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*4. * * -4 A • ~ ^ _ - _ INDEX Three Sections, 22 Pages Classified 6-A Deaths 8-A Hospital News 8-A Editorials 2-B Society 2-A, 3-A Sports 7-A Clinton Chronicle Vol. 71 — No. 34 Clinton, S. C., August 27, 1970 How Observant Are You? CHnton-Laurens Area County Toll-Free Service Is Discussed A meeting of interested citi zens concerning toll-free tele phone service in Laurens County was held on Monday in Laurens. The group selected George Phlnney of Laurens as chair man of the effort to get the free telephone service. Forty- three persons attended the meeting at the Agriculture Building in Laurens. Phinney, as spokesman for the group said that Laurens County was •fortunate in some respects and unfortunate in others in that there are four or five telephone companies serving the county.* There were representatives of three of the phone companies that serve Laurens County at the meeting. They explained how rates would be affected if extended rates were offered. The companies each conducted individual studies to determine how the rates would be affected. The extended service would mean that residents of Laurens and the rural Laurens area would be able to call Clinton, toll-free, and vice versa. The current proposal would not in clude toll free service between Joanna and Laurens and the rural Laurens area. It also does not include extended sers vice for Mountville. Extended services in Lau rens , by the General Telephone Company of the Southeast would result in customer rates being increased from $10.75 to $11.50 for one-party business and from $5 to$5.?5 for a one-party residence. The Southern Bell Telephone Company, serving the Clinton area, announced that their rates would go up from $9.15 to $10.65 for a one-party business and from $4.45 to $4. 75 for a one-party residence. The rate increase for Piedmont Rural Telephone customers would be from $9.50 to $11 for a one-party business and from $5.75 to $6.25 for a one-party residence. Representatives of the tele- nhone companies met in Col umbia on June 3 to discuss how this service could be pro vided. Tiie representatives at the meeting on Monday agreed that it would take from 18 to 24 months to establish the toll- free service in Laurens County if the Public Service Com mission approves theproposaL Greenwood United Telephone Company that serves the Cross Hill - Mountville did not have a representative at the meeting. * You think you really know Clinton? How observant are you when you go about town transacting business? Are you too preoccupied to notice the little things That's the theme of a photo series which starts today in The Chronicle. Clinton photographer-artist Betty Fryga has snapped a series of interest ing pictures around Clinton and we’ll test you on your powers of observation. The picture above is the first in the series. Do you know where that picture was taken? The answer is provided (up side down) below. lajojj a.\ooiisnft p; [icy PC Giving Program Hits $55,000 Annual Givine pr’CTim has n reached $55/'*''u, just-v-r ne- third f the wav {■> its $16u,‘i * i goal f r 197 l \ Alumni and Public Relations Direct i Bon May Hammet ann unced bday. He said tlie current pr>gram is hitting about the same dol lar pace as last year, when $151, 800 was raised for PC through this source. Participation runs higher this year, however, as more alumni join in helping the college claim a $10,000 challenge grant based >n alumni response. The present $55,000 has come from 834 total gifts from these categories: alumni-604 gifts for $28,300; parents and friends -230 gifts for $26,700. Ex- City Councilman Billy McMillan ,72, Dies William M. (Billy) McMil lan, 72, f 602 E. Car >lina died Tuesdav m"rnine at the Coal hospital. Me was a native and a life long resident of Laurens County, the son of the late T'seph C. and Alice Davidson McMillan. He was co-owner of the M v W Auto Sales. He was form erly associated with L. W. Cooper in the automobile bus iness also. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club for twenty- five years, member of the Clln- ton-Newberry Natural Gas Authority, former city council man and a member of the Bmad Street Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Ceremony In New City Hall Clinton’s new mayor andcity council will hie sworn in next Tuesday evening in the main hall of the new Clinton City Hall. Mayer-Elect J. C. Thomas said the swearing-in ceremony will be held at 7 p.m. He said, “Since we will be the first city council to serve in the new city hall, we throught it would be appropriate to be sworn in there.* The first official meeting of the new council will be held on Septemtier 14. Normally, coun cil holds its regular monthly meeting on the first Monday of each month. However, Mr. Thomas said, “I felt I needed more than a week to prepare for that first meeting. We have a lot of business to transact at tiie meeting. *We are going to work from an. agenda and we needed some time to prepare the first a- genda. We plan for each coun cilman to receive a copy of the agenda prior to each meeting. That way, they will know what is coming up and can give it some thought ahead of time.* To tie sworn in with Mr. Thomas are Councilmen Tal- madge Sanders, Boyd Hnltz- claw, S. C. (Chick) Pitts, Dew ey Oxner, Mrs. Nelle How-ard, and George Bagwell. 7 WvW Need some rabbits? See Perry (Rabbit) Moore. Mr. Moore purchased 52 Australian Short- hair rabbits at an auction last Friday. He wasn't able to move them to his farm until Saturday. By then he had 56 rabbits. On Sunday he had 60- He refused to count them Monday. He says, “If anyone wants to buy rabbits, tell them to come see me—quick.” Mr. Moore’s farm is on the Hurricane Church Road, across from the C. W. (Red) Copeland farm. Jasper Rowland believes in the pulling power of Chronicle want ads. He advertised a furnished apartment for rent last week. By Thursday morning, the day the newspa per came out, he rented the apartment He says he’s had a minimum of 26 calls from the adver tisement. The Laurens County Rescue Squad will stage a water safety demonstration Sunday at Lake Greenwood. The demonstration will Include driv ing a car off into the lake and showing how to get out of a sinking and sunken vehicle. The demonstration will start about 2 p.m. and will include an exhibit of many pieces of equip ment used by the squad in rescue work. W. M. McMILLAN Mrs. Lois Nichols McMillan, and one sister Mrs. Lois Mc Millan Wingo of Cincinnati, Ohio. Funeral services u'ere con ducted Wednesday at Broad Street Methodist Church by the Rev. J. Ben Cunningham. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Al len Nichols, Ronnie Bryant, Earl Horton, Lewis Pitts, Joe F. McMillian, Joe Bonds, Davis Workman, Clayte Ray. Honorary pallbearers were J. D. Williams, Russell Gray, Tom Plaxico, W. C. Baldwin, Lynn Cooper, Sr., Dr. D. O. Rhame, Dr. E. N. Sullivan, Dr. Robert Grube. Louis Bond, 57, Dies Unexpectedly S. Louis Bond, 57, 702 Shand Street, died early Wed nesday morning in a local hospital. He was a native of Charleston but had lived in Clinton since 1929. He was a son of the late Louis Charles an,d Rosa Bail Bond. He owned the Bond Motor Company, was chairman ofSel- ective Service Board No. 30 for Laurens County, was a member of Campbell Lodge 44 AFM, American Legion Post 56, vice president of Battery B107 AAA, member of the First Baptist Church, World War II veteran of U. S. Army. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ada Garrett Bond, one dau ghter, Reta Bond of Greenwood, two sons, Louis Charles Bond, II, Clinton, William P. Bond Clemson; four sisters, Mrs. H. L. Baggott, Cheraw, Mrs. L. M. Curtis, Manning, Mrs. S. P. Anderson, Clinton, Mrs. J. B. McCombs, Greenwood, one brother, William C. Bond, Clinton and one grandson. Funeral services will be con ducted Friday at 5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Rosemont Cemetery. Sullivan Joins PC Staff Eugene Sullivan, a 1968 Pres byterian College graduate, re turns to PC this year as dir ector of student activities, Stu dent Dean Thomas A. Stall- worth announced today. Stallworth said this newly created position in his office will have responsibility for supervising the intramurals program, the student entertain ment committee and the student union activities. Sullivan also will serve as director of the Douglas House student center. A native of Fort Mill, Sul livan earned his BA degree in psychology from Presbyterian in 1968. GET OFF MY BACK! — Clinton High’s Donnie (Red) White pitches out to Jack Hames in a scrimmage last Friday against Whitmire. The Red Devils are preparing for their schedule opener Sept. 4 at Woodruff. County Beard Contest Opens The Laurens County Chapter of the Brothers of the Brush will sponsor a beard contest in cele bration of South Carolina’s Tri-Centennial. The contest officially opened on August 19 and will be judged during the ^aurens County Tri-Centennial Week, November 8-14. Every community in the county is urged to participate. Anyone interested in chartering a Brothers of the Brush in their own community may contact Mason C. Motes at 984-5951 in Lau rens Each person entering the contest will be re quired to purchase a button certifying that they are members of Brothers of the Brush. These buttons will be on sale at $1.00 each at Henry Laurens Antique Shop in Laurens. Proceeds from the sale of buttons will be used for Laurens County’s Tri-Centennial. Also, for all those who wish to join the Brothers of the Brush but not wishing to enter the beard con test, shaving certificates may be purchased for $2.00 along with the buttons at Henry Laurens Antique Shop, entitling them to shave. Mrs. Davenport Heads UF Residential Drive Mrs. Thomas E. Davenport will head the Residential Div ision of the Greater Clinton United Fund campaign for 1970- 71. A Clinton native, she is the former Frances Cunningham. She resides with her husband and three sons on Glum Street Active in community and church work, she has worked in various capacities with Unit ed Fund campaigns in the past She is a member of the First Presbyterian Church where she is a former president of the Women of the Church, and MAIWWWVWWWWWW Joanna Fire Dept. Meeting The Joanna Fire Department Commission will hold a public meeting Tuesday night, Sept ember 1 and all residents of the Joanna community are urged to attend. The purpose of the meeting is to elect new officers and to raise some money for the Are department The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. and will be held in the Joanna Clubhouse. rfWWWWWWWWWW MRS. DAVENPORT serves now as treasurer of that organization, and is also a Sunday School teacher. Mrs. Davenport is a graduate of Wlnthrop College with a B. A. in Religious Education. Serving with Mrs. Davenport as volunteer workers will be: Mrs. Oliver Green, Mrs. Bob Cason, Mrs. Horace Payne, Jr., Mrs. Tom Weaver, Mrs. Louis Stephens, Mrs. Jeanette Bell, and Mrs. William Hill. * * * PC Freshman Class Reports Wednesday Freshmen numbering ap proximately 245 will arrive at Presbyterian College next Wednesday (September 2) for orientation to start the 91st session amid extensive curri culum changes. They will face a full week of placement testing, confer ences, entertainments and briefings leading up to regis tration on the following Tuesday afternoon. Among the changes taking ef fect this year in PC’s most ex tensive curriculum renovation in 50 years is the adoption of the 13-13-7 academic calendar and the first step in a two-step lifting of the RGTC require ment. In replacing the old semest er system, the new calendar calls for 13-week fall and win ter terms and a 7-week spring term. It is desigaad to read just course loatfS? utter great er flexibility in course selec tions and promote independent study. The developing cur riculum also includes expanded honors programs, inter-relat ed course work, studies abroad and in Washington and national research centers. The roTC requirement for freshmen and sophomores, dat ing back to 1919 at PC, is being eliminated for sophomores this year and for freshmen in the 1971-72 session. There-after, ROTC will be completely vol untary. Students who do part icipate may earn academic credit in military science and qualify for reserve Army Com missions. In conjunction with making ROTC voluntary, Pres byterian this fall opens its military unit to male students from nearby Lander College - the first time this new ROTC cross-enrollment concept has been attempted in South Caro lina. Curriculum modifications to make room for more electives have reduced the general ed ucation requirements in Eng lish and in foreign language from 12 hours to nine hours to be completed during the three terms of one year—and the re ligion requirement from nine hours to six. The foreign lang uage requirement now applies only to candidates for the BA degree, who also have the added requirements of three hours in fine arts. On the other hand, the six hours of mathematics previously required for both* degrees will now apply only to BS candidates. Still carried among the general education requirements for both degrees are the hours of natural science, history and social science, and the total require ments remain at 126 credit hours earned with a quality- point ratio of 2.00. Vandalism Arrests Reported The Clinton police Depart ment has arrested several sus pects in the Monday vandalism of the Martha Dendy Junior High School on North Beii Street. -*■ K The break-in occurred sometime Monday evtatef and a great deal of damage was done to the newly renovated school which is to open today. Clinton Police Chief B. B. Ballard declined to release the names of the suspects. He des cribed them as a “group of teenagers* but refused to go into any other detail. They were arraigned on Wed nesday morning. The vandals splashed red paint throughout the building. Administration of fices were entered and records and papers were thrown on the floor. Clocks in the school intercom system was cut in several rooms of the school. Chief Ballard also said that police recovered the adding machine and typewriter taken from the school office. Rep. Taylor To Discuss Textile Imports Rep. David S. Taylor of Lau rens will be one of the featured panelists on a television inter view program Sunday night on Channel 4. The topic of the program will be textile imports. Tiie program, ‘Report To The People’, will be telecast at 11 p.m. Rep. Taylor is a member of the S. C. General Assembly’s Textile Import Committee. OTHER MEMOIRS BY JOE H. SIMPSON One of the few luxuries that I enjoyed as a young lad was baskets of grapes. Of course, we had grape vines which I einoy- ed very much, and my neighbor, Mrs. B. F. God frey, mother of Gen. Godfrey, allowed me acmes to her fine scuppernongi vines. Even the wild grapes and muscadines were enjoyed by us kids who were always ready to eat, but to me, the beet grapes that I ever ate, were those that were sold in the fall of the year, after all local grapes were gone, by Shnpeon-Copeland Grocery store* These came in baskets with e lid and wire hiMiln, and were mostly Concord and Delawares and eama from the northern part of the United States. The baskets sold for preferred the small sweet XMewatu ga grape which was packed in was good sating, too, but my vets is stfH Delaware. :