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I *■ PC President With Symbol Presbyterian College President Marc C. Weer- sintfs smiles broadly as he displays the caricature of the modern “Scottish Highland Fighter,” adopt ed as the new symbol of PC fighting athletic spirit./ It is to be carried on athletic department letter heads, Walter Johnson decals and football helmets. Full-color sketches, suitable for framing, similar to the one displayed by President Weersing, are available through the PC athletic department for $1 each.—Yarborough Photo. Legislators Not Yet Agreed on School Bill Retired General To Speak Friday To College Students The President of the pres tigious Economic Club of De troit will address the Presby terian College student body this Friday morning on the subject of “Our Asiatic Trou bles.” He is Lester S. Bork, retired general and former senior army advisor to Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-shek on For mosa, who since 1962 has headed the weekly public for um sponsored by the business leaders of Detroit. He will speak at 10 a. m. in Belk Auditorium, and the public is invited. General Bork, a West Point graduate who later taught law there, served in the U. S. Army from 1929 until his re tirement in 1962. He saw con siderable action in World War II, mainly with the 24th Corps, and was involved in nine in vasions, including Saipan, Pe- leliu and Leyte. In 1946, he became the acting Judge Ad vocate of the 8th Army and chief defense counsel for the Japanese military war crim inal trials. General Bork la ter spent a number of years in top staff'work in the Penta gon and was advisor to the President of Nationaiffi China from 1958 to I960.' The Clinton Chronicle Vol.68 —No. 13 Clinton, S. C., Thursday, March 30,1967 Families Urged to Apply In Food Stamp Program Laurens County legislators reseryed comment Tuesday on critical statements made by District 55 school trustee P. W. McAlister in Laurens Monday night. Rep David Taylor of Laur ens indicated, however, he may have a statement later. Meanwhile, Laurens House members again adjourned de bate on Sen. W. C. (Bill) Dob bins’ amendments to their school tax bill. House members passed leg islation to make a referendum i Dr. Y. L. Kruger, Whitten Village Physician, Dies Dr. Victor L. Kruger, 72, native of Hungary and Whit ten Village doctor lor the past lour years, died Wednesday at noon in a local hospital after a long illness. Native of Nagyvarard, Hun gary, son of the late Victor and Eugenia Gabanyi Kruger, he was a member of St. Bona- face Catholic Church of Joan na. He received his M.D. de gree at the University of Bud apest, Hungary, and practic ed medicine and surgery in Budapest, Germany and New f York, N. Y., prior to coming to South Carolina and had Served on the medical staff of the State Hospitla in Columbia for 10 years before joining the staff of Whitten Village. He served with the medical corps of the Hungarian Army as a lull colonel before fleeing from the advancing Russians in 1945. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Magdalene Mae Kruger; two daughters, Mrs. George (Mad- dalcne) Csavoly of Budapest and Mrs. John (Agnes) Ben- cestler of Long Beach, Calif.; a son, Capt. John Bela Tar- soly, USAF, Sacramento, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Eugenia Kaprinay of Hungary; and a grandson. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at St. Boni face Church Joanna, by Rev. Peter K. Btrberich. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery, •Clinton. Pallbearers were Dr. Allan G. Arscott, Dr. Francisco La- querica, Dr. Louis Hajtman- szky, Dr. Toltan Agardy, L. H. Lee and Richard Dubose. Honorary pallbearers were Cletus W. S. Horne, Dr. D. O. Rhame, Dr. Charles Josa, Dr. E. N. Sullivan, Dr. Roy B. Suber, Dr. B. O. Whittten, Dr. Koloman Lehotsky, Dr. Rol and Z. Farkas, add J. William Abiam_. on school tax increases re quested by district school boards, optional. Dobbins amended the bill to make ref- erendums mandatory. The three delegation mem bers have been trying for sev eral days to work out a solu tion to their dilemma andi may be near one. McAlister scored the delega tion at a public meeting at which the district’s operation al budget for 1967-68 and the pending legislation were dis cussed. The trustee called for sup port of the measure to make the tax referendum optional. Unless a referendum were called, this method would re quire the county auditor to automatically raise taxes to meet bugetary requests. In scoring the delegation, McAlister declared, “The most grevious error we made was in following a policy of all-out cooperation with the legislative delegation. We have remained silent because of political considerations. “This has created the im pression that the trustees have been secretive wijth your tax money” McAlister satd trustees ask ed the delegation on Feb. 20 to submit the proposed plan, of, automatic tax increases 1 t0 referendum* buMt was declift* ed. • / ; • V 1 , ■ Ordination Service For Mr. King April 9 An ordination service for Lamar King will be held at Bush River Baptist Church in Laurens County on April 9 at 4 p. m. Mr. King is a second year student at the Baptist Theo logical Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and is a pastor of a Bapt ist Church in Indiana. The public is invited to at tend |he service. v Church Women Of 5 .C. Presbytery To Meet April 5*6 Women of the Church, South Carolina PresbyteFy, Presby terian Church, U. S., will hold the annual meeting at Green ville Church, Donalds, April 6. Registration and fellowship will begin at 9:00 a.m. The meeting will be called to or der at 10:00 a.m. by the act ing-president, Mrs. Scott George of Laurens. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m by the host church. • For the first time, there will be an evening meeting for those unable to attend during the day. This session will be held the previous evening, April 5, at First Presbyterian Church of Greenwood. Regis tration and fellowship will be gin at 7:00 p.m. Call to order will follow at 7:45 p.m. Speakers for both sessions will be Rev. Calvin Theilman, pastor of Montreal Presbyter ian Church; Mrs. W. Tobbin Cassels, president of Women of the Church, Synod of South Carolina; and Mrs. Marc C. Weersing, Birthday Interpret er for South Carolina Presby tery. A business session will be included in the day-time meet ing at Greenville Church, Donalds* . . . * 4 ' * - J • Supper Arranged For Camp Fire Regional Director On Tuesday, April 4, the Camp Fire Girls and their par ents will have a covered dish supper at the Presbyterian College dining hall at 7:30 p. m. Miss Della Ricks, of Jack sonville, Fla., who is regional director for the Third District will be here April 4, 5 and 6, will be a guest. Mrs. J. F. Jacobs, Jr. is assisting. Needy families in Laurens County should apply as soon as possible for assistance un der the U. S. Department of Agriculture s food stamp pro gram, so they can be certified in time to receive help when the program gets underway on April 3, USDA’s Consumer arid Marketing Service said today. The Consumer and Market ing Service and the Laurens County Department of Pub lic Welfare poyited^ out that there is is no deadline for fa- Mrs. Johnson Attends Meeting in Dallas Mrs. Robert Johnson, Assis tant Director of Guidance at Presbyterian College, has re turned from Dallas, Texas, where she attended the nation al convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Asso- elation March 20-March 23. She also attended the meeting of the Guidance Section of the Presbyterian Education Asso ciation of the South on March 18 and 19. This organization is composed of the profession al staff of. the Presbyterian Guidance Centers located throughout the Southeastern states, and Mrs. Johnson is currently serving as secretary ot this group. ¥ * Health Center To Be Closed Today The Clinton Health Center will be closed today so that the nurses may attend a meet ing, it was announced today by Dr. Von A. Long, director of Laurens County Health De partment. milies to apply for food stamp assistance. Needy persons may apply at any time, in cluding after the opening date. However, those who apply now will have an opportunity to be interviewed and possibly certified in time to start get ting food stamp coupons when the program first opens. Mrs. Alice Davidson, direc tor of the Laurens County Department of Public Welfare, said needy persons in the county may apply for food stamp assistance Mondays through Fridays from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p.m. at the Lucas St. Laurens office. All persons who have low incomes and are not able to buy enough food to give their families what they need should apply for assistance. Among those often eligible are retired persons living on small pensions, and anyone receiving welfare help such as aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the dis abled, and old age assistance. Mrs. Davidson urges all needy persons in the county to go to the welfare office as soon as possible and ask about the food stamp program All persons must he interviewed to find out if they are eligible, and must be given identifica tion cards, before they may swap their grocery money for USDA fond coupons and use the cupons to buy food. Those taking part in the pro gram swap what they normal ly could be expected Jto spend on food for food coupons, then receive extra, free coupons. The extra coupns help food stamp families buy more food without spending extra mon ey. 1 Highway Patrolman C. W. Neal and Laurens City Police Assist at Wreck Scene. — (Jimmy Quinton Photo). One Is County Coroner's Son Three Die in Head-on Collision Near Laurens . Major Spillers Shot Down in Combat Word was received here this week that Maj. Jack Spillers, son of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Spillers of, Clinton, sustained hack and leg injuries when his F-105 fighter-bomber was shot down in combat over North Vietnam on March 27 after successfully flying 55 previous missions. He was res cued by helicopter and hospi talized. The extent of his in juries is not known at this time. A graduate of Clinton High School and Clemson Un iversity. Maj. Spillers is a 13- year veteran, presently based at Korat, Thailand. His wife ’and three children are mak ing their home in Atlanta dur ing his absence. Hanna Named To Laurens Dist. School Position Laurens — K. C. Hanna,' 49, has been named superinten dent of Laurens County School District 55, it was announced by W. E. Hunt, trustee chair man. Hanna, presently serving as superintendent of Denmark, S. C. schools, will replace F. P. Thonipson, who is resigning at the end of this school year. Hanna holds a BS degree from Newberry College ahd f an MA degree from the Uni versity of S(.uth Carolina. He has done further graduate work at Columbia University. He started with the Den mark schools in 1952 as a principal and was named su perintendent three years la ter. MR. ROGERS New Board Member DR. BLALOCK Board Chairman Roberts Named to Board Of Hospital District E. W. Roberts of Joanna has been appointed to a five- year term as a member of the Clinton Hospital District Board of Directors, to serve until March 12, 1972. The appointment was made by Governor R. E. McNair upon recommendation of the remaining members of the board. Roberts succeeds Da vid R. Meyers, whose term ex pired March lii. Board Elects Officers At the regular monthly meeting of the Board of Dir ectors on Tuesday t March 21, Dr. George R. Blalock was elected chairman to succeed Ryan F. Lawson. Mr. Rob erts was named vice-chair man, and W. C. Neely, secre tary. Mr. Lawson continues as a member of the board as does John M. Simmon,. Cadet Lawman Named to Citadel's Summerali Guards Cadet Blake Gordon Low- man, son of Lt. Col. and Mrs. 11. F. Lowman, Jr., Alexand ria, Va., has earned member ship in the elite Summerali Guards of 1967-68 at The Ci tadel, Charleston. He and 60 other cadets ach ieved the ultimate in military accomplishment recent- Jy when named to this unit wHlch is the military college’s precision drill team. The win ners of coveted positions as Summerali Guards were se lected from some 200 juniors who sought the honor/ and the strenuous and demanding competition a lasted several weeks. , Dr. Keister's Subject Dr. E. B. Keisler, interim pastor of the St. John’s Luth eran Church, announces as his subject for next Sunday morn ing, “In the Afterglow of Fas- U-r”. Rites Saturday For Dessie Wilkes Dessie Wilkes, 60, of Bald win Heights, died Thursday at 10:50 p.m. at Bailey Me morial Hospital after a long illness. Native of Dublin, Ga., son of the late Ben C. and Mary Beasley Wilkes, he attended Calvary Baptist Church and was employed as a salesman by Baldwin Motor Co. for 18 years. Surviving arc his wife, Mrs. Elsie Patterson Wilkes; a daughter, Mrs. Thomas E. ‘‘(Snookic) Holley of Clinton; a sister, Mrs. Paul (Ethel) Stroud of Greenville; a broth er, Otis Wilkes of Dublin; his stepmother, Mrs. Clyde Young of Dublin; three half - sisters, Mrs! Dolma (Lois) Horton of Dublin, Mrs. Avis Rogers of Fort Ord, Calif., and Mrs. Richard (Dhyrtice) of Clin ton: and a grandson. Funeral services were con ducted Saturday at 4 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church by Rev. J. W. Spillers and Rev. J. B. Abercrombie. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. Pallbearers were W. C. and Tom Baldwin. Murphey Tim merman, Cassie Joye, Ken neth S. McCary and Melvin Huey. Hurricane Baptists To_Honor Pastor On Sunday April 2 f r o fft 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. the Women’s Missionary Society of the Hur ricane Baptist Church will hold a reception honoring the new pastor. Rev. J. C. Conoly and family. The reception will be held in the fellowship (iah. The puljllc la 111v lied. Willingham Named Riant Manager For Greenwood Mills John E. (Bill) Willingham has been named plant mana ger of the Durst plant of Greenwood Mills. He had been assistant mnager. A native of Newberry, Wil lingham is a graduate of Clin ton High School and Presby terian College. He was em ployed by the Joanna Cotton Mills from 1940 until that com pany was acquired by Green wood Mills in July of 1965. During that time, he served ed as an industrial engineer, head of the industrial engin eering department and assis tant superintendent of weav- 'ng and yarn preparation. He came to Greenwood’s Durst plant in late 1965. He and his wife, the form er Juanita Franks of Joanna are parents of three children, John, 19; Rebecca, 16; Tom, 17. The family attends Joan na’s First Paptist Church. • DUririfc World War. If, Wil lingham served three arid a half years in the U. S. Army Air Corps, serving aboard a B-29 as bombadier. He was discharged as a first lieuten ant. - . I Delegation To Meet Monday The Laurens County legisla tive delegation will hold its regular monthly meeting in the Laurens County C o u r t House on next Monday at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited to at tend. Attend Drapery Clinic Claude M. Lawson and James E. Rohm of Lawson Furniture Co., Joanna, recent ly attended a drapery clinic and decorating school in Sal isbury, N. C. Three youths, two from Greenville County and one from Laurens County, appar ently met instant death Wed nesday night, March 22, in a grinding crash of two cars, one of which burned, near Laurens. Dead were Donnie Keith Pressley, 19, Rt. 1, Waterloo, son of Laurens County Coro ner Marshall Pressley. Also, Theodore J. Birdsall, III, 18, of Greenville, and Bill Thackston, 21, Rt. 2, Simpson- ville. Two Greenville girls were injured. Miss Sheila Gerken, 19, of 2801 Edwards Road, student, at North Greenville Junior College, was transfer red from Laurens District Hospital to Greenville Gen eral Hospital for treatment of leg and wrist fractures. Her condition was termed fair. Her sister, Miss Rose Yvonne Gerken, 17, Wade Hampton High School student, was dismissed after treatment at the Laurens hospital for lesser injuries. They were in a 1967 Chevelle with the Birdsall and ! Thack ston youths headed north on U. S. Highway 221, returning from a trip to Lake Green wood. State 4 Highway Patrol Cpl. A. W. Hampton said Thackston was driving. The corporal put time of the acci dent at 10:30 p.m. The Chevelle was in appar ently head-on collision wtih a 1966 Ford Mustang in which the Pressley youth was alone, driving south toward Water loo. Cpl. Hampton said the im pact apparently occurred in the southbound (Pressley’s) lane of travel. The cars plunged from the road, came to rest 150 yards apart, the Chevelle on its top and aflame the Mustapg on its side. The two girls were pulled from the burning Chevelle by an unidentified passerby, who told officers first on the scene that he was unable to rescue their companions, whose bod ies could not be removed un til a Laurens city fire truck and crew arrived about mid night. Cancer Society Meet Set April 7 The annual educational meeting of the Laurens Coun ty Unit of (he American Can cer Society will be held at Hotel Mary Musgrove, April 7 at 7:30. This will be a din ner meeting, the Laurens County Commander, Mrs. Sa rah DcLoaehe stated. Fontosticks to Present Musical Three Nights Presbyterian College’s post poned production ot The Fan- tasticks, off - Broadway musi cal now recognized as a mod ern classic, will open a three- night stand tonight (Thurs day) in Belk Auditorium. Curtain-time is 8 p.m. to night as well as for the other performances on Friday and Saturday. The play is open to the public ,with tickets selling for $1 for adults and 50 cents for students. It was first sche duled for mid-March but had to be postponed when virus struck the cast*. All advanced tickets will be honored, and tickets also will be available at the box ofice each evening. A po^t gol-yibf A joint production of the Presbyterian College Players and the music department, the play has English Profes sor James 'L. ESkin soi James L. Skinner as di rector and ^IVTusic Professor Charles T. Gaines supervising the music and orchestration. It stars Jill Clark of Joanna, Tim Hegleson of Jackson, Miss., Sam Hobson of Ander son and Danny Brown of Aus tell, Ga. Other featured roles are played by Ray Combs of Bradenton, Fla., Rick Stall of Greenville and Randy Fere- bee of Gastonia. N. C. Mary Anne Pennington of the art department handles the stag ing and costuming, while Vic ki Brown of Sumter is the stu dent assistant director. The Fantasticks first open ed in Greenwich Village in 1960 and. still running, recent ly set an all-time record for the consecutive run of a New York play. It has been produc ed more than 700 times throughout the world and was the subject of a 50-minute tele vision adaptation over the Hallmark Hall of Fame. Mrs. Cook Attends Washington Meet Mrs. Anne Cook, l^aurens County Democratic Party Vice-Chairman and also South Carolina Democratic Party Vice-Chairman, together with Pickers County Senator Earle Morris, State Chairman of the Democratic Party, are repre senting South Carolina at a meeting of all state chairmen arfd vice-chairmen ait a meet ing in Washington which be gan Wednesday and will con tinue through Friday. They will attend a dinner given by National Chairman John Bailey and Mrs. Bailey at the Washington Hilton, where they will meet national party leaders, including mem bers of the-fcenate and House of Representatives. Friday will be devoted to discussion groups and plan ning for the 1968 national cam paign. Mrs. Cook and Senator Morris will return Saturday* v . ' ■ Cannon Attends Math Meet in Fla. William S. Cannon, associ ate professor of mathematics, will represent Presbyterian College department at the Southeastern section meeting of the Mathematical Associa tion of America this Friday and Saturday at St. Peters burg, Fla. Cannon will attend sessions beginning Friday afternoon oii the campus of Florida Pres byterian College.