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raw ^ < •• * > • - : 1 : J U. S. Troops Enter Mexico as Guests STATE TRACK MEET SLATED MAY 1-2 AT PRESBYTERIAN annufl d meet South Carolina’s nineteenth intercollegiate trade and field will be held at Presbyterian college Vttday and Saturday, May 1 and 2. In announcing the meet. Athletic Director Lonnie S. McMWian said: will be no curtailment in plans for the event It Is the opinion of athletic directors over the state Plans Made For Sugar Rationing Trade Users To Register Next Tuesdoy and Wednesday. Families Register ___ The Laurens county rationing for maintaining physical fitness and morale, and outstanding ..events should be continued whenever poe> sibk.” Approximately 200 athletes are ex pected to participate. Oemaon has won the title for the last three years. and Mexteali in a thrlllinf highlight af tbe third ‘ af Imperial Valley. REORGANIZED MID-CAROUNA LOOP RKIUDES CUMON AND AARNA • The Mid-Carolina textile baseball league was reorganized In Goldville a few nights ago with die election of E. C. Abrams as president. The league will be compoeed of four teems—Riverdale of Enoree, Jo- of •Goldville, Buffalo of Union, Clinton Mills. The season will May 2nd and continue play August 8th. A modified Shaughnessy play-off system will be used to decide the championship. A committee was appointed to draw up the schedule which will be announced witmxf me next few days. Each club will play 15 games, one each Saturday, and a double-header on July 4th. Much interest has been manifested in the league in past years, with large crowds attending the games. Draft Board Signs 359,000 Brig. Gen. Holmes B. Springs, state selective service director, said yes- ten!ay mat w totar or xae.szir men were signed for selective service hi the October 18, 1840, and July 1, 1841, registrations. Approximately 103,000 were signed in the February 16 registration, bringing the state’s total to 358,000 men. From the first two registrations, the state still has a reserve of 12,126 Board Calls 33 For Induclion First May Quota To Leava On the 11th For Army Service. -■ ♦ Thirty-three white registrants from Clinton draft board No. 50, will be inducted into the United States army on Monday, May 11, It was announc ed yesterday by the board. The men will leave by bus at 10 ajn. for Fort Jackson in Columbia. Those who will make up the quota: Rufus William King, Clinton. Joe Henry Dillard, Whitmire. Carl Lynch, Rt. 1, Clinton. William Howard Bolt, Rt 1, Ware Shoals. Stonewall Edmunds, Clinton. Marion Luther Rivenback, 2828 E. Marshall St., Richmond, Va. Keith Marcus Fleischman, An drews. S. C. William Sidney Denson, Baltimore, Md. Leon Davis Hill, Spartanburg. Marion Luther Jacks, Clinton. William Bluford Blakely, Clinton. Paul James Quinton, Clinton. William Erskine Adair, Clinton. Edwin Ralph Benjamin, Clinton. Ethbert Cole Abercrombie, Rt 3, Laurens. Lawrence Floyd Nelson, Rt 2, Lau- GENTRY RESIGNS AS HIGH PRINCIPAL John B. Gentry, Jr., tot the past three years principal of the local high school, stated yesterday that he has resigned the position to become su- County Clubs To Meet Saturday Officers To Be Electod To County Convention. County Chairman Ralph T. Wilson ef Laurens, has called precinctgclubs to meet next Saturday, April 25, for the purpose of reorganizing for the biennial primary election machinery, „ , . .. _ , . iana was n by electing club officers and selecting j men in Classes 1-A and 1-A-O, who Genious Arthur Rowe, Greenwood. ^, e 0 ffi ce of the superintendent of market buiirtim? ... have VioH their nhvsiral ex- Ruhv Lee Whitlock. Clinton. i i ' marxei ouuoing Lawrence Holland Davidson, Clin ton. Willis Andrew Cheek, Rt. 3, Hon- ea Path. DRAFT RtOBIRY GETS UNDffi WAY Men 45 to64 Signing Up This Week ond Will ^ Finish On General 'R' Day, April 27. JOHN B. GENTRY, JR. perintendent of the Calhoun Falls schools effective July 1. Mr. Gentry is a native of Green ville and a graduate of Furman uni- tions for the sugar rationing plan According to an announcement from the board, the rationing plan is divided into two separate classes—I first, “Registration for the Trade Us-f ers,” and second “Registration for the Family Units and Individual Con sumers.” Inasmuch as the first registration is to be completed prior to the sec- mid registration, information given out is limited to the. first only. Registration for this group will be completed on next Tuesday and Wed nesday, April 28 and 28. It will in clude every retailer, wholesaler, in stitution, industrial user and food ser vice establishment In other words, every person, or business, selling su gar,’ either wholesale or retail, hotel, restaurant cafe, hospital, boarding house, manufacturer of candy, bak ery, confectionary, etc. (every user of sugar except the family unit). It will be necessary for each appli cant to furnish the registrar with the following information: (1) Gross sales of all meats, gro ceries, fruits, vegetables, etc., for the week ending April 25, 1842. (2) Sugar delivered to and accept ed by the applicant for the month of November, 1841. (3) The amount of sugar purchas ed during each month of 1841, in pounds. (4) If .your business Is other than a retailer, or wholesaler, give the number of pounds used by you dur ing each month of 1841. (5) Actual amount of sugar nqw on hand, In pounds. If you do not have the above in formation, you should obtain it be fore attempting to register, as it will be impossible, under the rules, for the registrar to issue you sugar pur chase certificates without your first furnishing the above information. was president last year of the high registrations has registered 3,653. In “Every applicant who does not school principals of the state. the fourth registration now under register on the dates fixed will not .. .. m* way it is expected that approximate- have an opportunity for registering r_ r _ | \A/«rnor« 14*1 A ly 1.500 will be enrolled, making a until a period of time has elapsed. rarm VTOmen noia 'total of more than 5,000. Approxi- The Junior and senior high schools TroiniflQ McOtiflQ — mately 8,000 are expected to be'i of the county have been designated * m 9 istered by the Laurens board. Registration of men between the ages of 45 and 65 began in the Clter ton and Laurens draft boards Mon-^ day as the government sought to marshal the; full effect of its man power. Monday, Tuesday and yester day a large number of men appeared at the local board to fill out the re quired blanks and several hundred others are expected to register by the end of the week. R. J. Pitts, chairman of the local board, stated yesterday that Red Cross headquarters on South Broad street will be open Friday from 3:39 to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 6 pjm. to assist registrants in fill ing out draft and occupational ques tionnaires. Several teachers haye vol unteered their services to assist those applying for registration. He also stated that the board’s office in the Jacobs building will remain open all day Saturday to serve those applying to register. • The Joanna clubhouse in Goldville will be open Friday afternoon and all day Saturday to serve those desiring to register. State draft officials recently or- versity. He received his master’s de gree from Duke university in 1938 dered the 83 boards to register man and has had ten yean* teaching ex perience. He came to Clinton high from Bataaburg-Leesville, and pre viously had served as principal of the Simpsonville high school. At Calhoun Falls Mr. Gentry will succeed G. R. Porter, son of Mrs. W. S. Porter of this city, who will enter a branch of Uncle Sam’s fighting forces in the early summer. Since coming to Clinton, Mr. Gen try has taken an active interest in church and civic affairs. He is a stew- ai4l of Broad Street Methodist church, and is editor of “The Lions Tale,” monthly publication of the . local Lions club. In school circles, he has served the high school league as pres ident of this district one year, and in this age group in their respective offices all this week. The office ol the local board is open from; 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. every day to serve the public. The Job will be finished in the schook between 7 arm. and 8 pm. next Mon day, April 27, which Governor R. M. Jefferies has declared a general school holiday in order that teachers may again serve as registrars. Required to register afe those men born on or after April 2f, 1877, and on or before February 16, 1887. This includes all men who reached 45th birthdays on or before last ruary 16 and who will not their 85th birthdays on or before next Monday. • * ' * The local board in the first three Robert Downs Glenn, Clinton. ; as the registration places. All estab- Franklin Sadler Love, Clinton. i lishments listed above should regis- Delmas Dennis Haskett, Wilmlng-1 Ur at high nearest to 5m. i ton, N. C. Farm Women Hold Training Meeting The training meeting for local lead- The u following registration places ers of the home demonstration clubs have been listed by the Clinton board of the county for the months of April fol L the . (late April 27: In Clinton the registration will be and May was held last week in the i Clinton high school, Goldville delegates to the county convention to be held May 5. Delegates to the number of 387 are to be elected to he convention, efcJt olub being entitled to one delegate for each 25 votes or major fraction already have had their physical ex amination and are awaiting Indue tion. Of this group 6,480 are white! Shoals. in Laurens. school, Lydia Mill school. Long school, and 5,646 are Negroes. The recapitulation showed 9,112 men in Classes l-B and 1-B-O, suit- total of thereof, based on the number of votes able tor limited service. A polled in the ; first primary two years:3,921 are white and 5,191 are Negro. a g 0 - i Deferred for civilian activity (not Since the lut election two new ,l ' 1,h the w,r «« ort > wer ' voting precincts have been establish 1,545, of whom 1,259 were white and 288 Negro. In Class 2-B for those deferred be- ed, in the Bailey community, and at Bushardt’s store. This gives the coun ty 41 clubs. The Clinton city club will meet at 3 pm. in-the Masonic Temple build- in *'i^^SSit^ho JElargest number were listed as Class 8re R OoA 3 " A * deferred for dependency. They mowed from the city, Ansel B. God- toUd 163 880 induing 100,634 white , cause of their "importance to the war effort," were 1,412, including 1,372 'Kite In the deferred classes, by far the Ruby Lee Whitlock, Clinton. Jschopls in the high school building, Th „ meetinVooened with a devo- Bra<lch school, Mt. Olive James Agnew Kirkland, Rt. 1, Ware b^gin^g at 9 a . m . and closing at 5! tional riod ^ £ Mrs E A Curry Mountville school, Sandy Springs p m Similar registrations wiU be Reports were made by the secretary school. Bell Street school, Renno made at Joanna Junior high, Gold- or i eader of earh c i u u 0 f aceomolish- school, Academy Street school. Wads- vine. . Jmenu made since the last training ' l '» rth “hool. Shady Grove school, A complete list of schoob to ln cac (, community. Widespread Center Point school, Bethel Grove used for both white and colored for, interest in victory gardens and in the school, Waterloo school. Brewer ton the second date will be announced j var j QUS ^tivities in connection with school, Mt. Gallagher school, Hick- the war effort was evident in the de- ory. Tavern school, Princeton school. frey, vice-president; James P. Sloan secretary; Jack H; Davis, Sr., execu tive committeeman. and 83,246 Negro. William Roy Smith, Clinton. _ Clyde Francis, Goldville. Robert Earl Hames, Clinton. Marvin Reginald Boyd, Clinton. Lester Joseph Everett, Rt. 1, Ware Shoals. ' Herman John McMahan, Minne apolis, Minn. Frank Lewis Robinson, Waterloo. Claud Luther Strickland, Green wood/ James Pierce Senn, Princeton. Closing Exercises At Long Branch School Closing exercises of the Long next week. Individual family units will be lat- tailed club reports Plana were dis _ Mt. Pleasant school, Mt. Bethel er advised of the details in Connec- cussed f 0 r the spring meeting of the school, Poplar Springs school, tion with their registration for cards I C6uncil of Farm Women which will which will be held on May 4, 5, 6, 7. )be held at ^ May l6 HOME NURSING COURSES OFFERED l 1 , Miss Jennie Coleman, home dem onstration agent, was in charge of | the classes and presented the lessons jon "Meal Planning and Whole Wheat ! Cereals.” Meal planning was the top- - The Clinton unit of the American ic presented for the April meeting. Red Cross, under the supervision of A brief discussion of food values, rec- Thornwelt Trackmen Officers of the Hopewell club are J. L. Dickert, president; Ryan Law- ^ e* * LI son, secretary; G. F. Buford, execu-;L«Op rlFSt nOnorS tive committeeman. i <►—— > The Lydia Mill club is headed by j Thorn well orphanage's crack cin- J. D. Hairston, president; H. W. Wil- ; der path squad came through last liams, secretary; J. R. Cobb, execu-! Thursday afternoon with flying col- tive committeeman. ; ors in Greenville as it chalked up 52 Officers of the Clinton Mills club hard-earned points to defeat Parker! ^ are Joe Campbell, president; J.-Criand Gr—nville high in a triangular; Qv^-^Giria chorus^ Cannon, executive committeeman. ! track meet staged on the district ath-1 Valedictory—Betty Harris. The Rehno club is headed by W. letic flleld. iRrarwh ■/>hnnl will h* nrfKroitjxi at Mrs. J. B. Townsend, plans to start ommended allowances of the various ministers and i ! i^hoS lmuse Fri^y mght, April hom * nursing -begin, j dietary eis.sent.ials. and the new food land community PRESBYTERY MEETS IN GREENWOOD The spring meeting of South Caro lina Presbytery held Tuesday with the First Presbyterian church in Greenwood, was attended by several elders from this city 24, at 8:30. The program follows: ' m, ?« M ^.,? rst - „ „... ... , Jyimtatfck tor adequate nutrition wasj The opening sermon was preached Invocation Rev. Joe Caldwell. Mrs w,lllam McMillan will teach followed by practical meal planning, by the Rev. J. K. Roberts, pastor of Song “There’s A Welcome Herei one c ^ ass and Mrs - A. B. Davidson Materials were distributed and plans! the First Presbyterian church of this for You” Girls chorus. I the other - ’^ hese instructors are reg- made for presenting the lesson in the city, and the retiring moderator. Salutatory—Ruby Eranklin. Playlet, “Cipderella’s Reception Pupils of school. Awarding of certificates. Song, “The School We Call Our the other. These instructors are reg jistered nurses. | There will be an estimated short age of 50,000 nurses for the army, sented by the following: therefore thousands of women are Long Branch — Mrs. J. G. Holtz- needed as students for n u r s i-n g claw and Mrs. McLees Cunningham. schools. This training will help fill Q3k Grove—Miss Lidie Sloan and the gap and supplement the worn or, Mrs. M. D. Senn. E. Bell, president; Mrs. Nannie Ray Bell, secretary; John H. Bell, execu tive committeeman. The orphanage lads outclassed Parker, who finished second with 47, and Greenville, who could only gar club. j The Rev. John A. Wilson, ■ pastor Clubs in this section were repre- of the .Ware Shoals Presbyterian church, presided over the sessions us the new moderator. Following the administering of the Lord’s Supper, addresses and reports of committees on the~"work uT the heard J. J. Clark is president of the Gold- ner 35. Taking all three places in the ville chib; Glenn Franklin, secretary, discus and the shot put, they stayed {ahead all the way and were never Yearbook Dedicated r*’* To Dr. White law The 1842 PsC-SaC, student year book at Presbyterian college, will be dedicated to Dr. Neil G. Whitelaw, professor of physics. Editor Guyton Thompson hmfanaeunced. Dr. Whitelaw Joined the college faculty in ths fall of dBSS. He re* ceived the bachelor of arts degree from Miami university (Ohkf) and the master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees from the Univer sity of Wisconsin. College Summer Session Plontied, The war-time summer Presbyterian collage win begin on June 15 and extend through ‘ M, FMfidsnt W. p. Jacobs their* usual in DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE ■ATX BEEN f *r o FATALITIES I OMOBILE AUTOMOl . ACCIDENTS In LAURENS COUNTY Ut’i StriTt To Mako 1042 n Safe Year On i Uo Hifkways. Sons “God Bless America” Punils professional nurses in hospitals^ Wadsworth—Mrs. V. E. Shealy and church and presbytery were and audience. ~ * (clinics and homes. The course is in- Mrs. Hugh Workman. I throughout the day The following pupils will complete tended for j the average citizens, home — ♦ Delegates were in attendance from th« seventh grade cour« : Betty ^j Shldent Group Clarence^ Blidkweil ^Botf llelaon! Townsend and be enrolled To Meet Here H ■'hiffriL nan I to one of the classes before May Bret.' churches in Abbeville, Laurens, New berry and Greenwood counties. • _ Clinton Kiwonians Win Second Place A number of Clinton Kiwanians at tended the divisional meeting held last Thursday evening in Greer* with Lieutenant Governor Harry Daniel of the host Club, presiding. The 200 Ki wanians from the nine clubs of the division were addressed by J. Mar yan Saunders of Chapel Hill, N. C., Betts Attending High Church Court Singing Convention Representatives of the Presbyterian i . _ . . . : Student association in the colleges of At DQlleV Memorial the state will hold a retreat in Clin-) ♦ j ton during the coming week-end. The Announcement is made by J. T. i purpose of the meeting is to lay plans Pack, president, of the Community Dr. C. Bynum Betts, pastor of the [for the student work for the coming Singing convention, that the group Associate Reformed Presbyterian y ea r. , will convene Sunday afternoon at church, attended the spring Presby- 1 Each group may send two repre-’ 2:30 at Bailey Memorial church. A tery meeting held in Spartanburg sentatives and about 20 young people' number of out-of-town musicians are Tuesday. , are expected to attend the council j expected to take part on the program From Spartanburg Dr. Betts went meeting and supper Saturday-after*, i and the public is cordially invited. ' to Statesville, N. C., where he is at-1 noon at “Happy Acres.” Several stu-! ^ tending the General Synod of the dent workers are also expected. The R,h V : Vft l C^ryL--- Associate Reformed Presbyterian group will attend worship services i™ 01 jcrvtccs governor of the Carolinaa district. church, which is the highest court Sunday morning at the First Presby- PentOCOStol Church The Greenville club won*the at-iof this denomination. Included in the terian church, tendance prize tor having traveled (synod are the churches in eight the most man-miles with Clinton Southern states. Dr. Betts wiU be out KJjuu Pnnrlirbifn winning second place, and Anderson (of the city for the remainder of the v»UnaiaaiC third. Accepts Position With Draft Board Miss Mary Blakely of Laurens, has accepted a position as typist with the local draft board and entered upon her duties this week. Miss Blakely mm ' week, with regular preaching ser vices omitted at his church next Sab bath. In Word Five KIWANIS MEET TODAY * / •The regular meeting of the Kiwanis mg city primary. Mr. Wilburn, who club will be held this evening at 7:30 ai Hotel Clinton. Revival services began at Pente costal Holiness church April 27, with services each evening at 7:30. The guest minister will, be Rev. Ray Stewart of Greenville. The pastor. Perry L. Wilburn announces him-; Rev. A. M. Herndon, extends a cor- self today as a candidate tor alder-.dial invitotion to the membership man from ward five in the approach-1 and general public to attend the ser vices. , „ Intends of Mra^John Griffith will - la ill at bar bouse on West Maks strset is well known in the Clinton Mills community where he 4a a resident, formerly represented his ward aa a member of council His announce ment brings the entries to five In tills ward. UORS TO MEET FRIDAY The Lions club will meat Friday evening at I** o’clock at the club house, it' has been announced by of ficiate. . //