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THE CHROHICIE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy dnd Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHROHICIE' You Don't Get the News r-- f Volume XLII Clinton, S. C., Thursday, May 14, 1942 Number 20 Three-Day Free Cooking School To Be Conducted Here June 3, 4,5 By Noted Lecturer and Home Economist We announce with pleasure that arrangements have been completed by THE CHRONICLE for a FREE cooking school to be conducted by Miss Kathleen Crow, noted lecturer and home economist of the well- known Spry Kitchen at n Cambridge, Mass., here for three days, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday, June 3, 4 and 5, in,the high school auditorium. The school will be similar to the one sponsored by The Chronicle two years ago when more than a thousand wo men of the community attended the sessions. Every woman reader of THE CHRONICLE is invited to be a guest each afternoon at 3 p.m. Admission will be free, no tickets will be re quired, no reserved seats/ Mias Crow, talented lecturer and writer on food subjects, will arrange each program with an eye to helping women with their home problems. She will show housewives how to stretch their food dollar and in these trying war emergency times shows them short cut methods, how to con serve sugar, and teaches the funda mentals of nutrition. She will dem onstrate the newest cookery methods and tactics in the making of delicious pies, cakes, breads, fried foods, cook ies and meat and vegetable dishes. At each session of the school, a printed folder containing all the reci pes to be prepared by Miss Crow will be presented to every person in the audience. The foods cooked will be awarded each day. Ten baskets of well-known grocer ies and household supplies will be given away each day to members of the audience. Assisting The Chronicle as sponsors will be a number of manufacturers and local merchants. The school will be for all ladies of this community, the rural areas as well as the city. A special invitation is-extended The Chronicle’s family of readers to be present Additional details' concerning the school will be announced later. Watch for each announcement Price Regulation Bulletin Issued Maximum Levels In Wholesale and Retaif Field Are Those Prevail ing In March. aiNTON HIGH ' FINALS TO BE HELD MAYH-25 . Long To Preach Bacca laureate Sermon. 'Class Night' and Graduating Programs Arranged. The gigantic task of clamping a roof on the cost of living began at mid-night Sunday with the pegging • of prices which may be charged by: Commencement exercises of Clin- wholesalers and manufacturers for ton hifft sctjoo! will begin May 22 and the .duration. continue through the 25th. it was in- The price ceilings will be extended Mont5 ’ to the retaif field on next Monday,, Su ?! nn, ' n l enl 0 ' ^ school »- 1 The three- Tax Assessors Hold Meeting Tax Commission Agent Tells Boards To Equalize Assessments. The newly appointed county boards of assessors met last week at the of fice of the county auditor to plan their work for the year. A. B. Craig, director of the prop erty tax division of the South Caro lina tax’ commission met with the group and told them that their para mount duty is to equalize the assess ments off individuals within their jur isdictions. Assessments of corpor ations, he, pointed out, are handled by the tax commission. With the property equalised within the areas of the boards, following generally township lines, it was then the duty of the county equalization -board to equalize the assessments be tween school districts and townships, he said. He called attention to the fact that Closing Exercises Mountville School Commencement Pro- grom Begins Friday, speakers Named. Commencement exercises of the Mountville high school will begin Fri day evening, May 15, at 8:30 o’clock, with Mrs. Joe Shealy presenting the music students in the annual music recitaL On .Sunday evening^ at . 8:30, the baccalaureate service will be held in the Mountville Baptist church. Rev. W. C. Alexander, Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister of Ora and Mountville, will deliver the sermon. On Wednesday evening, at 8:30, a class night play will be presented by the senior class. Immediately follow ing the play the grammar school graduation exercises will be held, the address to be delivered by J. Leroy Burns, county superintendent of edu cation, who will also present the cer- 9»-: MISS KATHLEEN CROW Miss Crew, a native of. IXever, Tenn., will conduct THE CHRONICLE’S Free Cooking School to be held on the afteraooi* of Jane 3 3 o’clock. Miss Crow Is a graduate In home economics from the University of Tennessee and has successfully directed cooking schools in most of the Eastern states. _ - All ladles in Clinton, l^oldvlllo and the surrounding rural areas are cordially Invited to attend the school each afternoon. city the 18th. From then on the nation’s ine mree-day program will open j 1,900,000 retail outlets also may not °" Friday evening, the 22nd. at Flor- charge prices in excess of the high-! , s * i rect school, with the annual lest posted in March. And after July, ® ay exer c>s*»- At this time the 'the March base ceilings will be ex-!po^m. last will and prophecy .j tended to services such as those ren-j of ^ c,ass w,1 l be presented, dered by laundries, shoe repair shops, The baccalaureate sermon will be garages, etc. preached by the Rev. Walter N. Long, The United States Office of Price P ast ° r of the r irst Baptist church on Administration issued a two-page S^day evening, the 24th, at 8 bulletin Sunday on the general max- ® c , T 0 .*' JP**’ j! 1101 ? s * rvice Wl11 ^ imum price regulation which will be h * ld the auditorium of Mr. Long’s placed under the emergency price c » urc !» wi ; th all ministers of the city i control act of 1942. churches invited to participate. The bulletin calls attention to theevening, the 25th. at fact that the rapid, erratic increases Florida Street school, the graduating in prices which is called inflation is exercise8 will be held with the pro- no longer a threat; to a painfully sub- *T am m ch arge of the senior class, stantial degree it is a fact. Today we Three s Pea*er» will appear on the have no choice left but burdensome P rn K ra jy 1 ' Car ° Iy J) Henry, class presi- price controls on a nationwide front, de " t ’ J* arcia Galloway, valedictorian, buttressed by complementary eco- and Margaret Adair - «lutatorian. nomic measures, or a bitter and dis-, FoUow, "« a Practice of recent years, astrous defeat in an economic war no guest speaker will be heard. Med- which would destroy the fruits of the awards w '^ b® present- victory which will ultimately be ours. ” at th,s tl * ne and diplomas deiiv- The act > provides that no person eraa the graduates by Supt. Monts. TT-VT.* may buy or sell commodities at prices ^ ^ Chronicle was unable yester- , 4 and 5 a» higher prescribed. In cas es a llst ot *** graduates. where injustices will be the result in The *!f t '? lU not k® released until application of the prescribed prices, .>r**r ay ’ ac f ordin 8 to Principal adjustments will be made. } J * B Gentry, and will appear in the Raw and unprocessed agricultural P ap€r nextweek. Last Rites Here For Paul Stroud Greenwood, May 11. — Paul T. Stroud, 34, textile worker, died sud- tifleates. this was the year for the quadrennial j On Thursday evening, the 21st, at assessment on real estate and stressed g ©clock, graduation exercises for Ihe the importance of getting all real property on the tax books. The tax commission has just com pleted the per acre average of land senior class will be held. Dr. J. M. Hast, president of Lander college, Greenwood, will deliver the address. The salutatory will be given by Miss ^ ayne - assessment for 1942, he said, and Sallie Lou Bishop, and the valedic there is no indication that the average ^ tory by Murray Madden, sale price of farm lands during thej Candidates for high school diplo- last four years would warrant a de- j mas a re: Doris Bagwell, Sallie Lou creased assessment in any of the Bishop, Clarence Boyce, Edna Can- counties, including Laurens. Instead, non> Florence Cannon, James Good- he said, the trend has been upward maili Murray Madden, Margaret Sat- Anniversary Sunday At First Presbyterian Sunday school anniversary exercis es were held at the First Preabyte- . ^ ^ rian church Sunday morning follow-4 denly at his home in South Green ing a custom covering the period' wood early Monday. Funeral services 1864-1942.. The exercises were pro- [were conducted at Gallic Self Memo sided over by Mac Adair, the school rial Baptist church Tuesday at 4:30 superintendent, with the following by the Rev. J. A. Hunnicutt and the interesting program presented: :Rev. Ernest Cox. Interment followed Hymn, “We’ve A Story To Tell To in Rosemont cemetery at Clinton. - the Nations.” | Mr. Stroud was a son of Mr?. Willie Invocation, Rev. J. K. Roberts. p - str ? ud and the late John St /° ud “Anniversary Sunday,” AmelTa O 1 Clinton. Besides his mother, he is iyne survived by his widow, the former Hymn, “Praise Him” —the Begin- ^ Iiss Eth ®l WiUces of Dublin, Ga.; ners / five children, Paul, Jr., Reba, Joan, Scripture—Members of the Junior Bon and Roderick; four brothers, department: Hub Hunter, Henry Bur- .Carl Stroud, Walterboro; Ralph ton, Peggy Copeland, Davis Young, Stroud, Goldville; Dwight Stroud, En- commodities are exempted. Exempted . . * also are eggs and .poultry, milk pro-jAnderSOIl Appointed w On Rationing Board ducts, flour, mutton and lamb, fresh flsh, seafood, game, dried prunes, dried edible beans, leaf tobacco, nuts, other than peanuts, linseed oil and Collie W. Anderson, well known cake, and meal, living animals, books, i young business man of the city, has magazines, motion pictures, periodi- b®® n appointed a member of the LauTOns county rationing board. Mr. Anderson succeeds B. H. Boyd of this city, who has served oq the board since ft was created, and who cals, newspapers, press services, do mestic ores, logs, pulpwood, used au tomobiles, wood mm* gum, naval stores and securities. . _ Registration of merchants and U-,£***©!§£ litf* week on account of his censing of such merchants are pro- 1 health. vided. Applications for adjustment to Appointment to the board is made prevent injustices may be made in b y /h® County Defense Council of accordance with regulations to be is-!which C. F. Fleming of Laurens is sued by the Office of Price Adminis- chairman, upon recommendation of the local defense unit headed by H. L. Eichelberger as chairman. In addition to Mr. Anderson, other members of the board are W. R. Mc- Cuen, chairman, of Laurens, and Dr. J. W Season of Gray Court. tration. in some cdunties and the tax com mission expects to complete the tabu lation showing what each of the coun ties should average. . Mr. Craig ‘urged a careful assess ment of mechanized farming equip ment to make up for an expected de crease in the number of horses and mules. He also mentioned radios, electric refrigerators and* other equip ment as proper subjects for assess ment. Members of boards in this section are: Group No. 1—J. W. Hinsley, B. B. Blakely, S. R. Sloan. Group No. 9—Jack H. Davis, Sr., G. Fair Buford, W. H. Milam. Group No. l(h (Clinton City)—J. Henderson Pitts, Joe L Davidson, B. ^ Hubert Boyd. -Group No. II—J. D. Copeland, Wr J. Henry, Jr., Raymond W. Dean. Group No. 12. — D. M. McClin- tock, Geo. W. Cunningham, Joe L. Chaney. * Jurors Are Drawn For Civil Term - The following 36 jurors have been drawn to serve during the civil tenn of court beginning at Laurens oh May 18, with Judge E. H. Henderson presiding: Laurens township: J. W. Coats, terwhite, Lillie Mae Thompson, Eliza Fuller Watts, oree; Melvin Stroud, New York; and three sisters, Mrs. Glenn Hair ston and Mrs. James Corbie, Clinton, Alfred Johnson, Jeanine Autret. Hymn, “Children of One Father”— Primary department. , “Into All the World,” George Cor- and Mre - Vernon Inman, Union, nelson. Stories from around the world: Mei Ling—Anne Owens; How Pe dro Learned About Jesus — Lillian Dillard; Little Que Bok—Barrie Jean Wingard; Rosa’s Red Letter Day — Alberta Baldwin; The House of Peace —Barbara Anderson. Offertory, “This Is My Father’s World.” . ' Dedication of gifts. MAYER COMMANDER LOCAL CIVILIAN DEFENSE CORPS The local Civilian Defense council announced yesterday that their or ganization has been streamlined and reorganized. . In addition to the council, there will be coordinated under one head the various divisions to be known as the Civilian Defense corps. The corps will be headed by the Rev. LeGrande Mayer as commander, with complete authority in coordinating its operation in regard to training and functioning. The emergency medical division will be headed by Dr. F. K. Shealy. The civilian defense will cooperate with the newly appointed commander in .developing the local corps. ^ Stoddard Announces For Supervisor stationed on North Broad street j* S *° d , d * rd ’ who 1 w “, ‘"/•nS Site June 6-11 has been an- wnn» ih McSween Goes To New Work In June Rationing Of Coal Hinted Friends here of Dr. John McSween will be interested to know he will resign the pastorate of.Purity Pres- byterian church, Chester, in the near future to accept the presidency of Tusculum college at Greenville, Tribute to Our Mothers — Betty Tenn. He plans to take up his new Taylor. [work about June 15 and will move Special music, “Mothers Old Fash- his family to Tennessee July 1. ioned Flowers”—Jean Layton, Amelia Dr. McSween served as president Payne, Edna Earle Woritman, Ame of Presbyterian college from 1928 to Jacobs, Peggy Johnson, Julia Tay- 1935 at which time he resigned to lor. [actfept the Chester pastorate. • Tusculum college, which he is to Incnpr~f4rm 11 riff ; head, ts -a co-educationat-coltcge of inspection unit the Northern church with a student body of 350. It was Defense Training School Planned To Be Held At Presby terian College May 25-29, With Frampton As Director. The flrst South Carolina Civilian Defense training school will be held at Presbyterian college May 25 through the 29th, it is announced by civilian defense officials. The Rev. W. McLeod Framptdn,; transportation difficulties next winter pastor of the Third Presbyterian niore coal will be consumed than in church of Greenvile, will be director j ordinar y times, adding: of the school. The assistant director, “AN these factors add up to the will be Prof. H. E. Sturgeon of the ! fact that we can meet all demands college faculty. Faculty members will and keep our operations running include members Of the state council, smoothly only if we plan the mining a representative from the Fourth and transportation of-coal during the Corps army headquarters, the college y® ar 80 that steady maximum use is military staff and others. made of our production and transpor- —The school will be operated on a .tatiun facilities - : r Washington, May 12.—Coal ration ing because of transportation prob lems may become necessary unless consumers’ stock piles are quickly built up, Donald M. Nelson, war pro duction chief, has warned. Nelson, in an open letter, urged coal users to stock up “to the limit of .storage capacity.” He said that in addition to the Here Next Month plan similar to that used in the army defense training school at Texas A. chartered inTm and'V'the ‘oicTest! “ d M - which Mr frampton attend- The state highway department ve- chartered institution of higher learn- j ^ exp | e ^ t t t hide inspection station Allegheny mountains. It is located in the foothills of the Smoky moun- Needhom Of P. C. Is Tennis Titlist Clinton for the period June 13-July 11, for the second period 1942 car and truck inspection. The lane will be tains in ea?t Tennessee. as ! ! period. Ha served two terms as county com- . - . ., missioner and says that he ia making Ben T. Bishop, R. D. Jennings, Al- the race again after being urged by bert K. McCall, Robert M. Came, ©f his friends to do so. JZ A. A. Weathers, Jclntyre, J. C. W. Weathers. / f Fred 1a Jack Templeton. Youngs: Claude JEhcown, Lee Wert, J— ■ Sullivan: C. IL Babb, 4, T> Alllion. B. A. EUedge, Robert F. Taylor. Dials: M* t. Hendrix, Claude W. Mahon, D. T. Andrews, W. S. Meeks, Lee Owens, James Gray. Waterioo: John C. Smith, S. L. Moore, fi. P. McGee, Lewis Jobes. Hunter: h. A. Riser, D. L. Monroe, W. W. Bishop, James W. Craine, W. H. Adams, Ben C. Workman, W. D. Beckman, Xee Nelson. Scuffletown: J. F. Blakely, D. Yj Smith. I TO ADDRESS GRADUATES The Rev. Walter N. Long, pastor of the First Baptist church of this city, will preach the • sermon before the graduating class of Ford high school of Laurens, on next Sunday evening.'of the Goldville Presbyterian church “I feel that the people know my record,” he said, “and that my ex perience of four years qualifies me for the higher office.” • —Mr. Stoddard said Blakely Offers For Supervisor quested to send to the school at least Billy Needham of Presbyterian col- Bennie B. Blakely, who resides mid-way between Clinton and Lau- 1 rens. announces himself today as a candidate for supervisor in the Aug ust primary. Anderson Offers Foi* Re-election E. Frank Anderson, well known farmer-merchant of the Musgrove here, was in the race two years ago, 1 section, announces his candidacy to- at which time he made a most cred-1 Mr. Blakely, who is well known v ille, Pickens and Oconee. their chief air raid warden, chief of lege, defeated his teammate. Eddie the auxiliary fire fighting forces and Selfe, in straight sets here Saturday chief pf their auxiliary police force and won the state intercollegiate ten- and one general instructor. Those at- nis singles title. He had advanced to tending will be housed and fed at the the finals by eliminating top-seeded college and in the homes of local Billy Fai^ner, also a teammate, and citizens. More .than 100 are expected.champion for the Uut two^yeoroi to attend, officials state. I' Doubles finals for the tournament Counties to be represented at the scheduled for Monday were indefi- school are: McCormick. Saluda, New- nitely postponed because of a slight berry, Greenwood, Fairfield, Chester, I injury received by Farmer. He w as York, Cherokee, Union, Spartanburg, to have teamed with Walter Larson Laurens, Abbeville, Anderson, Green- against Needham and Selfe, all of that hr would d *J iv-electlon as county com- itaDie^showing. “I have entered again I Kinard To AddrCSS missioner. this year,” he said, “with the inten-! P. C. Mr. Anderson was elected to this tion of winning.” office in the primary two years ago. He has served the county faithfully during his term, he states, and feels that his past experience qualifies him to carry on the work in the future. devote his- entire time td the office if elected, and that he will be fair and just to all parts of the county. Kiw.anians To Honor Grodiiates Tonight Following a custom of several years j BOARD GETS CALL past, the Kiwanis club wiU have as their guests this evening the boy members, of the Thorn well orphanage and Clinton high school graduating classes. Dinner will'be served at Ho tel Clinton at 7:30, with President E. H. Wilkes in chirge of the meeting. The guest speaker for the occasion will be the Rev. C. P. Allen, pastor Trustees Re-elect Teaching Staff Presbyterian Men Copeland Enters Alderman Race Posey W. Copeland, well known FOR 12 WHITE MEN Dr. James C. Kinard. president of _ _ . . ^ , Newberry college, will be the guest J° ung b ^? mes ^ ™ a ? of the Clty \ an " speaker at the Men-of-the-Church today as a candi^te meeting of the First Presbyterian f ° r ald ® rman .^m .ward one m the Th#> hnarH of tru«tA*c of C * IUIX * on n * xt Thursday evening, , The board of trustees of Hunter i^t av 91 Copeland offered for council in school district No. 5 in meeting the^ M y ’ his ward two years ago at which time week, re-elected the present; ' — he was defeated by the slim margin of two votes. v r past week, re-elected the present! 5 ' s r£ - Sugar Registration The local draft board received a cure the list yesterday for publica- MCTC KeOCheS 0,694 June call yesterday for 12 white men j tion but it was not released by the to be inducted into army service at {board. Fort Jackson on* June 4th. It was stated at the draft office that the list of men to be included in the call had not yet been completed. BACK FROM HOSPITAL John W. Finney, Sr., has returned A total of 8,694 persons, white and from Duke hospital. Durham. N. C : colored, registered last week in the ( where he has been a patient the past Miss Billy Hicklin spent the week-j city for ration books, .Figures for oth-iten days. His many friends will be id with her parents, Mr. Ira K. Hicklin, in Richburg. end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. er communities in this area were not glad to know his condition is reported * ter -»» . • I i. 1 available. . as improving.