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r I Dr. Fred V. Poag Is Sunday Speaker At Camp Fellowship Dr. Fred V. Poag, pastor of the Spartanburg First Presby terian Church, will deliver the closing service this Sunday night of South Carolina Presbytery’s seventh annual Religious Em phasis Month being held at Lake Greenwood. He will speak on the subject, “The Subtle Urge to Conform” at 8:00 p. m., Sunday, in the open-air chapel on Lake Green wood. His sermon wil close the July month of special religious emphasis which has featured four evening programs there. Dr. Poag, one of the outstand ing ministers of the Presbyte rian Church US, assumed the pulpit of the Spartanburg First Church last spring. It marked a return to South Carolina after the past several years in the pul pit of the St. Charles Avenue Church of New Orleans. Before going to Louisiana, he was pas tor of Columbia’s S h a n d o n Church. Earlier pastorates in clude the Second Church of Rich mond, Va., and the Second Church of Alexandria, Va. A native of Fayette vile,* li. Dr. Poag holds degrees from Da vidson, Duke and Union Theo logical Seminary, the latter from which he received all of his theological training including ^,3 Charles Bond, 87, died the ThD degree. He was award- ear iy Thursday morning at a ed an honorary doctor of divinity local hospital after a short ill- by Presbyterian College in May. ness In addition to his local church a native of Greenwood, be work,, Dr. Poag has served on had lived in Charleston many numerous committees of the years before he moved to Clin- Presbyterian General Assembly ton 45 years ago. He organized Wnd is presently chairman of Bond Motor Co., which he op- the Board of Christian Educa- erated until his death. His pa- tion. _ _ rents were the late S. L. and Sarah Frances Crews Bond. He was a member of he Fir$t Baptist Church and Campbell Lodge 44, AFM. His wife, Mrs. Rosa Bell Bail Bond, died many years ago. Surviving are two sons, £. L. Notional Guard units are nt an( j w. C. Bond of Clintotr, combat ready status if they f 0ur daughters, Mrs. H. L. (Su- should be called into federal g a n) Baggot of Cheraw; Mrs. service because of the Viet Nam l M. (Mary) Curtis of Man- crjsis, Adj. Gen. Frank Pinckney ning; Mrs. S. P. (Louise) An- said here Sunday. derson of Clinton; and Mrs. J. Pinckney, here to help dedi- B. (Anne) McCombs of Green- cate the new Clemson National wood; 15 grandchildren and 21 Guard Armory, said the 10,000 great-grandchildren, guardsmen are as combat ready Funeral services were con- as they were during the 1961 ducted Saturday at 4:00 p. m. Berlin trouble. at his home 732 West Main The 108th Signal Battalion of street, by Rev. J .W. Spillers. Greenwood and a Reserve unit Burial was in Rosemont ceme- in Greenville were among Army tery. groups activated during that Graild80Ils were pallbearers. Eighty-eight students are reg- _ The bonmr'ry eacort jncluded Tof the second ’WfltT'UF*'" ’Pi n vb*'ey setd he- had no word- ffflr AlWfF MYn*& 'Bible Class' bf ton. Was’sung holds a mechani- Presbyterian CoUege’s 1965 sum- on whether National Guard and ^ First Baptist Church. cal engineering degree from mer school. Rennselaer Polytechnic Insti- Registrar RoSlyn Martin, in Izea tute. The Clinton Chronide . Vol. 66 — No. 29 Clinton, S. G, Thursday, July 22, 1965 Governor Presents Keys South Carolina Governor Robert E. McNair (rig'ht) is shown here delivering the keys to the 1000th mobile home manufactured by Ponderosa Homes, Inc., of Kin- ards. Receiving the keys is Lloyd Brigman, Ponderosa dealer in Newberry. In the center is Wayne Davis, of Fountain Inn, executive vice-president of the company. The .presentation was made at a luncheon at Hotel Mary Musgrove here on Saturday, July 10.—Yarbor ough Photo. • » * , T- - • * * . ‘ » • » ... * - 4 • Wassung Is Chairman For '65 Chest Campaign Robert Wassung, manager of the Torrington Company Clinton Bearings Plant, will serve as campaign chairman of the 1965 Community Chest of Greater Clinton, Chest President G. Ed ward Campbell anounced today. Wassung will head a broad campaign organization of volun teer workers drawn from all areas of the business, industrial, residential and instiutional com munity. The drive chairman has been active in Canton civic affairs since he first arrived here in 1960 to help direct the establish ment of this Torrington opera tion. He has served for two pre vious years on the Community Chest advanced gifts committee. In addition, he is a director of both the Clinton Chamber of Commerce and the Clinton K : - wanis Club and continues as di rector of the Clinton Community Chorus after taking the lead in the establishment of this group. A native of Middleton, N. Y., Wasung is now in his 15th year with the Torrington organiza tion. He was assistant superin tendent of the Broad Street Plant in Torrington, Conn., im- ■ssawK Scene on Clinton-Joanna Highway Where Young Negro Met Death Saturday Quinton Photos Services Held For Louis C. Bond, 87 State's Guard Units Said in Ready Status Clemson — South Carolina’s Two Others Burned Man, 21, Electrocuted Near Here Saturday ROBERT WASSUNG 88 Are Registered For ?C Second Term Joe S. Holland Named President S. C. Food Retailers Joe S. Holland, Clinton grocery merchant, is the new president of the Food Retail ers Association of South Carolina. He was elected to the post Monday, the final day of a three-day annual convention held in Columbia and attend- Rites Held Monday For Mrs. Copeland Laurens—Mrs. Blanche Turner Copeland. 65. wife of Thomas J. Copeland of Rt. 2, Laurens, died early Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Guy (Margaret) Thompson after a few weeks ill ness. A 21-year-old Negro man of Coroner Pressley said Brew- A native of Gaffney, she made Rt - 2 . Clinton, was electrocuted er’s and Simpson’s feet were her home in Laurens County and two other men burned burned, but they were not hot- for 26 years. She was a daugh- near here Saturday when a pitalized. Godfrey was dead on ter of the late F. V. and Hester television antenna they were arrival at Bailey Memorial Kirby Turner, and she was a installing became entangled in Hospital, the coroner said, member of the First Presby- overhead electrical wires. The men were lifting the an- terian Church of Laurens. Laurens County Coroner Mar- tenna attached to a galvanized Surviving in addition to her shall Pressley identified the PiP® up to a pole at the corner husband are three daughters, victim as Benjamin Franklin °f the building when it came in Mrs. Solomon (Aurelia) Clay- Godfrey. The coroner said God- contact with the high-voltage ton of Rt. 2, Laurens; Mrs. Guy frey and Robert Simpson, also wire - (Margaret) Thompson of Rt. 3, Negro, were assisting P. G. Laurens; and Mrs. James W. Brewer in installing an anten- (Freddie May) White of Lau- na at Brewer’s service station- rens; two sisters, Mrs. J. K. dwelling, known as “Shady Cook of New York, and Miss Rest,” on the Glinton-Joanna Nettie Sue Turner of Clinton; a road (Highway 76) about 4:13 foster sister, Mrs. Nathan May p. m. Pettit of Gaffney; 15 grandchil- ed by some 800 retail grocers Reserve troops will be federal- making the announcement, said President Johnson announced IV HcolHl Cdlfer the total includes 59 men and 29 a few days ago that th6 govern- HOS Schedule Change women. It compares to 128 en- ment is strongly considering Area FJve Mental Health Ce n _ roUed for the first term which calling up some Reserve and ter gtaff announced the new ended last week. Guar un ts. schedule for visiting Laurens . The second term began last in remarks at the dedication county. Thursday and will continue Pinckney praised the Guards- Dr Zalton L. Agardy, psychia- through August 20. men as “patriotic, dedicated, trist and director of the center determined citizen soldiers, giv- | n Greenwood, will visit the ■ ^ ^ _ ing freely of their time, sacri- coun ty once each month on the Funeral services for Robert Lomor Mlig oOing flcing t0 protect the freedom we s e c o n d Thursday. His next Hobson Farr, 83, of. .Charlotte, I niiicvtllfi DeminaFV enjoy. scheduled visit will be August N. C., were held Monday after- 1 0 L0Ulsvme seminary ^ noon at Miller & Kerns Fun- Lamar King, son of Mrs. L. L. ki v . ., - eral Home, with Dr. Alfred B. King of Clinton, has been ac- Walter Sigmon Named t^^/^er and s!£to£i Montgomery, pastor of Cald- cepted for admission to Southern )Yl em b er 0 f Institute Penecost social worker will well Memorial Presbyterian Baptist Theological Seminary, ™emDer Of mbiiiuic Penecost social worker will Church, officiating. Interment Louisville, Ky., when classes Walter A. Sigman, Jr., CPA, visit twice each month on the was in Pineville Cemetery begin September 16. of Clinton, has been elected He Robert H. Farr, Former Resident, Dies In Chartotte Holland, who with his mother, Mrs. John R. Hol land, own and operate the Clinton Pifgly Wiggly store, was elevated from vice-presi dent of the state group. He has been active in the organ isation for some years and has served several terms on the board of directors. Holland succeeds William Rodenberg of Charleston as chief of the state grocers association. dren and 5 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted Monday at 3:30 p. m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Laurens by Dr. Ben F. Ormand and Dr. William Redd Turner. Burial was in Rosemont ceme tery in Clinton. Pallbearers were Raymond HH1, Hetty Monroe, C Chest Board of Trustees To Meet Tuesday Youth-Led Revival Now In Progress A Youth-Led Revival is being conducted this week at the Hur ricane Baptist Church. Two young men from Truett-McCon- nell College in Cleveland, Ga. are conducting the services. They are Wallace Pruitt, minis terial student, evangelist; Dil lard Wi banks, student and choir director of the Riverbend Bap tist Church in Gainesville, Ga., songleader. Along with the preacher and first and third Thursdays. Their Services Held For Mrs. F. C. Pinson Funeral services for K i S' Pineville, N. C., with Ma sonic graveside services by the oi dlyinRy Joppa Lodge. Mr. Farr died Saturday, July 17, following a long illness. He was the son of the late Robert Clowney and Aliena Hobson Farr. For many years he was a salesman for Char lotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. His wife, Corinne Wolfe Farr, died in 1961. Surviving are one son, Ros ser C. Farr; two daughters, Mrs. William E. (Frances) Black, Jr., and Mrs. Charles G. (Helen) Horne, ail of Char lotte, and seven grandchildren. CHANDLER REUNION Descendants of Mrs. J. W. and Mrs. Emma League Chandler will hold a reunion at Camp Fellowship on the shore of Lake Greenwood Sunday, August 1, 1965. Dinner will be served at one o’clock. TB Assn. Executive Committee lo Meet The executive committee of the Tuberculosis and Health As sociation of Greenwood-Laurens Counties will meet next Tuesday to review plans for a mass X-ray survey In Greenwood County be ginning Aug. 2. The committee, which will meet at 3:30 p.m. in the Laurens Federal Savings and Loan As sociation offices, also wffl name delegates to the Southern Con ference on Tuberculods schedul ed Aug. 35-27 In New Orleans. Executive committee members include Wade C. Harrison, Jr., of Troy; Rev. James A. Bowers, Mrs. Y. W. Hayes,,and Mrs. Joe H. Seal, of Greenwood! William A. Gardner, of Ninety Six; Geo. H. Coraelson and Mrs. D. B. McFadden, of CUnton; Harold W. MoCUntock, of Ora; Mrs. S. E. Martin, of Gray Court; and Rev. J. C. Rice, Jr., Ware finals. wil? «udy for the bachelor member of the American Inati- offices are located in the Lau- ‘ ^ray inity degree from the Semi- tute of Certified Pub,ic Account. ” " » D~n, « p G m ^ nary’s School of Theology. King is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville. antg Church Street. The office hours Mr. Sigman is controller of are 10:30 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. conducted by Rev Clinton Mills, Inc. The Board of Trustees of the R u n r r t -Coniraunity Chest of Greater songleader . who collage stu- ramnhd.il w t Pattaronn c l inton . In c . will meet Tesday dents. Miss Jennie Rae Surratt, ronrod. rnnaai.nri and r w' at 2:30 P 01 • at Hotel Mary student at Lander College, is the George Copeland, and C. W. Musgrove •• pian j st ^ following are young ‘ Community Chest President people of the church who are The honorary escort included q E dward Campbell, in stress- leading in the revival; Miss elders and deacons of the First j n g jjj e importance of the Dianne Watts, general chm.; Presbyteriap Church. meeting, urged that ail mem- Miss Kaye Caldwell, chm. of en- bers of the board attend the tertainment; Miss Carol Anne session. Initial plans for the Young, prayer chm.; Miss Char- 1965-66 campaign will be dis- Young, pubUcity chm.; cussed, he said. George Allen, visitation chm.; Members of the board, in ad- Mrs. Carroll Young, training dition to Campbell, are other union director. Marking the end of the first officers, including Reese H. The revival began July 18 and year of service of Dr. E. B. Young and Jim Von Hollen, will continue each evening Keisler, interim pastor of St. vice-presidents; Ben Hay Ham- through July 25. John’s Lutheran Church last met, publicity chairman; Rob- The public is invited to attend. Sunday, the congregation was ert Wassung, campaign chair- reminded by Dr. Keisler of man; the budget chairman, yet some of the areas in which m be named, and the follow- there had been decide growth ing trustees: Mrs. and of some in which little or Marvin Manley, representing" no development had been expe- the Junior Chamber of Com- rienced. It was noted with merce; R. Michael Turner, beeinnine with Joanna satisfaction ♦ l ’“ ■--* 1 * > ” vey ’ D eg inni u6 wun Joanna, Lutherans Note First Anniversary Of Keisler's Service Telephone Company Is Making Survey Southern Bell Telephone Com pany is making a post card sur- special that the ladies-at-large; Harry Mc- . . _ E - w - ?°S- church attendance markedly S ween, Lions Club; W. Brooks ^"from"^^^™. Appointments can be made by ® rs an ^ Rev * J- Spillers. improved and that there had Owens, City of Clinton; A. Wil- the survev will be extended to caUing the office on the above Burial was in Rosemont ceme- been acquired a desirable lot mot Shealy, Schools; Claude A. other towns and cities ^ ^ dates. Phone Laurens 984-5580, tery. Nephews were pallbear- for the relocation of the Crocker, Clinton-Lydia Mills: section according to Clinton or by calling Mrs. W. L. An- ers. church. A. R. Hamilton, Kiwanis Club, £Tm*nlger Ttl. MartiT thony in Clinton, 833-0072. “ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ' MountvHle Grange Has Picnic, Meeting Members of the Mouniville t° n merchant. Grange and their families en- Durin 8 recent years she had joyed a picnic and social hour s P® n t mu ch of her time with last Thrusday afternoon at the her daughter, Mrs. A. H. Mc- Mountville Park. Queen of Loris. Later in the evening the A native of Laurens County, members held a regular meet- w ^ ere s ^ e s i >en t nnost of her ing at the Grange hall. Jerome s ^ e was 8 daughter of the Finley, master, presided. * ate ** ohn and Elizabeth The third and fourth degrees Frances Rasor Clardy. She Presbyterian College, complet- opening of its first women’s were given to new members. was 8 mem ^ er of th® First ing plans for full co-education dormitory, will enroll it first full J. Rimer. Mr. and Mrs. Hall P. H. Miller acted as Baptist Church. this fall, is inaugurating a pro- contingent of residential women own two other motels in Chero- in the absence of J. H. Shealy. In addition to her daughter, gram of physical activity for students in the fall. Physical kee. Mrs. Virginia B. Hallman A. R. Gilmore, one of the she is survived by a brother, women headed by a trained phy- education is one of the areas re- who has managed the motel new members and formerly of Boyce Clardy, and a sister, sical education director. ceiving special attention in prep- for the Rimers the past three an upstate New York Grange, M‘ ss Annie Clardy, both of Dean Joseph M. Gettys an- aration for this expanded opera- years, will remain as manager acted as overseer in the ab^ Mullins. nounced today that Miss Kath- tion. Two years of physical ac- f 0 r the Halls. erine W. Giles of Forest City, tivity wil be required of all N. C., has been added to the girls, with a maximum of four staf as an instructor in physical semester hours’ credit allowed education. The first woman to be for courses in this field, employed by PC in this area, she will begin her new asign- The Clinton Lions Club will ment in September. PtlHsOII-Hunter meet Friday night at 7:00 at Gettys said Miss Giles will D eun j on l u | v Ig ary Musgrove Hotel. The . f!»l- Reunion JUiy IO Mrs. Pinson died suddenly T}, e Church Council present- R. S. Truluck, Chamber of „„ Tuesday night, July 13, at her ed Dr. Keisler with a series of Commerce; Thomas E. Bald- rp » lirn thp pnP H« with^heir com.* home on Cleveland Street. She resolution in which that body win, American Legion; Miss „ n uv* »nH was the widow of F. Claude expressed the congregation’s Essie Davidson, B&PW, Club; don . t like about the telephone Pinson, for many years a Clin- appreciation of his effective ser- T o m m y Windsor, Exchange serv j ce — vice. Club. MORRIS SEYMOUR RONALD CLEAVER County Wardens Recently Promoted Rona’d L. Cleaver and Morris B. Seymour have been named asssitant district foresters for Catawba Timber Com pany. Announcement of the appointments was made by H. C.* Af State JgL Camith, president of the company. Catawba Timber is the woods organization of Bowaters Carolina Corp., at Catawba in York County. Cleaver, who was forestry assistant at Clinton prior to his promotion, is now located in Elberton, Ga. Seymour held the position of forester before his promotion and will continue to be headquartered in Clinton. Cleaver is a native of Lafayette, Ind., and received his for estry degree from Purdue University. He joined the Bowater organization in early 1961. Seymour joined Catawba Timber at Clinton in 1959 as a forester. Prior to joining the company, he was a forester for Cherokee Timber Corp., Washington, Ga. A native of Elberton, Ga., Seymour received his bache lor’s degree in forestry from the Untvsrstty of Georgia- He Is a registered forester in Georgia and South Carolnia, a member of American Foresters and the Clinton Lions Club. Seymour makes his home in Clinton with his wife and two College To Inaugurate Women's P. E. Program Mr. and Mrs. Had Buy Local Motor Inn The Gala Motel, located at 407 North Broad Street, has been bought by Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Hall of Cherokee, N. C., from Mr. and Mrs. Shelton sence of J. M. Wham. The secretary, Mrs. P. H. Miller, read letter announcing the state meeting to be held In Columbia August 12-14. Major Ivey To Be Lions Club Speaker At Friday Meeting New Assistant In PC Economics Dept. Richard C. Wilson will join the Presbyterian. College faculty this .. the Mary Musgrove Hotel. Tne "L Athletic Director Cal- ■ ^—/ -- rresuyicnen.” Mhng guest speaker will be Major l^g upvSSinwd The PhUson - Hunter reunion fall as an assistant prof««oraf three-day train- Benjamin F. Ivey. U. S. Army. ly ^ a “ ”, geophysical activ- was held at the home of Miw economics, Daa “ Joseph M ^ . uic tnnif- will he “The Snerial P ro 8 ra rn o » , . r^ tI j aP Kem Sunday. July 18. tys announced today. The annual ing school of the Wildlife Re- His topic will be “The Special J^^n^diVeloptaglK totir in- Louise Kern Sunday, July 18. _ « . •orces Department for gam* Forces.” ' tramurar program. Her quallfl- Seventy-one members of the fam- He comes to PC from the Uni- wardens, biologists, hatchery Major Ivey is a native of p ationg include a BA degree By were present Mrs Ray An- versity of Georgia, where he is waiucua, uiuiuKisis, naicnery major trey a native m p n ti nn8 include a BA degree “J e---— - ~’ .... superintendents, project man- Cheraw, graduate of Presbyte- f ^ university of North derson, who is 90 years old, was working toward his doctorate. agers and other personnel was rian College, and has served Carolina (1958), masters in phy- the oldest member present. He received his bachelor of buti- held last week at the Univer- with the U. S. forces in Pana- gkal creation from Appalach- During the business session. nesg adi^^ation degrw from sity of South Carolina, Colum- ma, Korea, and Germany. He ia n sute and additional summer the foUowing^officers that institution in 19« and his bis. jg presently on leave enroute wor k in this field. She has taught ed: President, Miss Louise Kern, masters ineconom s Opening with a brief address to Viet-Nam. For the past four i n the Uncolnton (NO city Vice-president Mrs. John Jacobs month. , by Governor McNair, the pro- years Major Ivey has served schools, at Bel Air (Md.) senior of Bennettsvilie; Secretory ^a Wilson tau ^ t a gram dealt with various phas- with the 10th Special Forces high, MooresviUe (NC) city Treasurer, Miss Ethel Hunte • assistant es of the department’s work, group in Bad Tolz, Germany! schools and most recently at Memorial services were held yearsof The banquet was held He is married to the former Brevard Junior College. During later in the afternoon for Mrs. Georgia. A dean s unsmotn Tuesday nighTwlth service Miss Kent Wysor of this city, two summers, she was play- Agnes Kern who pased away awards being presented. They have two chUdren, Frank ground director with the Win- »incethe meeting ftiLhed^with ^PhT^SII* Fki Attending from Laurens and Kathy. They will reside on ston-Salem, N. C., recreation do- nr-mhar. adtourned to finished with P Kappa Phi County were Game Warden S. A. Lee and G. B. O’Dell. in Viet-Nam. The members adjourned to finished with Elm Stewt white Major Iv.y te partmmt. mart again the second Sunday honorsHe I.enaUve e( Buftalo. Presbyterian College, with the in July, 1907. N - Y - and is married.