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I WEATHER (Week of April 29-May 6) High: 81 Low: 46 (May 2) (May 6) Rainfall: 1.46 ina. Soil Temp. Range: 64-76 tEfje VoL 71 - No. 19 Cfjromtle Clinton, S. C., May 7, 1970 INDEX Three Sections, 22 Pact* Classified <kA Editorials 2*B Hospital News 8-A Society 2-A Sports 7-A Approved By Council New Fire Alarm Board Planned Clinton City Council Monday night approved a proposal to construct a fire alarm board on the city parking lot at the corners of South Broad St. and E. Carolina Ave. Representatives of the Clin ton Volunteer Fire Department made the request, saying they Cemetery 'BreolrOut' There was a “break-out" last week at Rosemont Cemetery. A cemetery visitor appar ently was locked in when the gates were locked Thursday evening. On Friday morning, Street Supt. Eddie McGee found one of the gates at the ceme tery had been knocked down by a car or truck. Guns, Bullets Reported Stolen In Two Break ing Clinton police are investi- gating two break-ins, one in a home and the other at a busi ness firm, during the past week. Both occured last Sunday. A window was knocked out of a house at 1003 Sloan St and 20 buckshot shells and eight or 10 boxes of 22 caliber bullets were reported stolen, along with a fishing rod and fly rod. Also, on Sunday, a break-in was reported at YarboroughOil Co. where rifles, guns and pistols were stolen, along with bullets and a 17-Jewel man’s watch. The total value of the missing goods was set at about $350 • * * Two Fire Calls Clinton firemen answered two calls during the past week. On Saturday, firemen exting uished an automobile fire at Bailey Memorial Hospital. On Monday, the eaves of the Wrang ler Restaurant were scorched and suffered minor damage from a fire which is believed to have started in a neon sign. would build the board them selves at a cost of less than $1,000. The total cost is ex pected to be about $1,900. The volunteer firemen said that a board located on the parking lot, site of theoldClin- ton Hotel, would be more cen tral and more convenient for firemen. In another action, council re affirmed its policy adopted in August, 1969, that only the two oldest fire trucks may be used on out-of-town fire calls. May or Noland Suddeth reported that the fire underwriters had re commended that the city stick to this policy. Mayor Sudeth said the policy action was needed to protect the city taxpayers’ insurance classification. Clinton Chamber of Com merce President Joe S. Holland called attention to the unsight ly conditions at several loca tions in town, particularly on Third Avenue and Bonds Street where junked automobiles and other debris litter the are?. Council directed Police Chief B. B. Ballard to take all neces sary action to clear ThirdAve- nue and Bonds Street. Utility Department Supt. D. C. Whitman recommended that another fulltime worker is needed on the electrical crew and that two students be hired for the summer. Henry Sim mons and John G. Ramagewere approved for the two student jobs. Whitman also recommended that the Utility Dept go back on a 44-hour w*#k..*t tfempgu- Ur hourly TtirrCouncil ap proved the request. City Clerk Brooks Owens re ported on an auto dealers li cense survey which he had been requested to make and council amended the city license ordi nance so that auto dealers will pay a city license fee based on gross sales less deductions for sales as reported to the S. C. Sales Tax Commission. Mr. Owens said the amendment would bring Clinton into line with towns of comparable size. BY DONNY WILDER Editor, The Chronicle These are my absolutely final words on Day light Savings Time. If I don’t get it right this time, forget it I don’t think anyone has missed my recent blunders about the changeover to Daylight Sav ing Time but just in case, here’s a brief recap: Two weeks ago, when we switched to Daylignt Saving Time, I advised people to reset their clocks. Unfortuntely, I advised them wrong. I said you move the clock back an hour. Then last week, I tried to straighten out my error. I made another. I said that if you had followed my ad vice, you would have been two hours early for church. Zap—wrong again. You would have been late. My neighbor, Dr. Louis Stephens, has offered to give me two alarm clocks—one for Eastern Standard Tone and one for Daylight Saving Time. I have gratefully agreed to accept the clocks, provided he will accept the responsibility for setting the Daylight Saving Time clock. If there’s anything wrong with this article, you will not see a single line about it in the next week’s Chronicle. At the rate I’ve been going, this could continue until it’s time to change bade to Eastern Standard Time. What are you supposed to do when we go bade on Eastern Standard Time? No comment May Day! May Day! If Mrs. Millette Wham of Mountville had known what the day had in store for her, she probably would have dressed differently for the May Day festivities at Coker. Mrs. Wham’s daughter. Sister, and Cody Rfanwftns, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Sim mons of Mountville, were members of the winning crew team. It’s tradition for the losers to push the winners in the water. , Mrs. Wham was just standing there watch ing the losers push the winners in the water when she was acddentally bumped—right into the water, wearing her “May Day” finery. Mrs. Wham emerged from the water with her pocketbook still crooked in her arm. She was a good sport about it all and waa the hit of the “May Day” weekend. BEST IN SHOW—Presbyterian Col- ‘Best in Show’ honors in the judged lege student James Keen discusses art exhibit held in conjunction with his painting with noted art critic the Festival of Arts Paul Mocsanyi. Keen’s painting won Clintonians Win Art Awards Clintonians won several a- wards last week in the judged art exhibit in the Fourth Annual Spring Arts Festival at Pres byterian College. Miss Betty Fryga won two first places, as did Sophie Young. Mrs. James (Betty) Walker also won a first place. Miss Fryga won first prize in photography with “Texture Study” and won first in color drawing with a work entitled “Missed the Plane.” Miss Young won first prize with a black and white drawing entitled “Meg” and won first prize in sculpture with an un titled entry. Mrs. Walker won first prize in watercolor with a landscape. Presbyterian College student Bo Keen won “Best in Show” honors for his painting entitled “Whirlwind World.” * * * Local Phone Rate Increase Is Requested Southern Bell Telephone Company has asked the South Carolina Public Service Com mission for authority “to make slight increases in its monthly local service rates to help off set the sharp increases in the cost of providing service.” The new rates would be effective with July telephone bills. According to J. W. Travis, Vice President and General Manager for Southern Bell in South Carolina, rates will in crease 25? to 45? for a resi dence line and 25? to 90? for a business line. Here in Clinton and Joanna, monthly rates for residence private lines would increase 45? and business individual line 90?. In explaining the necessity for the new rates, Travis said, “We have not had a general in crease in our local service rates in South Carolina since 1952. Inflation has finally caught up with us in spite of the in creased productivity of our em ployees, constant improvement in techniques and efficiencies in operations and technological advancements. He pointed out that wage costs in South Carolina increased from $11 1/4 million in 1952 to $41 million in 1969, taxes have gone up from $4.6 million to $30.4 million, the costs of new buildings, vehicles, and materials have increased sharply, and the interest on bor rowed money has risen from about 3% in 1954 to almost 9% today. “We have reached a point," Travis explained, “where in creased costs have surpassed our ability to absorb them.” Other increases proposed in clude service connection charg es which would go up $1 to $2 depending on circumstances, charges for certain types of cord switchboards and asso ciated equipment, and 15? a month for business additional directory listings. Some rate schedules, how ever, would decrease. Charges for a color telephone will be decreased, special telephones for customers with impaired hearing or speech will drop 25? per month, and measurement of mileage charges for private lines and extensions will be changed to use airline rather than route distance. No change is planned in in trastate long distance rates Fryfogle Is Elected President Of Ascoe Kenneth E. Fryfogle has been elected President of Ascoe Felts, Inc. in Clinton, accord ing to a recent announcement by the firm. Mr. Fryfogle has served as General Manager of Ascoe F elts since its founding in 1966 and has been largely responsible for the company’s leadership in in novative high-synthetic content needled felts. He has held executive positions in the paper machine clothing industry for 24 years and previously was pre sident of two companies in this field. Ascoe Felts began the manu facture of wet felts in 1967 and was incorporated as a separate company April 1, 1970. The re cent incorporation reflects the firm’s growth as a supplier of wet felts to the pulp and paper industry. KENNETH FRYFOGLE Paper makers’ wet felts, pro duced by Ascoe Felts, Inc., are currently being marketed and used with outstanding success in all paper producing areas of the United States. 10-Mill Levy Increase School Tax Hike Approved 449-357 Voters in School District 56 voted Tuesday 449-357 in favor of a 10-mill tax levy increase for the general operation of schools. The increase will raise the levy from 48 mills to 58 mills for the operation of the schools. School officials had pointed REV. WILLIAMS Williams Resigns Pastorate The Rev. ZebC. Williams has announced his resignation as pastor of Providence ARP Church in Clinton, a position he has in;Id since November of 1964. In announcing his resignation to the congregation Sunday, Mr. Williams said he has accepted a call to Midlane Park Pres byterian Church in Louisville, Ky. He also plans to do grad uate study at Louisville Semi nary there. His resignation at Providence ARP Church is effective in June. Mr. Williams has been active in community and Presbyterian College affairs. He has served as president of the Clinton Ele mentary School PTA; publicity chairman of the United Fund; a member of the Religion Depart ment and Guidance office at PC; chaplain of the Clinton Fire Department; member of the Clinton Rotary Club; advisor for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at PC; advisor for Pi Kappa Phi social fraternity; publicity chairman for the PTA and Community Concert series. In addition, he also has contri buted to the Clinton Chronicle with feature articles and pic tures. out that the increase was need ed to cover an anticipated de ficit of $40,000 to $50,000 in the 1970-71 budget School Board Chairman James Von Hollen said the de ficit was caused by general cost-of-living increases in ex penses. In the referemdum, the pro posal received its support in the Clinton and Lydia polling places. The Clinton poll voted in favor of the proposal 374- 246, a 128 - vote margin. The poll included voters from the Clinton attendance area (voters registered in Clinton No. 1, Clinton No. 2, Clinton Mill and Long Branch precincts). The Lydia poll, for voters in the Lydia Mill precinct, voted Plan For GREENWOOD - A revised plan for Laurens County parti cipation in the Piedmont Tech nical Education Center has been presented to the Laurens County Legislative Delegation by the Piedmont Technical Education Commission. The plan allows Laurens County to become a participat ing counfy ttfc Piedmont Technical Education Center upon payment of an entrance fee of $5,000 per year, starting July 1, 1970, and continuing from 15 years at the same base fee. The yearly financial support from each county is based on student enrollment, figured by determining the number of stu dent contact hours for the first six months of each school year (July 1 through December 31) and using this as a basis for projecting the budget for the coming year. Student participation from Laurens County for the first six months of the school year was 22,986 contact hours. Therefore, the annual partici pation fee for Laurens county for 1971 is $8,277. Based on the formula, Green wood county will pay $55,000 for 1971 in local support based on 152,516 student contact hours. Other participatingcountiespay a proportional amount based on student participation daring the same period of time. 21-9 in favor of the proposed tax increase. Voting against the proposal were Joanna(32-50), Mountville (7-20) and Cross Hill (15-32). Joanna included voters re gistered in Joanna, Hopewell, Renno and Shady Grove pre cincts. Cross HiU and Mount ville were for voters regis tered in those respective pre cincts. The results were verified Tuesday night by the Laurens County Board of Education. Their tally showed that 812 votes were cast and there were six spoiled ballots. The 9 2-vote margin meant that 56 per cent of those who cast ballots voted in favor of the proposal. County Rep. Paul Culbertson said the latest proposal has come too late for consideration this year. He said, “It is my feeling that if Laurens County could have worked out something without increasing taxes, I personally would have favored it and feel it would have benefitted the county. However, the House has adjourned and I don’t know what could be done at tbit httedrit.* * * * Exchange Chib Light Bulb Sale Scheduled The Clinton Exchange Club will begin its annual lightbulb sale Tuesday, May 12. Proceeds will be used to carry out com munity projects. Last year, the club raised approximately $500 and contri buted all proceeds to the Clin ton High School Band to help purchase new band uniforms. Exchange Club President Carl Leonard said the club has several worthwhile community projects and many of them will be aided by proceeds from the sale. * * * Piedmont Tec Offers Revised Mrs. Williams has served as librarian at Bailey Elementary School and at Thornwell School. Other Memoirs i ■'3Kr* v A •OLD FASHIONED* YOUNGSTERS — Mian Vir ginia Byars’ fourth grade class at Clinton Ele mentary School recently dressed in “old fashion ed’ clothes as part of their celebration of the Tricentennial. Shown above, front row, left to right, .are: Steve Smith, Lee Neighbors, Tommy Ramage, Keorge Walker, Hal Cheek and Jeff Ben jamin; second row: Scott Owens, Cindy Meaodws, Sherry Bryant, Sandra Crowe, Debbie King, Harbin and Beth Dowdle; back row: Phyffia Lan ders, Shirley Fleming, Donna Berry, Lynn WaQey and Barbara Black. BY JOE H. SIMPSON I came across a picture recently of myself wearing a derby hat These derby hats had their day even being worn by the younger men as well as the adults. Then there was the cap age. Large caps, small caps, one piece tops, several parts put to gether, caps with ear protectors, lined caps, thin caps for the summer time, cheap caps and expen* sive caps. Then there woe the knit caps, beret caps end tarns. Of course, in the summertime, there were soft straws, hard <or sennett straws and the popular panama straw hats. More felt hats were worn then than now. By the way, do you know what the best men’s fur felts are made of? You know what everything you wear is made from but doubt if there is one out cf twenty-five who" what material is used in a good qualifty fur They are made from RABBIT fUr or hair and _ the opposite from a cow's hide, the rabbit's stM»* ach hairs are the best So much for our men’s and and now ws will have a Jew ladies* head covering, few of the larger ‘ fessional hat makers these wei this type plants. You