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Mrs. Carter Is ‘Career Woman of Year’ Mrs. Grace Connor, president of the Clinton Busi ness and Professional Women’s Club, presents a silver . pitcher to Mrs. K. N. (Eugenia) Carter, judged as Clinton’s Career Woman of the Year.—Photo by Dan Yarborough, Two Pedestrian Deaths Ruled As Accidental Deatha of two pedestrians were ruled accidental by juries in two separate inquests conducted here Tuesday by County Coroner Mar shall Pressley. One inquest jury ruled that William (Billy) Ward, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Ward, came to his death by “mischance and accident” after he was struck by a car January 23. He died the following day. According to testimony by Clin ton City Policeman Allen Sim mon’ Ruben Blackwell, 16, of Clinton, was driver of the car which struck the child on Bailey Street, a block from his home on Jefferson Street. The officer estimated the speed of Black well’s car as approximately 25 miles an hour or less. He testified that the child darted from the sidewalk into the car’s path. The death January 25th of Huey T. Bonds, 27, of Clinton, also was ruled the result of “mis chance and accident.” Bonds was hit by a car on Highway 72 four hours before his death. A-witness, Charles M. Harris of Clinton, testified he was traveling north on the high way when he saw two men walk ing'beside the road. He said he saw the actual impact when Bonds was hit by a northbound car in hard rain. State Highway Patrolman W. G. Gibson testified that the driv er of the car which hit the Vic tim was Charles W. Johnson. Vd 65. — No- 7 Clinton, S.X., TBiirsdoy, February 13, 1964 81 Coses On List .. —■ -; r - Court To Convene in Laurens Monday A one-week term of criminal court will convene in Laurens Monday morning, with Judge T. B. Greneker of Edgefield, resi dent judge of the 11th Circuit, presiding. Panels for the 18-member grand jury to serve for 1964 and petit jurors were announced last w<*k. Facing the court will be a list of 81 cases. Twelve of them will be continued cases to go directly before the court for sentencing or trial. Sixty-nine new cases will go before the grand jury for re-j" 8 —crime turn of true bills or no bills. Following is the list of cases received by. "Clerk of Court Wal ter E. Dunlap: William E. Bruce, drunk driv ing (2nd offense); Bobby Lewis Gregory, violation liquor law; William James Bell, pointing fire arm; Ross David Starnes, drunk driving.(2nd); Johnnie B. Valen tine, non-support; Thomas Ed ward SatterwMte, drunk driving (3rd); Joe Lewis Morgan, store breaking and larceny; Fitch Lee Morgan, storebreaking and lar ceny. Connie Griffin, assault and battery; James W. Dendy, ob taining money under false pre tenses; William Andrew Chap man, drunk driving (2nd); Tal- madge Babb (to be sentenced in Feb.) drunk driving (2nd). NEW CASES Richard Virgil Bates, kidnap ping; Kenneth Eugene Palmer, armed robbery; Coax Arnold Sanford, Jr., two charges of housebreaking, safecracking and two charges pf housebreaking and grand larceny; Billy Bragg and James Carson Taylor, house breaking, grand larceny and safe cracking ; also housebreaking and grand larceny; Joseph D. Picklesimer and Rob Long, two charges of housebreaking, safe cracking and grand larceny. Simmie Young, forgery; Wil liam E. Chandler, Jr., worthless check; John Bailey Crowe, J. Patt Hunnicutt, Jr., Homer Waites, James (Cotton) Patrick, housebreaking and grand lar ceny; Adger C. -Shaw, worthless check; John Allen Harris, two charges of reckless homicide; Isaac Boston, Jr. (deceased 1-31- 64), housebreaking and grand larceny; Johnny Earle Blanton, drunk driving (2nd); Gary Cagle, non-support; Ulysses Cunning ham. non-support. Rex Chandler, disposing of property under lein; Roy Lee Wil liams. disposing of property un der lein; Carol Crocker, non- and Felton Bennett, grand lar ceny of auto; John Arthur Smith, Freddie Lee Thompson and Fel ton Bennett, grand larceny of auto; Freddie Lee Thompson, Edward Wilson, Jr. and Felton Bennett, two charges, g r a nd larceny of auto; Edward Wilson, Jr. and Felton Bennett/ grand larceny of auto. Cecil David Rhodes, forgery; John David Satterwhite, peeping tom (three charges), also forg ery; Richard Dennis Hill, house breaking with intent to commit (two charges), also housebreaking and grand lar ceny ; Larry Pilgrim, assault with intent to kill, also breaking without entering with intent to commit a crime, malicious in jury to real property, discharg ing firearms at and into dwelling. Albert McFall Wiggins, ho«*e- brealdng, safecracking and grand larceny; Robert Kohn, non-sup port; John L. Cook, housebreak ing and grand larceny; I. W. Conway, housebreaking and grand larceny; Franklin David Reynolds, housebreaking’ and grand larceny ; James Thompson, assault; Joe C. Moqn, violation liquor law; Lonnie C. Bradbury, drunk driving (3rd); Leroy Gary, using car without owner’s con sent. Charles W. Smallwood, as sault: Sandra Y. Tucker and Charles R. James (Jones), living in adultery; Jerry Cagle, dispos ing of property ui|der lien; Rufus Simpson, housejujeaking and grand larceny; I. W^Conway and Billy Conway, receiving stolen goods; Donald Williams, Nathan iel Dillard, violation liquor law; Furman Anderson, Jr., non-sup port. Wylie Perry Kenningfon, drunk driving v (2nd); Tony Davenport, non-support; Floyd Joseph Mor ton, Jr., Charles David Staggs, grand larceny of auto; Robert C. Beck, disposing of property un der lien: David Ralph Holcombe, James Earl Ellison, grand lar : ceny; Woodrow W. Rice, grand larceny of auto; Ernest Vandiver, forgery. i support; Freddie Lee Thompson; Hall at 3:30. Churcfies Observe - ■ World Day of Prayer JThe annual observance of the World Day of Prayer will be held at Broad Street Methodist Church Friday afternoon at 3:30. The Baptists will have charge of the program and representatives of other churches will participate. There will be a special pro gram for all children in Hodges $8,000 Reported For March of Dimes . More than $8,000 has been col lected for the March of, Dimes in Laurens County, according to Larry Gar of Laurens, chairman of the campaign. Incomplete reports show that the Clinton-Joahna area has rais ed more than $4,300 and the Lau rens area more than $4,000. These figures are approximate, Gar said, with a number of local chairmen still to ^report. Laurens County teenagers con tinue to lead the state in funds raised for the March of Dimes, with more than $3,500 reported so far. The Clinton teenagers made $175 profit from Saturday night’s dance at the high school to bring thfcir collections to more than $2200. Iftie last Clinton teen pro ject for the March of Dimes will be on Saturday night when facul ty-varsity basketball games will be staged in the „Clinton High School gym. Chairman Gar requests that all area chairmen re-check and re port all March of Dimes funds as soon as possible, in order to close out a successful campaign that took, place during January. Capf. Robert Howe Joins PC Faculty Capt. Robert H. Howe has joined the Presbyterian College ROTC department as assistant professor of military science, Lt. Col. Richard Ulrich announced today. The new addition came to PC upon completion of the advanced artillery officers’ course at Fort Sill, Okla., and Fort Bliss, Tex. Before that, he had been station ed in Germany for three years (1060-63) with the 3rd Armored Division. His earlier service in cluded a year at the Armor School, Fort Knox, Ky., after two years (1956-57) with the, 1st Arm ored Division at Fort Polk, La. A native of Rock Hill, Capt. Howe received his BS degree from the Citadel as a distinguish- Senator Johnston To Address High School Group Friday A United States Senator will come to Clinton Friday because of the interest of a 15-year-old high school boy in governmental affairs and government leadrs. South Carolina Senator Olin D. Johnston will address the student body of Clinton High School upon the invitation of Butch Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Rice of Joanna. — Butch wrote to the Senator and requested that he speak to the civics class, and in a person-to- person call from the Senator Fri day, he told the youth that he would address the class this com ing Friday from 9:30 to 10:30 on the operation of the legislative branch of the government. However, school officials state that the address will be before the entire student body. The young student first wrote to Senator Johnston last summer asking for information about the honorary citizenship of Sir Win ston Churchill. 1 THOMAS I. STORRS N. C. Banker To Address Kiwanians At Meeting Tonight Clinton Kiwanians will hear an address by Thomas I. Storrs, executive vice-president of the North Carolina National Bank, at the Club’s first February meet ing this Thursday night. He will speak on the European wL^he youth said he received .a Common Market at the 7 p. m. lengthy ‘reply from the senator in the Mary Musgrove and since, he has written sevetal Hotel. Kiwanis President Ben times requesting pamphlets and Hav Hammet wil1 preside, and books containing information tha 1 Rohcr t M. Vance of the program would be.helpful in his civics corn | T, ‘ ltee -introduce the class studies. Writing letters is'his hobby, Butch said. He has a cabinet in his room almost full of com munications with political fig ures. Among his prize posses sions, he said, are letters from the late President John F. Ken nedy. Young Rice said he wrote his first letter to the President about his inaugural address and,, after that, averaged about a let ter a month to the chief execu tive. The boy said he is interested in politics, but is particularly interested “in the Post Office branch of the government.” After he finishes high school, he plans to serve in the Navy, then get a government job. he said. Butch alsD has letters from governors of all 50 states and autographed pictures of many wprld leaders, among them a photograph of the late United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. Mrs. Hayne Workman is teach er of Butch’s history class. Local Institutions To Get Duke Funds Two Clinton institutions and one in Laurens Will share in ap propriations of $1,483,302.36 to aid hospitals and child care in/ stitutions in South Carolina and North Carolina in financing their increasing load of charity wprk. Announcement of the grants were made by trustees of the Duke Endowment. Thomwell Orphanage will re ceive $41,950.93; Bailey Memorial Hospital, $4,616; an^ Laurens' District Hospital, $4,811. Figures released by Thomas L. Perkins, chairman of the Endow ment, show that these appropria tions bring to $36,814,175.36 the contributions made in 39 conse- :S7ha^° 1 „S s ,llnr2?| *<*• Holey To Speak Wednesday Opposed To Bond Issue i ' ' * ■ „> House Members Would Use Surplus Account Direct Distance Dialing To Begin Here March 22 . * Direct distance dialing for long distance call ing will go into effect on March 22 for Clinton. The new method of making long distance calls . will be as easy as calling a friend across town, says D. H. Martin, Southern Bell Telephone man ager. Direct distance calling is a method by which anyone can place a staton-to-station call within the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska. You must know the person’s telpehone number to use “DDD.” However; you can call “informa tion” and secure the number if you do not know it : \ : speaker. Before coming to the North Carolina National Bank in 1930. Storrs had been a vice-president of the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond in charge of the Char lotte branch. He was educated at the University of Virginia and Harvard University, and he serv ed more than five years in the Navy in World War II and the Korean War. • • In his present capacity wi t h NC National, Storrs is in charge of the Greensboro office and supervises the bank's offices in several other cities. He is a mem ber of the faculty of the School of Banking of the South and the! Stonier Graduate School of Bank ing, and he serves as a member of the American Bankers Asso ciation’s Banking and Financial' Research. Committee. Also active in church and com munity affairs, he is president of the United Fupd of Greater j (Reensboro, a member of Greens boro's Commission on Human ^Relations, second vice-president j of the city chamber of commerce and a vestryman in the Holy | Trinity Episcopal Church ed military graduate in 1955 and immediately entered US Army service. He is married and has three children. two states in their charity sen- vices. Additional funds will be allocated at the February m^b- ing of the trustees when hospital applications completed since th^ current appropriations *werr made will be considered. / Marshall I. Pickens, Endow ment secretary and executive director of the H and Orphan sections, said th hospitals are assisted on 'th*] basis of approximately 62 cents a day, for each free day of car^ The funds, based on charity Rimer’s Dealers Here for Meeting Shelton J. Rimer was host Tuesday and Wednesday to a meeting of his dealers from Maryland to Florida for a showing of his “Axalea" mobile homes end the new “Zipper’* models (shown above perked on North Breed Street in of Hotel Mery Musgrove). Rimer has been manufacturing the “Azalea” models for some years at his plant here. Recently he opened a new plant on South Broad Street near the armory for production of the small model “Zipper.” Other models were narked elsewhere for by the deaiers.—Photo by Yar- care in the fiscal year which end* ed Sept. 30, are being distributed to 143 hospitals and 43 child caro institutions in the two states. Hos pitals receive $992,921 of the total and child care institutions $490,- 381.36. Child care institutions used $442,131.43 for institutional care, $24,562.72 for 150 children who are in college, $16,890.05 for 230 children given foster home care, and $6,797.16 to help widowed mothers in the care of 60 children at hqme. .. The Endowment was establish ed 4)y James B. Duke in 1924. Republicans Set Precinct Meets Organization and reorganiza tion meetings of Republican Clubs of all procincte in Laur ens County will be held Feb. 32 at 3 p. m. at the usual precinct polling places unless otherwise specified. County, Chairman Niles Hanna said delegates elected at the pre cinct meetings win convene a Laurens County Republican Con vention on Monday, Mar. S,\a$ tha court house la Laurens. , 't JULES HALEY All Saints Episcopal Church will present its second special preaching service of the Lenten season on Wednesday evening, February 19, at 8:00. - , r The sermon will be delivered by the Reverend Jules Haley, whose subject will be “The Call,” which will have signifi- nce for lay churchmen of all denominations. Mr. Haley is a native of Greenville, and a graduate of The Citadel. After serving through World War II as an artillery officer, he Join- ed the staff of the J. C. Haley Furniture Company of Green ville. In 1960, he entered the School o( Theology at the Uni versity of the South (St. Luke’s), Sewanee, Tenn.j and was ordained to the priesthood in 1963 at the Chapel of the Cross, Columbia, where he now serves as Priest-in-Charge. The Wednesday evening wor ship service will be conducted by the Reverend John Rivers of All, Saints, and the evening lesson from the Gospel accord ing to St. Matthew will be read by R. Michael Turner of the All Saints Vestry. Interested persons of this area are cordially invited to attend this service and the cof fee hour immediately following the service. Trained care will again be provided for young children in the parish house. - • % . i \, . Named Director Lewis Bagwell, manager of radio station WPCC, Clinton, was elected a director for the S. C. Broadcasters Association at the recent state convention in Green ville. Bagwell will represent his district for a two-year term. Council Authorizes Sewer, Water Lines Sewer and water lines will be installed in Bond Street prior to paving next spring, according to action taken by City Council at its February meeting Friday night at city hall. Council approved the award of a contract to Eagle Construction Co. for installation of the sewer line at a cost of $5,600. The water line will be built for approximate ly $4,800. The sewer line is part of a pro posed $200,000 sewerage expan sion program, for which the main sewage stabilization pond and fall line contract wtll be awarded early in the spring. A group of residents of the Clinton Mill community appear ed before council to request that something be done about speeding on streets of the area and motorists disregard of stop signs at intersections. Mayor J. J. Cornwall and council assured the group of strict enforcement there and throughout the city of traffic regulations. Council agreed to buy an ad ditional patrol car for the police department and put the motor cycle novr being used up for sale. Harry McSween reported for the Recreation Commission that Wiimot Shealy has been appoint ed director of recreation, suc ceeding D. S. Templeton, resign ed. McSween stated that several members of the commission had resigned or become inactive and their replacements are needed. The appointments will be made at the next meeting of council. McSween also staled that the boys league park will have to be removed from the Presbyterian College campus because of con templated constniction on the site. He requested that city forces remove lights from the field and set them up on a new site ad joining the Clinton High School athletic field, which will be de veloped for use of the boys lea gues, which this year will not be affiliated with any national or regional boys league. Investigation will be made of the feasibility of construction of a sewer line to serve an area known as Red Line. The request vas made by D. B. Smith, Joe L. Davidson and B. Davidson. Council directed that a 6-inch water main be extended approxi mately 600 feet on Horne Street from N. pwens St., and that a fire hydrant be placed at the corner of N. Owens and Horne st. . ■ -■ The s. -vsion was presided over by Mayor J. J. Cornwall, with ail councilmen present: Boyd Holtzclaw, ward one; S. A. Pitts, ward two; Harry C. Layton, wanj three: L. W. Cooper, ward f6ur: George W. Bagwell, ward five: James C. Craine, ward six. Sgt. Ellis Receives ^ Commendation Medal Sgt. Gayal H. Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ellis of T.ouie 2, Clinton, received the Army Commendation Medal in mid-January while serving with the Department of Maintenance at Fort Rucker, Ala. Sergeant Ellis received the award for his performance of duties during his recenl asign- ment in the 528th Transportation Company in the Canal Zone. _ The sergeant attended Clinton High School, Funds Sought From Whitten Timberlands Columbia—Legislation permit ting Whitten Village of Clinton to keep up to $30,000 to purchase additional lands or for capital improvements. Any funds over that amount would go into the state’s general fund.. • N. > •*' i ' 1 *'n DR. BLANSHARD i Danforth Lecturer Speaks Today And Friday At College Dr. Brand Blanshard, well- known scholar and Danforth lec turer in philosophy, will be on the Presbyterian College campus for a two-day visit this Thursday and Friday. The public is cordially invited to attend all four lectures to be given by this former Rhodes scholar and retired chairman of the Yale University philosophy department. His main lecture is scheduled for Friday at 10:00 a. m. in Belk Auditorium. It will be on the sub ject “The Right and Wrong of Conformity.” Other speaking en gagements for Dr. Blanshard while at Presbyterian College are: *“ Thursday, 12 noon—‘in De fense of Reason,” in Belk 301: Thursday, 7:30 p. m.—“The Life of the Spirit in the Machine Age,” also in Belk 301; and Fri day, 12 noon—“Science and Phil osophy" in Belk Auditorium • Dr. Blanshard’s writings and Ictures have gained him the repu tation as “the phiiosopher’s phil osopher.” He has lectured in this country and abroad. And his two-voldme book, “The Nature of Thought," published ip 1940, was rated as one of fhe ten out standing works on philosophy produced in the United States since 1900. He has produced two new b6oks in the past two years. A native of Ohio, Dr. Bian- shard "holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar and his doctorate from Harvard. He also has studied as, a Guggen heim Fellow. til he can the people at home and see if a real need exists.” At Autograph Party Dr. T. Lawrence Connelly is shown here au ing copies of his book, “Will Success Spoil Jeff at an autograph party held at The Chronkle’a ery Store last Friday afternoon. Standing Conrielly, who, according to Connelly, writer ribbon changer” during the the book, and — still according to most of the manuscript, corrected Connelly is profeasor of history at lege.—Photo by Den Yarborough. Laurens County Senator King Dixon and two members of the House of Representatives are, at odds over how to provide funds to buy road equipment for the county. Senator Dixon introduced a bill which passed the Senate to hold e referendum on the ques tion of issuing $150,000 in bonds, $114,000 of which would b used to purchase road equip ment, $12,000 is earmarked for establishment of a rescue squad, and $23,000 is set aside to enable the county tp partici pate in the proposed technical education program for the Lau rens area. The House delegation held up action on Dixon’s bill after first reading in the House and bad it referred to them for study. At the same time, the House members, Representatives Da vid Taylor and - Marshall Aber crombie, introduced a biR last. Wednesday directing a transfer of $50,000 in county surplus funds so they can be used for purchase of road equipment for th Supervisor’s department. Both solons explained their reasons for seeking the trans fer of the unappropriated sur- funds. * Abercrombie said a surplus of more than $78,00Q was gener ated in the 1963-64 supply bilL He said the House bill fulfills a commitment made to the su pervisor and county -commis sioners. Taylor said Dixon cut $50,000 earmarked for “desperately needed new quipmnt” from the supply bill last year. Taylor - said h« agreed sub sequently to the amendment de* Ring the $50,000, but only after an understanding With the sen ator that the $50,000 for equip ment would be returned to the supervisor if sufficient surplus developed. Taylor Mid the anticipated revenue indicated a ' surplus would develop when the supply bjll was written. ‘ The solon said the $78,000 showed up in an audit and we signed an agreement last fall to introduce legislation provid ing the equipment funds. “I feel that this equipment is much needed .for the continued progress of our county, and I have supported it from the out set. To keep the faitb of the people of our county, this bill was introduced.” Taylor is against the bond is sue, he says, “Because our county is on a sound financial basis. The first impression any one would get is that our coun ty is not solvent. Taylor said he favors a pay- as-you-go policy. “These items proposed by the senator can be financed with curent funds.’’ Taylor forecast a county sur plus of $100,000 at the end of the fiscal year. This, he said, would be enough to do ail the senator proposed. “I cannot see floating bonds which would, in the long run, be retired by our children. If these things ar needed, then we should pay for them our selves.” / Th lawmaker said the sen ator’s bill would bq delayed tin- talk with I