulness of our em- health and happiness in 1950. u ^ . . Paris, going with his uncle Dr. L rens county board of education, sue-1 ployees. Today’s paper goes to our sub- “OVC NCW LOCOilOII ' ) s. Fuller, Jr . who has been visitin,' ceeding the late R. E. Sadler of this An unusually large collection of scribers when everybody is busy ♦ ■■ ■' | here and in Laurens, city, who had been a member of attractive “Merry Christmas and with last-minute shopping and prep- Bishop-Walker Phermacy will re- The annual “ladies” night of the the board the past sixteen years. Happy New Year” greetings appear, arations for Christmas. It comes to open about February first. W. M Clinton Kiwams club was he’d Tues- The appointment w-as •made by thf the advertising columns of the you when there will be plenty of Walker said yesterday, in the store day evening at the hotel, with Pre^.- state board of education upon the paper, together with helpful last- i time to read its contents after the room in the hotel block recently va- ident R L Plaxieo, presiding iecommendation of the . county minute Christmas suggestions and rush during the long holiday period rated by Roddy’s Restaurant. j The following students are on the board. (grocery news and prices to help 1 And we would point out that it con- The firm recently suffered a dis- high school honor roll for Novem- Under the present law trustees of Santa. These greetings come to you tains much beautiful and appropri- astrous fire which destroyed practi- ber: Rosa Little Bailey. Mary the Clinton city schools are appoint-! from the City, Chambec of Com- ate Christmas material in addition to cally all of their merchandise and Chambers. Suella Denson. France-; ed by. the county board of educa-• meres, merchants, banks, mills and community news. Don't miss this. fixtures and made it impossible to | Spratt, Roswell Porter. Florence tlon. In addition to Mr. Owens, the leaned other business firms. t Today’s 2*-page edition is one of re-open. In their new location they j Adair, Vivian Parka Adair Rub* board if composed e# R. E. Babb, | These messages, full of good-will the largest we have ever produced will operate a luncheonette in con- Woodruff. James Sloan, Clone Von Rev. J, A Martin, C. K. Wright and and beautiful sentiment are inserted We hope you * 4M —*• w ^ * w 1 — * w — w —•’ J Leroy Burns, all of Laurens *. jby Clinton firms as a moons of pup- will enjoy it Merry neetioo with the business, they have Hollen. Robert McLees, Margaret | Taylor. Margaret Moorhead.