WEATHER
(Week of Jan. 7-1,4)
High: 48 Low: 3
(Jan. 13) (Jan. 9)
Precipitation: .48 in.
(Jan 7-11-12)
QDhe Clinton Ctjromcle
Vol. 71 No. 3
Clinton, S. C. Ion. 15, 1970
INDEX
Three Sections, 18 Pages
Classified 4-A
Deaths 6-A
Editorials 2-B
Hospital News 6-A
Society 2-A
Sports 6-A
RENNO LANDMARK BURNS—Three chimneys
are about all that remains after a Saturday after
noon fire destroyed the 10-room Copeland house in
Renno. The 67-year-old frame house was owned
by Mrs. J. David (Alice) Copeland of Clinton.
10-Room Renno House Burns
A beautiful old 10-room house
in Renno was destroyed by fire
Saturday afternoon, leaving a 10-
member family homeless and
without furnishings.
The 67 year old frame home
was built by the late Ben F.
Copeland and was owned by Mrs.
J. David (Alice) Copeland of
Clinton. It was occupied by the
Jim Underwood family which in
cludes eight.children.
The fire apparently skrted in
an upstairs bedroom abdut 3:30
p.m. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs.
Underwood were in Clinton, shop
ping for groceries, at the time of
the fire. All of the children got
out of the house safely and as
sisted in saving some furniture
Clinton Hosts
District Lions
The Clinton Lions Club will be
host club when District 32-
A Lions International holds its
annual Mid-Winter Rally, Sat
urday, Jan. 17th.
Past International President
Edward G. Barry, of Little Rock,
Ark., will be the featured speak
er at a banquet in Presbyterian
College Dining Hall at the close of
the Rally. Lion Barry is Chair
man of the Board of the Arkan
sas Power and Light Company and
a much sought after speaker.
George Cornelson and Rem-
bert Truluck, both past pre
sidents of the Clinton Lions Club,
are serving as co-chairmen.The
Rally will get underway at 5p.m.
with an informal reception honor
ing Past President and Mrs.
Barry. Music and entertainment
for the occasion will be furnished
by the Madrigal Singers of Pres
byterian College in full dress
costumes. One of the special
features of the Rally will be con
ducted tours of the campus and
new buildings by the co-eds and
men students of the college.
Lions International District'
32-A includes 55 clubs in the up
per part of the state with nearly
3,000 members. William H. Cra
ven Jr., Saluda is District Gov
ernor and will preside over the
festivities of the evening. More
than 500 Lions and their ladies
are expected to attend.
from the living room and den,
including a large piano.
Laurens County Sheriff’s De
puties and forest rangers were
called to the scene but they were
unable to extinguish the blaze.
There is no rural fire depart
ment in Laurens County.
The Underwood family lost
most of their household furnish
ings and clothing. They are mem
bers of Hurricane Baptist Church
and earlier this week members
of the family were staying with
various members of the church.
Posey Watts Copeland has offered
the family use of two house
trailers and some furniture.
The United Fund of Greater
Clinton, Inc., and Young’s Gulf
Service Station are serving as
collection points for articles
which may be donated to assist
the Underwood family.
The children lost all of their
clothing except that which they
were wearing at the time of the
fire.
The children include four girls
and four boys. The girls’ dress
and shoe sizes are: 12 months,
shoe size 1; five years, shoe
size 9 1/2; 6x shoe size 111/2; 8,
shoe size 1 l/L Boys' sizes are:
pants, 12 slim; shirt 10, shoe 2;
pants 12 husky; shirt 14; shoe
5 1/2; pants 14, shirt 14, shoe 71/2;
pants 16, shirt 16; and shoe 8.
Articles may be taken to the
United Fund office at 200 W. Pitts
Street or to Young’s Gulf Sta
tion. Also, the United Fund office
may be called and the articles
will be picked up.
PC Gift Program
Goes Over Goal
E. G. BARRY
Jury Recommends
Grand Jury Action
LAURENS - An inquest jury
recommended here Thursday that
a Charlotte, N.C., man be held
for grand jury action in the Dec.
23, 1969, traffic death of Cleve
land Lester Faul, 47, of Rt 2,
Eventoo, Va.
The jury found that Faul died
from injuries received in struck
collision “due to the negligence
on the part of Joe Thomas Alex
ander," and recommended that
Alexander be held.
Overheard: a six-year-old reciting — "Mary
had a little lamfc, with fleas as white as snow . .
And a seven-year-old singing: “Oh, I come from
Alabama with q bandage on my knee . .
*******
That wasn't really a ‘break-in’ at Belk’s laat
week-end—at least not in the usual sense of the
word.
An automobile jumped the curb Sunday morn
ing and struck a Belk’s display window. Tbe win
dow was one displaying furs and gave rise to rum-
ors that there had been a ‘break-in’ at Belk's.
Damage waa limited to the window.
The Clinton Junior High Campfire Girls re
ceived national recognition as they were featured
in the national £ampfire magazine for the work
they did in assisting the Clinton Jaycees with their
Christmas shopping project.
The Jaycees sponsor a “Christmas Stocking”
campaign in which they take needy children on a
shopping tour. The Campfires assist in taking the
children shopping.
A stroogyear-end finish put the
Presbyterian College Annual
Giving program over the top with
$150,750 raised in 1969 and a
cumulative total of $1,002,789
raised since the program’s start
in 1959.
President Marc C. Weersing,
making the announcement today,
said Annual Giving was continued
in 1969 as a separate project
while PC’s EXCEL capital funds
campaign was raising more than
$2.3 million for plant and endow
ment. He added:
“The Annual Giving program,
one of our most vital income
sources for current operations,
was truly remarkable this past
year in holding its high level de
spite the major EXCEL effort
The success of both undertakings
represented a tremendous re
sponse on the part of alumni and
friends, and we are most grate
ful for their support*
The $150,750 from 1,454 indivi
dual gifts exceeded the $150,000
goal and was only slightly under
the record amount of $153,138 a-
chieved by Annual Giving in 1968.
Analysis of the totals showed
$78,607 from 969 alumni, $51,-
506 from 298 friends, $12,502
from 122 parents, and$8,135 from
65 non-alumni members of the
faculty and boards of trustees
and visitors.
President Weersing said the
sub-total for the Walter Johnson
Club, a major objective in support
of athletics, amounted to $45,500
—also over the goat
Fir© Destroys
Bond St House
A house on Bond Street was
destroyed by fire early Monday
morning.
The frame boose was occupied
by the Willie Williams family.
The fire, of undertermined ori
gin, was reported at 3 a.m.
FOR MAYOR
Sanders Wins
Demo Nomination
Mayor Pro Tern Talmedge Sanders will face former mayor Noland
Suddeth Feb. 10 in the special general election for mayor of Clinton.
Sanders won the Democratic nomination for mayor Tuesday in the
primary, defeating Carl Campbell, 225-44.
Suddeth was named the Republican candidate in a city GOP convention
two weeks ago.
The special election on Feb. 10 will be to elect a mayor to fill the
unexpired term of the late Mayor Harry C. Layton. The term will ex
pire on August, 1970, after the regular election has been held for a
full two-year term.
Sanders carried all three precincts. At Clinton No. 1, (City
Hall), Sanders polled 116 votes to 11 for Campbell; Clinton No. 2
(Armory), Sanders 48, Campbell 10; and Clinton No. 3 (Clinton
Mill), Sanders 61, Campbell 23.
Public Housing
Timetable Explained
It's Dog-Gone Cold!
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A geographical breakdown on
the 1969 funds found South Caro
lina contributing almost one-half,
with $74,053 from 795 gifts. Ge
orgia followed with $23,529 from
216 donations, while 140 North
Carolinians added $22,382, and
303 gifts from the other states
and abroad came to $30,786.
Presbyterian College’s Annual
Giving program is under the
overall direction of the alumni
board of directors. Heading the
operation during the past year
were: William C. McSween,
Greenville businessman who
served as president of the PC
Alumni Association; Attorney
William M. Hagood HI of Eas
ley, president-elect; and Ben Hay
Hammet, director of alumni and
public relations.
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Delegation
Meeting
Set Jan. 26
A public meeting of the Lau
rens County Legislative Delega
tion has been rescheduled for
Monday, Jan. 26.
The meeting originally was
scheduled for this past Monday
but was canceled because of wea
ther conditions.
The Jan. 26 meeting will start
at 10:15 a.m. and win be held
at Ok Laurens County Courthouse
in Laurens.
The delegation will receive
budget requests for the 1970-71
fiscal year. AH requests should
be in writing with a copy filed
with Rep. David S. Taylor, sec
retary of the,delegation.
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It probably will be two and a
half to three years before Clinton
will have a low-rent housing pro
ject ready for occupancy, Dr.
Louis Stephens told Clinton Ro-
tarians Tuesday.
Dr. Stephens, chairman of the
Clinton Housing Authority,<>said,
“We have come a long way and
we now have most of the paper
work out of the way. But we still
have much to do.”
Dr. Stephens also said, “We’re
talking about a $4-1/2 to $5 mil
lion project for Clinton. We pro
bably will ask for 300 to 350
units.”
He said, “We aren’t talking
about a ‘barracks-type’ housing
project. We’re talking about du
plexes, triplexes and, at most,
four-family units, landscaped and
on paved roads. And we don’t
want to have all of the units on
one site. We prefer to have them
scattered.”
Dr. Stephens said, “These
should be attractive buildings and
the architecture should be in
keeping with that prevalent
wherever the units are located."
He said that Union had 150
units at the start and now had
125 more under construction
when he visited there. He said
that the rent is based on ability
to pay and that in Union the rent
ranged from $12to$60per month,
including utilities. The maximum
income for a family living in the
project in Union is $5,400 per
year. If the family goes above
that maximum, it must move out
of the project and into homes
of their own in Union. He said,
“They have learned the pride of
ownership and they’re now pro
perty taxpayers.”
Dr. Stephens pointed out that
the Clinton Housing Authority will
set the eligibility requirements,
including maximum salary and
the rental fee.
He said that people living in the
low-rent housing projects are
taught how to handle their fi
nances and how to be more self-
reliant. He said, “If they don’t
pay their rent, they are evicted.
If they become disorderly, they
can be evicted. If they don’t keep
their unit up to inspection stan
dards, they can be evicted.*
Dr. Stephens said the next
step toward a housing project in
Clinton is for City Council to
file a resolution with the federal
Housing and Urban Development
Department in Atlanta, request
ing a specific number of units.
A HUD representative then will
come to Clinton to check on the
needs and will make his recom
mendations concerning number of
units and possible locations.
After that, the Housing Au
thority can hire an executive di
rector who will handle applica
tions for units. After the project
is constructed, he will collect
rent and be in charge of main
tenance of the project.
730 Enroll
At Presbyterian
Presbyterian College has en
rolled 730 students for the second
semester of the 1989-70 ses
sion, a new record for this mid
year period.
Registrar Roslyn Martin said
the current total compares to the
previous high of 669 who signed
qp for the second semester list
year. The present session opened
last August with 777 enrolled in
the largest student body ever
assembled at PC.
Following hiring of a director,
sites are selected and land is
purchased. The architect then
draws plans iW the project. When
the plans are ready, construction
bids are requested and awarded
and bonds are sold to finance the
project. The bonds are amora-
tized over a 40-year period with
rental fees being used to repay
the debt.
At the end of the 40-year per
iod, the project will be owned by
the city.
PRISSY ‘MISSY’—‘Missy’ is a four-year-old Chi
huahua-Rat Terrier who doesn't like to get her
hind feet wet or cold. So she walks around as
shown whenever it’s wet or cold. She belongss to
seven-year-old Blair Martin, Jr., of Chestnut St.,
Clinton. The Martins didn’t teach ‘Missy” to walk
that way. In fact, they can’t get her to do it when
they want her to. But left alone on the wet, cold
ground, ‘Missy’ starts walking around on her front
feet only. She’s been doing a lot of that lately.
Clintonians Shiver, Shake
Through Coldest Temperatures
Clintonians shivered through
one of this area’s longest pro
longed cold spells last week as
low temperatures went below 10
degrees for three straight days.
The cold snap hit on Thurs
day, Jan. 8 as the low dipped
to eight degrees' with' a high of
24. But the worst was yet to
come. On Friday, Jan. 9, the low
sank to three degrees, believed
to be the lowest official reading
in this area in about 20 years.
The high on Jan. 9 was 27 degrees.
But it still wasn’t over. On Sat
urday, Jan. 10, the low was six
degrees with a high of 34.
The cold spell finally snapped
on Sunday, Jan. 11, as the low
was 21 and the high was 35.
Bob Wickham, operator of the
weather observation station at
Thornwell, said that starting on
Jan. 1, the area’s low has been
below freezing for 14 consecutive
days.
—jnaaMEters made their
o wnslaHngr&ks---offthfo flfefr
own yards—fuel dealers and
plumbers were kept busy by balky
heaters and split pipes.
However, there was no serious
interruption of services.
A spokesman for the Clinton-
Newberry Natural Gas Authority
reported, “Many heating systems
used in this area are designed
to handle temperatures down to
about 15 degrees. Once you get
below that, particularly for a pro
longed perigd, you’re apt to have
minor troubled."
He said the local gas authority
had no interruptions of service,.
n&Mvy $T9mB 0 nQ Mia,
more fortunate because we had
more ways to get gas. *
Students at Mountville Ele
mentary School got a holiday on
Monday as pipes were frozen at
the school. A cracked pipe at
Bell Street High School Monday
caused heating problems but it
was fixed before the day was out
COLD WAIT—Four members of Miss
Agnes Davis, fourth grade class dpt
Clinton Elementary School huddle to
gether in last Friday's frigid weath
er, awaiting a ride home after acfabok-sr
They are, left to right: Elisa WIM&
lianas, Betsy Gaines, Barbara
and Barbara Cason.
County Weliar*
Voter Boards
To Be Enlarged
Bills to enlarge the Laurens
County boards of voter registra
tion and public welfare were in
troduced Tuesday in the S. C.
House of Representatives by
Reps. David S. Taylor and Paul
Culbertson.
Each of tee two boards now has
three members. The legislation
would expand each board to five
members.
Taylor said enlargement of the
boards would give teem a "more
rounded repreceatetfos." He said
appointments to teenewpoaitioBS
will be made after the legisla
tion has beta approved and Min
ed by tee governor.
The House delayed action on a
Laurens County resotutioe pro
posing an amendment to the con
stitution to permit the Learens
hospital district to inerenae Its
bond debt limit to 35 per omt of
valuation of prqpaxty. J
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