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, _ It Toa Don't Emi THB CHRONICUB Ton Don't Got TIm News.' ‘ I VOLUME xxxvn CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1937 HOUSE, SENATE AGREE ON BILL ♦ Appropriation Measure ProvidesjP'^l^ Senators ^ud- 8-Month Session Eight-Month State-Financed School Term. $2,200,000 of Surplus To Be Applied To Outstanding Debt. *0 01 ^ Columbia, May ii.—The long-wait ed free conference report on the gen eral appropriation bill, totaling $10,- 326,073.26, was receiv^ by the gen eral assembly tonight a»' "the^ house sustained the governor’s veto of an anti-gambling bill and then adopted, 83 to 13, the free conference report ojri^ the social security bilh the - general |ppropriation report That Item Be Kept In Meas ure Before Committee. Columbiai 11.—Four senators tonight publicly commended the gen- eral appropriation free conference Historic Spot Near Clinton NUMB5}R19 ——^ - ' ■ committee for providing for an eight- month state-supported school term. Senator Thurniond said the eight- month term “is the most progressive step takeiT by an "^^neraT assembly in the last five years.” He asserted the increased term would mean much in allowing coun ties to ^duce taxes. Senator Laney said “this action provided for both an eight-month- (pj.ovision Toy the elght-m^^^ % state-supported school term and a graduated scale of teacher pay in crease. No new tax was levied. Chairman Neville Bennett of the house ways and means committee, one of the conferees, said the report* would allow a balanced budget and that it carried no new taxes. He said that $350,000 was “found” in the education department’s fund that conferees had' jiot figured in their first drafting of the report. The repoirt also would require, he said, that $2,200,000 of the estimated $3,000,000 surplus in'the state treas ury at the ei^d of the^ear_w’Ould be used to retire' that much of the state’s bonded indebtedness, thus saving the state. $100,000 a year in interest. The senate quickly carried the re port over' for consideration tomorrow when Senators Harvey of Beaufort, and Nicholson .of Greenwood, object ed, to immediate consideration. Senator Brown of Barnwell opposed the delay. ' ' “Our sole chance of adjourning (sine d^) this week,” he said, “is to have thw' bill on the governor’s desk tomorrow afternoon.” The deadlock between house and JOINS IN CORONATION Great Britain's New Monarch, George VI, Crowned Yester day Amid Medieval Pageantry . As Representatives of Every Country I^k On and Entire World Listens. ,Xx)ndon, May 12.\-—Great.Britain’.*? hew king,-George Yl*, was crowned to<lay in the great hall of Westmin ster AbBey as representatives of ev- - “Ory nation on the face\of 4bo--globe-- lookcHl on and as the wdt^Id’^s popula tion li.stone<l on their radios. The sol emn service was witnessed by 7,500 people—all that could crowd in the hall. , redounds to the benefit of every kid . . . and every teacher in South Caro lina ... it puts the child in the rural section on almost an equal footing with the child in the city. “VV'hen the history of education is written in South Carolina in the fu ture it w’ill have to include the names of the member,s of the free conference committee.” Senator Harmon also commended the committee, 'saying “we are going far.” . - ’ ■ _ Sen'htor Jefferies, education com- mKtee chairman, voiced a “me too This Bridge Honors Mary Musgrove. Revolutionary Heroine, Who Rendered Conspicuous Services To Patriots During That Period. It Spans Enoree River At Musgrove Mill Battle ground. The Bridge, On An Important State Highway, la the Fir.st In South Carolina Honoring a W’oman. I’hoto by Nichoh. School Session \ Soon To .Close High School Commencement . Serihon ^^3 By Rev. W. N, Long of First Baptist - . - - , Church. Fifty To Graduate. 4ind aaid he was "very of l^e L free conference report. ■ ~~ Commence The eight-month term, he said, w'as 10L senate conferees was apparently broken when they a^ed to make r ^ On May 30th. report fontinuing both extention of the seven-month state-aid schooF term to eight months and a graduated scale for increased teachers’ pay. Previously house conferees had fought against inclusion of both with “one more milestone” but “we don’t want to yet write tKe history of edu cation . . . We want a nine-months term with all expenses paid by the state ...” Church Plans For Big Celebration Langston Baptists To Present All-Day Bicentennial Program Commencement exercises proper of the Clinton high .school wMll be ush ered in on Suniiay evening. May 23, at the First Baptist church when the baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class will be preached by the Rev. W. N. Long, pastor of the church. This willjb® » union service in which the churches of the city will out new rfyfoitte w^te ienate nnutt- ber« tad in.Uted on f O"** Tribute Paid — To Confederates Memorial Day Exercises Held Monday Under Auspices of Clinton U. D.,C. Chapter. Clinton halted Mondjiy^^morning to pay tribute to the soldiers who fought in the War Between 'the States' at exercises held in the Preebyterian cemetery at ten o’clock under the aus pice, oT the local U. D; C. chapter. The program opened with music by the ftesljyterian college R. 0. T. C. band, with the procesaion of school children headed by the local Boy Scout troops, placing wreaths of flowers upon the graves of the sleep ing heroes. . Dr. Dudley Jones led the devotional, after which he paid tribute to those who gave their lives for the Southern cause. The high school glee club aanf two songs, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Maying” and “Old Black Joe.’’ A recitation, “The Blue and the Gnsy,” was given by Virginia Dillard and Grace Martin. / . The exercises concluded with a sa lute and “tape” by the college band. A bicentennial celebration of Lang ston Baptist church, near here, has bee narranged for Sunday, May 30, to which the public Js invited. The' following program has been announced for the occasion: 10:40—Prayer by former pastor. 10:50—^Welcome by pastor. 10:55—Response by visitor. 11:15—Special music. | ^ 11:30—Sermon by J. G. Wood; al ternate, W. P. Hammett. 12:00—Prayer and song service. 12:20—Remarks'by former pastors present. > 1:00-;-Lunch (all expected to bring lunch),. 2:(K)—Song and prayer sefVice. Reading of church history. Special music. Benediction. County To Get Farm Building Brick Structure To Be Erected To House All Ajiriculiural Agencies of (bounty. Speakers Named For P.C. Closing Lafarens, May 10. — The propoae<l agricultural building for I>aurena, to house the activities of County Agent Cannon, is. now prajctically cer tain and -its erection is to go forwjinl immediately, according to an an nouncement made by County Super visor Martin. ' ^ The county delegation has author ized the sum of $8,000 for the build ing, .said Mr. Martin, who added that unite. The graduating exercises ^will be building can he erected held on Monday eyenW. May 24th, in the Florida Street Whool audito rium. The^speaker to deliver the liter,- ary address has not yet been an nounced by the school authorities. On Friday evening. May 21 at, at 8 oi’cloA in the Florida Street school auditorium, annual class day exer cises will be held, to' which friends of the graduates and the general pub lic are cordially invited. The list of this year’s senior ^aas, InclutWng twwtty-sflve girts and -twen ty-five boys, follows*.. Marion Stokes Adair, Oranna Addy, Eloise Brown, Nina Bell Brown, Eliz abeth Barnett, Grace Bozaj^^lli^te Dobbins, Nora Cannonr Bk>p0thy Crawford, Willie Earl Davidson, May Dicus, Florence Howard, Dorothy Ed wards, Lucile Harris, Naomi Hall, lone Neal, Drlena O’Dell, Virginia Painter, Margaret Todd, Dorothy Workman, Sara Wannamaker, Sara Willard, Pauline Benjamin, Peggy Harding, Jenelle Kelley. • Richard Adams, W. P. Baldwin, Jri, Butler _Black^ William Byrd, H^ M. Sermons By Atlanta and Dur ham, N. 'C. Ministers. Man ning To Make Address. SERVING As CLERK L S. McMilBan of Latvena, brother- in-law of Clerk of Court Tboaaaa W. Bennett, is serving as deputy cleric during ^he abeence of Mr. Bennett, wtho is now a patient in the U. S. Veterans'-hoapital in Augmtg, SOCIAL security REPORT ADOPTED BY CONFEREES Columbia, May 11. — The house of representatives voted 83-13 tonight to adopt the free conference report on social security, after members had asked that it be rejected because of the manner of setting up administra tive forces. 'Die report, carrying an appropri ation of $1,519,999 from the state treasury and providing al.mwt $3,r 000,000 for relief through contribu tions froin counties and the federal government, was adopted last week by the senate. ' When the balloting first began 20- odd members voted no but many of them hurried to change their votes before the result was announced. i Members shouted and shook hands with Representative Leppard, of Chesterfield^ who had a abort time before epokfn for Pejectipn of the Teport, said: “I might as well make it'unani- for that sum. Plans in view call for the erection of a building very similar to one built for Saluda county, he said. Mr. Mar tin, together with Commissioners J. H. W’harton and Lander Stoddard and County Agent (Cannon, went to Sa luda last week and if)apccte<l that building. They agreed that with minor changes the plans of the Saluda build ing would meet the needs here. . The building is to be erected on the county’s lot situated on West Lau rens street near the j«if. Added to it The Ivaccalaureate sermon before tho gralluatinK''class rof PreftbytOrlan college wll be preache<l on Sunday morning. May 30th, by the Rev. Wil liam V. Gardner, pastor of the First rrosbyU'rian church of Atlanta, Ga. The spc'aker for the Y.M.C.A. ser vice in the evening will be the Rev. John Bright of Durham,' N. C., a groduate of the college, and now as sistant pastor of the First Presbyte rian church at Durham. The literary a<klres3 to the gradu ating class on Monday,^May 31, will be delivereii by "Major Wyndham Manning of Sumter, a former candi date for the governorship of the state and one of its outstanding lead er! .His father, Richard I. Manning, was war-time governor of South Car olina, ami it Is interesting to note that he was the commencement speak er at the college in 1914, wihen Presi^ dent W. P. Jacobs was a member of the graduating class. To all of the «xlprclse.s arranged for the college commencement season. London, May 11.—A crowded and rain-drenched London prepared to^ night to place the crown of king emperor upon the head of George tpe Sixth amid a bizarre mixture of century* pageantry and the greates of 20th century traffic jams. ■‘There was rain all morning and the pro.spect of only brief perio<is of fair weather tomorrow with thundershow ers, but tonight the skies brightened %nd Ixindon was a' gay city. Crowds at early evening paraded through the streets, and hundreds be gan night-long vigil along the' pro- ce.ssion route from Buckingham pal ace to Westminster Abbey to be sure of a place.. - - West end traffl^^rawknl at a bare mile an hour with Traffic Chaney, Jr.. Harold Cobb, Harold Copelf^, James Freeman,' Emeat Hipp, Marion Hill, Odis Hampton, Roy Johnson, -Itebert Jones, William King, Paul League, William Light- foot, J. D. McKee, Thomas L. Martin, Tench Owens, William Perdue,'Sam- mie Snelgrove, Robert Wysor, Ihm- can Workinan, Carter Wright, Frank Boland. Closing Program Laurens Schools mous. PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE LEADS COLLEGIATE BASEBALL RACE Erskine Finish^ Season. New berry Has Forman and^Caro- Bna Left. P. C. Tp Face Clem- son Next Week In Pinal Tilt. 9 4^ Presbyterian college aaeended from third to tint place in the Palmetto baseball league Monday hy defeating Enldne, 6^, ■while The Citadel was shading Newberry, erstwhile leader, 2-1, in support of LeRoy Bessinger’s three-hit pitching. Clemson hit h»tily to knock off Furman, 14-5. The Newberry Indians, sedcii^ the championship, faced the supreme test yesterday afternoon when they played Furman at Newberry. A victory would lift the Redskina to a. tie •with Presbyterian for tlie league leader ship, while defeat .would virinally ruin their championehip chances. . The Indians play (Darolina at New berry Friday, and Presbyterian still has a rained-out game to play with (Hemson, probably Monday or Tues day of next week. Should Newberry "win its two re maining games and Presbyterian de feat Clernson, the Indiana and P. C. would be tied fin* first place. Coach Jake Todd’s Erskine team would be returned champions should Presbyterian and Newberry lose. It’s the closest finish in the most exciting college race South Carolina has had in years. And the games have attret- e<f large crow^. Several prospects have been devel oped!, exciting the interest of major league scouts. ^ Yesterday’s standing of the I’lree rens, May 10.—-C. K. Wright, superinendent, of the Laurens city schools, has annoimced a brief out line of commencement exercises’ of the *high school. The program will g^ under -way on Sunday evehirig, May when the baccalaureate sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. M. Burnett, D.D., pas tor olL the First Bgptist church of Belton. On Ihiesday^^vening, May 25, the graduating clrtt ■will prejgcnt clat^ night program. ^ On Wednesday -evening, May 26th, the closing exercises will be held. Dr. J. Rion McKissick, president of the University of South Carolina, will de liver the literary address. Miss Lil lian Anderson, honor ‘student of the graduating class, wiM deliver the val edictory and Miss 'Mary Elizabeth McGowan, the second honor student, will deliver the salutatory. Diplomas will be delivered to ap- .proximately 80 young people. ! • » County Changes ~ Sinking Fund has been another small lot. bought by the city of Laurens and donated to | the'pubric is" c<»rdi^iy the county for the building. For a year or more county authori- j ties have been negotiating with fed eral authorities for the erection of the building under a WPA loan and grant agreement. Recently, w^m it appeared that the W. P. A. plan was hopeless, the decision was reached for the^ebunty to build with its own funds\ The\$8,000 is to be raiswl through a loan' bearing not more than 5 per cent. Bowles To Lead _ Laurens Services To commemorate tha-<ompIetion of the new Presbyterian church at Watts Mills, Laurens^ the pastor. Rev. John G. WillinghamYbegan 'a tenrday se ries of revival\service8 in the new edifice last night. The Rev. Samuel P. Bowles, pastor of the Palma Ceia Presbs^rian church in Tampa, Fla.,is conducting, the services, assisted by tlie pastor. Mr. Bowles was formerly a member of the Thornwell orphanage sti^f here* and is pleasantly remembered by a wide circle of friends and ac quaintances in the city and county. JURORS NAMED FOR ~.MAY COURT TERM Mother's Day Observ^ Hm’e leader^ was: W L Pet Preebyterian .... — 8 4 667 Erskine .... .... 9 5 643 Newberry ^4 y636 Hundreds of Clintonians, old and young, joined Sunday in the celebra tion of Mother’s Day. In the churches and Sunday schools special exenyses were held <ind song and sermon lifted motherhood next to godliness. Lovely flowers, white and red, were worn by Clinton sons ‘ and dau^^ters, while tokens of love were expressed through flo'wers, other gifts ahd cardk'of love ly sentiment. The May .term of conunon pleas court convened at Laurens Monday with Judge C. C. Feathenrtene of Greenwood, presiding. J ueers summoned-to -serve for- this week’s term are: Hunter: Hugh B. Worknaan, A. Mr Young, C.* H. Mauney, E. W. Horton, J. D. Word, L. R. Abram^, A. H. Hughes, J. W. Putnam. Laurens: J. H. Miles, J. I. Richards, C. W. Taylor, Fred Bishop, J. R. Hughes, R. B. Childress, R. R. Gar rett. • Waterloo: E. G. Chapman, J. R. Neal, S. L. Moore. Cross Hill: J. B. Pinson, L. E. Mar tin, Ernest Boazman. Sullivan: E. C. Abererombie, W. D. Traynham, M. L. McDamel, H. Ab ercrombie. Dials: J. K. Nash, P. R. Abercrom bie, W. Earl Knight, L H. Abercrom bie, M. W. Gray. &uffietown: C. T. Murphy, S. 0. Clarice. Youngs: J. T- Manly, L. E. Patton^ Jacks; M. B. Milam, Victor Lawsph. ' ■■ <s '—^—J— A now law became effective last week by which the Ijaurens county clerk of court is relieved of hia du ties as custodian of all funds and pToiK*rty belonging to the county sinking fund commission, and the cus- today of such funds and property »s transferrecl to the county treasurer, The hill passed <both the bouse and senate recently and 'became Jaw im mediately upon the signature of the governor. » i A representative of the comptroller general’s ^fice made the trailer of funds during the past week, with all f unds accounted for, according to oth er members of the sinking fund com mission. .TJje^conamission is'composed of the clerk of court, the treasurer, and the auditor. ~ County Fanners Sign Work l^eets At the end of the past week more than 1,600 Laurens county farmers had filed signed work sheet apidica- tions with the county agent’s odfice. Applications as provided ipder ihie new farm program are expected to reach a totad of 2,000 before the dead line is reached. County Agent Cannon has stated. — Under last year’s gdvenonent cot an hour with 'Traffic lights useless against the crush of vehicles. There was still no bus service, be cause of the strike of 25,000 bus men. Other ,transport contiued as usual« but heavily overloaded. A stately and solemn procession moved through the streets to'^est- minster Abbey late this afternoon in a final preface to the coremonial of coronation tomorrow,. ""Mounted life .‘guards with white' plumes- nodding from burnished hel mets flanked a stage coach in which restet! the $30,000j)00 in crown re galia and jewels. ^ -x 'They were placet in the dimly-lit Jerusalem chamber of the abbc'y and yeoman of the guard began — night long Vigil" until George and* his Scottish Queen Elizabeth are anointed with holy- oiV receive the crown* of gold and' the scepters of^ power and justice in age-old ritual. The gray atone abbey itself was quiet, a hall of memories and a symbol of the link between church and crown. Lights shown on splen did blue carpets, on gold and blue brocade, on gold curtains and hang- ings—all new. They were reflected in ^ncing stars of light from jewels, diamonds . and , rubies and emeralds^encrusted— in the royal crowns, the swords state, in splendid diaden\8.^_^ But* outside was-the conffisliam of celebration. — The ^empire was ready\ to put a joyous finish to the months which saw. the abdication of one king and (his self-exile for lov*^ of Wallis Warfield. The 41-year old Geo>ge himself - sounds the theme of forgetfulness of Edward VIII in replying to the loyal greetings from the empire’s prime ministers at Buckingham pal ace. He did not mention the brief rei^ of his brother but pledged himself to follow the footsteps of inis fath er, George V. “I stand on the threshhold of a-new We,” he said, while his smiling queen stood at ^ his side and listened in- tehtly. “Heavy are the responsibilL ties that have so suddenly .and on- expectedely come upon me—but it gives me great courage to know I can count on your unfailing help and affection. •^For my part I shall db my ut- imbet to carry on my father’s work for the. ,welfare of our great empire.” "The heavy rains destroyed somq ' Ton "fegilirtto^ the~ farmeni of "4ke «ity^ ■^Teaper_d€wratipiri, county have received ao far a totiid touch the spirit of the of $263,000. This season’s cotton celebrants. Spectator number one to take her planting is about 75 per cent com plete, according to the county agent. y ^ WORK STARTS AGAIN Work on the municipal i^rport, be ing constnleted as* a^qounty WPA project, started up ai^$IiZC]Mi^L^af- ter' a shut-do'wn of^.aeveralwe^sy-it waa aimoiihcbd f DRIVE CAREFULLY , SAVE A LIFEf 1 y DEATH . from AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS in ^ LAURIES COUf^TY 1937 JjCpi Strive To Make This a Safe Year On > the Highways. ^ • \ / ■f' . *i#i I I *. P- I r . (Continued on pag^ eight) TTME LIMIT FIxilD ‘ FOR WORK SHEETS County A^ent C.* B. Cannon stated yesterday he had received S'tole- gram filing May 31st as the closing date for the signing of woric sheets for tlie-1937 farm program, and urges who have not already sighed to contact him at once. Unless the time limit is later extended, Mr. Cannon stated, farmers applying in the month of June to secure work sheets will be unable to do so. I CAMP VACANCIES OPEN Twenty boys in Laurens county have an opportunity to attend the an nual CMTC camp at Fort Moultrie, S. C., from August 2 to 31, accord ing to an announcement yesterday from the pro<?urement officer. Appli cation j blanks and information folders for tlaaee "who' are interested may be obtained at the Clinton postoffice. w r: ■■ : , *\