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Clinton, S. C., Thursday, October 31, 1940
Number 44
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1940 ASSESSMENTS
FOR COUNTY SHOW
INCREASE OVER '39
Property Assessed $99,-
000 Higher Than Last
Year. Tax To Be Collect
ed $3893%^.
Special to The Chronicle,
Laurens, Oct. 28. — Real and per
sonal property in Laurens county
was assessed at |8,684,010 for the
purpoM of 1940 taxation, an increase
of ^,275 over that of last year, ac
cording to a transcript of record
completed and forwarded to the
comptroller-general’s office in Co
lumbia by Miss Jennie V. Culbertson
of the county auditor’s office.
On that assessment, plus poll tax
es, dog taxes and those for the sup
port of the South Carolina Public
Service commission, the total tax to
be collected for 1#40 was fixed at
$389,398.70, an increase of $19,647.13
over that of Jayit. year, J)ased on a
100% collection.
Miss Culbertson attributed the in
creased assessment to the addition
of many new homes to the tax rolls,
an upward trend in the value of cars
and expansions on the part of cor
porations within the county. She at
tributed the boost in taxes to be col
lected to the increased assessment
and the addition of a one mill levy
for the retirement of state Ixmds.
Lavrens Leads Cennty
Laurens school district No. 11, in
cluding the city of Laurens, was re
ported with the largest increase in
building with Hunter school district
No. 5, including the city of Clinton,
in second place. Laurens district
showed a total increase of $78,710 in
the assessment of real and perscmal
property and Clinton district showed
an inctWse of $13,010. In the Lau
rens district the increase > in the as
sessment of real propertly alone was
idaced at $28,645, attributed mainly
to new buildings, and the increase in
the assessment of personal property
at $50,165, attribute mainly to an
increase in, assessmort on corpor-
atimu and automobiles. In the Clin-
tm district the increase in the as
sessment of real estate was fdaced
at ^ll,0M, attributed mainly to new
buildiiigs, and the increase in the
assessment of personal property at
$1,980, attributed mainly to a larger
assessment of automobiles. The to
tal assessment of real arkl personal
property was fixed at $1,796,220 for
the Laurens district and at $1,726,755
for the Clinton district, the transcript
showed.
City Property Shews Gain
Real property in the county’s in
corporated areas was assessed at
$1,719,615, an increase of $38,405
over last year, the -report showed,
and real property in the rural areas
was assessed at $3,203,235, a decrease
of $3,815 under that of last year.
Miss Culbertson attributed the de
crease in the assessment of rural
. pn^ecty mainly to the^removal frona
the tax books of real estate taken
over tqr the county for non-payment
of taxes.
Real property in the incoi^xtrated
areas was listed as comprising. SJ53
lots assessed at $433,385 and 3,161
buildings valued at $1,286,370. Rural
real property comprised 422,020 acres
assessed at $2,189,170 and 5,281
buildings assessed at $1,014,065.
Pemmal property in the county
was assessed at $3,761,120, Miss Cul
bertson’s report showed.
The highest personal property as
sessment was the $2Jil7,720 placed
on railroads and corporations, and
the second highest the $443,830 plac-1
ed on automobiles and trucks. The
corporation assessment represented
an increase of approximately $6,000
and that on autospbbUM and trucks
an increase of approximately $47,000,
although the number of the latter is
100 less than last ymur, Mias Cidbert-
son said. A sizeable decrease was
shown in the number of mules re
turned for taxation and increases
were reported in the assessment of
farming machinery and the number
of cows, hogs and wagons.
Th9 personal property listings and
assessments given in the report oom-
prised 4,314 mules, $180J40; 36$
horses, $9J)50: 5,496 cows, $55,060;
622 hoga, sheep and goats, $1,165;
1,161 wagemsi ^,175; 5,140 autos and
trucks, M4S,M0; railroads ihd cor-
poratiems, ^,517,720; merdumdlse,
$376,310: household furniture, $195,-
200; farming machinery, $15,655; of-
fioe fumitare, $6,nK); musical instru-
mmits, $165; Jewelry, $30.
The total amount of taxM sched
uled lor collection eras dincribed as
comprising $S79J197.71 in state, coun
ty and School tmtes, $7435 in ptdl
taxes, $f,994 in dog taxes and $61 J$
(Cimtinued on page aix)
HEADS KIWAMiS
COMMERCIAL BANK
TO PAY DEPOSITORS
10% DIVIDEND
Announcement is made in today’s
paper by H. D. Henry, conservator of
The Commercial Bank, now in liqui
dation, that a dividend of 10 per cent
will be paid its depositors beginning
November 15.
This announce dividend brings
the total up to 94 per cent since the
bank closed.
Young People To
Hold Meet falurday
Presbyt'erion Youth
League To Hold Rally
At Friendship Church.
SCOUT EXECUTIVE
J. Edwin Leaman
Buried Sunday
Well Known Cross'Hill
Citizen Posses After
Brief Illness.
""WILLIAM A MOORHIaD
W. A. Moorhead, manager of Jo
anna Textile Mills company of Gold-
ville, was elected president of the
Clinton Kiwanis club for the coming
year at the club’s regular meeting
held Thursday evening. Mr. Moor
head, popularly known to the mem
bership as “Dick,” served the chib
the past year as vice-president.
The retiring president, F. C. Pin
son, under whose leadership the chib
is closing a successful year, auto
matically becomes vice-president and
a member of the board of directors.
The following board of directors
was elected to serve with the officers:
J. A. Cheatham Dr. L. E. Bidiop,
R. T. Dunlap, Dennis Q. Sowers,
W. E. Monts, James P. Sloan and
Ratchford W. Boland. A secretary-
treasurer will be elected by the new
board. This position the past year
has been capably filled by W. H.
Simpson.
The new officers will assume office
after the annual celebration of “la
dies night” to be held on the evening
Presbyterian young people from
Laurens and four adjoining counties
will meet at Friendship Presbyterian
church near Laurens on Safiirday
morning at 10:30 for the fall rally of
[South Carolina Presbytery’s Youth
I league. j
I 'i^e theme for the day will be |
“Growing Christian Young People”'
'and the speakers chosen, with their I
[subject, are: The Rev. L, O. Elmore,!
Goldville, “How Are Yoimg People !
Growing In Their Individual Liv
ing?” Mrs. J. E. Ratchford, Cross
Hill, “Are We Constantly Improving
Our Organizations As They Function
Funeral serivees for J. Edwin Lea- Within the Local Churches?”; Dr.
man, 68, a highly regarded citizen: f^nthiel Dowim of4>mb3^rian wl-
« M il u lege. Can the Outreach of Our
of Cross Hill, who died Friday a^-| Group Be Felt In the Community?”
temoon in the Greenwood hospital,' Each address, which will be bmit-
were held Sunday afternoon at 5|isa“t0 twenty minutes, wHl be fol-
o’clock from Liberty Springs Pres-
O. B. GOBMAN
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O. B. Gorman, of Greenville, is the
popular Scout executive for Blue
Ridge council which includes Abbe
ville. Anderson, Greenville, Green
wood, Newberry, Laurens, Oconee
and Pickens counties. Mr. Gorman
was made head of the council in 1936
byterian church. The services which
were attended by an unusually large
gathering both at the church and
graveside, were conducted by his
pastor, Rev. J. E. Ratdiford, assist
ed by Rev. J. H. Byrd of Cross Hill,
and the Rev. F. T. McGill, a former
pastor. Though ^ hospital patient
for only a few days, Mr. Leaman had
been in declining health for some
time.
The following nephews served as
active pallbearers: H. C. Leaman, W.
A. Leaman, S. L. Leaman, W. B. Lea
man, M. A. Leaman, I. M. Smith, R.
C. Adair ami R. T. Baggott. The
honorary escort consisted of the of
ficers of Liberty Springs church and
several intimate friends of the fam
ily.
Mr. Leaman was a son of the late
Major Samuel Leaman and Mrs.
Susan Lavinia Waldrop Leaman,
members of well known Laurens
county families. He was a promi
nent merchant and farmer of his
community. He was a Presbyterian
lowed by forum duwussion ba^ onj^nd m four years has seen an in
question^ prepar^ by the league crease in the number of Scouts from
1,158 to 2,028, troop numbers have
coimcil. Some of these questions are,
“What Sbeial Needs Can Be Met By
League Actilon?” “Are We Enlisting
New and Indifferent Young People?”
“How Can Young People Assist In
the Promotion of Evangelism,” “Are
Young People of This Group Improv
ing In Ibeir Attitude Toward Other
RAces, Churches and Classes?” “What
Is the Best Technique for Personal
Daily Devotions?” “How Can We Im
prove Our Worship In Youth
Groups?” “How Can We Improve
Our Programs In Youth Groups?”
and “What Is a Good Meeting of a
Council To Plan Ahead?”
Members of the council of the
league include Ann Holloway, presi
dent; Silas Knight, vice-president;
Donald Hagan, secretary; Doris Arm-
field, treasurer; Ruth Gresham,
Grace Nichols, Jack Gailland, Harold
McCord, Emily DiUard, Keith Pur
cell. All ministers of the presbytery
are expected to attend.
ofD^Uririn . Cr affiliation and served Ub-
of December 12 in the form of a ban Springs diurch for years first
as a deactm, later tp be promoted
4o th0 eidmidp wbktv kc kibld at the
time of his death. A man bf Chris
tian character, standing alWajk
fbr truth and integrity, his passing
brings genuine regret to a wide
circle of friends.
Surviving are his widow, the for
mer Miss Aleine Miller, four sems,
Sun M. Leaman and William Lea
man of Cross Hill,'Charle8 H. Lea
man and James M. Leaman of Whit
mire, two granddauiditers and two
grandsons of Crow Hill. '
Cimton To Meet
Gaffney On Friday
Gowie To Be^Moyed
Hare Under Floodlights.
Cherokeeans Strong.
Clfaiton high will meet Gaffney
here Friday ni^t at 7:30 on Johnson
field in what promises to be one of
the best football games of the sea
son. Coach Wilder’s team won a 7 to
0 victory over Easley last Friday
night in Easley and has been hard at
work all the week in preparation for
the Gaffney opposition. The two
teams last year tied in Gaffney.
Gaffney teams viere . runners-up
for the state flag in 1924, 1925 and
1926. For three consecutive years,
1927, 1928, and 1929, the Indians wen
the Palmetto state championship, de-
quet and entertainment program.
TEACHER^ T6 HOLP
FIRST MEET OF YEAR
IN LAURENS TODAY
The Laurens County Teachers’ as
sociation will hold their first meet
ing of the new sdiool year today in
Laurens beginning at 3:30 pan., and
closing witti a business session. Simi
lar meetings will be held in October,
November, January, February and
March.
The associatiem is headed as presi
dent this year by G. M. Gray, super
intendent of the Hickory Tavern
school. Mr. Gray states all of
the sessions will be featured by panel
discussions, with no announced ad-
llEMKS.-!-. -
The foUovring opening i^ogram
has been announced:
Invocation—Rev. A. C. Holler, pas
tor First Methodist bhurch, Laurens.
Entertainment — Hickory Tavern
hiidii sdiool.
Picture of Laurens county sdiools.
Ptael discussion — “Professional
Reading-and Improvement of Teach
ers While In asrvice”—E. M. Ale-
wine, leader.
BlimSHPUNES
BUST AH) BASE
10 Hap GREECE
Bombers and Navy To
Attack Italians To Aid
Hellas. Report Britain
Hos Occupied Corfu.
I London, Oct. 29. — British naval
planes flying to the help of Italian-
^invaded Greece bombed an Italian
,air ba.se in the Dodecanese islands,
ithe nearest threat from that quarter
jto Greece’s ancient capital, Athens,
• and blew up an ammunition dump,
the admiralty announced tonight.
It was the first official word from
any British source that British forc
es actually had attacked or engaged
the Italians after King George VI and
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
yesterday promised Greece all pos
sible aid. There have, however, been
unofficial evidences that the British
llaei is «t work around GtlE^fT
The communique said a hangar
was set on fire and the airplane slip
way damaged by a direct hit.
A number of bombs were droppeti
increased from 55 to 111, and cub on the barracks, and other bombs
packs for boys between nine and
twelve years of age from one to 10.
Mr. Gorman is an enthusiastic
worker for Scouts. “In dealing with
the boy I see the man — every boy
has some man in him—and when I
look hard enough I find it,” he says.
Of over 10,000^ Boy Smuts who
have passed through the ranks xmder
Executive Gdrinan of Blue Ridge
caused heavy explosions in the am
munition dump, it added.
The ammunition explosions con
tinued for some time after the air
planes had left the area, pilots re
ported.
No British planes were lost, the
admiralty said. The time of the at
tack was not given.
Reports from Athens today tbld of
council during the past 15 years not!British bluejackets landing on the
one has ever been involved in a
crime. That proves something about
the Scout movement—and about Mr.
Gorman.
THREE SYNODS NAME
BOAilD MEMBERS FOR
INSTITUTION5HERE
At the annual meeting of South
Carolina synod held recently in Clin-
ton, Henry J. Winn of Greenville,
C. G. Rowland of Sumter, and Dr.
L. R. Lynn of this city, were re
elected for three-year terms as mem- j
bers of the Thornwell orphanage
board of tnistees.
Orphanage trustees re-elected by
the- synod of Georgia were: Rev.
Richard T. Gillespie of Thomasville;
Synod of Fiogjida: Rev. A. R. Larrick
of Plant Ci^^ and Charles M. Tur
ney of Starke.
Four meiqkps of Presbyterian col
lege board W trustees whose terms
expired this year were re-elected to
succeed themselves: Dn W. R. Wal-
Ukx bTdiesifer, Rev. fi. S. Hodges of
Union, A. C. Todd of Greenwood,
and James Chapman of Spartanburg.
A. B. Langley of Columbia, was
elected a new member, succMding
Rev. S. K. Phillips, retiipaed.
ATHLETIC COUNCIL
ELECTS OFFICERS
■ ■■ ■'
At a rec«it meeting of the athletic
council of Clinton high school, Henry
Etta Young was elected presidoit,
and Kathryn Dicus, secretary.
Members of the couh^ are:
Eii^Oi grade: Norma Anderson, Lea
man J(Hm, Wymgn Shealy, Oliver
Williamson. Ninth grade: Martha
Foster, Gary Martin, Jim Crawford.
Tenth grade: Kathr^ Dicus, Caro
lyn Freeman, Helen Turner. Elev
enth grade: Henry Etta Young and
Louise Ellis.
Principal J. B. Gentry, Miss Irene
Hlpp* and A. T. 'Ferguson are faculty
advuers of the council.
DRIVK CAREFULLY
^ SAVE A LIFE-
So Far This Ymr fk§n
Have Bm
General Election
Set For Tuerfay
Tickets Provide For
County Officers and
Democrotk Electors.
Democrat tickets to be voted in the
general election on next Tuesday,
November 5, have been received by
County Chairman R. T. Wilson for
distribution among the 39 voting pre
cincts of the county.
Ballots have aliw been received for
constitutional amendments to be vot
ed upon.
Hie county ticket carries the names
of solicitor, state senator, members of
the house of representatives and
county officers nominated * in the
county primary the past summer and
the state ticket the nominee for Con-'
gress and the Democratic presiden
tial electors.
It is expected that there will be
three other tickets, one by the Rc-
publican party headed by J. Bates
Gerald carrying the name of James
D. McCullough of Greenville, Re
publican nominee for Congress from
the fourth district, one by the Tol
bert faction carrying only his presi
dential electors and one by the Jef-
only
island of Corfu and unconfirmed re
ports said the Briti8|i fleet beat Ital
ian ships back from that island,
which is in good striking distance of
the Italian mainland.
'The planes could have operated
either from warships or from some
Greek base such as Crete, The British
'fleet Monday was reported to have
begun the occupation Crete, which
is only about 100 miles from Stam-
ipalia, but the British denied that any
'British troops had landed there.
Germany has put 70 army divis
ions—or about 1450,000 men — into
southeastern Europe, apparently to
make certain that Ruaaia does not
interfere with Nazi plana in that
ai'ea, a British military expert said
today. /
The Germans felt, he added, that
the Soviet itself was making ready
for any eventuality in the Balkans.
There were these possibilities in
the situation, he said;
1, Germany might use political and
military pressure and “disruptive
propaganda” to protect her large eco
nomic interests in the middle east
without taking military action.
2. Germany might try to move
southeast through Thrace to the Dar
danelles. (But, he remarked, the
TEACHERS TO ASK
INCREASE IN PAY
country is difficult and at this time
of the year weather conditions are
against a major campaign).
(jrermaay-aTught go through The
Ukraine into southern Russia to ac
quire oil. t
While this country was preoccu
pied with the fortunes of the Greeks
—Britain’s allies—against the Ital
ians, First Lord of the Admiralty A.
V. Alexander assured “our friends
in Greece and America” that the
British navy would do everything it
could to aid Greece.
Help, he added, “hps already be
gun.”
He did not elaborate, but certain
^ informants said that British assist-
together with list of managers for ance was being given to the Greeks
•the entire county. |“in the widest sense of term” by air
A $10 a monthl-^"*™V*^®^^‘°" managers for the land sea.
The Synod of Gerogia re-electcd
the following college trustees: Rev. fersonian Democrats carrying
S, Wilkes Dendy, DalUm; Rev. J. A-!their presidential electors
Simpson. Clarksville; Col. J. B. Fra
ser, Hinesville.
Polls in the county will open at
8 a. m. and close at 4 p. m. Quali
fications (or voting are set forth in
state and federal notices of election
found elsewhere in today’s paper.
salaiV tocreaM for pubUci?'”'”" ‘.“y"*!?, « 'I' Speaking at a
teacher, wiU be sought by ..'I' 4*^:, BJakelyJMid the greatea
Columbia, Oct. 26.
basic
. ^'Th ^a^ir™ £ruerttoiis:ocTatro; i--
feating Columbia hi^ each of these when the general assembly convenes
♦W— •!»»... JaHUBry.
This goal topped an 11 point pro
gram the council of delegates adopt-
three years. The Cherokees were
edged out by Spartanburg in 1930,
but came back in 1931 to take the
South CaroUna championship and jed here today for the association
battle Tech high school of Atlanta,! The program also endorsed federal
Managers for the state and county
election at the Clinton box are; L.
D. McCrary, Frank E. Miller, and
John D. Davis.
to a tie. Hiet season Tech was gen
erally regarded as the strongest high
school team in the South.
BIG GAIN MADE IN
luncheon Alexander
greatest difficulty thus far
met by the British fleet in the Med
iterranean had been the Italian
navy’s "long periods of rest in har
bors.”
He spoke, too, of the United States
transfer of 50 destroyers to Britain,
expressing his appreciation and add
ing:
"I hope the royal navy may look
for even greater cooperation.”
aid for education; a teacher certifi- j _
cation system and a salary schedule COTTON CsINNINGS
based on qualifications; continued , ♦»"
1 study of a teacher retirement plan;' a total of 20,535 bales of cotton
in 1932 and 1933, the Tribes^n won a conUnuing contract for teachers; were ginned in Laurens county prior 1 WO BRINGS
same level of pay for county super- J i^O Pl\in\3,3
intendents of education, as that of
county treasurers and auditors.
the state championship in 1934 and
were defeated for the title the fol
lowing year. In 1937 the Indians won
nine and tied cme (Knoxville, Tenn.,
Central high), and played a post
season game with the strong Fork
Union (Va.) Military academy in the
'TLittle TobMXo Bowl” at Richmond.
The Cherokeeans won seven, tied
one and lost one in 1938 and hi4 the
worst season in history in 1939, los
ing six, tieing one, and winning <mly
Talk On Orphanage To
Be Broodcost Sundoy
The services of the First Presby
terian church of Atlanta next Sun
day morning will be in charge of Dr.
to October 18, the special agent of j \4/i txi* v/Aft|t"rv
the department of commerce bureau ! W11/1 VAKIC I T
of census reported yesterday. ilWTO II ^ ARJUY
This compared with 21,967 bales i
from the 1939 crop for the samej e . o.
period, a decrease of 1,432. The fig-i When S^-reUry Stim.^n drew 158
ure has doubled since the report of I f* number m the draft lot-
October 1. « !t®ry Tuesday, he got for his army
This year’s cotton crop is unus
ually good and wiy exceed that of
last year by a good margin. Many
[L. R. Lynn of Uds city, president of!^**™***® ■*** reported as having dif-
-n,. lyo ■juy.ytkk. ^,7
! br. Lynn’s' faculty securing hands to gather it.
Offtt Mmibers
^69 On Page 2
Tlie namta and sirial aumbeix of
draft enroUsca of CUnton Distriot
No/2, as drawn from the national
lottiry in WadUngtnn on TutHatj,
wilLba found on paga twa of today’s
FATALltlES.
Uriel
AUTM^ULB
AtiCOnENTS
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LAURENS COUNTY
L6t*ii SUriTe T» Mtkt
19^ a Safe Ytar Oa
tie Highwaya.
the season with a 25 to 0 victory over .r
th. forert City. H. C, hi*h -thool AttSurtSon WS^
team.
15
fotfok Leaders Elected
At a recent meeting of local Roy
Scout troop number 111. under the
leadership of J. A. Cheatham, three
new patrol leaders, Ed Sadler, Bobbie
Dean Dailey and Wyman ShMlj.
were elected. Lieaman Jqnes was
etectad senior patrol leader. John
Pitts, was appoint^ scribe.
Joe Cathey an eagle scout, who
recently moved here from troop 1 in
Spartanburg, has been zoade assistant
of troop 111.
12 to
time.
1 o’clock. Eastern standard
Grid Games This Week
Frssbytertan CeUege Varsity
Novemter 1 — Mercer at AU>any.
Ga.
CtintMi High
November 1 — Gaffney at Clinton
(night). ^
TbamweU Blfi
November 1—Duncan at Duncan.
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Florida Synod To
Meet Here In 1942
The Presbyterian synod of Florida
at its recent annual meeting in Talla
hassee passed a resolution accepting
an ihvitation of Thornwell or^^an-
age to hold its 1942 meeting on the
campus of the institution. The invi
tation. which was extended by the
president. Dr. L. R. Lynn, for next
year could not be accepted because
of previous plahs to hold a joint
meeting with ,tbe Northern church
in FkM^
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(unless they are deferred):
Two Chinese in the No. 1 draft
district of the country’s two largest
cities. New York and Chicago.
A man in Tacoma. Wash., whose
j brother held the second number
I drawn. 192.
I A Washiivgton plumber’s helper,
whose parents happened to be in the
auditorium for the drawing.
Two Cleveland newspaper report
ers and an Associated ^ess operator
in Los Angeles.
A Duquesne university speech in
structor who was rendered tempor
arily spe^hless.
Apd more than 6,000 othei-s. whose
serial number also was 158.
One of the men bear^ 158 al
ready had beat Unble Sang W tho
draw, so to speak. A. reeiiMk of
Warren, Ohio, he enlistea a tiw <biya
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