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* ■«►*♦ -ir « ^ WH| / f Husband Injured Committees Begin Mrs. Poag, of Joanna, work on March n. .... «... ot Dimes Campaign Dies of Wreck Injuries The Clinton Chronicle B A Joanna woman was fatal- Two committees hav e al ready begun work on the Jan uary March of Dimes Cam- Horton said witnesses told paign for the Clinton area. Vol. 67 — No. 52 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, December 29, 1966 ly injured and her husband him the Poag car* pulled from **• Sweetenburg, chair- hospitalized after their car Woodrow Street into the path ann^unwd was in collision with a trac- of the truck, which was head- that loiters are being sent to tor-trailer truck hefre Satur- ed west on Carolina Avenue, merchants and bus'nessmen day at 9:15 a.m. at the inter- driven by John Ervin Engles, Clinton. He also added that section of Carolina Avenue 39, of Asheville, N. -C. Un- Phonal contacts will be made and Woodrow Street. hurt, Engles told officers he Wlth as nria, !^ 1 of . t ^® 8e c, “' Laurens County Coronor saw the car “ease up” to the zcns as poss ‘^* e cam- Marshall Pressley identified intersection and applied J? ,r < * e u eC *f' the victim as Mrs. Cora Ag- brakes when the car did not .. , , ^r;. 08e i! 8 ’ ... 0f nes Poag, 77. Her husband, stop. But he said he could Committee, Luther H. Poag, 77, was list- not avoid the collision. reported that similar letters ed in fair condition yesterday In collision with the car’s ar p being sent to industrial of- at Bailey Memorial Hospital, left front, the truck swerved ,lcia fs and citizens of the com- Assistant Clinton Police to the left and cut down a munit y - ,n _ aa e l® H am Chief Horace Horton said utility pole before it crashed ‘ ncreasin 8 >n eres in the na- Mrs. Poag was pinned in the into a park car and stopped. ^ »» 1951 Dodge which was driv- Telephone service in the Jo- „ rS \ A r * eS i ° We and Mr8- en by her husband. Removed anna and Whitten Village area arc Pf rs ” g a ^ e ®°I?. rec ‘ from the wreckage, she died was disrupted and 30 to 40 ars 0 . e arch D,mes at the "hospital at about 10 telephones in Clinton were '-' am l ,ai 8 a . a.m. of head injuries. affected. mt Babson Looks to 7967 \ . Developments Abroad Held Threat to Country By ROGER W. BABSON New Camp Fire Officers Named The Board of Directors of the Clinton Camp Fire Coun cil elected officers for 1967 at their regular monthly meet ing December 20 at th Camp Fire Hut. New officers to be installed in January include: Lynn Cooper, Jr., president; Chari Cooper, Jr., president; Clinton’s Lights In Business Area During Holidays —Photo by Yarborouglr^ For County Crusade Counselor Training Classes Begin Jan. 3 In Business Section Friday Counselor training classes 9:45 a.m. and Laurens WLBG Charles T. Oakley, vice pres- i n preparation for the Laurens will broadcast at: 10:15 a.m. The close of 1966 marks the seventieth consec- ldent: James Von Hollen, County Crusade for Christ The counselor t r a i n i n g utive month in the life span of the longest business f! aS c U J / f r r j. a ” d Ellls Huffstet - will begin next Tuesday night classes, starting next Tuesday boom of all time for the American economy How- secretar y- (January 3) in Clinton and the in Clinton, will be held in the m a j * r 1 i n » a i 0m r • Standing committee chair- following Tuesday (January Associate Reformed Presby- ever, trees do not grow to the sky. Already, signs men W ji serve w ith the 10) in Laurens. terian Church, beginning at of deterioration in the expansive vilfor that charac* officers on the board of direc- Scores of Christian laymen 7i30 p.m. After next Tuesday texized the earlier phase of the business upsweep tors wer e also elected at this are expected to participate in night’s initial meeting, ses- have been increasing in 1966. Hence, the outlook t,me are . : Mrs - Sara Tem P le - the three-week training pro- sions will be held on subse- for business and finance in 1967 is of greater-than- ^ ^ usual importance. Lest readers of this column frontation at this time; hence finance; Mrs. Martha Pow- will assist with the Laurens session for the entire county be tempted to ‘‘push the pan- my forecast that the smold- ell, public relations; Mrs. County Crusade for Christ, on January 21 in Belk Audi- ic button”, however, let me ering conflagration there will Nancy Von Hollen, Group or- scheduled for January 22-29 in torium. state that it would be unwise not erupt into World War III. ganization; o * Woman Shoots Man, Who Takes Pistol and Wounds Her; Man Dies Dr. Taylor Tells Of Differences In Church Beliefs What officers called a dis- gers in a car driven by John pule here Friday ovdlr paren- (Tee) Conner and that Albert tal Christmas buying respon sibilities left a man dead and a woman wounded. Anderson was with them also when the argument flared ov er responsibility for Christ mas provision for two chil- Laurens County Coroner dren. ... Marshall Pressley said Jim- Conner told officers he stop- . p „ f .. my James Johnson, 27, was ped the ear and ordered the mittee; James Von Hollen; Team. These trained laymen gram will close with a joint .... ‘ r . ,• dead on arrival at Bailey Me- two out. Officers quoted him " - — - * - — n^Pres'bvterv^^last Thurs" morial Hospital with .22 call- as reporting that as the Ow- day night i/ the new Hart- ber bullet wounds ' including ens woman stepped from the ness-Thornwell Memorial Pre th ^ u PP er t (eft chest, ness - Thornwell Memorial car, she pulled a .22 caliber Mattie Lois Owens, 28, tak- pistol from her handbag and the witnesses were Calvin Cooper, Belk Auditorium on the Pres- Forrest Layman, an execu _ „ ^ to expect a major depression 7 while all reasonable peo- personnel; Mrs. Velma Bur- byterian College campus with t : ve assistant with the Billy pq. e s b v te ri a n* 'chu re h™ Ui* * Clin- cn ^‘ rsl to ® ade y Memorial, fired twice in 1967. Our greatly expanded p i e are hoping for at genuine ne tt» bouse; Mrs. Carol Hay, Dr. Leighton Ford as principal Graham Evangelistic Associa- ton , o hear ^ Aiken Tay- was translerred to Greenville Johnson, economy still has a consider- peace in Vietnam, I predict program; and Sam Williams, speaker. tion, will serve as the Clinton ^ e( jj tor 0 f ^ p re sbyterian G enera * Hospital with a bul- quoted, then wrested the pis- able degree of momentum, that tne issue will not be re- camping. Meanwhile, community-wide instructor. A native of South j 0 y rna j let wound of the neck and was tol from the Owens woman The spotlight on 1967, there- so lved in 1967. Though the Leader association rep- home prayer meetings Bend, Ind., he was educated speaking at the request 0 f bsted in 80od cond 'l ion - The and fired it himself. Coroner T 1 11 4 U w ^ J A I— . _ _ 4 _ _ rtl 4 l-\ . 1 T « r 4-1 r V 1V A m i r 1 n v-t t* C> M In /14-i M <-c 1 i Ini i C 13 *1 f o 1 /-V1 r • /-j 4 In n f n 117 O C- fore, should focus upon those tide of battle is swinging in resentatives are Miss Nellie throughout the county are at the University of Maryland th Hr0UD ^ jifferenees of shootin 2 took place in the bus- Pressley said the gun was factors which are likely to our f aV or, we may b^ forced Osborne, Lewa; Mrs. Gin Ja- being planned for two days and Columbia (S. C.) Bible op i n i on in the 6 church • today iness section off Wes t Main fired f *ve times in all. cause a breathing spell in ec- to increase our commitment c0bs > Kodaka and Mrs. Eva each week, beginning next College, where he served as a Dr Taylor pointed out that dif- St ' near the center of the cit y- Investigation was hv riintnn onomic activity. Politicans j n order t o retain this upper Lan > Petaga. Tuesday. These will continue class president and later as feren of 0 p inion are an ac " The coroner said they lived Police Lt. and labor leaders have a pho- hand. To serve °n the legal ad- each Tuesday and Friday assistant dean of men. He cepted fact of everv human at a c °P eland Park Circle ad- Laurens endeavor. dress in Clinton. They are Ne- bia against even a hesitancy 1 predict, therefore, that v i sor y an d auditing commit- morning through the crusade, now resides in Atlanta. in business, and rush head- military spending will be rais- tee wil l be Walter Sigman, Th e home prayer meetings The Laurens counselor "“There*is one issue he said g roes - long into measures designed ^ | n 1307 This can help soft- chairman; Wilmont Shealy will begin simtritaneouslr in training - classes are to be w hj c h i s being debated more He said they were passen ' ing - to treat a case of pneumonia ten the impact of any easing and Tench P. OWens. Clinton at 9:45 a m. and in held at the Church of the than an other within the when cold pUls would be i n the private sector of the Mrs - Carolyn Davidson is Laurens at 10:45 a m. At these Epiphany (Episcopal) also at churches today and that is the Burinl in TennPCSee more appropriate. economy. a member of the Regional times, 15-minute radio devo- 7:30 p.m., beginning January mission of the church . Two UU,IU, 1. Although business and fi- 9. Turning now to domestic Board aad Mrs. Eva Land tional broadcasts, led by 10. A second meeting is set g roups w h 0 m Dr Taylor de- nancial problems loom large conditions, I foresee a defin- wiU b e the representative to members of the Leighton lor Friday night, January 13, scrtbed as equally sincere in in the prospects for 1967, I ite deceleration in business ac- Regional meetings. , r . Ford Team, can be tied in followed by another on Janu- de dication to their belief, hold Investigation was by Clinton M. C. Stewart and County Sheriff R. Eugene Johnson and the coro ner said an inquest was pend- must first warn readers that tivity in 1967. The fantastic Serving on the nominating with the meetings and also ary 17 and then the final views whose differences on W P C C will Instructor for the Laurens vers j es regarding social, eco- devotional at counselor training classes will nomic and political matt er S . the greatest danger for the boom is in need of a rest. In- committee were Calvin Coo- can be heard during other joint session at PC on Janu- th j s point have been eX p ress _ year ahead does not exist on stead of the strong uptrend P er > chairman, Mrs. Mary days of th e week. Clinton ary 21. ed in wide _ ran ging contro- the domestic front. Surely it of recent yars, I look for a Mangum and Mrs. Mary B. radio station will be developments abroad high level of industrial pro- Sadler. broadcast its that will hold the gravest duction early in the ye^r; but threat to our contry. These unless some new stimulus is could be economic as well as introduced, I fear that a crest- military or political. , j.j ing - oyer patten} is likely to 2. I foresee no war between develop as 1967 progresses, the United States and Russia 10. I forecast a continuation in 1967. However, tensions be- of the tug of war between in tween the two world leaders nation and deflation in 1967. may seem to reach the break- Tight credit, and increased ing point as the Kremlin productive capacity resulting ‘‘goes all out” to create di- from the flood of business ca- Dr. L Ross Lynn Dies At Home In Florida Dr. L. Ross Lynn, 91, retir- from Southwestern School. Mills Adds $1,200,000 to Workers Profit-Sharing Accounts “One faction ” Dr Taylor ed Presbyterian minister and Theology, he heSd-several p3's-» id, “considers that as Chris- for 25 y ears President of torates in Georgia and Flor- be John O. Lenning, a crusade associate ol the Billy Graham sa j d “considers that as Chris Evangelistic Association and t j ans We baVe an obb g a tion Thornwell Orphanage, in Clin- ida. Before coming to Thorn- one who is helping to organize be f 0re (3 od t0 br ing a message tion ’ died Wednesday, Dec. 21, well he was pastor of Spring- the Laurens County Crusade, related to fundamental human at bi ® hofne at Tallahassee, field Presbyterian Church in He is a graduate of Furman need, and with it fchange men’s Fla “ wbere bc bad bved lor Jacksonville. Fla. University, a native of Sioux j ives ’. wb ii e lo others the a number of years. Survivors include, hi s wife, l alls, S. D., who now lives in cburcb i s a society of persons Funeral services were held Mrs. Edith DoWese Lynn Greenville. which exists for the purpose of Saturday at 11 a.m. at the As- Tallahassee: three sons, B». Any interested persons are having a beneticial effect on sociat e Reformed Presbyteri- R Matthew Lynn of Midland, invited to attend these ses- ,, an Church in Brighton, Tenn. Tex., Dr. Ross M. Lynn and version, lo our ettorts in Viet- piui expenditures in recent ^ “ i | 0nn0u "'' d emnljyeef who ha™ retired ,f ' m P ^ „h tk '' John Calvln ’ tlle ereat 16U ' l " terment was al nl ■ arb>, ^ Roberl U Lynn - both ° r Mem ^ to years, are denationary. HOW-^ e ^ ay aco ” trlbuUono151 -- re fred pec ,all y urged t. attend. The century rc[ormcr „ as bee „ lem. Tenn. subsUntlal 200 - 00<,tolt ' En 'P l '> yee » Prom d “ P local cou " s|,|ln 8 c,lmmlttee widely described as a man At the same hour as the Payments to eligible retir- chairman has announced the , , L . . x. w b 0 s e faith encompassed service in Brighton, a Simil- bor and other operating costs. 1966."-This year’s contribution ed em P lo y ce s during the past course wdl cover basics in the strong civic and sodal con . ar service was held Saturday ( r ando - ‘ a seven years have totaled $686,- life and witness of the Chris- cerns - said Dr; Taylor in Hartness . Thornwell Me- “ an- “which is very true, but in morial Presbyterian Church hundreds of his sermons in in Clinton, conducted' by Dr. < Latin and French no mention M. A. Macdonald, president ■ . nam. Look for Moscow throw .salt on festering wounds ever, I can see no in the Middle Eeast, Africa, relief from the inflation in la- Sharing Retirement Fund for and Germany. 3. I am also hopeful that a In short, we can have “cost- equals the largest amount ev- (w, na and the U. S. can be avoid- push” inflation co-existing con tributed in any one vear direct clash between Red Chi- with deflation. e conirioutea in any one year ed # in 1967., Internal dissen- 11. A key factor in the bus- since tbe fund began, sions are rampant throughout iness and fiancial outlook for The fund, which was begun Mainland China, and a great 1967 is taxes. With defense * n 1959, is currently valued scramble for power is in full outlays climbing, I look for a a t more than $6,000,000. swing. Sabre-rattling may help rise in corporate and personal A total of 4,419 employees to unify the people; but pres- taxes in 1961^-Moreover, I are participants in the fund sing problems of low produc- forecast that various levies at and account for 65 per cent of tivity, plus the demands of the state and local levels will all Greenwood Mills employ- her nuclear program, should continue to increase. ees. restrain Red China from di- 12. The Tightening tax All employees who are 25 rcct attack upon the United squeeze on all fronts will years of age and have com- States. worsen as the year advances, pieted 12 months of cOntinu- 4. The struggle for leader- And there will be rising com- ous service with the company ship of the Communist world plaints from both businessmen prior to the first day of each camp will continue unabated and employees that social se- calendar year are eligible for throughout 1967. Full political curity taxes are becoming un- membership in the fund, attack will be mounted by the bearable. Seventy-seven people retir- Kremlin against Peking. It 13. Results of the recent ed under the plan this year, will be touch and go, however, elections indicate that the whether Russia can persuade headlong run of the Great her wavering satellites to Society Program must take a sign a final manifesto read- breather along with the econ- ing Red China out of the Par- omy. Gains scored by the Re- ty. publicans have altered the 5. Recent elections in West balance of power cufficiently Germany have fanned the em- to force a more sober look in hers of nationalism into a tiny public spending, flame. This has surely thrown 14. One of the primary rea phis; two daughters, Miss Ett- zabeth Lynn of Tallahassee and Mrs. Robert W. Benn trf High Schoolers To Distribute Crusade Material 1^1; x is made about the conduct of of Thornwell Orphanage, as- 1 civic affairs or any particular sisted by Rev. James M. Ter- Phillips Accepts f Loris Pastorale = to becomtriMMnor of the Pra$- byter an Church at Loris “Ji Rev. .1. Gaynor Phillip, social concern which he held.” rell, former Thornwell stu- p a stor of Lydia and Rortc The speaker describing this dent, now pastor of the Pres- Bridge Presbyterian ChurS£- diiference of belief on the byterian Church /of Ware cs, will relinquish the W' mission of the church as a Shoals. to bcconH*>«iffl’or ol widespread feature of church Also the first week in Jan life today and fundamental to uary, at a date to be deter- Horry County, the concern with such mat- mined, a memorial service for He has served Lydia and ters as the National Council Dr. Lynn will be held in Faith Rock Bridge since June 2f 01 Churches. Presbyterian “Church, Talla- 1934. The Presbyterian Journal hassee. Mr. and Mrs. Phillips aiyl which Dr. Taylor edits was Dr. Lynn came to Thorn- their younger daughter wi|l described by local Presbyter- well Orphanage in 1918, one move to Loris the first ians as the fastest - growing year following the death of next week, publication of the dehomina- Dr. William Plumer Jacobs, tion, and the one which car- founder and for 42 years pres- SD°ok SlHldoV r.es more news about matters Ident of Thornwell. Prior to „ \ , within the church. that Dr. Lynn had served for f « cv ’ ' Ja " ld Ro88 ‘ who . i8 .I#lar will hi> eieht vix^rc a mi^mhor of Plough from the mission Mrs. G. N. Foy (left) and Miss Kittle Moseley hold silver trays presented them .by the supervisors and office staff of the Joanna plants of Greenwood Mills on the occasion of their retirement. Members of the Youth Com- a scare into Russian leaders, sons for expecting a decelra- mittee of the Leighton Ford I predict that they will take tion in the economy is the like- Crusade requests that all Clin- a harder line against Germany lihood that business capital ton High School students meet in 1967 than in some time. I expenditures may ease. Tight at the Broad Street Metho- feel that we should particu- credit, suspension of acceler- dist Church Friday at 3:30 employees of the Joanna served for 13 lears as admin- Taylor of Clinton, larly watch General de Gaulle, ated depreciation guidelines, p.m. to distribute Crusade p ] antB 0 f Greenwood Mills istrator of tbe Joanna Hospi- who is playing closer and clo- and suspension of the tax ere- material. ^ _ , tl tal, has been employed by the HortOfl Receives Mrs. Foy, Miss Moseley Retire Joanna — Two long-time 10 church. V*«C»V 4-^* . 4^*444* 44C4U OV.4 * 4 V»4 A s.rWlar meeting will be eight years as a member of (o^ough fioin lh< announced for some time in the board of trustees of Thorn- in orea, wi spay January. well from the Presbyterian A graduate of Presbyterian Synod of Florida. College and Columbia Theolo- Dr. Lynn regarded his ser- gicai Seminary, Dr. Taylor vice at Thornwell as the most served as a World War II in- fruitful years of his ministry, fantry officer and was award- leading the institution in a ed the Ph.D degree by Duke period of growth and expan- Universlty for studies in the sion. In that position he be- teachings of John Calvin. He came widely known over missi d in Korea, will s th.* morning worship hoifr Sunday at the First Presby terian Church. Z Rev. and Mrs. Ross (thfe former Ellen Fraser), Fresh] tegao.. missionaries, are ma ing their home at Misa Court in Richmond, Va., wh on fhrlough. They are spec Miss’* Moseley, who also » Ule son of Mrs. Julio Pratt South Carolina. Georgia, and rL. „.Jl <, j! da>, o r *'!!!, ’ ' Florida ' sybods ot wBlch T. Layton Frirer v! support the orphanage. „..y He retired in 1943 and was _ _ aer to Moscow from month dit on business capital outlays Following distribution of the vytre bonored recently upon compan y^j nce 1949 u ^ named president emeritus. Beaty Serving to month. will be tough obstacles to sur- material, the workers will re- their retiremnt. They were honored with a MCNt Citation After his retirement he re- Marine Private First 6. Heavily armed with So- mount. turn to the church for supper "Mrs. G. N. Foy, an execu- luncheon in the Community Horace P. Horton Jr. was turned to Florida where he Wayne 4T. Beaty, son of viet weapons, the Arabs of 15. Except in defense Indus- and to see a film, “Becket.” tive secretary with the com- House here Friday, Dec. 16, awarded a “Merit Citation” was interim pastor of several and Mrs. O. F. Beaty the Middle East — squared tries, I look fon an abrupt A Crusade Youth Commit- pany, and Miss Kittie Mose- by the supervisors and office from Georgia Military College Presbyterian churches. S. Broad St.. Clinton, off against Israel — present switch during 1967 from a bus- tee has been organized at ley, plant nurse, will leave staff and presented sterling in Milledgeville, Ga. for out- Dr. Lynn, a native of West ving in the Pong Ha 1 a grave threat to world peace, iness policy of inventory ac- each high school in the coun- their posts at the end of the silver trays. Officers and staff standing grades during the Tennessee, was a graduate of Vietnam a sa member Nevertheless, I do not be- cumulation to one of inventory ty and will make similar dis- year. members of the Greenwood fall quarter. He is the son of Southwestern University, for- Company, Third “ lieve that Russia or the United liquidation. tribution of pvbmotion mater- Mrs. Foy has been with Mills organization were guests Mr. and Mrs. Horton of Wal- merly at Clarksville, now of Fourth Marine States can afford a direct con- (Continued on Pagex.4) ial. the firm Eince4943. , • the occasion. nut Street, Clmton. Memphis. Graduating also Third Marine Oi