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WEATHER (Week of April 16-22) High: 86 Low: 44 (April 19-21) (April 16) Rainfall: .42 in. (April 14, 17, 20) Soil Temp Range: 65-70 tCfje Clinton Chronicle VoL 71 —No. 17 Clinton, S. C., April 23, 1970 INDEX Three Sections, 20 Pages Classified 6-A Deaths 4-A Editorials 2-B Hospital News 4-A Society 2-A Sports 7-A Passage Termed Vital FINE SPRING—Clinton High School’s Alex Rog ers clears the bar on way to a victory in a track meet last week against Woodruff. CHS wound up its track schedule recently with Rogers finisIHpg as the team’s top scorer. For more pictures and article on the CHS track team, see page 7-A. Vandalism Break-Ins, Investigated Clmt >n police are investigating a break-in and theft, break-in attempt, and an act of vandalism, all of which «>ccured last week end. On Saturday night, thieves broke into Baldwin Appliance on South Broad Street and took be tween $10 and $12 in silver. The store was entered through the back door. On the same night, there was evidence that someone tried to enter Cox Home and Auto Supply on North Broad Street. All the glass in four back doors were broken but the entry attempt was thwarted by bars on the doors. On Sunday night, a mobile home on Whitmire Highway was entered and extensive damage was done. Vandals broke furniture, splat tered eggs on the walls and wrote over the walls. The mobile home is occupied by Florence Jane Cook. Coroner's Jury Rules In Death Of Store Manager LAURENS - A coroner’s jury ruled Tuesday night that the March 31 death of Robert l Tay lor, 58, was the result of a gun shot wound inflicted by an un known assailant. Taylor was shot Feb. 19 in the office of the Colonial Store by one of two Negro men that had entered the supermarket and demanded money. Taylor was manager of the store. Laurens County Coroner Mar shall Pressley said that Taylor was taken to a Laurens hospital after the shooting and then trans ferred to a Greenwood hospital. He died March 31 at the Charles ton Medical Center. Beasley Named Executive Director Community Action LAURENS - Robert L. Beas ley has been elected executive director of the Laurens Com munity Action, Inc. to succeed the late Julian Bolick. Beasley has served assistant director for the past four years. C. D. Beasley, chairman of the board, said 13 applications were considered for the position. The Community action pro gram will operate five programs at the New Careers Center on South Harper Street this year. Voter Registration Books Coming Here Voter registration books will be in Clinton April 30, May 1 and May 2. The books will be available for voter registration from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on those three days at the "id Hamilton Jewlers building in downtown Clinton Persons in the Clinton area who are not registered but wish to vote in the June 9 Laurens County Democratic primary and the November General Election may do so on April 30, May 1 and May 2. The books also are available for voter registration at the Lau rens County Courthouse Monday through Saturday noon of each week. The Registrar’s Office is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day except Wedocs&y; aad Saturday when the office is open from 9 a.m. until noon. The deadline for voter registration for the June 9 primary is tyiy 9. Lions' Broom Sole Opens The Clinton Lions Club will sponsor its annual broom sale tonight and Friday. Lions will sell brooms door- to-door from 6 until 8 p.m. A- vailable for purchase will be several different weights of re gular brooms, industrial brooms, whisk brooms and hearth brooms. Prices range from 75 cents to $2.25. Proceeds from the sale will be used in the local Lions Club’s sight conservation projects. Also if anyone has any old eyeglasses or frames which are not being used, the Lions would like to collect them during their sales campaign. $116,704 Contract Awarded On 75-Acre Lake For Clinton A contract is to be awarded by the Soil Conservation Service and the Duncan Creek Watershed Conservation District for the construction of a 40-foot high earthen flo<<lwater retarding dam m the Duncan Creek watershed. This is the last of six dams planned for the project and is lo cated on the main Duncan Creek. Ware Brothers Construction Company of Moncks Corner won the construction contract with a low bid of $116,704.81. The bids were opened at the office of the Soil Conservation Service in Lau rens at 10 a.m., Friday, April 17. There were eight bidders on the project. The plan calls for a dam, using 80,000 cubic yards of dirt and is to be built within 210 calendar days. Work is expected to com mence in three or four weeks. The project will include a 75 acre permanent lake which will be owned by the City of Clinton. It will store approximately 130 millions gallons of water to be used by the City. In addition, 3628 acre/feet of flood storage area will be provided above the lake. The last of the structural mea sures in the project, 6 1/2 miles of stream channel improvement on Duncan Creek, is scheduled for contracting before June 30, 1970. When the Duncan Creek pro ject was approved in 1962, it was estimated the overall cost would be 932,000 dollars. The Federal government pays half of the cost through SCS. Not all of the total amount, however, involves cash outlay. After the dams and channel improvement jobs are completed, the Soil Conservation Service will turn the projects over to the local districts for upkeep. The Duncan Creek Watershed District Directors are C. D. Waldrop, chairman; C. W. Anderson, B.A. Goodwin and N. B. Senn. Sponsored By Joycees Miss Clinton Pageant Scheduled For May 23 The Clinton Jaycees announc ed today they will sponsor the Miss Clinton Pageant which will be held May 23. The winner of the Clinton Pag eant will enter the Miss South ‘ Carolina Pageant held in Green ville each year to select the State Queen who will compete for the crown of Miss America in the national competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Jaycees are again serving as sponsors of the Pageant be cause they believe it provides a valuable contribution to the com munity and to the young ladies who will enter the competition. CC Board Backs School Tax Increase Proposal The proposed School District 56 tax increase this week drew the support of the Clinton Cham ber of Commerce Board of Di rectors. The board voted unanimously Tuesday to go on record in fa vor ofthe proposed 10-mill school tax levy increase. Chamber of Commerce President Joe Holland also appointed a steering com mittee to encourage a favorable vote in the May 5 referendum. Members of the committee are Hugh Jacobs, O. P. Haynes, James Von Hollen, Don Creigh ton and Donny Wilder. Holland instructed the commit tee, “We want you to do all you can to help pass this vital issue." Mr. Von Hollen, chairman of the District 56 Board of Trustees, told the Chamber of Commerce directors, “If we’re going to con tinue to operate our schools, we must have this increase. We can’t continue to borrow against next year’s levy. It may be startling to think that there is even a pos sibility that schools might have to be closed but that is not beyond the realm of possibilities. It has actually happened in some com munities in our nation. “We operated at a $50,000 de ficit last year and we anticipate a deficit of $40,000 to $50,000 in the 1970-71 budget. That means we will have a total deficit of be tween $90,000 and $100,000. We think that we can cut maybe $10,000 to $15,000 out of the pro posed budget but that’s about it. We desperately need this levy increase.” Mr. Von Hollen explained that residents of District 56 now pay a 48-mill levy for the general operation of schools. That is equal to $48 on every $1,000 of property tax valuation. The pro posed levy would raise that to $58 per $1,000. He also pointed out that Dis trict 55, which includes the Lau rens area, already is operating on the basis of a 58-mill levy and he added, “I understand they’re going to ask for another increase." The proposed tax levy would bring School District 56 even with District 55’s current levy. Von Hollen said, "Our per-pu- pil expenditure is one of the low est in South Carolina. For what we’re spending, we’re getting as much or more for our money. I believe we get full value for our educational dollar. We just don’t have enough to work with.” He explained that the deficits have been caused by general cost- oHiving increases. Juvenile Center Proposed County Supply Bill Asks No Tax Increase The Laurens County Supply Bill introduced this week calls for no tax increase. The proposed supply bill totals $1,049,000. That compares with $1,025,000 fur the current supply bill. Rep. David S. Taylor, secre tary for the Laurens County leg islative delegation, said that the expense increase will not re quire an increase in the 14 mills currently levied for county op erational expenses. The two major changes in the supply bill call for two addi tional deputies for the Laurens County Sheriffs Department and the construction and operation of a County Juvenile Detention Cen ter. The county has received assur ance of a federal grant cover ing 60 per cent of the cost of personnel, equiment and sup plies for the juvenile detention center and 50 per cent ofthe con struction costs. The total cost for the first year has been estimated at $60,- 000, with the county’s share bemg $28,500. Taylor pointed out that the cost thereafter will drop sharply. Taylor said the delegation has recommended that the juvenile detention center be construct ed on county-owned property near the County Home. However, he pointed out that the decision as to where the center will be built will be left to either the current County Commissioners or to the County Council which will take over in January. Concerning the addition of two deputies for the Sheriff’s Depart ment, Taylor said that most of the county’s industrial and resi dential growth has been in the county and the department cur rently doesn’t have an adequate staff to police the area. The Sheriffs Department currently has 14 full-time deputies while the City of Laurens has a 20- man police force and the City of Clinton has a 21-man force. Jaycee President Milton Moore said, the Jaycees feel that the Pageant serves the community well because it focuses attention on the high calibre of young lad ies who are residents of our area. It also serves youth well because it provides the opportunity for the young ladies who compete to gain added maturity through parti cipation in a communtiy program such as the Clinton Pageant “Committees to plan the pro gram are being formed, and in dividuals and businesses in the area will be requested to assist the local Jaycees in this en deavor. 'Frontier Youth’ Invade If you see some folks dressed as frontiersmen or frontierswo- men in Clinton Saturday don’t head for the hills. They’re just some young people from the Clin ton YMCA celebrating the Tri centennial a little early. The Junior and Senior Tri- Hi-Y (girls) and Junior and Sen ior Hi-Y (boys) will be dressed in frontier fashion Saturday and will be selling cakes, taffey, pla ques and other items. Each club has made items to sell during the Saturday campaign. If they can manage it, they hope to be selling the items out of a covered wagon. The Youth Tricentennial Cele bration will open Friday night with a dance at the YMCA. The dance will open with a square dance and then will move into a regular teen dance. Proceeds from the dance and the frontiers sale will be used to purchase a piece of equip ment for the proposed new YMCA building. Don't Forget The Time Change Remember to set your clock back an hour when you go to bed Saturday night Daylight Sav ing Time starts Sunday. If you go to bed at 11 p.m. Sat urday, move the clock back to 10 p.m. and maybe you won’t be late for church Sunday morning. PAUL MOCSANYI AND SCULPTURE Art Critic Paul Mocsanyi To Deliver Hardie Lecture For County Students PC Commuter Aid Planned FREE LIBRARY BOOK RETURN WEEK From April 23-May 2, books may be returned to the P. C. Library without fines, regardless of how long the bock has been out. Borrowers are urged to take advantage of this unusual opportun ity to return overdue books without paying fines. A box has been placed inside the Broad Street entrance for convenience. A Laurens County Commuter Scholarship Program at Presby terian College was announced Tuesday by Dr. Marc C. Weer- sing, president of the college. Dr. Weersing pointed out, “All the fine points ’ haven’t been worked out but we expect to have the program in operation by next fall." The program is designed to as sist and encourage Laurens County students to attend Pres byterian College. Some of the tentative require ments are: 1. Application must be a legal resident of Laurens County; 2. Applicant must be recom mended for the scholarship by a member of the high school teach ing faculty; 3. A parent’s confidential statement will be required to es tablish need. 4. Scholarship will be based od need and will vary from an ho norary amount to the cost of at tending PC as a day student 5. A 2.25 cumulative Grade Point Ratio (GPR) will be re quired to continue as a Laurens County Commuter Scholar. 6. Program will commence with the rising freshman class. Dr. Weersing said, “This pro gram is the result of the tre mendous support which has been made available to PC by the col lege friends in Laurens County. We hope that the residents at the county will take Ml advantage of this program and that the col lege will educate an even larger number of citisens from the im mediate area.” Dr. Weersing said that anyone desiring farther information or application forms should contact the director ofStadent AidatPC. Paul Mocsanyi, noted art critic and director and founder of the Art Center at the New School for Social Research, will deliver the annual Newton G. Hardie Lec ture at Presbyterian College next Tuesday. He will speak on the subject ’Humanists and Anti-Humanists in Contemporary American Art’ at the 10 a.m. student assembly in Belk Auditorium. The public is invited to hear him discuss such questions as. Must the art of our time be really de- umanixed? Does the dehumaniz ing art of Pup, Op, Kinetic and Electronic, Minimal and Micro art express our true feeling of life and society in the modern world? Mocsanyi studied art in Buda pest, Vienna and Paris before coming to the United States in Firemen Answer Two Fire Colls Clinton firemen answered two fire calls during the past week. At 12:H) p.m. Saturday, firemen were called on to extinguished a car fire on North Broad Street The motor and wires were dam aged. 1940. Having been a news agency its Art Center, correspondent in Budapest, he joined the United Press upon ar riving in this country and later became the UP art critic. He left UP in 1958 to lecture at the New School of Social Research inNew York City and in 1960 founded In addition to his Tuesday morning address, Mocsanyi will be at the art exhibit in the Doug las House Gallery on Monday evening to award prizes and dis cuss art At 6:30 a.WL Sunday, firemen extinguished a Mana in the craft shop at Whitten Village. A desk to the shop. Other Memoirs BY JOE H. SIMPSON Sure we had our comic stripe when I was in that early childhood period. There are several that you can still see occasionally, such as the Katzenjammer Kids (Hans and Fritz), Pop Eye the Sailor Man, Mut and Jeff and several others, but there are two that I have not seen in many years, one being Happy Hooligan who wen the little tin can hat on his head and his mule named Maud that kicked him from here to there almost.', every day. The other was Buster Brown and his dog Tige. A few other items that have become almost for gotten are the 10c bottle of F. M. the M. Hohner line of musical ing the Jews Harp, Mouth Organ or the accordian and the famous one bladed low pocket knife. All of the ed items that were made in item from Germany was the and I was wondering if there is a famous Kewpi doSs left in Clinton. It or four inch little fellow with the top of its head, of them sold hers, bring back those days as Perils of Pauline, ton and others. A * « A a. x.,<v4 —.-V