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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.
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