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Volume LV
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, January 7, 1954
Number 1
Construction Totals $3,000,000
In Clinton During Past Year
Review Shows Heavy Building Activity, Industrial,
At Institutions and Elsewhere. New Homes Third
Among Major Expenditures of 1953.
Clinton puts a multi-milhon-dol-•< xpt-nd.tores ut the year,
lar yardstick to its building and ex-] Cont.nucd expansion and devel
pansion accomplishments of the. cpment of the State Training
past year. School near the city found $300,000
A review of new construction! in new buildings and equipment
and major improvements made! placed here during 1953. A hos
during 1953 shows a grand total of I pital-dormitory was constructed for
almost $3,000,000 expended in this $250,000 of this total and an attend
city of just under 8,000. ( ants’ dormitory for $50,000.
Activity touched upon many Among the two other institutions,
phases of the diverse life thafc is i activity was confined to making
Clinton. Industrial expansion and -major improvements around the
city development brought the twoj campuses of Presbyterian Colleg
heaviest expenditures of the year, and Thornwell Orphanage. Th
But there were also major forward college placed approximately $i
strides in the field of housing, work QUO into its further renovations hi
upon Clinton’s institutions and nu- Spemei dormitory and Neville hall,
merous other boosts to the commer- ;,nd the orphanage spent an esti-
cial interests of the city. mated $12,000 on a duplex apart
Natural gas was pumped into ment
Clinton for the first time in 1953. Southern Bell
Mrs. Dunlap Is 2000th Clinton Telephone Customer
This project by the Clinton-New-
herry Natural Gas Authority cost
Clinton alone approximately S ( »00,-
000 as part of the $2,900.0o0 bona
sale, and it brings a new low-eo-
fuel into homes and opens the wav
"o making Clinton more attractive
a.- a location for future industries
The fact that industry thrive -
Clinton was underscored last yeai
by another big stride taker b'v
Clinton Cotton Mills in it.- long-
range expansion program This
plant laid down the city’s
single expenditure of the year to
expand its facilities by 25 per cent
An estimated $1,000,000 was spent
iU increasing the mill's manufactur
ing apace by some 111,800 square
feet and adding another 20,000
square feet to its storage capacity.
Telephone and
Telegraph company added its -hat i
toward better service for the com- 1
n.unity t.y establishing a nev i
group exchange office here and in ;
and.*.onal svv i ' c h b o a ci!
tab m
equipmvi.f
T .< Boptnt.- at Lydia completed'
n < d .. nbrnia, building costing
$49.oO ■ T:.t Ci.nton Livest<x - k
Yard is , rediteii with an expend
tun of $40,000 m 1953. Its spaciou j
cattle i>arn was completed at they
largest start ^ the ' ear for a cost of !
' 000 and an implement cornpam !
added -hort’v thereafter for $15,-|
000
Other progress made on Clinton’s
commerua. front during 1953 in- 1
eluded four new service stations;
new buildings for Colonial Stores,
MORE THIN 1,000
LAW VIOLATORS,
REPORT SHOWS
Sheriff Lowery Gives
Report- of Office for
Post Year Nine Murder
Charges, Drunkenness
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Pictured above is Mrs Thornwell Dunlap accepting a telephone installed in her rural home on December M.
It was the 2000th installation In the southern Bell in t ' Hinton exchange \lso is shown Donald Longshore
installer-repairman, and I. S. Hart. t>lant foreman, fn l..c rear is ( . . t lul'-rwood. ( linton area manager
2000th Telephone for Clinton Installed
in Home of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Dunlap
Residential building, meanwhile, Johnson Brothers Supermarket and
continued at a high rate during Timmerman Motor Company; ex-
1953. The total sum spent in the j pansion a 4 Gwen -Evan Mills,
construction of new homes locally Standard Plywoods and the Clinton
came to approximately $335,000 Paper Box Company; and the re-
and ranks third among the major modeling of -c-vral stores.
PO Receipts Show
Gain For Year
Christmas Seal
Sale Gratifying,
Yef Incomplete
Lt. Ernest C. Hipp
Commanding Officer
USS Wheafear
J. H. Pitts of this city, campaign
chairman for the annual Christmas
Seal Sale of the Laurens county
Tuberculosis Association, reports
gratifying results from the mail
campaign which opened November ’
16, and officially closed December
31. Final totals cannot be given,
he said, until reports of all chair
men are made.
Chairman Pitts has issued an ap-
ppaal to residents of the county to
go back through their mail and look
up their Christmas Seal letters.
“Many persons,” he said, “in the
rush of Christmas shopping didn’t
find time to answer their 1953
Christinas Seal letters. It is hoped
now, he added, that all those per
sons will make an effort to send in
their contributions without delay.”
A rjc.r.vt f Clinton commands
one ol the ‘C'har.e.ston-based mine-
Clinton reached a .significant mile.-tone in its telephone hisforv <>tv !)•
inner 22 when if- 2fMMbn telephone was put into operation hohi
Mi .iM M:.- R T Danl.i - > ‘he Greerr.vixxi hit away,
j C W Underwood, Cl.nt >n nana
I ger of t.he Southern Be’.'. Telephon 1
I company, pointed out that the rapid
(increase m the number of telephone-
i in Clinton is indicative of the growto
j and progress of South Caro!;; i an i
1 the South
Mr. Underwood .-mid lhat the
i Southern Bell purchased the Clinton
j exchange from L. W. Floyd on Q.
} 24, 1902, and that at that time there
i were only telephones in operation.
‘From this beginning, the number in-
crea-txl to aroun 373 on Jan 1, 1920, ! ari d is partly due to the postal rate
549 on Jan. 1, 1940, and 712 in July | increase effective in the year,
of 1945. Since the end of World War 1 •
LI in July of 1945, there has been an '
March of Dimes
Annual Campaign
Underway In County
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e. of ’T ■ N.i'.ional Foun latum
- In ar...’.e Paralysis. He ha.- an
nounced that Clyde Sewanght of
Po-tmaster W D Adair said yes
terday that the city’s post office re
ceipts during 1953 amounted to
$73,203.50 against $67,283.29 for the fU^rer-. v:
year 1952 This is a gain, he said, V( . ar j
of $5,940.21 over the previous year,r"' e cha . rrnan ()f th e chapter, will
lead tne drive in Joanna and Mrs.
Ge< rge McDaniels of Laurens has
them during
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per month. Mileage, Mr McCartney
head the drive again! said, is checked daily
K Waites of Joanna, | Highway deaths were 14
the year. There were eight
deaths of other kinds calling
vestigation.
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Kiwanis Officers
To Be Installed
The first meeting of the Kiwan-
, . , .increase of around 1288 telephones,,
swetper- cjrrt,,..\ on uy in 1 1 or in other words, Mr. Underwood 1 Near Mountville
Medittrranean w.th the U. S Sixtn
Fleet.
ing officer of the USS Wheatear,
was born <ind raised here and still
calls this city his home. The son
of Emset C. and Mae W. Hipp, Lt.
Hipp was graduate! from Clinton
high school in 1937 and entered
Presbyterian college almost imme
diately thereafter.
He earned a B.S. degree from
Presbyterian in 1940 and then en
tered the U. S. Naval Academy in
1910, graduating in 1943 with the
rank of Ensign.
Lt. Hipp served extensively in
the Pacific th-^tre during the war
and earned eight battle stars. He
Was executive officer of both- the
destroyer USS Anthony and the de
stroyer-minesweeper Doyle, the lat
ter recently tranferred tq Charles
ton for its home base.
, , , - -ci Whole serving in Bostpn, Mass.,
is, club for the new year will be, in 19 4 0( ^ t0 the Comandant
held on the evening of January 14 ^ lhe First Naval Dlstrict> he mar _
at Hotel Mary Mi^rove at 7:30. ' ned the f ormer Miss Shirley Ma-
Newly elected officers for lf54,L har ^ Westerfield, Mass. Lt and
beaded by Reese Young, as preai-: Mrs H . pp have one son) Da „ ld w >
dent, will be installed. The newly n 0 m in December, 1951.
elected lieutenant governor of the. Since assuming command of the
Wheatear, a unit of the U. S- At-
or in other words, Mr.
'said, Southern Bell has installed
| more telephones in Clinton in the
Lt. Ernest C Hipp, Jr, command- last eight and one-half years than
were installed during the first
Dunlap Residence
Near Mountville
Destroyed By Fire
b> on appointed chairman of the,
i ' Mother’- March on Polio which will |
he the closing event of the month I
Judge Wasson nas announced the
, yappointment of W W Harris as:
chairman for Cimtim and Mrs.,
Fire of unknown origin complete-,John Spratt as chairman of the.
wt-ic nisuaiuru UUI1..6 w.c >«;>>■ , destroyed the Walter H. Dunlap advance mail campaign. He has 1
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Clinton s population was mcreasin„ Vj-j^ay n^ht. The fire was diseQv- the cause to be held tonight (Thurs- Uode Phillips, one of South Caro-
by about 30 per cent from 1940 untl l j erec j 7 o’clock after the fain- day) at 7 :30 in the directors’ room! lina’s all-time football greats, will
today, the number of telephones . had reDared dinner f 0 r Mr of Bank of Clinton. All who are deliver the^majn address at the an-
serving this area has increased about)
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Trophy Banquet
Here Next Thursday
Phillips To Speak
Dode Phillips, one of South Caro-
Dunlap and his bride who were interested are invited.
180 per cent during the same Period. tumi ^ their weddmg trip "The 1954 March of Dimes will be
nual Jacobs Blocking Trophy ban
. This increase in the number of tel
ephones, coupled with the tremen
dous increase in requirements for
long distance service, has brought
about a heavy rise in local and long
distance calls, Mr. Underwood stated,
as he pointed out that the Clinton
buet honoring the four best block
ers in the South her* on Jan. 14.
Announcement of these final ar
rangements was made by brothers
Mr. Dunlap's mother, Mrs Annie man Wasson stated. He explained William and Hugh Jacobs of this
• * " - . 1 city. The banquet-
They arrived just in time to see !he most important campaign the
the house fall in, leaving only two National Foundation for Infantile
standing chimneys. Paralysis has ever conducted, Ch ur-
division, David J. Watson of Clem-
son, will be present and have
charge of the installation, with a
full attendance requested.
A meeting of the board of direc
tors will be held this evening at
7:30 in the college library building.
lantic Fleet Mine Force, in July,
1952, Lt. Hrpp has guided his ship
on extensive cruises to the Cari-
bean, Quebec and currently to the
many ports in the Mediterranean.
Dunlap, was at home at the time, lhat after 15 years of effort, scion-', cu y ine oanquet—»Ug*d in hoo-
her son, John P. Dunlap, and Mrs. fists working under grants of March | ° t f , ^ b ^ st ^dividual blocker in
Eugene Stewart, her daughter and of Dimes money have developed a i ^ ^ ( - ar °h na and m the Atlantic
“operatori* handle an average oi | husband and child, of Fountain Inn. vaccine against polio which is to be j '~ oa : sl ' Southern and Southeastern
around 10,400 local calls per day and, Mrs. Sarah Martin who lives with tried out .n 200 counties across the con fo re nces—wd! he held as usual
around 700 long distance calls every her mother at the home place, haa nation this year . in . the Pr ^byterian college dining
day. , gone to Greenville. 1 “If th.-. vaccine is as -ucces.-'ui as
. ~ ^ ’ "Mrs. Dunlap and the other occu-, vur medical scientists believe it will
BarrOnS Qn Guided pants escaped unharmed but most be, victory . over potto should be a
Tour In Scotland
of the furniture and contents were reality within a few years, Judge
lost.
Wasson said. "This means that every
citizen should support the March of
Dimes to the utmost this year, so as
to provide the funds needed in
Chronicle Advs Are
All-Important To You
Fhe- advertising columns cf
IE CHRONICLE e?ch
rry important litkl helpftil
vertising “news” from local
siness firms. They tell you
latest prices and values in
jcerles, meats, clothing, dry
ods, automobiles and all
es of merchandise. They
Ip you in supplying the
Ily needs of your family
d home.
Shop in THE CHRONICLE
st. Newspaper advertising
all important to the buying
blic. It does not hang on
2 air ... it is not brief
adlines here or there with a
>mentary interest. Advs
ve an important local value
you. They help you to buy
ill and save. Don’t over-
>k them.
Dr. Salter Receives
Release, To Return Here
1 Dr. A D Salter will be released
|Yrorp active duty in the naval re-
rve as a lieutenant, dental corps,
week and will return to his
e h^rt Friday.
Dr. Salter Will resume the prac
tice of dentistry at his office Mon
day, which has been closed since he
entered service m August. First
stationed at 'Parris Island, he had
recently been transferred to the
Naval Air Base, Memphis, Tenn.
RITES AT LAKE CITY
Rites for DuPont Young, brother-
in-law of Mrs. Eric Bames, were
held Sunday morning at Lake City
Methodist church.
Mr. Young, a prominent farmer
and business man of Lake City,
with Mr. Bames, was injured in a
car wreck in Rock Hill on Decern
The Rev and Mrs. Earl P. Bar- Changes In High
run, who are spend mg some tune c . , c i 3
in Glasgow, Scotland, where the SchOOl Faculty rying put t>ur fight against this crip-
former is studying, were on a guid- ♦ 1 pling disease to a speedy and sac
t'd tour in Eprope during fhe holi ! Several changes have been made tessful conclusion’’
days. in the Clinton high school faculty Contributions to the drive will^go
Mrs. Barron, the former Miss for the second semester, according ;or research, patient cure, aid*, to
Mona Blakely, in a letter to her to in announcement by W R. And- polio epidemic, areas and the new
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Blake- enson, superintendent of Laurens polio prevention program,
ly, told of their trip from Glasgow County School District No. 56. In the coming year, $26,500,000
to London and Paris. The tour in- Miss Betty Skinner, former typ- v:L be needed * > carry out ’he pre
cluded Geneva, Milan, where they mg teacher, will replace Miss Ka- ventior. program. $7,500,000 for the
saw the original “Last Supper”, trine Martin, secretary, who re- nution-\\;de Lt'.d teof the new
painted by Leonardo De Vinci, and signed at the time of her marriage, polio \accine and $19 000 000 for
M iss Billie Griggs, who will the purchase' of gamma globulin
graduate from Newberry college at for Use m epidemic areas.
the Milan Cathedral; Venice, Rome,
where they walked along the Ap-
pian Way, Naples and Nice.
Four Greenville AAA
Groups To Hold Open Meet
The four AAA groups of Green- Griggs’ graduation
ville are sponsoring an open meet-
the end of this semester, will ac
cent the* position in February left
vacant by Miss Skinner’s change.
Mrs Ed. Campbell is substitute
teacher for typing until Miss
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
HONOR ROLL
Start the new year right by hav-
' into
vour home for 52 weeks of 1954,
You will enjoy it, and nowhere can
Mrs. Alex Crawford of Joanna,
mg Friday night, February 5, at 8 succeeds the late E. Clayte Young mg THE CHRONICLE come
p. m. in the Greenville county of- as science teacher,
fice building auditorium (next to In the music department Mrs
the Poinsett Hotel on South main Caldwell Henderson has accepted you get so much fur so little—the
street.) the work of Mxs James Von Hoi- cost is less than 5c a week. All sub-
“Lefty H.” will be the speaker, ten- who has resigned scnptions payable in advance.
"Lefty” is a prominent former law- Mrs Creswell Fleming of Lau- Welcome and thanks to t^gse
ver . at one time county prose- rens . is substituting in the mathe-.our Honor Roll this week -■*
cuting attorney . . . later a special matics department because of the
assistant attorney general of his illness of Miss Eloise Miller, who
state . . . former State Commander expects to resume her position at
of the American Legion . . a staf! fhe beginning of the second semes-
member of the Natfonal Committee ter January 18.
DINNER-MEEtu'
hall.
This marks the first vear for the
newly formed Atlantic Coast Con
ference, and it shares a double wfti
ner in University of South Caro
lina fullback Bill Workman. Work
man was voted the be*st blocker "f
1953 in South Carolina as well as
L ’ ;jr ' i the conference. Only once before
in the history of the trophies nu-
there been a double winner
Crawford Mims, All - America
guard from the University of Miss
issippi, will recene the Sotheasf-
ci n Conference award And thv
Southern Conference trophv w. 1 : g >
to Fullback Tommy Allman >•’
West Virginia's Sugar Bov.! eleven
A full program is being planned
for the occasion, and among the
banquet guests will be leading
sports figures and sports wr.ters of
this section Phillips, the principal
speaktr, i.- widely known on the
banquet circuit for his after dmn* ■
addresser, but his greatest recogm
Don still centers around the grid
iron legend he built at Erskine a-
a star football player.
The* two - Jacobs brothers, W i
ham and Hugh, give the blocking
trophies- each >e*ar as a me'morial t »
their father, the late Dr. William P
Jacobs, II Dr Jacobs inaugurated
the idea back in 1928 and sponsored
it annually himself until his death
in 1948.
on
POSEY DAVIS,
DAVID MILLER,
r v City •
on Alcoholism ... at present Indus
trial Consultant, Yale University
NG TONIGHT
mter ro Alconoi studies. Copeland-Davidson Post No.
The Greenville groups extend an will hav£ a dinner-meeting tonight
invitation to anyone interested in at 8 00 p m. at the Legion Home
the problem of alcoholism. Plates will be $1.25 per person.
ber 26 Friends of Mr. Bames willjcepter fo Alcohol Studies. Copeland-Davidson Post No. 56
be glad to know he is recovering
from injuries and was able to at
tend the services.
LAWRENCE HARRIS,
c-o PM, San Francisco
MRS. S. A. MODE.
Joanna
CAPT HARRY BOUCK,
c-o PM, New York
MISS ELOISE MILLER,
Pauline
Young People To
Hold Lauens Meet
The Baptist Associations! Young
People's meeting will be held Fro
day night, January 8, at 7 3U p m. .
at the Laurens Second Bapt:- 1
citurch. All young people, then-
counsellors and Training Union Di
rectors in all Baptist churches are
invited.