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WEATHER (Week of May 7-14) High: 84 Low: 39 (May 8) (May 12) Rainfall: 1:32 ins. (May 8) Soil Temperature: 65-75 degrees ®he Clinton Chronicle Vol. 70 — No. 19 Housing Authority Members Appointed A five-man Housing Authority has been appointed for the City of Clinton. Appointed to the authority at a special meeting of Clinton City’ Council Monday night were Dr. Louis M. Stephens, DavidE. Den- dy, Lynn W. Cooper Jr., H. Fran cis Blalock and Sam Williams. Dr. Stephens was appointed to a five-year term, Dendy to a four-year term, Cooper to a three-year term, Blalock to a two-year term and Williams to a one-year term. The authority was appointed at a joint meeting of City Council and the Chamber of Commerce’s Civic Affairs Committee. The Housing Authority will work with City Council and with the City Planning Commission in initiating a low-costhousingpro- ject for the city. The authority will determine the need for hous ing, how many units are needed and can obtain options on possible sites for the proposed project. Anderson Mon Dies In Wreck Near Ioanna An Anderson man was killed Saturday in a wreck on Interstate 26 between Newberry and Joanna. Robert F. Smith, 23, of 34 Lyons St., Anderson, was pro nounced dead at the scene of the wreck which occured about seven miles north of Newberry. Smith and two other Anderson men were occupants of a 1969 Volkswagen which struck the rear of a 1966 Ford while both vehicles were traveling west on the inter state. The Volkswagen struck the rear of the Ford, ran off the right side of the road and overturned several times, according to S. C. Highway Patrolman E. B. Mc Daniel. Stephen Craft of Anderson, a passenger in the Volkswagen, was admitted toNewberry County Me morial Hospital where he was listed in satisfactory condition. Another passenger, not identi fied, was not seriously injured, the patrolman said. Robert Eugene Thornhill, 29, of Columbia, driver of the Ford, was not injured, McDaniel said. Thornhill’s wife, Nancy, 25, and their two sons, Christopher, 2, and Michael, 5, were listed in satisfactory condition at the New berry hospital. Another pass enger in the car, Maggie Cagle, 18, of Columbia, was not injur ed, the patrolman said. A Housing Authority was ap pointed in Clinton in the 1950s but terms of all the original members have expired. The authority appointed this week will be a continuation of the origi nal Housing Authority. The Clinton Housing Authority will work with the Regional Hous ing Authority in establishing a low-cost housing project inClin- ton. The local authority will con tract with the regional authority for the operation and maintenance of the project. Courthouse Repair Work Project Set LAURENS - An $18,000 con tract has been awarded for a new roof, guttering and repair of columns at the Laurens County Courthouse. County Supervisor Furman Thomason said Tuesday the coun ty commissioners had been authorized by the delegation to have the repairs made. Work is scheduled to begin by June 1. David S. Snipes of Laurens County was awarded the contract. Delegation Works On Supply Bill The Laurens County delegation will begin work on the county sup ply bill this week. Rep. David S. Taylor said the bill should lie ready to submit to the House of Representatives during the week of May 25. “This will give us ample time to get the bill passed before the new fiscal yfiajr. bfgins on July 1,” he said. Canada Dry Franchise Sold The franchise for Canada Dry Bottling Co. in Clinton was sold Saturday to Carolina Canada Dry Inc. of Columbia. The local franchise is for an eight-county area, Laurens, Spartanburg, Newberry, Chero kee, Union, Abbeville, McCor mick and Greenwood counties. A spokesman for Carolina Canada Dry said no personnel changes are anticipated at the local plant. Tom Addison of Clinton was owner of the local franchise. San dy Garner is plant manager. Clinton, S. C., Thursday, May 15, 1969 INDEX Four Sections, 26 Pages Classified 6-A- Deaths 8-A Editorial's 2-B Hospital News 5-A Society 2-A Sports 7-A No Passenger Service BULBS FOR BAND — The Clinton Exchange Club will conduct its an nual light bulb sale tonight, Thurs day, and Friday. The entire pro ceeds from the sale will go to the Clinton High School band uniform fund campaign. Lou Ledford models one oi tne proposed new uniforms. At right is Wyman Shealy, a mem ber of the Exchange Club which will conduct a door-to-door campaign in an effort to raise $1,000 for the band uniforms. — (Photo by Mack Par sons) Clinton High Bond Campaign Tops $7,150 The three-quarter point has teen passed in the current$9,000 fund raising drive toward the pur chase of new uniforms for the Clinton High School Band, Mrs. A. C. Workman Jr., general chairman announced Wednesday. According to Mrs. Workman, figures reported by teaman D. Jones, executive committee trea surer, listed cash collected and on deposit at $5,800, with pledges in the amount of $1,350 for a total of $7,150 to date. "Two projects of importance in the fund raising drive and not in cluded in the amount reported are proceeds from the Clinton High Senior Class production of “My Fair Lady’ last week, and the light bulb sale by the Clinton Exchange Club Thursday and Fri day of this week’, Mrs. Workman said. “It is hoped area residents will continue to help in our fundrais ing drive for new CHS band uni forms by purchasing as many light bulbs as possible from Ex change Club members as they make their house-to-house sale,” Mrs. W'orkman stated. As a gesture of appreciation, the Clinton High School March ing and Concert Band presented a musical program at BelkAudi- torium on the Presbyterian Col lege campus last Monday night, which was well attended and enjoyed by area residents. Prater To Receive PC Teaching Award Presbyterian College’s first “distinguished teaching award* will be presented to Dr. Neal B. Prater, professor of English and department chairman, at the 89th commencement exercises on Sunday afternoon (May 18). The award is teing inaugurat ed this year by the PC Alumni Association to honor superlative classroom performance by a pro fessor as judged by students and teaching colleagues. A special student committee nominated three tenured professors for con sideration, and the final selection was made by a faculty commit tee. The “distinguished teaching a- ward,” to be presented each year as part of the commencement program, will include a certifi cate of merit and a $200 check. Dr. Prater has teen a member of the Presbyterian College faculty since 1960 and has headed the English department for the past five years. Besides being an effective classroom teacher, he has teen active in faculty af fairs. The 1965 student yearbook, in its dedication to him, cited Prater for “his interest in the in dividual. . .and his scholarship and skill as a teacher.” Neal Prater earned his BA de gree from Westminster (Mo.) College and both his MA and PhD degrees from Vanderbilt Uni versity. DR. PRATER GOV. McNAIR REV. TAPP JOHN OSMAN DR. GETTYS At PC Commencement Sunday Governor, Son Share Spotlight Governor Robert E. McNair will address a record class of 172 graduating seniors, one of them his own son, at Presbyterian College’s 89th commencement exercises this Sunday. The South Carolina chief ex ecutive also will receive one of four honorary degrees during the final afternoon program in Belk Auditorium. Besides the doctor of humani ties degree to McNair, PC will bestow an honorary doctor of laws degree upon Alumnus John Osman of Washington’s Brook ings Institution, and doctor of di vinity degrees upon the Rev. Charles Robert Tapp, executive director of the Presbyterian Home in Summerville, and the Rev. Max Milligan Jr., pastor of the Claremont Presbyterian Church of Decatur, Ga. Commencement activity begins with the 11 a.m. baccalaureate sermon, preached this year by Dr. Joseph M. Gettys, profes sor of religion and retiring aca demic dean. The mid-day luncheon for seniors and their guests in Greenville Hall will be followed by the president’s re ception at 2:30 and the 3:30 p.m. pre-commissioning ceremonies for ROTC cadets. PC President Marc C. Weer- sing will preside over the final exercises starting at 4:15 p.m. Degrees, student honors and army commissions will be a- warded at this time, with Trus tee Chairman Eugene T. Wilson, pastor emeritus of Atlanta’s Peachtree Presbyterian Church, making the degree presentations. The 172 seniors scheduled to graduate on this occasion repre sent the largest graduating class in the history of Presbyterian College. They outnumber the 136 of last year, and they also in clude the largest number of wo men graduates, 33. The governor’s son, Robert E. McNair, Jr., who has been maj oring in English and playing foot ball for four years at PC, will receive his BA degree. He also will be among the 36 ROTC ca dets to be sworn into the Offi cers’ Reserve Corps as second lieutenants. Governor McNair recently completed his fourth year in of fice, having moved up from lieu tenant-governonr on April 22, 1965, upon the resignation of Gov ernor Donald S. Russell. He was elected to a full four-year term in 1966. His years as chief executive have been marked by special em phasis on public school and high er education. His interest in this area was recognized by the fact that the National Governors’Con ference named him chairman of its education committee. Last summer he became chairman of the Education Commission of the States. Clinton Mayor Against Elimination Of ' Comet' Pressau Honored By PC Yearbook The 1969 Presbyterian College yearbook just distributed to the student body tears a special de dication to Dr. Jack Pres sau, associate professor of re ligion and psychology. The annual, entitled “PaCSaC* and edited this year by Sam Hobson of Anderson, carried these words of dedication in re ference to Dr. Pressau: “To one who aids in our quest of knowledge, to one who seeks to understand, to one who is a- ware of our needs, to one who is patient, to one who cares, to one who gives unselfishly of himself, to one whoexemplifies tteChris tian life. . . ’ PC Junior Wins Fellowship Diana Rice of Wilhston, a ris ing junior biology major at Pres byterian College, has teen a- warded a summer fellowship for additional study at the University of Tennessee, it was announced today. The program in the zoology de partment under sponsorship of the National Science Foundation is entitled “Undergraduate Re search Participation.” It is sche duled for June 18-August 23. Stidham Selected For Summer Study Dr. James D. Stidham, asso ciate professor of biology at Presbyterian College, will be one of 15 college teachers from across the United States tq participate in a summer study program in radiation biology. The program, sponsored joint ly by the National Science Foun dation and the US Atomic Energy Commission, is scheduled for Colorado State University from June 16 to August 23. * * * Adult Graduation Exercises Tonight Adult education graduation ex ercises will be held tonight, Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Clinton High School auditorium. The public is invited to attend. Clinton Mayor Harry Layton says he will recommend that City Council protest theeliminationof the Seaboard Railroad’s passen ger service in Clinton. A notice was posted Wednes day to the effect that Seaboard will petition the Interstate Com merce Commission to discon tinue passenger trains 33 and 34 between Atlanta, Ga., and Rich mond, Va. Passenger trains 33 and 34, known as "The Silver Comet’, have served Clinton since the 1940’s. Originally, it provided passenger service from Bir mingham, Ala., to Washington. However, the service was cur tailed recently and now includes service from Atlanta to Rich mond. Elimination of the passenger trains would leave Clinton without rail passenger service. Mayor Layton said, “I’m sure I express the consensus that it would be regretable and some what inconvenient to the resi dents of this area to have these trains discontinued. I will recom mend to council at nur meeting May 23 that council express its opposition to the move and to protest the removal of these trains tefore the appropriate commission. ” After the notice is posted, lo cal residents will have 15 days in which to voice tteir opinion to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion. If considerable opposition develops, a public hearingwillte held. In a booklet, Seaboard Coast Line Railroad says that the passenger trains have resulted *in an annual loss to Seaboard Coast Line of $924,000.” The booklet says, “Trains 33 and 34 have experienced losses for a num ter of years and numer ous efforts have teen made to curtail tte losses in faces of increasing costs and dwindling passenger business. For exam ple: “1. We were successful in re ducing some of the loss by dis continuing a highly unprofitable segment of service between At lanta and Birmingham. “2. We substituted Tavern- Lounge Service for an extremely unprofitable dining car service. “3. We removed one sleeping car. “4. As a result of removing sleeping car and using tavern- lounge car, the consist was re duced to a point where we could take off one locomotive. “These efforts results in re ducing our annual loss on trains 33 and 34 from $733,000 to $354,000---still a staggering loss to sustain. "But then came two back breaking events. “Early in 1969, due to poor patronage, the Penn Central dis continued handling through equip ment tetween New York and Washington. This action meant we could no longer offer through ser vice tetween New York and At lanta. However, we were in the position to continue to offer ser vice to Washington. W'e continued to promote the service tetween Washington and Atlanta even though passenger revenue for the first two months of 1969 declined by 27 percent. “Then came the cripplingblow. “On May 8, 1969, the Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac Rail road, pursuant to authority re ceived from tte Interstate Com merce Commission, discontinued service tetween Richmond and Washington. “Result? Trains 33 and 34 now operate tetween Atlanta and Richmond and are unable to offer through service to Washington.’ The booklet notes, “None of the employes now operating these trains shall be deprived of em ployment. * The two passenger trains in question have scheduled stops in Clinton at 2:50 a.m. and 11:17 p.m. Fulmer Is Selected To Study In England John H. Fulmer Jr. of Clin ton, a rising junior at Furman University, has teen selected to participate in the first Fall Term in England program sponsored by F urman. On Sept. 6, Fulmer will leave for London with a group of 30 Furman students. After a two- week study tour of England, they will return to London to study English history and contempor ary European history at Birkteck College, University of London. Then the group will go to Strat- ford-on-Avon to study at tte Shakespeare Institute. Also in cluded are two weekend trips, one to Scotland and the other to Ire land. Furman University’s 1969 Fall Term in England was instituted to provide the students an aca demic experience enriched by travel, residence and participa tion in the life and culture of Great Britain. The students will be expected to take advantage of tte broad range of cultural opportunities JOHN FULMER JR. afforded by the museum, libra ries, concert halls and theaters both in London and in Stratford. The group will leave London Dec. 10 for the return trip home. Ninety students applied for the program and 30 were accepted. PTA OFFICERS — Officers elected for the 1969-70 school year of the Clinton Elementary School PTA are, left to right: Robert Taylor, presi dent; Mrs. Betty Anne Meadows, secretary; and Bob Cason, vice-presi dent. William Hatton, who was elect ed treasurer, was not available when the picture was made.— (Photo by Dan Yarborough) Women Leaders Elected At PC Women’s activities at Presby terian College for the coming year will be headed byjocelle Alverson of Spartanburg as president of the Women’s Coun cil and Ann Harwell of Atlanta as chairman of the Women’s Honor Council. They emerged victorious in re cent campus elections which found Peggy Ellison ofGreenville and Elysia Greenlee of Marietta, Ga., named council vice-presi dents . Jane Reece of Cramerton, N.C., was chosen new secre tary of the council; and Diana Rice of Williston, treasurer. Other new Women’s Council re presentatives are: Joy Glenn of Spartanburg and Lena Strick land of Atlanta, senior represen tatives; Mary Lee Smith of Marietta, Ga.; and Sandra Ryan of Chester, junior represen tatives; and Barbara Hogan of Atlanta and Maree Water of Greer, sophomore representa tives. Other Memoirs BY JOE H. SIMPSON When we of the present age think of transporta tion our first thoughts are probably of traveling by airplane or automobile. Trains are almost a thing of the past as a means of passenger conveyance. However, we of the horse and buggy era, have many pleasant memories of this meth(xl of travel. Not everyone owned a horse and buggy. Clinton was fortunate to have two fine livery stables where, for a reasonable fee, one could rent a nice rubber-tired buggy with a pretty fringe around the top and a fine high-spirited horse. A pretty lap- robe was furnished to spread over your lap to pro-, tect you from the dust in the summer and a nice, warm, heavy one for winter use. The heavy one would often have a design of a dogor some animal on it, with glass eyes. One of the stables was owned by Mr. Robert Adair. It was located by the side of the Utopia or cement block building. TTie other was on South Broad about where the Masonic building now stands. This one was owned and operated by Mr. John Little. If you were a horse and buggy visitor in the city either of these firms would feed and care for your team.