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Vol. 66 — No. 6
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, February 11,1965
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John Henry Morton Loses
Life in Home Fire Saturday
Laurens — John Henry Mor
ton, SB-year-old log crew hand,
was burned to death late Satur
day in flames that destroyed
a three-room frame house
where he lived near Bellview
Baptist Church 4 miles north
east of Laurens.
Sheriff Johnson said a week
end employee of Watson, Ken
neth Barkley of Easlay, ap
parently was the last person to
see the blaze victim alive. He
talked with him on the porch
of the small house at about
5:45 p. m , the sheriff said.
Mrs. Crisp Injured In Collision
Mrs. Owl Crisp, of Mountville, waa
, injured about 3:30 p. m., Tuesday, when
her car collided with another cw at the
corner of Florida and Woodrow Streets.
The other car was driven by David
James Bryson, 16, of Clinton, who had
as his passenger Sidney Bryson, Jr.
Mrs. Crisp’s 14-year-old daughter, Becky,
was a passenger in the Crisp car. All
parties were taken to Bailey Memorial
Hospital for treatment and dismissed,
except Mrs. Crisp, who was later remov
ed to the Greenwood Hospital. Investi
gating were Clinton officers J. V. Lowe,
Allen Simmons and Wright Simpson.—
Photo by Paul Quinton.
Identification of the body wag
established by Laurens County
Sheriff R. Eugene Johnson.
The house was owned by
George Penland, whose own
home is some 900 yards away.
It was Mrs. Penland who spot
ted the fire about 8:30 p. m.
Her husband r a c,e d to it
smashed windows In an effort
to get in, but was forced back
by flames.
New Mathematics
Course Is Oflered
Dr. B. H. Maddox, chairman of
the mathematics department at
Presbyterian College, is offering
to parents and other interested
persons a non-credit course in
the new mathematics. Teachers
Laurens city firemen wet . .. _
down the ember heap into which des r ng ^ redl ^. mak . e ar '
the house had burned so that ra PI e,n * nt8 with tt>e Professor
Criminal Court Term To
so
the body could be recovered.
It was found in what had been
a bedroom.
Morton operated a chain saw
for logger Milford Watson.
with the
fof additional work.
Begin Monday in Laurens
Year's Grand Jurors
16 Complete Work
At Presbyterian
A term of General Sessions
(criminal) court is scheduled to
get underway Monday morning
at the court house in Laurens.
Fifteen cases to be handled by
the court are hold-overs from the
previous term, while 62 cases
are on the list to go before the
grand jury for determination as
to whether true bills or no bills
are to be returned. \
chain gang; James Earl Cook,
peeping tom (2 charges); Ray
mond Poore Jr., Ethel Arm
strong, CharUe Hellams, Mary
Hellams, violating Sec. 1683; N.
D. Coleman, assault and bat
tery; Woodard Crane, assault
and batter. ‘
Robert M. Yancey, Rosie Pat
terson, disposing of property;
George Fred Jennings, drunk
Drawn For Service
Grand
ing
by
jurors to serve dur-
drawn last week
Sixteen Presbyterian College
seniors completed work toward
their degrees during the first se
mester of the 1964-65. session,
Registrar R o s 1 y n Martin an
nounced today.
The course will be offered in
Room 110, Neville Hall, on the
college campus beginning at 7:30
p. m. on Monday, Februray 15.
It will meet each Monday night
thereafter throughout the semes
ter unless another night is more
convenient for the group.
The only cost for non-credit
studenU will be the price of the
text, which is less than $3.00.
Persons taking the course for
credit must pay $35.00 per semes^
ter hours plus a registration fee!'
This will amount to $115.00 for a
three-hour course.
Those desiring further inf or-
Scene of Fire Where Man Died
Laurens County Sheriff R. Eugene
Johnson stands by with a member of the
Laurens city police force as firemen
pour water on the ashes of a house in
the Bellview section preparatory to re-
. covering the reamins of John Henry
Morgan, 38, who lost his life when fire
destroyed the house late Saturday. ’Hie
home was near Bellview Baptist Church,
four miles from Laurens, and was owned
by George Penland. (Story in adjoining
column).—Photo by Paul Quinton.
Council Annexes By Ordinance
1965 were dr.w„ last Ste «^d th. jL wtU b. «w«d«l Qr ^ wlthln([ ^ en
the jury commissioners. The ^ V*** 11 ^. co ??~ roll should call Clinton 833-2820
Two Adjoining Areas Are
.. driving (2nd); Wayne Washing-
Three murder cases are on the ^ Rldge drunk d Hving (4th);
names were drawn in the office
of Clerk of Court Walter E. Dun
lap.
A General Sessions (criminal)
court term will convene in Lau
rens Monday morning. Judge
mencement exercises on May 30.
Students who have just complet
ed work on their degrees are:
Bachelor of Arts — Earieen
Fowler Duncan and Dixie Reed
Gooch, both of Clinton; James
and ask for extension
list, and many other charges of Charlie Cli ’ tus Smith, drunk driv- C i arence g Singletary of Char- Edwards Kidd of MiUedgeville,
drunk driving and non-support. ^ (Srd); Robert Ear i Crainc. le8ton win preside. : J 0 h n Lucien Setzler of
Singletary of drunk driving; Edith McAlister ,c
Nabors, drunk driving (2nd);
Harry Theodore Lollis, drunk
Supervisor's Office
To Get $50,000 More
Brought Into City Limits
Local Lutherans
Judge C. E.
Charleston will preside, and the
state will be represented by
Solicitor (prosecuting attorney)
William T. Jones of Greenwood.
Following are the-cases listed:
Continued Cases
S. B. Briggs, assault and bat
tery with intent to kill, carrying
concealed weapons;
P. Lomax, murder;
Saadara,. mai irlnua taluiar to
Columbia — The Laurens Coun-
Riddle,
driving; Bobby Gene
grand larceny of auto.
Bernard Davis, Perry Clamp,
J. L. Fleming, grand, larceny;
D. S. Davis, James Walmon
Griffin, Stanley Duff, Larry
Cleophum Hart, Kenneth Bush, Carl E.
neorue E Crawford, James Painter, house-
‘ breaking and grand larceny;
PaulCalfcounTCharles Hunter,
Jack Simmons, Alvin W. Lollis,
sonal property; James Esther
EST' ■£££“£ '"££!?' C^bert™. cmp.
larceny, Ernest H. colter, vio- w _ n cim*\*a*
lation liquor law; Jesse Earl
Stevens, drunk driving (3rd of
fense).
Steve Wayne Lawson, engag
ing in motor vehicle race; Bruce
Delmar Austin, same; William
Eugene Armstrong, drunk driv
ing (3rd offense); James E.
Wolfe, drunk driving (2nd of
fense); James Harold Hughes,
drunk driving; Clarence Emory
Barnes, drunk driving; James
Monroe James, drunk driving
(2nd offense); Frank Owens,
drunk driving.
New Cases
bell, Monroe Williams, George
Oscar Moseley, all charged with
non-support; Roy Parker, worth
less check; Thomas Ousts,
worthless check.
James Capers Gregory, mur
der; Willie James Bell, murder;
P. G. Brewer, assault and bat
tery; Jimmie Leon Clark, non-
support; Enoch Richardson, as
sault and battery; David Arthur
Smith, three charges of reckless
homicide and involuntary man
slaughter; Bobby Gene Manor,
indecent exposure; C. P. Skid
more, grand larceny.
Thalmar Gog gins, non-support;
„ „ , , . Kingstree; Menry Alvin Sprad- -
Following are the grand jurow: i eyi Sr., of Cross Anchor; James ^ supervisor would get an addi-
John R. Cox Jr., Watts Mill; Hamilton Stewart, III, of Green- tional appropriation of $50,000
D. M. Senn, Ora; Lewis E. Wal- v iu e; and Patrick LeGrand Sud- this y**r for equipment under
drop, Laurens City.; J. Clifton dyth 0 f Greer. terms of a bill introduced last
Lollis, Joanna; Jack O. Sullivan, Bachelor of Science — Nancy by State Sen. W. C. Dob-
Princeton; Richard P. Bruce, Katherine DuBois, William Alvin bins of Laurens County.
Jr., Laurens City; Fred C. Nel- Hueble and Robert Paul Watts, Dobbins’ 1)111 would transfer a
all of Clinton; Charl& Thurman total of $55,000 from the county’s
Copley of Aiken; Asbury Well- general fund. Of this, $5,000
born Gregg of Birmingham, would go Into the county contin-
Ala.; Gary Jones Jarrett of Toes, gent fund. „
coa. Ga.; Creighton E d w a r$ The remaining $50,000 would go
Likes, Jr., of Charleston; RuB* ' “
sell Haydn McLean of Marietta,
Ga.; and John Neill McRainey of
St. Pauls, N. C.
In Business Session
ton, Laurens City; Marvin R.
Riddle, Poplar Springs; James
W Patton, Cook’s Store; Willie
J. Smith, Laurens City; Frank
DeLoach. Waterloo, and R. W.
Dean, Renno. -
Alternates are J. C. Adams,
Poplar Springs; E. P. Bobo,
Youngs, and Darling McDaniel,
Laurens City.
Holdovers from the 1964 list
are Roy B. Compton, Watts Mill;
Ansel Godfrey, Daniel’s Store;
Fred S. Bishop, Laurens City;
J. Postell Hughes, Gray Court;
Congo Missionory
To Spook Feb. 21
Miss Ann Anderson, mission-
Tommy Cox, Laurens City; and Congo, will speak to
to the supervisor’s office, ear
marked for the purchase of a
front-end loader, a motor grader
and three trucks.
Dobbins said there was $106,-
000 in the county general fluid,
ample to supply the money for
the supervisor.
The senator said he is taking
action to provide more contin-
R. Floyd Cook, Owings.
the Lydia and Rock Bridge Pres- gency funds because it appears
County Baptists Set
Evangelism Clinic
Raymond Frank Ambrose, vio- Leroy Gary, grand larceny; Os-
lattoft liquor law; James Wil
Uam, malicious injury to person
al property; Bill Wilson, obtain
ing property by false pretenses;
Charles Lee Brown, escaping
borne Fisher, burglary,; also as
sault; Clyde Smith, violation
Sec. 16366; Johnnie Franks, vio
lation liquor law; Terry Lee
Owens, non-support; James Wil-
— liam Horton, drunk driving;
I4mwa RaLa CaIa James K. Hunter, Grady McCoy
10 nave DOKe aaie Hunter and Robert Schroncle,
The eighth grade Junior High housebreaking and grand lar-
Camp Fire Girls will have a ceny.
Ollie James Barksdale, non-
The Laurens Baptist Associa
tion will hold its annual evangel
ism clinic and conference at the
First Baptist Church, Laurens,
on February 18. The clinic ses
sion will begin at 3:30 p. m. and
the evening session will begin at
7:90 p. m.
Dr. Harold E. Linsey, secre
tary of evangelism for the S. C.
Baptist state convention, will be
a featured speaker at each ser-
byterian Churches at their morn
ing worship services on Sunday,
February 21.
Miss Anderson will speak at
Rock Bridge at 10 o’clock and at
Lydia Presbyterian Church at
11:10 a. m.
The public is invited to attend.
that the $5,000 allocated in the
current supply bill will not be
sufficient.
The Laurens solon said he
pledged in his campaign to
“look after” the supervisor and
that his bill Wednesday was in
line with that promise.
More than 65 members and
friends of St. John’s Lutheran
Church gathered last Sunday
evening in the dining hall of
Presbyterian College for its cov
ered dish supper and first-quar
ter annual business meeting of
the congregation.
The items of business consist
ed largely, of the hearing of re
ports of the officers of the con
gregation and of the auxiliary
organizations.
According to the report of the
interim pastor, the Rev. Dr. E.
Bryan Keisler, the congregation
consisted at the end of the year
of 148 baptized members and 112
confirmed members, 99 of the
latter having received holy com
munion at least once during last
year.
During 1964 the congregation
overpaid its apportionment to the
benevolent work of the denom
ination.
Kinards Postmaster
Examination Slated
An examination for postmas
ter at Kinards will be open for
acceptance of applications until
Feb. 23, it was announced by the
Civil Service Commission, Wash
ington.
The office pays a salary of
$5,345 a year.
The written test will be held at
Greenwood.
Information about the exami
nation requirements and instruc
tions for filing applications may
be obtained at the Kinards post
office.
C. of 0. Directors
To Meet Tuesday
Duke Endowment Gifts
In County Total $57,720
Girls will have a
bake aale Saturday morning In
front of Sadler-Owens Phar- support; Emerson Johnson, vio- vice. Other speakers on the pro-
macy. The sale will begin at 10 lation liquor law; Woodrow Wil- gram are the following pastors:
o’clock and will last until every- son Brown, drunk driving (2nd); Jack Reid, G. W. Allen, Neville
thing la sold. The proceeds will Charlie Adams, drunk driving Lambert, B. €. Franklin, Lamon
go to Ute^March of Dimes. (2nd). Moates, and R. S. Cooper.
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Three Laurens County institu- ceiving approximately 73 cents a
tions will receive a total of $57,- day.
720.07 as assistance In their Dr. Macdonald, president of
charity expenditures for last Thornwell, yesterday issued the
year, it is being announced to- following statement upon an-
day from Charlotte, N. C., by nouncement of the appropria-
trustees of the Duke Endow- tions by the Duke trustees. .
ment. v “Through the years the Duke
Bailey Memorial Hospital at Endowment has been of inesti-
Clinton will receive $3,340, Lau- ma ble value to Thornwell, not
rens District Hospital at Laur- on i y financially in the thousands
ens gets $5,722, and- Thornwell 0 f dollars contributed to the in-
Orphanage at Clinton will re- gtitution, but also in an advisory
ceive $48,652 •07. \ . capacity and general interest, in
Presbyterians To
Begin Evening
Services Sunday
The First Presbyterian Church
has announced that regular Sun
day evening services will begin
this Sunday at .7:30. The Rev.
Joseph Greer of Gatlinburg,
Tenn., will preach at the service.
He will be in Clinton to discuSs
with the Session their invitation
to work with the church in the
capacity of associate pastor. Mr.
Greer is a native of Valdosta.
Ga., a graduate of Davidson Col
lege and Columbia Theological
Seminary.
The young people’s meeting
will be changed from 6:30 to al
low time to attend Sunday eve-
The Board of Directors of the
Clinton Chamber of Commerce
will meet Tuesday, February 16,
at 10:00 a. m. at Hotel Mary
Musgrove.
President Dan E. Orr urges all
directors to attend. The five di
rectors elected this week by
mail ballot for three-year terms
will be announced and officers
for the new year, beginning Ap
ril 1, will be elected.
Joanna Lions To Hear
District Governor
W. Keys Welborn of Honea
Path, district governor of Lions
Clubs, will be guest speaker at
the Joanna Lions Club tonight at
the Joanna Club House. The
meeting will begin at 7:30.
Here On Leave
Appropriations totaling $1,454,- providing workshop programs for
th Carolina and 8 taff members at the University
ning services.
Rev. Alfred Bixler, pastor, has
announced as his sermon topic
for Sunday morning, “No Man
Cares for My Soul!”
Major and Mrs. Richard Luk-
stat and children, Nancy Bee
and Dick, of Bunker Hill AFB,
Peru, Ind., will arrive today for
a visit with Mrs. Lukstat’s moth
er, Mrs. H. D. Payne. Friday
they will leave for Daytona
Beach, Fla., for a visit with Ma
jor Lukstat’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Lukstat. They will
be accompanied by Mrs. Payne.
Two areas in the southeastern
section of Clinton came under
municipal jurisdiction when they
were annexed by vote of City
Council at its February meeting
Friday night. v
Property owners had signed the
annexing petitions 100 per cent,
thus obviating the necessity o<
holding an election on the ques
tion. They were annexed by re
solution of council.
The areas involved are the
Pitts Meadows subdivision and
adjoining Pitts lands, and prop
erty of heirs of the late Mrs. Lou
Jones Copeland adjoining the
Pitts property.
Council voted to increase the
speed limit of trains passing
through the city to 15 miles an
hour. The former speed limit was
eight miles an hour. Council’s
action came after the Seaboard
Railroad requested an increase
to 20 or 25 miles an hour. A stip
ulation stated that if the new
speed limit is not observed, the
railroad must either install traf
fic signals or flag crossings.
Council approved the installa
tion of an 8-inch water main a
distance of 800 feet to serve
three new buildings on the Pres
byterian College campus, also a
one-inch' water line to property
of the Mississippi Youngs on the
Greenwood highway south of the
city.
Council approved a water line
connection to the main to the
Torrington plant to serve a
James E. Anderson develop
ment, pending the building of an
electric line in the area by the
city.
Services Today
For Mrs. Pinson
208 to assist South
North Carolina hospitals and 0 f North Carolina, and in various
child care institutes in fldancing other ways, all of which has been
charity services were made a tremendous asset to our insti-
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Soprono, Mole Octet
Concert Group to Appear Here Friday
known.
The checks are being
this week and will bring to
650,230 the amount The
ment has provided for this
pose in the 40 years of its e:
ence. The appropriations, bai
on charity services of the institu
tions in the fiscal year which’
ended Sept. 30, 1964, include
$926,328 to 138 hospital and $27*
880 to 41 children Infant instruc
tions.
Additional allocation^ will be
made later this month when
tution.
“The Duke Endowment is one
of the most outstanding founda
tions in America,” Dr. Mac
donald said.
$1500 Raised By
Mothers March
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The Theatre Men, a male
tot, soprano and pianist are an
nounced for a concert of “the
atre music” in Belk Auditorium
Friday evening at 8:00 o’clock.
The meatre Men spedaUxe In
a new style of concert program
featuring “theatre music” and
ranging tram routing old-favor-
choruses to current
Broadway musicals. Several bai
lor variety.
Irene Albercht,
of Chica
go’s finest coaches, is the direc
tor and pianist.
Margsret Lukaszewski, so
prano, is s solo artist with the
Lyric Opera of Chicago and has
sung leading roles with the Kan
sas City Opera.
Robert Angus; Detroit dramat
ic tenor, and Howard Nelson,
dramatic baritone, bring a new
stature of “man** singing” with
their large voices. Nelson won
the San Frnnciaeo Opera’s 1M0
Award and was offered an ar
tist’s contract with that com
pany. Following a Theatre Men
tour, *he auditioned for the Lyric
where he is now a favorite.
- In 1960 and again in 1962 the
Theatre Men made long Pacific
Coast concert tours. In 1961 they
sang 16 concerts in the Mari
time Provinces of eastern Cana
da, and in the spring of 1962
red the
again toured the eastern United
States, going as far as West
Palm Beach, Via. They appear
annually throughout the cenral
west and south. •
trustees will consider hospital
applications which have been
completed since the current ap
propriations were made. Thom
as L. Perkins, chairman of the
trustees, said.
North Carolina institutions are
receiving $865,496 of which $526-
201 is being sent to 96 hospital
and 339,296 to 24 child cam tu-
stutibns. The amount appropria
ted for South Carolina institu
tions is $58,887.12 with $40O,ltf
going to 42 hospitals and $111,•
686 to 17 child cam institutions.
The Endowment’s assistance
to hospitals is based on $1 a day
for each free day of cam giv
en. Child cam instttuttocis
Clinton residents contributed
generously to the Mothers
March, annual appeal of the
March of Dimes for Polio,
Birth Defects and Arthritis,
bringing the total over the
$1589 park,
an increase
ever last year’s
-* giving which was $1918.
* In addition to the workers
anqounce^ previously the M-
, lowing also helped ta canvas
sing the hdpnea of fids
Mrs. Beulah Balle Pinson, wife
of B. S. Pinson, died at an early
hour Wednesday morning at her
home, 111 West Centennial St.,
after several years of declining
health and an illness of six
months. She was a native of Lau
rens County where she spent her
entire life, a daughter of the late
L. G. Balle, Sr., and Mary Ann
Hellams Balle.
Awarded Army Commissions
Mrs. Pinson was a member of
Thornwell Presbyterian Church,
a charter member and past pres
ident of Kershaw Chapter of the
U. D. C., Laurens County.
She was educated at Staunton
College, Roanoke, - Va., and
taught school in Laurens County
and at Thornwell Orphanage.
She is survived by her hus
band, B. S. Pinson of Clinton;
a sister-in-law, Mrs. L. G. Balle
of Laurens, and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock
at the Thornwell Memorial Pres
byterian Church, conducted by
Dr. Malcolm A. I
Burial will be in the
lAkx Hamilton winking in the
Onfrert Avenue nnd Pitts
Mcfims; nnd Mrs.
Davit, Mrs. Engene
Stuckey, Mrs. Lnmu Byrd,
and Mrs. Lney S. Mims who
assisted Mrs. Leiny Davis In
the Negro dlvlrisn.
Three Presbyterian College ROTC cadets were re
cently awarded commissions in the Officers’ Reserve
Corps upon completing requirements for their degrees
at the close of the first semester of the 1964-66 session.
They are pictured here with President Marc C. Weer-
sing, reading frorti the left: Creighton Likes, Jr., of
Charleston; Dr. Weersing; Edward Kidd of Milledge-
ville, Ga.; and Paul Watts of Clinton.—Yarborough
Photo. l
City cemetery.
Pallbearers will be John
die, Charles Nalley, R. L*
ham, Earl Wilbanks, D.
pleton and Robert
The family res
quests that flowers
The body Is at tha
eral Home nnd the
the residence.
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