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Volume XL
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, December 26, 1940
Number 52
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CLINTON FACES
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAY SEASON
Stores and Business
Firms To Close Wednes-
doy and Thursday. Yule-
tide Spirit In Evidence
Throughout City.
^I^OGRAM
FOR STATE FARMS
Util (Sottiard ilrn'
O NE anniversary and one alone belongs,to all
the world. Each nation has holidays which
Clinton is doing her last minute
I rush shopping today in preparation
l^for the obse^nee of Christmas Day
bn Wednesday.
The city will take two days off for
Christmas — Wednesday and Thurs
day. A petition circulated during the
week favoring the two-day celebra'-
tion was signed by practically all
merchants and business firms, it was
learned yesterday.
The agreement means that banks,
stores and business firms generally
will be closed, with indications point
ing to a quiet, happy Yuletide sea
son and a holiday spirit reifpiing su
preme throughout the entire com
munity.
The Lydia and Clinton Cotton Mills
and Joanna Textile Mills company of
Goldville, will be closed both Christ
mas eve and Christmas day.
The city and orphanage schools and
Presbyterian college closed last week
for the holidays.
The postoffice will be closed tight
Christmas day except for the deliv
ery of special delivery mail, Post
master R. L. Plaxico has announced.
The office force, augn^nted with ex
tra help, has been busy digging itself
out of the usual heavy volume of
Christmas mail for the p>ast week.
The spirit of Christmas is in evi
dence ' not only in the beautifully
lighted business district, but also in
residential sections where lovely dec
orations commemorating the season
are to be seen. In the 'stores, on the
streets there are crowds buying and
\ £^ryuxt Si^ to loved ones and
.. lUands, receiving in retium other ap
preciation of love and friendship.
Special Christinas snvices were
held ih' the city churches Sunday.
Throu^ special Christmas cantata
of congrega-
ttom hwmmrr. dii4iM by knrely
choir musl^to the town of Bethle
hem.
Christmas, of course, is the day of
days for children, for the celebration
centers around the Christ Child, an0
for days now hundreds of little folks
have been seen on the streets and in
celebrate its heroes and important events in its
history.
But these are of human origin and are tran
scended by one event that is celebrated by all na
tions. Only once a year the whole earth echoes
with tidings of joy sung by all peoples.
Ever since the Virgin Mother laid her baby in *
its manger bed in Bethlehem, Christmas has been
God‘s gift to every home, the equal pos.session of
all mankind.
The day comes this year to a confused world
which will receive the greeting of a Merry Christ
mas with eager hearts. It is at this season that
we renew the hope for “peace on earth, good will
toward men.”
Christmas brings within the reach of men and
women everywhere the blessings which no change
of time or circumstances can take away. It lifts
the eyes of men from worldly trials to the vision
of a Living Christ, newborn at this time; it lifts
man’s miRd to the knowledge of God’s love. It
brings us to that neighborly love which the small
town and rural community best typifies today.
THE CHRONICLE, which has served this com
munity with neighborly tidings, extends to its
subscribers, advertisers, patrons and friends ev
erywhere—all sincere wishes for a very MERRY
CHRISTMAS.
APPROVED FOR '41
Department of Agricul
ture Announces Well-
Rounded Eight-Front Ef
fort To Aid Growers.
CHRISTMAS WEEK IN CLINTON TWENTY-EIGHT
YEARS AGO-FROM FILES OF THE CHRONICLE
(
Butitioas
the county asking the legislature to
empower the county of Laurens to
provide a permanent endowment
fund of $5,000 for the purpose of us
ing the income therefrom for si^^rt
and treatment of the poor and indi-
t
gent of the county at the County
stores gazmg with starlike eyes at the Hospital. Members of the delegation
decoraUons and presents, and mak-; are p. P. Goodwin, senator, W. C.
ing known their wants concerning j irby, H. S. Blackwell and George A.
Santa. Browning, house members.
Man, CItoloni™ m Sl^din, w. E. BeU feU from a ladder in hi.
Chnstmu d* Hi® wth e®!®". store yesterday and bruised his head
tives, while others have returned tolj^^j^
their homes here for the holiday sea-| ^he Rev. S. 0. Cantey, the new
.... a a * ■ u 1 pastor of the Clinton Methodist
Indications point to favorable
weather and a quiet, happy Christ
mas for Clinton. THE CHRONICLE
wishes for its thousands of readers
a season of joy and happiness and
free of sorrow and anxiety.
Special Senrices
At Lutheran Church
A special Christmas service will be
held at St. John’s Lutiieran church
Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock.
The pastor, Rev. J. LeGrande Mayer, |MUlan is mayor, S. W. Sumerel, clerk
will deliver an appropriate message.{and treasurer.
church, preached his first sermon
Sunday evening at a welcome service
sponsored by the city churches.
The local Knights of Pythias lodge
has elected W. H. Simpson as chan
cellor coiAmander for the coming
year.
John L. McNeill died at his heme
Monday morning.
The county’s tax levy for the year
has been placed at 17% mills. Rcss
D. Young is county treasurer.
The 1941 business license ordinance
appears in today’s paper. W. M. Me
of Poe—brr If. 1912)
B. W® iohnooii
riage by the Rev. J. E. Mahaffey of
B«t4»burg.
Miss Margaret Parrott and Eugene
Fouche were married Sunday after
noon at the home of the bride’s sis
ter, Mrs. J. W. Copeland.
Mrs. A. B. Heniy entertained Tues
day afternoon with a lovely party
for Mrs. Eugene Adair of Dalhart,
Texas.
Miss Essie Young was hostess to
the December meeting of the Young
Ladies’ Embroidery club.
The Clinton German club gave a
Chfistmsa dance in Copeland’s hallj
Friday evening. I
Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Johnson are
spending the holidays With relatives
in Clayton, N. C.
The public is invited to attend thej
service.
First grade honor roll members for
the past month at the public schools
1,593 Men To Be
Called In January
Two Laurens County
Boards To Send 25 To
Fort Jackson.
Governor Burnet R. Maybank has
ROPER NAMED CHAIRMAN
Grocer C. Roper, farmer of the
Hickory Tavern community, with
' several years experience in county j
■'^44 named chairman Blanche Riddle, Nancy Owens, Louise
arei'ii^Wrt'Bolmd, Frm'^rBTugh, Proportionately^
- - h;gh number of selectees under the'
selective service system will be j
drawn from South Cartllina during
William Bell, Lawrence Davis, Frank
Godfrey, Kate Milam, Florence Ran-
‘“Tenth f«<ie-. Myrtle Normen, 7-'^'
rw-e,. T J he stated, will call 1,593 men for
of the county AAA committee for Austin, AUiene Hipp, Carrie Young,
1941. Mr. Roper will succeed Jack H. Mary King, Essie Davidson, Hartwell
Davis, Sr., of Clinton who did not {Hatton.
offer for re-e!ection.
Prof. A. V. Martin is spendiipg the
MERRY CHRISTMAS
GREETINGS TO YOU
A number of attractive “Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year’’
greetings appear in the advertising
columns of today’s paper from the
city, merchants, banks, mills and
lijig
holidays on a hunting trip with Rev.
T. Ellison Simpson in Society Hill.
L. St. Clair Hays, who is now in
his fourth year as a medical student
at Columbia university, New York,
is at home for Christmas. —
Mrs. J. W. Leake and little daugh
ter have returned from a visit to Mr.
and Mrs. £. W. Stone in Union.
January. The white selectees, 1,391'
of them, will be inducted at the rate!
of 100 a day beginning January 6.'
Negroes are includfed to go January
27 and 28.
The two Laurens county boards, i
Nos. 49 and 50, will be called upon
to supply 25 men, 22 whites and 3'
Negroes. Of this number the Clinton,
board has been allotted eleven. _
Other Southeastern states will be’
required to furnish a comparatively
smaller number in relation to the|
Miss Elise Snencer has accented quotas assigned the states through;
if 30. North Carolina will furnish!
p«s.t.on ®s teaser “„H'®„S,«f®H,,,825 white .electees, Georgia 1.624,,
Washington, Dec. 23.—South Caro
lina’s farmers are expected to march
forward during 1941 with an agri
cultural program active on eight
fronts, under plans for the New Year
now being completed at the depart-J
ment of agriculture. }
The major fronts on which South'
Carolina’s farmers will w'age their I
winning battle for economic advance- {
ment are being mapped in this fash- j
ion by the agriculture department:
1. Soil conservation; 2. Farm se
curity; 3. Rural electrification; 4.!
Farm credit; 5. Agricultural adjust- i
ment; 6. Crop insurance; 7. Com-j
modity loans, and 8. Marketing of j
farm products. i
Particularly active in South Caro-j
Itrra;" the department of agriculture j
indicates, will be phases of farm se
curity—seeking relief and opportuni-!
ty for migrant workers, rural elec-1
trification and agricultural adjust
ment. I
Perhaps no problem in all agricul-'
ture is causing more thought, and not
only from the agriculture depart
ment, than the plight of the migra
tory worker—and a real fight is de
veloping to keep the aimless oakie
from becoming an American institu
tion.
“The migratory labor camp pro
gram is being expanded to meet the
shifting pattern of agricultural labor
in- the deep South and along the
eastern seatward,’’ declared Adminis
trator C. B. Baldwin of the farm se
curity administration in his 1941
forecast. “An estimated five new
standard labor camps, seven light
construction camps, and 20 mobile
units are to be built for use in these
and other areas this year.’’
It is expected that approximately!
$90,000 will go into migratory labor |
camps, water facilities, farm debt ad-1
justment, emergency mits, tto-. in
South Carolina. Conmoarable more
money will be advanced to the state
for otoer phases of the program.
Probably more than 100 loans will
be made for farm purchase to tenant
farmers during the fiscal year, with
additional loans being made to
groups of small farmers who will get
together jointly to purchase equip
ment and other farm services.
The accent of rural electrification
in South Carolina will be on defense.
REA systems will furnish more en
ergy to army camps, CCC camps, i
NYA youth training centers, flying
fields, airway light and radio beacons!
and other establishments vital to na-!
tional defense. They are in a position 1
to furnish power for many more {
plants as further decentralization of
industry creates the demand.
Another estimated *800 miles of ru
ral electrification, may well be con
structed in South Carolina during the,
year, serving in the neighborhood of
1500 cooperative users. Continued ef-'
lorts are to be made to make electri
cal farm equipment available at re
duced prices. j
Parts of a state-wide experimental}
program are to be inaugurated in |
the Palmetto state, according to Ad- j
ministrator R. M. Evans. Eventually,!
perhaps, all of these: •
1. Growing each year an acreage of!
approved erosion-resisting and soil- j
conserving crops equal to 25 per cent
of the total crop land on the farm.
2. Proper terracing to be done,
within a five-year period, on all'
cropland on the farm subject to ero- j
Sion and on which there is no per
manent vegetation cover.
3. Establishment or maintenance
during the next five years of at least
one acre of perrennial soil-conserva
tion crops and one acre of permanent
pasture for each 15 acres of cropland.
“The second provision has been
adopted in Arkansas; Florida, Geor
gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and l^uth i
Carolina,’’ Evans reports, “and the
third will be applicable to North Car-!
olina.’’
varied other business establishments. s-Wnnl enrr-OMtine Mi«o Mar«ari>t ' wimc vicvnijia i.o*-*.
It is the largest collection of adver- Margaret Tennessee 1,350, Louisiana 649, A*la-
tisements of this kind ever carried in
a single issue of ttia paper.
These messages, full of beautiful
Christmas semtiment, are inserted by
a number of welT known Clinton bus-
Parrott.
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Galloway are
spending Christinas with relatives in
Manning.
Miss Wren Halner is spmding
iness concerns as a means of public-*Christmas with her parents in Ches-
ly exprening thanks and a]H>r«ciation
to their friends and customers for
their patronage, confidence an^i good
will during the year now drawing to
a close. Not only do they express ap
preciative sentiment for evidences of
such favors and friendlinets, but aSk
the pleasure of serving you during
the New Year. They likewise wish
for everyone $96 days of Health and
HaK>iBess in ’41.
Today’s i>aper will be delivered in
the hqmes of this community in time
to be read on Christmas day. ‘To
these special “greetings" and mudi
other interesting and appropriate
Christmas material — we direct our
renders’ attentiem.
We hope you enjoy this ^X3»ristmaa
Wednesday evening at the home oi
the bride, Miss Mayme Adair and Dr.
ROLL CALL FUND
NEARING $2/)00
The annual American Red Crosli
Roll Call for Laurens has already
reached $1,926.19 with reports as yet
incomplete, according to figures sup
plied by Chas. F. Fleming, of Lau
rens, chairman for the county. Of
this amount $1,006.62 was raised in
the Clinton-^ldville area and
$919:97 in the Laurens area, he said.
Additional expected retunaa, he said,
will Uln^y rains tha tolal to over
j|$^M)0. Vte qudU was |l«i99.
bama 604, Florida 463, and Mississip
pi 440.
Net quotas set for Southeastern
states of the Fourth Corps area are:
South Carolina 5,957, North Caro
lina 15,613, Georgia 12,792, Tennes-j
see 14,229, Louisiana 15,084, Alabama !
13,711, Florida 10,370, and Mississip-I
pi 12,759. !
All counties in the state, with the
exception of Abbeville, G^rgetowni
and Union will be required to furnish [
men during January. Credits for men]
already in the nation's armed forces'
exempted these counties this time.
A majority of those inducted from
the states of North Carolina, Geor
gia and Tennessee will be assigned
to duty at Fort Jaduon, while all of
the South Carolina aelectees will be
assignecT to the local fort. -
TTie 80th division. South Carolina’s
own and often called the “Ok! Hick
ory division" will, be brought from
peacetime strmflh of about 13,000
men to more tluin 18,000.
SOIL ASSOCIATION
IN ANNUAL MEET
H. A. Woodle, agronomist of the
Clemson college extension sei^vice,
and T. J. Dowlin, of the Spartan
burg district office, were speakers at
the annual meeting Thursday night
of the Laurens County Soil Conser
vation association. The session, held
in the agricultural building in Lau
rens, was presided over by J. W.
Tinsley, president, with C. B. Can
non, county agent,'serving as secre
tary.
It was decided to merge the asso-
ciatiem with the Laurens Soil Con
servation district, which was formed
early in the yedr, and which will
continue to operate under the direc
tion of five supervisopi, namely,
Dwight F. Patterson, chairman; R. B.
Ropar, vice chairman; J. G. Roy, sec
retary; E. O. Abercrombie and Jack
H. DuviK, Sr. Members of the aa^
ciatkM iifi gueata were served a tur-
rttnuir at a
key
local dfaiiHg rotan.
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