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I Ift,....., I - 1 J"l ’I— “ H " ""■■■ » / Growing With r Clinton The Clinton Chronide Vol. 68 — No. 51 Clinton, S. C, Thursday Decamber 21, 1967 Buy Your Gifts V ^ y In Clinton Industries, Businesses To Close Clintonians Rush Toward Christmas Holiday Lull "Be Not Forgetful To Entertain Strangers: For Thereby Some Have Entertained Angels Unawares." —Hebrewt 13:2 The frantic Christmas rush will reach a crescendo late Saturday and the world will then settle down Sunday to await America’s favorite holi day, Christmas Day. After a hectic week-before Christmas, the Clinton area will slow to almost a stand-, still Sunday and Monday for the holidays. Clinton area schools began The Lighter their Christmas holidays Tues day afternoon and school will resume on Jan. 2. Presbyte rian College students started their holidays on Monday and will return on Jan. 8. All businesses. except some service stations will be closed Monday but most will re open Tuesday, many featur ing after Christmas sales next week. Christmas Edition Features Greetings Today’s 30-rage Chronide Christmas edition features the annual greetings from merchants, in addition to local news coverage and pictures. Also featured in today’s Chronicle are stories about various Christmas traditions and customs. Most of these will be found in the third section. The area’s industries will be closed Monday and some will be closed for several days. Clinton Cotton Mills, Lydia, M. S. Bailey Plant, Torring- ton, Mansure and Anderson Hosiery Mill will be closed from Friday through Tues day, Dec. 2(>. Hallmark Shirt Co. closed Wednesday and will resume production Jan. 1. Azalea Mobile Homes will be closed Monday and Tues day while Kaven and Cross Hill mobile homo manufactur ers will close Friday and re sume work Jan. 2. To be closed on Monday are Brookline Carpet, Kay- wood Southern, Empress, Mo bile Homes, (Jreenwood Mills plant at Joanna, Aseoe Felt. Christmas morning services are scheduled at Hartncss- Thornwcll Memorial Church on the Thornwcll campus. Service will begin at 10:30 a.m. and will feature a ser-; mon by Dr. James Macdon-! aid, president of Thornwcll. St. John’s Lutheran Church will again feature the Chris- mon tree which was introduc ed in this area last year. A schedule o( showings is print ed clsew’hcrc in today’s Chronicle. Another holiday feature is the live manger scene which will, be staged tonight, Friday and Saturday nights at First Presbyterian Church in Clin ton. .v( • I ' • ' iy sSSSti Lv 4 T f • V ■ • By DONNY WILDER Chronicle Editor 4 You think little ones don’t notice? ‘ , . Tina Mann, age 5, dictat ed the following letter to the editor of The Chronicle: “Why did Santa shave? “In the Clinton Christmas parade, Santa had no mus tache. Many little boys and girls were probably as up set by this as I was. Please, Santa, let your mustache grow.” I have forwarded Tina’s letter to the North Pole and I hope Santa has a good answer. I sure don’t. An index to today’s paper: Deaths.. . Society Sports Editorial Page 2 Pages 7-8 Pages 24-26 Page 10 Local Churches Chrismon Tree Hours Announced Monger Scene To Be Presented , ,■ i i , A live manger scene Will be , presented tonight ,and Friday / rpL Cf tv,- t al and Saturday nights' at First chu h ;ch st . gi r"h« ^ c ) n vites the general public to ' ' share in the Chrismon tree ’ by observing special hours when it may be viewed, in addition to the hours of ser vices held during the time the tree is up. The tree will be decorated in the afternoon of Decem ber 20 and will remain in the church throughout the rest of 1967, possibly longer. Hours set for the conven ience of the public are: Sat urday, Dec. 22, from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Christmas Day from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 26, from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Other hours may be announc ed later. Those desiring to see it but finding it impos- { sible to do so at the sched uled hours may make special appointment. St. John’s congregation in troduced the Chrismon tree to this immediate Vicinity last year. Several new sym bols and other significant ornaments will adorn the tree this year. A folder of explanations of the symbols will be availaole lor ihose who wish it, without cost. Christmas Morning Service Scheduled County Airport Work Is Halted Completion of the new ways by G. E. Moore con- I -aurens County Airport has tractors, showing that the been delayed until next project is not completed. All spring, according to Furman pilots arc asked to please not E. Thomason, county super-1 try to use this facility until it '• - ‘is 1 ’• ■v. i • V'.'v 'ft/. ■ A ! . V-7 •v-7iL -• T ■ . r- »»:; '.a ■ visor. Thomason said, “Every Work on the $140,000 proj- ffort possible has been made| ect began Aug. 15. When by the Board of County Com-' completed, the airport on the I missioners, the county gation, the contractors ' ! / “jAlli grading and-prcpara r Tonight and Friday,*; t}ie tio« ii.completed and if th« manger scene will be present- dele- and engineers to complete’ the airport before bad weather ietiin;bUjt we just) did not quite make it. old Laurcns-Clinton road will have a 3,200-foot runway. ed from 7 uqtil 9 o’clock. On Saturday 1 night, .'the scene, will be staged from 7:30 un- Lutheran Christmas Service Sunday The congregational Christ mas worship service of the St. John’s Lutheran Church will be held Sunday morning and will feature Christmas music both by the congrega tion and the choir, as well as a sermon by the interim pastor. Dr. E. B. Keisler. The congregation’s tradi tional and impressive candle light service will be held on next Sunday evening, begin ning at 7:30. This service consists largely of the sing ing of Christmas hymns and carols and with the symbolic lighting of the candles. Man Sentenced A man in his late 20’s has been arrested, tried and con victed on two charges of in- : decent exposure. He was charged with inci dents which allegedly occur red in the Fitts Meadows sec tion. A Chrisimas morning serv- He paid a $200 fine on one ice will be’ presented at Hart- charge and currently is serv- ness - Thornwcll IVlemorial ing a 30-day sentence on the Church. ! gang on the other charge. The service will start at Dr. James AMacdonald, pre- Dies Of Wound sident of Thornwcll, will de liver a sermon entitled WHITMIRE Eugene Mar- “Kecping Christ in Christ- tin Mars - 19 - formerly of the contractor could have had one more week of favorable weather, the asphalt could have been put down. How ever, since bad weather is upon us, it is the opinion of all involved that a much bet ter job can be obtained by postponing the laying of the asphalt until the weather breaks, possibly in March or April. “Therefore, the John R. Talbert Associates, consult ant engineers, have issued a temporary stop order on the project. “The necessary markings are being placed on the run- Cravens Win Miami Yrip Mr. an<^ Mrs. Edward Cra* ven and two sons, Bruce and David, left Wednesday for Miami, Fla., after winning the trip in a national contest. They w'on $100 travel ex penses in the “Discover Ford winter * Country” contest. They flew to Miami and will return by car. Their Route 2, Clinton, neighborhood apparently is a .ucky one. Their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young recently won hotel expenses in a Stanley Products contest. A folk quartet from Presby- • tcrian College was a big hit at last Thursday’s Kiwanis Club ladies night event. Between songs, the young mei kept the group laughing with such as this: “When I first came to Clin ton, I saw a sign in front of a church which read ‘Tir ed of Sinning? Come On In.’ Someone had scribbled under neath, ‘If not, call 833-. . . ’ i. * * iii * At the Clinton High School football banquest Tuesday night, Dick Weldon, former PC athlete and now offHv sivc backfield coach at tlwk University of South Carolina, told about his first college football game. PC was playing at Clemson and, as usual, the Tigers were loaded. Coach Ix)nnic McMiUian sent Weldon in at quarterback in the first quarter. Weldon ran an .option play*, gained six yards, and began to be- computcd . by /adding two lieve he had ClemsOrt*s num- jihip Enrollment Drive,, the sung, George Brokcnbf’ough, points for each dollar turned ^ cr However, about that at Mrs. Claude H. Howe, James in and one point for eachi ^ me ’ h ^ e ^ 0n T i 1 smashed into Weldon from Lynn W. i membership acquired. Anyone ^ blind s jde. meeting to be held Friday, j Cooper, Jr., 1 Don G. Creigh-1 who has not been contacted! “He just about tore my Dec. 22. ion. and T. L. Stallworth. by a worker and who is in-’ arm off. The ball went one It is hoped that the mem- i; H . second place team is -erested in securing a char- way, I went the other. Clem- bership will be over the 500 Team No. 4 Headed by Bea ter membership should con-, son recovered.” mark. Ferguson with 948 points. | -act the YMCA by calling Weldon was shaken physi- With nine teams working Third place team is Team 833-15.55 or come by thOj ca iiy, but his enthusiasm was in the membership drive fig- \o. 3. Headed by Mrs. Vir- YMCA Office. undaunted, ures after two weeks of re- ginia Vance with 887 points. Equipment has been placed “On the sidelines, I apolo- n YMCA Membership Drive ’ • ( ■ if, ’ ■ ’ ■ ■ Passes Half-way Mark At the end the second wart R. Hanson, George H. with 719 points. ' Points are week in the YMCA Member- Corne’son. Robert B. Was- ;*nt Drive,, membership now stands 302 with one more - report H. Von Hollen, porting, show that Team No. 1 is ahead w'itli 967 points. The Captain of team No. 1 is Nancy Sherrill: workers are Fourth place team is Team No. 9, headed by Johnny Moore with 819 points. Fifth place team is Team No. 2 William F. Jacobs 111. Ste- headed by Ralph . Tedards t in the building for the use of gi7ed t0 Coach Mac j lold he membership and may be him , Coach rm 30rry a bo U t used at any time the YMCA that hi;t scnd me back in. I is open. .At present the Y will be open from 9 a. m. un-; til 5.30 p. m. ; ^ ^ is arin around my Beginning the first * l *“ * want some more. “Without a smile. Coach of the shoulder and said, ‘That’s r Kaywood Southern Wage Increase Is Announced A general wage increase of ,53 T \ , vear, a full-scale program ! ror members will he launch- 0K : s ? n ’ yOU . ^ T™ i ed in the form of basketball There s plenty nr»rg ! 'eagues for boys and girls where that came from. t ; and gym class for the young- er boys and girls. Fre-school , 'tory hour is being planned ' for boys and girls who are 1 not yet in school. Gra-Y and j Tri-Gra-Y Clubs for grade H’hool hoys and girls will be former! and will meet at. the' YMCA. Physical actiivties al- from fivcAo eight per cent so are being planned for the has been announced for em- j adults, both men and women, ployes of the ^Kaywood Announcements of program Southern Division of Joanna ; nd schedules w-ill he sent to Western Mills Co., located at car h member and announced Joanna. n Ihc Chronicle for the in- Manager Fred J. Slimmer 'urination of the member- the announcement at ship Anyone wanting further dlc corn p anv ’ s annual Christ- inlormation about programs mas dinner. The increase was should contact the YMCA Of fice. mas. The public is invited. Fire Call Clinton Firemen a call to 500 E. Ave. Tuesday about 12:30 p. m. where wiring in an electric stove shorted out. No serious damage was re ported. "IP Whitmire, died Saturday at a Hendersonville, N. C., hos pital after suffering a gun shot wound. Hendersonville' City Police Capt. Dubois Edmundson answered said Mars apparently died Carolina of a head wound accidentally self-infliqted. The youth had been target practicing and evidently thought the pistol was empty when it discharg ed. tsi.' Rescue Squad Election Slated A ■» Cl ‘ ‘S.cCi. 0M • * SANTA VISITS—A surprise guest at a Whit ten Village Christmas party was the jolly, old gent in the sleigh. The party was. one of two held for Whitten Village students last week at Circle School on the Whitten Village’campus. At the informal program, the students sang Christmas carols and acted them out. (Yarbrough Photo) effective Monday. The increase will make the average hourly rate in ex cess of $1.95 per hour. Kaywood manufactures wood louvered shutters and , other doors and has an an- The Laurens County Kc.s- nua| „ o( aI)prox j mately h ' ,ld lts an - $600,000 per year. This com- pany is one of two louvered door manufacturers in South Carolina, and combined with a ^ g 1 its sister plant in Benton Har bor, Michigan, are the larg est manufacturers of mov- oni cue Squad will nual election of officers Jan. 2. The meeting will be held in the rescue squad headquar ters and will start o'clock. All squad members are urged to attend and phrtici-| able louvered shutters in the pate in the election. world. nrc