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/ WEATHER (Week of April 1-8) High: 71 Low: 32 (April 4) (April 3) Rainfall: .40 in. (April 2, 6) Soil Temp. Range: 56-61 degrees tBtye Clinton Cfjromcle Vol. 71—No. 15 Clinton, S. C.. April 9. 1970 INDEX Four Sections, 22 Pages Classified 4-A Deaths 6-A Editorials 2-B Hospital News 6-A Society 2-A Sports 6-A L T. Lawson Is Named To School Board L. T. Lawson of Joanna has been appointed to the School Dis trict 56 Board of Trustees to fill the balance of the unexpired term of James Addison, also of Joanna. Mr. Addison resigned from the school board last week and Mr. Lawson was appointed Monday night at a meeting of the Laurens County Board of Education. The term will expire in April of 1973. Mr. Addison had served on the board since the 1940s. Mr. Lawson is vice president of Lawson Furniture Co. in Joanna. He is a graduate of Clinton High School and is a member of the First Baptist Church of Joanna. He also is a member of the Ma sonic Lodge and the Shriners Club. He is married to the former Martha Kelly of Warrenton, Ga., and they have two sons, Tommy, a junior at Presbyterian College, and Mark, a second grader at Jo anna Elementary School. * * * Electrical Failure Explained Electrical power was off in Clinton for atxiut an hour Saturday- morning because of some re novation work being done to the power system. Utilities Superintendent D. C. Whitman said work was being performed on a switch pole in the Thornwell pasture on a new loop line around Clinton by Geor gia Electric Co. The work was scheduled to be completed by 8 a. m. Saturday but workers were de- Uyefl because a switch didn’t fit. The morning power load in creased before the lines were ready for it, causing reclosers in the two substations to start tripping out, leaving Clinton with out electrical power for about an hour. Mr. Whitman said, “All elec trical work has now been com pleted by Georgia Electric Co. and we will have better electri cal service than we have had in several summers, due to our power lines not being overload ed." * * * Merchants Meet The Clinton Merchants and Bu sinessmen's Association will meet this morning, Thursday, at Hotel Mary Musgrove. The meet ing was to start at 9:30 a.m. Lawrence Gross, chairman of the association, has announced the following committee chair men: Park and Traffic, Charles Buice; Promotions, D. B. Smith; Legislative, J. C. Thomas; Holi day and Store Hours, Dillard Bo land; Publicity, Mrs. Martha Rice; Street Decorations, Mrs. P. M. Moore; Christmas Parade, D. B. Smith; Finance, Ken Mc Crary; Membership, Dillard Bo land. AT ARTS FESTIV A L—Wendy Reed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Reed, is shown at one of the previous Spring Arts Festivals in Clinton. Chil dren’s art is one of the many fea tures of the festival which will be held this year from April 20 through May. 3. The Fourth Annual Spring Arts Festival will be held on the Presbyterian College campus and is sponsored by the PC Department of Fine Arts, the Clinton Music Club and the Laurens County Fine Arts Council. Rotarians Ready To Go On Another Radio Rodeo The broadcast day will begin with Dr. George Blalock's "Hiiuse Calls from Bedside Manor " and will close with Avery Smith s •'Smiley's Serenade in Song.' In between, other Clinton Ro tarians will be featured >n the second annual “Rotary RadioRo- deo." The R -tarians will take over Radio Station WPCC for the entire day of broadcasting on Monday, April 13. The Rotary Club hassoldcom- mercials for the day and pro ceeds will go to the Clinton YMCA Building Fund and other com munity projects. Dr. Blalock will open the pro gramming with his show at 6:30 a.m. and Avery Smith’s program will close out the day at 6:30 p.m. The remainder of the schedule: 7 a.m., Alvin Hueble in “Al vin's Album of Unfamiliar Mu- sic"; 7:30 a.m,, Ferd Jacobs m Broom Sale The Clinton Lions Club’s an nual broom sale is scheduled for April 23-24. The proceeds from the door- to-door sales campaign go to the Lions Club's sight conservation projects. "Friendly Ferd's Filabuster"; 8 a.m., John Sutherland in “Suther land's Sunny Sounds of Syncopa tion; 8:30 a.m., John Rucker in "Legal Aid Society for Displaced Disc Jockeys"; 9 a.m., Charles Pitts in "Charisma Charlie and his Platter Chatter"; 9:3u a.m., B b Simmons in "Direct Distance Dialing Discs"; 10 a.m., Marvin Manley's "Record Wrecker”; 10:30 a.m., John Bingham in “John J's Hour for Y Power"; 11 a.m., Zeb Williams in “Pro verbial Pastime Hour; 11:30a.m., Sid Hartzog in “Hartzog's Hoe- down"; Noon, Horace Payne in Payne's Platter Playtime”; 12:30 p. m., William Hatton in “Hatton's Happy Hour"; 1 p.m., Bill Shields in “Shields’ Shower of Scintillating Songs”; 1:30p.m., Joe Holland's “Joe’sJumpingJu- bilee"; 2 p.m., Earl Pitts in "Pitts Plays the Platters”; 2:30 p.m., Jack Holland in “Jack’sSta tic Stanzas”; 3 p.m., Charles Copley in “Banker’s Building Blues"; 3:30 p.m. Allen Sim mons in “Siren Simmons’ Sere nade "; 4 p.m., Robert Wickham in Wickham’s Woe and Woll”; 4:30 p.m., David Veneklasen in “Da vid Does His Thing”; 5 p.m., Dillard Jacobs in “Jacobs' Jam Jarring Jazz"; 5:30 p.m., Ken neth Fryfogle in “Fry’s Felts of Flying Fun”; 6 p.m. Ed Sadler in “Ed's Wholesome Wholesale Goodtime Hour. 2nd Planning Phase Approved City Council Sets Vacation Policy A vacation policy for city em ployes was adopted Monday night by Clinton City Council at the re gular monthly meeting. Under the policy adopted, employes who are employed by the city continuously for at least six months prior to July 1 of the vacation year will be eligible for one week of paid vacation. Em ployes who have been employ ed for at least 12 months will be eligible for two weeks’ paid va cation. Vacations are to be taken during the normal vacation period and the date of the vacation must be approved by the department head well in advance of the time. of vacation. Vacation weeks can not be accumulated from one year to another and persons who do not take their vacation will not re ceive an extra vacation pay. In another action, council approved a motion that the mayor or the City Council chairman of a department must be notified of any overtime work necessary. Council voted unanimously to apply for the second phase of a city planning survey. The first phase is currently underway and is to be completed in July. The second phase would include a . community facilities plan, public. improvement plan and subdivi sion regulations. The first phase includes land use and thorough fare plans. The surveys are con ducted under contract with the South Carolina Board of Conser vation and Development. Federal grants are available to finance 75 per cent of the survey cost with the city paying the other 25 per cent. It has been estimated that the second phase would cost the city about $1,000. Council recommended Mayor Noland Suddeth be appointed to serve as a member of the board of directors of the Laurens . County Community Action Com-. mission. Council also voted to hire two high school boys to work Avith the City Streets Department during the summer. Utilities Supt D. C. Whitman reported that work on three traf fic signals along Broad Street should be completed around April 20. The signals are at the cor ners of Carolina and Broad Street; Pitts St. and Broad St.; and Florida Street and Broad Street. Each of these intersec tions will have two separate traf fic lights facing traffic, bring ing the signalization up to S. C. .Highway Dept specifications. AT COMMENCEMENT Edwards To Speak At PC Exercises Dr. Robert C. Edwards, pre sident of Clemson University, will deliver the principal address at Presbyterian College’s 90th Commencement on May 17, PC President Marc C. Weersing an nounced today. Dr Edwards will speak to the approximately 135 graduating seniors, their families and friends at the closing afternoon exercises in Belk Auditorium. Besides his commencement ad dress, the program will include presentation of degrees, honor ary degrees, student awards and ROTC commissions. Dr. Edwards, as president of Clemson since 1958, has led that institution through a period of unusual progress. Prior to be coming president, he served for two years as vice-president for development. His earlier career was affiliated with the textile in dustry. After graduating from Clemson with a BS in textile en- gineeririf-ln 1933, Edwards work ed first with J. P. Stevens and Company, served as superintend ent of the Charles D. Thoms Company and later of Aberfoyle, Inc. before entering active Army duty in World War n. After the war, he was plant manager of DR. EDWARDS Abbeville Mills Corporation of the DeeringMilliken organization for two years and then moved up to treasurer and general manag er of the Abbeville Group. He ended an eight-year tenure here (1948-56) to join the Clemson staff. Dr. Edwards is a native of Fountain Inn. He is married to the former Louise Odom of Red Springs, N. C., and they have a son and daughter. MR. AND MRS. BULL . . . Talk By Touch Four Killed Enroute To Cross Hill Four New York residents were killed in an automobile accident near Lynchburg, Va., Thursday while enroute to Cross Hill to vi sit relatives. The dead were Mrs. Martha Ella Dendy Anderson, 23, wife of William T. Anderson Sr. of New York, N. Y.; her daughter, Alando Michelle Anderson, 7 months of the home; and two nieces, Tracy Dendy, 6, and Able Dendy, 3. Surviving Mrs. Anderson also are a son, William T. Anderson Jr. of New York; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dendy of Cross Hill; a brother, John Hen ry Dendy of Cross Hill; five sis ters, Miss Martha Dendy and Mrs. Bertha Bluford of New York, Mrs. Fannie Makins of Laurens, Mrs. Cornelia Anderson of Wash ington, D. C., and Miss Juanita Dendy of Laurens. Surviving AJapdo Michelle An- deraca tlm tar a gnadmotber, Mrs. Agnes Cook of Waterloo. Surviving Tracy and Able Den dy are their mother, Mrs. Mar* tha Dendy and four brothers, Lar ry, Shelton and Jeffry Dendy of New York and Freddie Dendy of Cross Hill. Funeral services were held at St. John’s Baptist Church in Cross Hill. Burial was in Frank lin Cemetery in Cross Hill. Worker Burned, 4 Cars Damaged In Garage Fire Willie Golden suffered second degree burns on his legs and four cars were heavily damaged in a flash fire which swept C. W. Cooper Garage Friday morn ing. Golden, an employe of the firm on East Carolina Ave., was hos pitalized with leg injuries re ceived in the fire which started about 8 a.m. The fire is believed to have started when an employe lighted a torch which acci dentally ignited the blaze. A spokesman for the firm said the loss was covered by in surance. BISHOP HARDIN Broad St. Dedication Set Sunday Bishop Paul Hardin Jr. will athente at the ae* dMOfiPPpr tion and the official opening of the new sanctuary of BroadStreet Methodist Church Sunday. The service is to start at 11 a.m. Bishop Hardin, a native of Laurens County, was reared in Chester. He is a graduate of Wofford College, Candler School of Theology and Emory Univer sity. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Wofford College and Birmingham-Southern College in 1950. He was elected bishop in 1960. As resident Bishop of the Co lumbia area, Bishop Hardin pre sided over the South Carolina Conferences which include ap proximately 1,100 Methodist Churches, with 242,000 mem bers. His administrative office is in the Methodist Center, 142k Lady Street, Columbia. His wife is the former Dorothy Elizabeth Reel and they are the parents of Mrs. A. M. Utley Jr., wife of a practicing attorney m High Point, N. C.; Paul Hardin HI, president of Wofford Col lege; and Edward Reel Hardin, attorney in High Point. > Blind Husband Is Her Contact With The World 'A Quiet Life Together BY DONNY WILDER Editor, The Chronicle Clarence Bull is married to a woman he’s never seen. His wife has never seen him nor heard his voice. They live together in a four-room apartment which they hadn’t left for almost three months until a Clinton friend recently took them for a walk around the block. Mr. Bull has been blind for almost 55years. His wife is blind and deaf. Both of them are victims of childhood illnesses. But sing them no sad songs. They light up their world of darkness with a warm companionship and the satisfaction of leading their own lives to gether. They laugh a lot and their home is a happy place. Mr. and Mrs. Bull and their M-year-old dog, “Patsy”, reside in the King Apartments on Pine Street Mrs. Bull has her household duties as would any housewife. She is a particular housekeeper and she does her own cooking. Reading braille magazines and lis tening to the radio, Mr. Bull feeds his hungry curiosity about the world be cannot see. Mr. Bull, who will be 57 in June, has been blind since he was two years old, when be had measles. Mrs. Bull also 56, lost her eye sight when she had scarlet fever. She was about eight years old at the time. Later she lost her bearing. Mr. Bull said, * If we had the medical knowledge then that we have now, I don’t believe I would have become blind.” But there is no bitterness in his voice. He said, “But we diita’t have that medical knowledge so this is the way it is.” He is a son of Charlie Bull of Clinton. His mother died when he was two and his father later remarried. He was reared in Clinton and, at age seven, enrolled iq Cedar Springs School for the Blind near Spartanburg. He completed the 10th grade there and now says, “I’m not particularly proud of my educational record. Young people often don’t understand the value of a full education. ” Mrs. Bull attended public schools in Kokomo, Ind., until she was stricken with scarlet fever. Mr. Bull said, “After she lost her eye sight, she slowly started losing her hearing. Then she had a cold and lost her hearing completely. I understand that can happen to anyone.* TEN PA IB’ MARRIED Mr. Bull met his future wife through correspondence. Braille magazines for the blind often list people who are seeking “pen pals” and this was the stepping stone to their marriage on Aug. 11, 1942, in Kokomo. Mr. Bull had been married previously but his first wife died nine months after their marriage. “When we were married, Eleanor couldn’t boil water,” Mr. Bull said, “Her mother was always afraid for Eleanor to be around a stove. She was afraid she would get burned. After we were married. Eleanor insisted her mother teach her how to cook so she did. Now, Eleanor reads braille recipes and she’s a fine cook—-the best there is, as far as I’m concerned.” Mr. and Mrs. Bull moved to Clinton in September from Phila delphia, Pa., where they lived for 17 years. “We draw welfare,” Mr. Bull said, “And we wanted to come South for many years but we couldn’t because of the welfare laws. The law said you had to live in the state for several years before you could draw welfare. We simply couldn’t manage anything like that. Then the Supreme Court overturned that restriction so we packed up and moved to Clinton. We like it here very much. I never was much of a city boy. We’re closer to nature here.” Mr. and Mrs. Bull’s sole source of income is through the Wel fare Department’s Aid-To-The Blind Program. ALMOST LOST 'PATSY ’ In the move to Clinton, the Bulls almost lost their beloved pet, “Patsy”, a pretty, red, long-haired dog. “Patsy” became ill on the trip and had to be left with a veternarian in Baltimore, Md. “That was a sad day,” Mr. iBull said, “We thought we had lost Patsy.” The veternarian performed what Mr. Bull considers to be “a minor miracle” and pulled “Patsy” through. Arrangements were made to fly “Patsy” from Washington to Greenville. Two Presbyterian College students drove to Greenville to pick up “Patsy” It was a happy reunion. “Patsy isn’t a seeing-eye dog. She’s just a house pet and good company. In fact, she’s our baby,” said Mr. Bull. As is the case with many people who come into contact wife Mr. and Mrs. Bull, the Baltimore veternarian was impressed by the couple. “You know, be didfa’t charge us a cent for all that work he did with Patsy,” Mr. Bull said. Reese Young, who is in charge of the King Apartments for Pres byterian College, is a frequent visitor. He took Mr. and Mrs. Bull for a walk around the block recently and was surprised to learn it was the first time they had left the apartment for any extended time since Christmas. The Bulls will be moving to another apart ment in the complex soon and the crews who are remodeling the buildings have volunteered to move them during their off-hours. Mrs. Bull cuts her husband’s hair. When a local barber volun teered to cut Mr. Bull’s hair, free-of-charge, be respectfully declined, saying, “Eleanor might not like that” ‘TALKING’ BY HAND *»!. Mr. Bull is Mrs. Bull’s link with local contacts. They com?- muni cate through the manual alphabet for the dent Mrs. places her hand over Mr. Bull’s hand as be spells out the i letter-by-letter. It is done very quickly. Mrs. Bull can' hand but both of them use a typewriter for their < Mrs. Bull’s hobby is corresponding with other blind throughout the nation and for this she uses a! Mr. Bull, an avid sports fen via radio, has an i and highly developed mental recall powers. He ban an i sive ability to remember names, tetapbone cords of athletes and teams. But Mr. Bull doesn’t see why him and his wife tor a newspaper “I guess we mirtt have d! you wanted to write about a never really ac “ ' “ lead a iiateUMi