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& \ W W V 4- -» I WEATHER (Week of July 22-29) High: 92 Low: 65 (July 28) (July 22) Rainfall: 2.52 ins. (July 22, 23, 26, 27) Soil Temflx Range: 80-86 degrees VoL 71 — No. 31 Clinton Clnomcle Clinton. S. C., Inly 30. 1970 i *■ 1 ^ VN£ - ' LEGION LEAGUE CHAMPIONS—Shown above are members of the Clinton American Legion team which last week won the League Nine championship and this week is participating in the Upper-State quarterfinals against Greenwood. Team members shown above are, front row, left to right: Arnold Lietzey, David Mangum, Tony Mims, Rick Thompson, Stan Elrod, Billy Mc- Ninch. Jim Garrett: standing: left to right: Coach Sam Owens, Andy Ellis, Mike Bridges, Tommy Motes, John Chaplain, Billy Young, Mat thew King, Troy Bowen, and Coach Fred Satter field. Buzz Tedards, the starting pitcher in Tues day night’s - Clinton win and catcher Tommy Shields were warming up when the picture was made and were not available for the picture. For complete coverage of the playoff series, see page 7-A in today’s Chronicle PC-Lander ROTC Plan Set South Carolina’s first ROTC cross-enrollment will open the Presbyterian College military unit to male students from Lan der College this fall, according to a joint announcement by the two college presidents. PC President Marc C. Weer- sing and Lander President E. Don Herd, Jr., have completed an agreement whereby interest ed Lander students will come to the Presbyterian campus for drill and instruction leading to a Mcood lieutenant’s commission In the United States Army Re serve. The program will be headed by Col. William B. Tuttle, Jr., a West Point graduate now com pleting his first year as pro fessor of military science at PC. Serving under him are three officers and four enlist ed men. This staff will handle all of the instruction and ad ministrative work, and Third Army headquarters will pro vide the necessary uniforms and other equipment Lander will provide for transporting its ca dets the 27 miles from Green ed to Clinton for the one af ternoon per week of training. The Presbyterian College ROTC unit, one of the oldest in the nation and highly ranked through the years, had a bat talion of 346 cadets last session. Some decline in this number is expected in the future as the basic two-year ROTC require ment is made voluntary for sophomores this coming year and for freshmen in 1971-72. The advanced course has al ways been voluntary for elect ed juniors and seniors, who are currently paid $50 monthly by the Federal government Aca demic credit is given all four years. Col. Tuttle said the joining of two colleges in ROTC cross- enrollment is a new concept-- the first such program in South Carolina and only the second in the Southeast. He is optimistic about the new cross-enrollment relationship with Lander, add ing: *1 understand Lander College is enrolling increaslnglv Urge numbers of male itadefitc, and I believe our ROTC program can attract a share of these young men. When we get a suf ficient number, these cadets can form their own Lander Com pany within our battalion and wear a Lander shoulder patch on their uniforms. Upon suc cessful completion of the course, they will be commis sioned second lieutenants in a social ceremony at Lander Commencement exercises.■ Col. Tuttle also pointed out the Lander cadets will receive the same consideration as PC cadets for ROTC scholarships and for air flight training. Dur ing the past year, 13 PC stu dents received these grants which cover tuition, books and laboratory fees. Flight training is available to senior cadets under a special program using Greenwood Airport facilities. Academic credit for ROTC participation, awardedby Pres byterian College, will be recog nized by Lander. The battalion has a two-hour drill and lead ership period for all cadets each Thursday afternoon. In addition, freshmen have a one- hour military class each week and earn two boors of acade- . v> mic credit for the year. Sopho mores have two classes week ly and earn four hours of cre dit, while juniors and seniors in the advanced courses meet three classes for six hours of credit each year. Six weeks.of training atSummer ROTC Camp follows the junior year. Col. Tuttle said the Lander freshman cadets will receive all of their training on Thurs day afternoon by remaining af ter the drill period for the hour of classroom in struction. He pointed out that, as PC goes on its new 13-13-7 calendar this year, the regular ROTC pro gram will be conducted only during the two 13-week fall and winter terms, starting Sept 2 and ending April 9. The Presbyterian ROTC unit was established in 1919, within a year after Congress authoriz ed the reserve Officers’Train ing Corps program. It is a branch general unit, providing graduates with a choice of as signments in the adjutant gener al’s corps, armor, intelligence and security, artillery, chemi cal corps, engineers, finance, infantry, medical service, mili tary police, ordnance, quarter master and signal corps. Over the years, the PC unit has pro duced more than LSOkottMMr and many/of these remained in the Regular Army to rise to higher ranks. The group in cludes two army major gen erals, two national guard gen erals and more than 50 full colonels. Mountville Woman Dies Of Gun Wound Mrs. Nellie Grant Mackall, 35, of Philadelphia, Pa., was shot and killed in an accident on July 23, in Mountville. According to Corner Mar shall Pressley, the accident oc curred when her brother, John Gr ant, was showing her a single barrel shotgun that she report edly asked to see. Pressley said that Grant pulled the trigger of the gun, not knowing the wea pon was loaded. The gun went off and killed the woman. Coroner Pressley ruled the death as accidental and said that no inquest will be held. Mrs. Mackall was a daughter Beltline Plan Dominates Land Use Public Hearing of Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt Grant of Mountville. She was a gradu ate of Bell Street High School and a member of the 59thStreet Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Surviving also are two sisters. Miss Jessie Grant of Mountville and Mrs. Geneva H. Burse of Philadelphia; and two brothers, John Douglas Grant of Mountville and Casper Grant of Lancaster, Pa. Funeral services were held Wednesday at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Cross Hill. Burial was in the church cemetery. It Planners Sponsor Hearing Discussion of a proposed beltline road around Clinton do minated a public hearing Mon day on a land use plan and pre liminary thoroughfare plan for Clinton. ware AGREEMENT — Gilbert S. Guinn, vice- ment between the two institutions which will en- ^ able Lander male students to become members of the ROTC unit on the Clinton campus. Looking on is Colonel William B. Tuttle, Jr., who heads the program at PC. There were 22 people at the hearing which was held at Belk Auditorium on the Presbyterian College campus. This included 13 interested citizens, five members of the sponsoring Clinton Planning Commission, two members of the Wilbur Smith and Associates staff, a representative of the Upper Savannah Development District and a newspaper reporter. The land use plan itself re ceived little comment from the audience. However, the bulk of the hour and a half meeting was taken up in discussion of the proposed beltline which is part of the preliminary thorough fare plan. All comments from the audience concerning the pro posed beltline were in opposi tion to the route between High way 72 south and Highway 72 north. The Planning Commission will send the land use plan and preliminary thoroughfare plan to City Council for its approval. The commission will note that the ring road or beltline route received criticism and and will be subject to further study. ise Young, an interested citizen, commented, “Whitten Village, Presbyterian College and Thornwell have been taken care of in this plan but the little fellow haven’t been taken care of...I can’t have confidence in a plan as long as I don’t feel the planners are looking out for our interests../ Mr. Young was referring to the fact that the beltline route does not cut through the pro perty of the three institutions mentioned. Tommy Hollis, a member of the Planning Commission, said, “Most of the enthusiam for this beltline has been generated by the Planning Commission. The community doesn’t have the necessary information on w^at should be done. I don’t want to be a party to anything like this which doesn’t have community support We’re destroying the confidence of a lot of people in the Planning Commission be cause of this one particular phase. It’s unpalatible to too many people/ BACKGROUND Planning Commission Chair man Ed Campbell said that several years ago, the State Highway Department was asked by the Chamber of Commerce to come to Clinton and see what can be done about the town’s traffic problems. Campbell said, “They came up with the idea of this beltline, after con siderable study. Later, Wilbur Smith and Associates planning firm, was asked to come in and conduct their long-range plan ning survey. They came up with virtually the same thing. The Highway Department heard complaints about the beltline proposal at the first public bearing. There will be a de sign hearing later which will spell out exactly where the belttine should go. If there is no support for the proposal at that time, the Highway Depart ment undoubtedly will be happy to just drop the whole idea. BY-PASS It was suggested that the beltline route be moved farther oat of town. Mr. Campbell re plied, “We asked about moving the route out but we were told that doesn’t serve the purpose of getting people from oen side of town to another without hav ing to go through the downtown there’s not enough traffic farther out to justify a route there. We don’t want to lose the confidence of anyone. We’re all in this together. We want to build our community and we have to be able to get people in and out of our community if we’re going to grow/ Cajly Gault, another interest ed citizen, asked if any studies have be^n made to show exactly how much traffic the proposed route would take off the down town roads. Phil Simons of Wilbur Smith and Associates referred to a 1968 Highway Department sur vey which shows average 24- hour traffic daily for the summer months. The survey shows there was an average of 8,300 vehicles per day in the downtown area while there were 8,500 vehicles passing the bus iest point on Interstate 26 just outside of Clinton. He said, “There have been no specific or gin and destina- tion studies. Those studies are very elaborate and expensive. Our people can look at the level of traffic volume and we know, by experience, what they mean. We can generaHy tell how many vehicles will be going where and where they are com ing from. We know we do have some heavy traffic demands which could bealeviatedbyalo- cal traffic collector route such as this so-calledproposedbelt- line. We aren’t talking about a by-pass. We see it as a local collector road, serving a need of getting people from one side of town to the other/ POPULATION PROJECTION In presenting the land use plan, which will be the basis for the other phases of planning, - including zoning, Mr. Simons said Wilbur Smith and Asso ciates’ projections estimate there will be about 15,000 peo ple living within the Clinton city limits by 1990. The plan ning area’s population will be over 20,000, he said. In response to a question, he said the projection assumed that the city limits would be extended through annexation and that property within the city limits would be made available for development. Currently, he said, 36.3 per cent of the land within the city limits is vacant. Of that which has been developed, 40 per cent is residential; 4.8 per cent is commercial; 2.8 per cent is in dustrial; and 8.8 per cent is public or quasi-public (schools, Presbyterian College, Thorn- well Orphanage, etc.) In presenting the preliminary thoroughfare plan, Bob Gleason of Wilbur Smith and Associates, < " K *M ■V . "W ' -cf . ^ ' s explained, “The thoroughfare plan must be compatible tor the land use plan. Also, this plan helps determine road priorities for federal and state highway road projects.’ He also said, “You already have a tremend ous investment in thorough fares. This plan will help to maximize use of your thorough fares.’ George Cornelson, a mem ber of the Planning Commis sion, requested that, in view of the 1968 traffic survey, some thought be given to the possi bility of four-laning Highways 56, 72 and 76 from the north. Hueble Is Named Campaign Chairman William Alvin Hueble has been named Campaign Chair man for the United Fund of Greater Clinton for 1970. A graduate of Clinton High School and Presbyterian Col lege, with a B. S. in Business Administration, Mr. Hueble is Assistant Manager of the Bailey Agency.« He is a member of David son Street Baptist Church, the Clinton Rotary Club, andCamp- bell Lodge #44 AFM. Born in Clinton and reared in Joanna, Mr. Hueble is married to the former Rachel Anne Wil son, daughter of Mrs. Cecil Wilson and the late Mr. Wilson of this city. They have a daught er, Cecilia Anne aged 4, and a son, William Alvin Hueble, Jr. aged 1. Firebomb Investigation Progress Is Reported Clinton Police Chief B. B. Ballard said Wednesday morn ing there were no new develop ments to report in the recent firebomblngs of area businesses, but lieve we’re making some pro gress. We just don’t have any thing to announce yet” A $1,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the apprehension, arrest and conviction of the person or persons who were responsible for the firebomblngs. Two rural stores were des troyed by fires ignited by businesses were damaged in a two-and-a-half hour period July 16-17. The firebombs were glass bottles filled with gasoline or kerosene with cloth jammed in the neck as a wick. Harris Named Manager No. 15 Joanna Plant ROBERT HELLAMS Mr. Hellams Dies At 76 Robert (Mister Bob) Hellams, former field secretary for the Beta Club, died Tuesday at age 76. A native of Greenville County, Mr. Hellams lived in Clinton for 25 years. He was a son of the late Robert Yancey and Annie Bruce Hellams. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church and the Christian Businessmen’s Committee. Mr. Hellams was a veteran of World War H. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Helen Seyle Hellams; a daughter, Mrs. Ann Hollowell of Clinton; a son, Robert Bruce Hellams, Jr. of Houston, Tex.; three sisters Mrs. Sam Pitch- ford of Greenville, Mrs. D. E. Kilgore of Albuquerque, N. M., and Mrs. W, T. Fraser of Pawleys Island; and nine grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens in Greenville. Services were to be conduct ed by the Rev. A1 Bixler and Floyd Hellams. Pallbearers were to be Thomas F. Hollis, Cally Gault, Billy Tiller, W. C. Baldwin, John Harmon, R. M. Turner and Charles T. Oakley. James E. Harris has been promoted to Plant Manager of Greenwood Mills’ Joanna Plant No. 15, and F. R. Simmons has been named Plant Manager of the Sloan Plant. L. W. McClain, director of Manufacturing, piade the an nouncements today. Harris was born in Honea Path, and was graduated from Greenwood High School. He re ceived a B. S. degree in Textile Mapdfacturing from Clemson University. He joined Greenwood MiUs in 1954 and worked as a loom fixer, a cost accountant and industrial engineer. He has also been Manager of Industrial En gineering and Assistant Plant Manager of Greenwood Plants Nos. 4 and 5, Durst, Ninety Six Plants Nos. 7 and 10, Joanna Plants Nos. 13, 14 and 16 and Adams Plant. Harris is married to the former Joan Bonnett of Mc Cormick and they have four children. He is a member of the Greenwood Kiwanis Club and the Industrial Management Club. The family attends South Main Street Baptist Church. Simmons, a native of Greer, has been with Greenwood Mills since 1943. He was Assistant Plant Manager of Greenwood Plants Nos. 4 and 5, and Plant Manager of Mathews NO. 2, Sloan, and Joanna Plant No. 15. 'Dollar Days' Open Today For “Dollar Days’ bargains, Clinton is the place to shop this weekend. The Clinton Merchants Di vision of the Chamber of Com merce this week is sponsoring “Dollar Days’ sales. In con junction with the promotion, Clinton merchants are ottering special bargains on many items. Check merchants’ advertise ments in this week’s Chronicle for those “Dollar Days’ bar gains. “Dollar Days’ start to day, Thursday. Other Memoirs BY JOE H. SIMPSON Today’s memoirs are strictly for young boys. I am thanking of my first sling shot. Well do I recall going to the woods and se lecting a limb from a dogwood bush to make my slingshot prongs and then to Young’s Pharmacy with a nickel fo get two rubber bands. Yes, I killed a few birds with this, which I should not have done- Next came my first air gun which I thought was tops, and especially when I bought my five hundred shot Daisyv I recall being under a mulberry tree in the back yard of my neighbor, Mr. George Bailey, when a bird lit in a bunch‘of leaves and I fired into the leaves with my air gun thinking it was a jaybird. Down fell a mockingbird. It was not quite dead so I rushed to water and sprinkled its head, trying to revive it, but was a good lesson for me, for to this i never shot at another bird without kind it was.