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4 i v. ^ ti CLINTON-LYDIA VI CLINTC illlfti! SENIORS VISIT LYDIA COT' group of seniors from Clinlon Higl Honor Students (Continued from Page 1) (Seventh, Workman): Mary Cole, 90; Kathv Snelgrove, 89 1 3, and Sibyl Windsor, 89. (First, Coleman): Susan Harmon, Susie Osborne and Diane Lyda. (Leatherwood): Dianne Davenport, 90.71; Barry Whitman, 89.57. and Marvin Sanders. 89.41*. (Sixth, Templeton): Tyles Bryant, 92; Raymond Lanford and Juanita Hamrick. (Sixth, Blakelv): Sandra Dunaway, Brcnda Robinson and Linda Fayc Littleton. (Fifth, Miiam): Linda Greene, 95; Richard Campbell and Gayle Brookshire, 92; Dickie Watts, 91. (Fifth, Lee): Johnny Holland, 96; Brenda Fallaw, 94. and Dianne Williams, 91. (Pitts): Lyn Rollins, Elsie Williams and Linda Cunningham. (Little): Debbie Williams. Billie Satterfield and Cheryl Lancaster. (Third, Workman): Carol Sanders, 92; Ann Turner, 88 V2, and Jimmy Heaton, 88. (Fourth. Buford): J u d v Lever, 92.7; Jane Rollins, 92.2. and lone Wilkes. 91.5. CE PRESIDENT J. B. TEMPLETC >N HIGH SCHOOL 1956 SENIOR mm V f^MID?y ' ^Pr Jf fl i [ ^ , Tn TON MILLS?Superintendent Dav< 1 School a Spinning frame during a Attendance Records (Continued from Page 1) Turner. (Fourth, Mauney): Roger Dunaway, Leonard Finley, Hobby Simmons, Gail Ivester and Maria King. (Fifth, Lcc): Virl Barker, Ann Campbell, Lois Campbell, Brenda Fallaw, John Cash, Johnny Holland, Eugene Power, Larry Power, Bobby Joe Samples and Charlie Smith. (Fifth, Milam): Randall Fulmer, Douglas Norris, Jerry Simmons, Linda Greene. Barbara Lawson, Judy McAlister and Audrey Compton. (Sixth. Templeton): Eddie Braswell. Maxie Davis, Elwood Fulmer, Margie Ann Campbell, Annette Getsinger and Frances I Ian ley. (Seventh, Workman): John 1\yToi*\r Fli'/oKof ^ l\/T/i H II V ^ , iTilll > I il I/|(I l/V 111 Waters, Jimmy Quinton and Sibyl Windsor. (Little): Fred Ballevv. Gerald Foster, Barbara Meeks, Diane Osborne and Billy Satterfield, tardy one time. (Third, Workman): Barbara Simmons, Sandra Hanley, Rnhhv ( VSi il li v;m (Fourth, Buford): Charles Cannon, Albert Davenport, Bobby Hanley, Richard Tins THE CLOTHMAKER gk| ij J iN ADDRESSES THE CLASS ? Roberts of Lydia Mills shows a tour of the mills by the Senior Class. ley. Kenneth Tucker, Dallas L,awson, bhiriev bcott and Edward Prince, who had perfect attendance for the fourth consecutive year. (Sixth, Blakely): Sandra Dunaway, Donald Buhner. Linda Faye Littleton, Frankie Samples and Cheryl Wilson. (Seventh. Leatherwood): Dianne Davenport. Ronnie Glenn, Reba Rushton, Barry Whitmon. Clinton Women Planning Picnic The regular monthly meeting of the Clinton Mills Wornen's Club has been postponed from the usual date of June 19 to Thursday June 21st. At that time the club's annual picnic will be held on the lawn at Mrs. Alice Lowe's. The occasion will be a family - night affair and each member is asked to bring sufficient food for her family together with cups and plates. The drinks and folks will be supplied by the club. In the event of rain, the pic,..;ii 4i.? A?i iiiv. will uu I It' 11.1 III I III' /\l*clU cmy Street School cafeteria. The old fashioned Sunday is the best device ever devised for restoring poise and judgment to a fidgety world. It's A Grand Old Symbol How Well Do You Kr Probably no other state flag in the nation has such an in teresting and proud heritage behind it as does our own South Carolina flag, yet we venture to say that the average South Carolinian is not too well up on its history. Blood, toil and tears went into the making of our beautiful Palmetto State Flag. Twice in our history the familiar State Flag has flown over South Carolina as an independent republic. The flag as we know it now. was designed by Col. William Moultrie. It retained the colors and one of the crescents used in the banner hoisted at Fort Johnson near Charleston at the time of excitement over the Stamp Act. Fort Johnson had been constructed in the stirring days when the colony was the target of French, Spanish and Indians. who looked with jealous eyes in the settlement by the English. The little frontier fort was manned bv hastily recruited men in 1704-05. STAMP ACT By 1765 the fort was garrisoned by British troops. According to the "South Carolina Guide," while Charleston was seething with indignation over the Stamp Act, a party of Charlestonians quietly entol'lifl fllr* fill') I>n<> flifb r?w*W>4 vv_ * w? uiv. i\#i i v/iiv; ucii i\ ill ill, surprised the garrison, and trained the guns on a British war sloop lying in the harbor with its cargo of the hated stamps. The next morning they invited the commander to the fort and threatened to sink his ship unless he departed. The surprised commander sailed away, and the following year the Stamp Act was repealed through the powerful influence of William Pitt. The Guide to the Palmetto State, says the flag used on this occasion showed three crescents on a field of blue. On September 13, 1775, a detachment led by Col. William Moultrie, including the companies of Captains Pinckney, Elliott and Marion took possession of Fort Johnson, and trninoH tli<> mmc *?? < Tifiiit-li armed vessel lying in the harbor. Lord William Campbell, last Royal Governor of the Colony. fled to the British ship. "Tamar." Fort Johnson was soon manned with recruits and a flag devised ? a blue field with one silver crescent in the upper dexter corner. The blue in the flag was said to symbolize the blue clothing of the frontiersmen who had rallied to the defense of the fort. Afterwards the caps worn by Francis Marion's men, who nobly rallied with the "Swamp Fox" in the defense of the colony in her darkest days. PEOPLES GOVERNMENT In March 177H a temporary ?* f - -1 VWI i.->l i iu lull I MM llll* DOlllll Carolina Colony was sot up until an understanding with the Mother Country could he achieved. Since the Royal Governor had fled, and the JUNE 15. 1956 low Your Flag? Colony was now independent, a government by the people was set up with John Rutledge as president, Henry Laurens, vice-president, and William Henry Drayton, chief justice. South Carolina thus was independent of the Mother Country before the Declaration of Independence had been formulated. The colony ill I'palilv n romililir- with a flag which had been designed by Colonel Moultrie. In June 1776. the fort on Sullivan's Island, now Fort Moultrie, was bombarded bv the British fleet lying in Charleston harbor. This was while John Rutledge was president, and Col. William Moultrie was commander of troops in defense of the fort. The fighting was so fierce that at one time it was said not a man was left on board except Sir Peter Parker, brave commander of the British fleet. During the terrific fire South Carolina's flag with the crescent was shot down. Then Sergeant Jasper leaped over the ramnart to seize the flag and plant it again over the fort. Because the cannon balls from the enemy ship sank into the soft palmetto logs of which the fort was constructed ? Colonel Moultrie. added the familiar palmetto tree to our flag, commemorating the victory at what is now Fort Moultrie, mcnt which planted the South Carolina flag in triumph on the ramparts in the War with Mexico, and brave Pierce Butler who had received the flag for his regiment, in a presentation at Oakley Park. Edgefield. was killed in battle. When South Carolina seceded from the Union in 1860. she was again an independent republic?from Dec. 20. 1886, until the Provisional government of the Confederate States was organized at Montgomery. Ala., February 2, 1861. A REPUBLIC Francis W. Pickens who had been elected governor, was virtually president of a republic. He set about forming his cabinet, and called for designs for a new flag. Several designs were submitted but the old Palmetto Flag was chosen for the new republic its associations with the spirit of freedom and the prin(Continued on Page 5) ^ -T7 -CUJ ll TV "0 ' \ "l)?*ar, you'll just hmr to start lakinu vitamin p. I Is!"