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Clinton Chronicle
Vol.68 —No. 10
Clinton, S. C, Thursday, March 9,1967
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These views are typical of the scenes presen ted in practically all rooms at Providence (Lydia) Elementary School Sunday pfter a visit by vandals
Local Donations Total $150,000
—Photos by Paul Quinton
Hospital District To
Build Nursing Home
Budget of $1,909,000
Adopted by PC Board
Probyterian College trustees Trustees assembled Monday
Tuesday adopted a budget ol night to meet in cpmmittpes
almost $2 million and elected
new officers for the coming
Vandals Wreck Inside
Of School in Lydia Area
year as t\yo highlights of their
rnnual business session on
campus.
Dr. Eugene T. Wilson, pas-
preliminary steps have been $20,000, Greenwood Mills $20,- Senator W. C. Dobbins and
completed for the Clinton Ilos- 000, the C. W. Anderson Foun- approved by Representative
pital District to construct a dation $10,000 and the E. L. W. Paul Culbertson and David
40-bed long term care (nurs- Mansure Company $5,000. S. Taylor. It was further point
Ing home) facility, accord ng The remaining $45,000 of the ed out that no tax increase
to announcement this week by Ipeal share will be obtained will result from £he sale of
Ryan F. Lawson, chairman of from the sale of notes of the notes.
the Board of Directors. Clinton Hospital District The county delegation also
The nursing home will be which were authorized by leg- introduced legislation amend- . . , ......
located on the Ba ley Memor- islation introduced by State ing the enabling act of the V <,n ’ 1 .. VV * ^ a 0 0 .. K lanta
day morning with Chairman
Robert M. Vance, presiding.
community
tor emeritus of Atlanta’s After a report from PC Presi-
Pcachtree P r e s b y t e r i a n dent Marc C. Weersing, the
Church, was nameef board following committee chair-
chairman succeeding banker- men reported:
industrialist Robert M. Vance Wallace Montgomery of At
finance
and complete detailed plans Vandals had a field day shelves and scattered over the breaking in a rear door. On
for presentation to the full during the weekend at Provi- llooi, some ripped apart, two the same night they entered
board which convened Tues (, ence Elementary School, world globes smashed, ink on Jesse Abercrombie Barber
which serves the Lydia Mill walls and windows,
area, doing damage estimated Auditorium: Ripped out ev-
at $2,000 to $3,000. cr y hammer but five in piano.
They invaded practically ev- Office: New copying ma-
ery room in the building, chine and clock smashed, per-
smashing practically every- manent records ruined by io-
thing in sight, ruining pianos, ( jj ne all( | j n | < splashed over
desks, classroom aids, books, contents of files and •walls,
School Trustee
Election Tuesday
ial Hospital property and op
erated by the hospital’s Board
of Directors.
Mr. Lawson stated that the
need for this type facility in
the Clinton Hospital District
has been evident for scvtral
years and it is I'eit tiiat it will
be a tremendous benefit to
the community.
The cost of construct ng and area-
equipping the facility will * wo can didates
amount to approximately racc
district to au horize the hospi
tal board to construct ami op
erate a long term care (nurs
ing home) facility.
In addition to Lawson, oth
er Clinton Hospital D.strict
Board members arc Dr.
W. C.
board alter this meeting, committee
James A. Chapman, Jr., of son of Atlanta
Next Tuesday, March 14, a
school trustee election will be OcorKc R, Blalock,
held in the Clinton attendance Ntwly litmtl It. Meyers and
John M Simmons, f red N. l0 u H . c . urmlt budgel o t
are in the Crawford, Jr is admmistra- $| 72u 001) and includcs th( . sc
J. A. Orr, incumbent, '' ir ® 0 31 °y emoria llcnls: aux i|iary enterprise.; -
$575 000 of which* $383,000 will anfl Robert B. Wassung. Hosp.ta . $388,000; instructional expense
be provided by . the federal Four voting precincts will --$534,000; administrative aod
Hill-Burton program admin- be provided, including the ti° n were made in those aie.i-.. general $230,000; operation
istered by the South Carolina Armory on S. Broad St., the 1 be post ol c hail man ol tli' and . maintenance $143,000;
Board of Hedltb. Lawson city hall on N. Broad St., the board is not subject to elec- scholarships — $125,000; and
stated that the f rst two parts community house on Aca- tio n, but is madc^ by apjioint- depreciation — $80,000.
of the Hill Burton application demy St., and the -~Long rnen ^ by the County Roaivl. ^ . .
have already been approved Branch voting precinct. Polls James Von Hollen, chairman
by the Sale Board of Health will be open from 8 a. m. to for District 53, whose term had
and the U. S. Public Health 6 p. m. cxpiied, was re-appuintted.
Service. The County Board of Educa- Terms of other- members <>!
The $195,000 local share of lion ip a meeting Mohday the board did not expire his
the project has been* obtained night in Laurens re-appointed year.
primarily from donations. Tile S. C. Blackmon \o sepe for i Similar elections are ski e i
Bailey Foundation con.ribu.ed the Mouhtville ‘atteindance Tuesday in District .Vi (Lai
$48,000, the Duke EhdoWment area and Calvin Ctioper fur ions) inducing Ford attend
$47,000, the. Torrington Com- the Lydia ’ attendance area, ance arCa and (iray Court
pany - Clinton Bearings Plant , since no requests ;Jqr an olec- Owings attendance area.
. . , , academic ai- s pi as hing ink on
Spartanburg, president oi In- lairs; Hugh Jacobs of Clinton dows and floorc
man Mills, was named vice-. _ student affair's; L. J. O’Cal-
chairman; and Hugh S. Ja- laghan of Atlanta — financial
cobs of Clinton, co-owner of development; J. L. Bruce of
Jacobs Brothers printing firm, Cornelia, Gar — physical de
secretary. veiopment; and Jacobs lor
The 1907-09 budget ol $1,- Chairman Vance — executive
909.000 adopted Tuesday com- committee.
Shop and the
building.
February 26, Walker ad
mitted entering the Lydia
school alone and taking meat
from the lunch room freezer,
and the same night entered
the community house, the
sheriff said.
All three men have been
charged, warrants were sign
ed by Sheriff Johnson late
Entrance to the building was sma bed and bath fixture da- Tuesda y n^bt, issued bvMag-
gained by breakini! a ulass in maiiod. Istratc Charle5 T - 0akley '
a side door and reaching in - - .
i lin Di K Merle I'Tltvr ° ffice t ' qu,pnu ‘ nt ' mirror s- tlu> desk ruined by i
l . Dr. Mt it * a tRi clock - signal system, and ex t n <>uisher.
anta — academic al- sp i as hj n y j n k on ^alls, win- w.nn.
acid from fire
w,n ' 'I’cachers lounge: Upholster
ed furniture ripped, mirror
to turn the lock- Lady Wednesday af ernoon
Once ii side, they gave eon- Sheriff It. Lugcne Johnson an-
tents of the building a tlior- nourteed the arrest of two
A s eoial citation and leath- (,u R h Roing-over. R. P. Wild- men, both from the Lydia
cr luggage were presented to er ’ superintendent of District community, in connection with
Vance at the Monday night 50 schools termed the damage the vandalism at the Lydia
dinner in appreciation for his worsl ^bat had been ex- Elementary School over the
“eminent service” as a trustee
sii.: e 1952 and as board chair-
n a.i since 1957, longest tenure
ever served by a PC chair
man.
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—Quinton Phoio
To Raise Taxes for School Needs Jsanna Boy Drowns in Pond
Columbia — Trustees of Lau- district who opposed any tax ty auditor and treasurer and
rens County’s two school dis- increase petitioned the County County Legislative Delegation
tricts would in effect be given Board of Education for a re- and also published in a ne.v -
authority to raise school taxes ferendum on the question.
to meet school reeds in legis- The board would set up the in Laurens County,
lation introduced Thursday by referendum machinery and Budgets would have to i <
Laurens House members. tabulate results.
The legislation requires the If a majority of those voting ty of each of the two boards,
two trustee boards to prepare favored a tax increase, the Before raising taxes, the au
budgets annually for operat- county auditor would be re- ditor would be requested to
ing and mainta ngirg schools quired to levy it. Otherwise polish a statement sh )wing
and to provide sufficient mo- there would be no tax increase, the increase in special deta' l.
ney to supplement teachers’ The school boards of Dis- Referendum petit ons woul I
salaries by 20 per tent of the tricts 55 and 56 would be re- have to be submitted wilh.n
annual state aid. Budgets quired to submit their budgets 20 days, of the last day t e
would have to be made public, this year on or before April 15, requested tak^ increase wi
The county auditor would be and on or before Feb. 1 of published,
compered to levy sufficient each succeeding year for the The legislation was offer, I
taxes to provide necessary following year. The district by Reps. David Taylor a i 1
revenues tor the budgets. superintendent would assist in Paul Culbertson of La ir, n.s
Such taxes would be levied preparation of budgets. ' *and came after meetings be
Coroner Marshall Pressley The victim’s body was
perienced in his many years week-end.
< onneetion with the school sys- *
tern. Arrested was -Thomas Ed-
oames A. Longshore, prin- ward Lawson, 20, who admit-
e pal of the school, staled that ted his part in the vandalism,
several other entries had been Another man, apprehended in
made into the building during the case, while implica ed,
recent months. lias not admitted his partici-
The vandalism was discW- pation, the sheriff said. Both
cred Sunday morning by Er- are being held in the county
nest Davis, custodian, when jail at Laurens,
he f went to the school on a The building was' entered
routine check. He immediate- between 3:00 and 4:00 a. m.
ly. notified school authorities. Sunday, the sheriff said.
Tin^e of entry v\as not im- Sjierili Johnson sa d lie and
mediately determined, but his deputies investiga ed the
school officials said that res- case from early Sunday to
idents of the area reported Tuesday, when announcement,
seeing some >oung men of the arrests v\as made. He
around the bui'd ng and commended bis staff highly
ground.; about 9 o’clock Satur- for their work on the case,
day night. OTHER BREAK-INS
Every Room II t The sheriff at the same time president of the Clinton Cham-
Following is the damage, told of the apprehension of an- her of Commerce for the fis-
1 s ed by rooms: oiher man of the same com- ca l year 1967-68 by the board
and installed at
annual
Adair to Head
Commerce Group
I. Mac Adair was named
First grade: Sprayed
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Second: Record player da- other
munity, William Thomas of d j recdors
extinguisher here and in hall. Walker, 20, in connection with .
break ins in the Lydia * he close oi the _ annual sup-
sa d he will schedule an in- found in the water at the edtte matted, scattered and dumatt- area, 't he sheriff said Walker P er meeting on I ue: day even-
with M t , n o ra i circulation quoSl inl ° the dcath of An ’ of the pond approximately lor- ed books. acted alone in two cases, and ing.
. - • „ . ‘ thony Lee Blackwell, 4-year- ty minutes after a search was Third: New record player. was joined by Lawson in four Robert B. Wassung will
old Joanna boy who drowned s arted bv his Jollier. The wa- s olen, bulletin board ripped other instances. serve as first
. . . ,. Thursday in a farm pond near ter was approximately four from wall, flowers tern from On January 15, Lawson and
approve y a ea.> a majo.. ijj s home. feet deep where the child was puts, piano damaged. Walker attempted to enter th :
The viclim was the son of found. Fourth: Ripped out wall pro- Lydia Mill Store
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Lee The pond, on property own- jection screen and maps, root vent.lator, but were
laekwel who live in a trail- ed by Fred Hayes, cove;s Fifth: Door off cabinet. succtssiul in getting into the second vice president. ,
(V park on S. C. Highway 66 ab ut half an acre, Pressley Sixth: Books torn and scat- building. The new slate of officers will
sa d. The nearest trailer was tered over floor. January 2. the two men en- assume their office April 1
witlvn 20'J feet of the pond. Library: Books pulled from tered the Lydia school by together with five new direc
tors recently named in a mail
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Robert
serve as first vice-president
and M. Dillard Milam Jr. as
treasurer. Claude A. Crocker,
not retiring president, will become
near the pond where the tra
gedy occurred.
Anthony Towne To
Speak March 15 At
Al! Saints Church
The Reverend Peter D.
Ou/'s, vicar of All Saints Epi-
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automatically unless at least Copies of the budgets would tween th? full delegation and ^opa+TTmrch, Was announced
125 qualified electors in each have to be filed with the coun- school officials. ,hr,t t,r ‘ * a - st -peaker in the
. Wedresday night Lenten ser-
: e; w ll be Anthony Towne, a
irec-larce wr ter, who w ll ap
pear on March 15 at 7:30
, P-m.
Mr. Towne is a native of
Massachusetts and was grad
uated from Andover and Yale.
H : s poems and essays have
apoeared : n the “New' York
er”, the ‘‘Sewa ee Review”,
“Motive” (“God is Dead in
; Georgia,” a satirical obitu
ary), and other magazines.
He-is currently under contract
with Harper and Row for “Ex
cerpts from the D : ary of the
I ate God” and “The -Bishop
Pike Affair” (co-au’hor) and
with Seabury Press for “Fai h
Today”. The public is invited
to attend.
Previous speakers in this
series have included Yancey
Robertson and David Lowry
of Winthrop College, Fried
rich Schmitt of Charlotte, and
Jean McCown of Whitten Vil
lage.
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Musicians Rehearse for Role Tonight
^ Clinton High School musicians are
shown during rehearsals for the musi
cal comedy, “Mr. Crane,” to be pre
sented tonight and Friday night at 8
o’clock in the school auditorily*^ The
play is being given by the Vombintd
chorus and band. ,
Shown (first rev) ai*e Johnny
Bolt, Mike Lewis, Collie Lehn, Ace
Workman, Larry Addis; second row
—Kathy Bouknight, Nancy Jones, Al
len Finley, Hal Bouknight, Joey Lee,
Butch Meodors; third row—Bill Weir,
Butch Meadows; 3rd. row, Steve Ben
jamin; silanding—Carole Perry, Stetc
Sanders. — Photo by Taiboioueh.
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College Board Officers Elected
The Presbyterian College Board
of trustees, holding its annual busi
ness session on campus last Monday
and Tuesday, elected new officers
to servo for the coming y^ar. A-t.
ghuw.n in ibis picture, {left to right,
they are: Hugh S. Jacebu CLu
ton, secretary; Dr. Eugene T. Wil
son of Atlanta, chairman; receiving
congratulations from Robert S.
Vance of Clinton, retiring chair
man; and James A. Chapman, Jr.,
of Spartanburg, vice - chairman.—
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ballot.
Named to serve on the board
for the 1967-70 term were
George B. Brockenbrough. Joe
S. Holland, B. Noland .Sud-
deth, D. B. Smith and J. C.
Thomas.
Continuing d rectors are: l.
Mac Adair, W. C. Baldwin,
Tom Plaxico, Shelton J. Rim
er, Robert B. Wa-sung. terms
expiring 1968; C. W. Anderson,
W. R. Anderson. George 11.
Cornelson, Charles T. Pitts,
and Louis M. Stephens, terjns
expiring 1969.
Adair, a native of Clinton,
a graduate of Presbyterian
Col ege, active in other civic,
community and church af
fairs, is an elder of the First
Presbyterian Church, charter
member of the Cl nton Lions
Club. Owner of Adair’s Men’s
Shop, Mr. Adair entered the
retail clothing business in
1932.
Power To Be
Off Sunday
Duke Power Company hfts
announced that electricity in
the city will be off for live
minutes Sunday morning,
from 7:00 to 7:06, in order to
make a change in the linen.