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Volume XLIII
Clinton, S. C, Thursday, January 28,1943
Number 4
Supplies Arrive at Malta
In spite ef mil that the Axis can do, the British manage te keep
their base ait Malta supplied with food, ammunition, and other necessi
ties. Here native stevedores are shown carrying ashore supplies taken
twi k twiwiy by a barge. ; ,
Ferguson Re-elected
Boy Scout Head
Local Scout Leader Gets
Silver Beaver Award.
MoorheachNamed
Vice-President.
R. E. Ferguson, well known busi
ness man of the city, was on Tues-
I day night re-elected president of
(Blue Ridge Boy Scout council at the
annual meeting held in Greenville.
Mr. Ferguson, long active in Scout
work, was presented the silver bea
ver award for “noteworthy service of
exceptional character to boyhood by
registered scouters.”
R. C. McCall, of Easley, was again
named vice-president and W. A.
Moorhead, of Goldville, was also
elected vice-president.
Dr. Roswell C. Long and J. A.
Gresham, of Greenwood, and W. A.
Merritt, of Greenville, were named
BULK OF ARMY
RESERVES TO BE
CALLED UP SOON
Washington, Jan. 25.—The bulk of
the army’s enlisted reservists in col
leges throughout the United States
will be ordered to active_duty in the
near future, war department officials
said /today.
An order was sent Saturday by
Maj.-Gen. James A. Ulio, the adju
tant general, to the commanding
generals of the nine service , com
mands reminding them that the spec
ialized training program announced
$5,994,623 WAGES
PAID TO WORKERS
.Labor Commissioner's
Report Lists 26 Indus
trial Plants In Laurens
County.
The seventh annual report of the
Department of Labor to the South |
Carolina general assembly shows]
wages paid to textile workers in Lau-
ROOSEVELT AND
CHURCHILL HOLD
PARLEY IN AFRICA
Leaders Agree On Plans
To Bring About Uncon
ditional Surrender of
Axis Powers.
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF CLINTON
By the Late Rev. William Plumer Jacobs, D.D., In
New Literary and Biographical Book of His Life,
Edited by Thornwell Jacobs.
(Editor’s note: The Chronicle will
publish several chapters pertaining to
Clinton’s early history as written by
the late Dr. Jacobs and just publish
ed in book form for the first time.
These installments will be of especial
interest to the elder families of the
community).
This little article is not an auto
biography. But it will necessarily t> een ever since,
have to use the first personal pro-
time, Mr. Henry Clinton Young, a
venerable citizen of Laurens' a law
yer, and sometime member of the
legislature who always caught the
Clinton vote, happening to pass by
on his way to Newberry, some one
proposed to honor him with the name
and called the place Clinton after
him. The choice went by acclamation
and the name stuck. Clinton it has
noun very often, else it would not be
possible to impress upon my readers
that these are personal recollections.
Neither is it a history. My recollec
tions are along one line, my own
pont of view, and there is much in
the annals of this city that I will nec
essarily have to omit because they
did not come within mv observation.
My first visit to Clinton, my very
first knowledge of it was in 1662. At
that time, according to all accounts,
it was nine years old. It had been or
ganized as a town in 1853, the Lau
rens railroad having reached this
point and little wooden shanties
(called stores) and dwellings having
begun to sprout up in various locali
ties. As late as 1864 there were only
a half dozen good dwellings and one
brick store building in the place.
• The first building stood where the,
Seaboard Air Line depot now stands I Union. They were great times for the
and bore the ensign, bar-room. The merchants and lively times for ev-
brick of the chimney of that old'embody. But the growth was mainly
bulding is now a part of the writer’s ^ number of little shanty stores
Clinton had at the very outset and
for a long time afterward a very un
savor y reputation. Horse-racing,
chicken fighting, gander pulling,
gambling and drinking, rowdyism,
brawling and other little disorders
like the above, were the distinguish
ing features of the place. It was said
in the days when I first knew the
place, that ladies did not like to pass
through the town in coming from the
lower part of the county to the coun
ty seat, took care to leave the town
off their line of travel.
The place was just like many West
ern railroad camps, it was growing
rapidly, did a big business in cotton,
probably more each season, in those
early years* -than ever it did after
wards, that is after the line from
Charleston to Spartanburg was built.
Cotton was brought to Clinton for
sale from beyond Spartanburg and
national council representatives.
Members of the executive committee
were also elected, John H. Hunter,
of this city, being named as a mem
ber of the board at large.
A report of the council’s work for
the past year was given, showing a
total of 106 courts of honor held,
2,448 merit badges awarded, 31 boys
made eagles, 81 lifers and 135 stars.
A total of 3,256 boys and men are
engaged in the Boy Scout program
in this district including Clinton, the
report showed.
The financial report showed that a
total of $15,402.34 was received dur
ing the year and $14,461.40 spent,
leaving a bank balance of $940.94.
Eighteen new troops were organ
ized during the year.
lanzea training program annuuucru ^ cQ fQr the {od July j
December 17 called for induction ofj 1Q41 Qr ^ anAina -in iQ42 tntal-
most reservists at the conclusion of
the first college term ending after
December 31, 1942. ’
That, officials pointed . out, means
that students will be called on vary
ing dates, depending on whether a
college has six-month terms, four-
month semesters, or operates on the
quarterly plan.
RATIONING BOARD
BULLETIN (OPA)
ton.
The report showed that 26 Indus-
KENNETH BAKER
TAKEN BY DEATH
AT GREENWOOD
Kenneth Baker of Greenwood, 73,
father of Prof. Kenneth Baker of this
Casablanca, French Morocco, Jan.
26. — President Roosevelt and Prime
1941 and ending June 30, 1942, total,- ( Minister Churchill, in the mo<un-
ing $5,434,880. This amount was paid, precedented affd momentous meexvig
to an. average of 4,573 workers em-, of the century, have reached “cbm-
ployed during the^ year, an increase plete agreement On war plans^ for
of $680,686 over the previous year. 1943 designed to bring about the un-
The five textile mills in Laurens, i surrender" of Germany.
Clinton and Goldville have 276,560 - and Japan, it was disclosed
spindles: T,704 looms, a capital i n -; Tuesday night.
vestment of $7,671,115 annual pro-: Defying every tradition, the presi-
duct valuation amounting to $26,-'d® 0 * of the United States flew across
748,869, and used 67,092 bales of cot-t 5,000 miles of the Atlantic ocean for
a 10-day meeting with Churchill
which saw the leaders ef the two na-
tria! to county were di-& e b ™,? ^“SUSVo'no" ol!
Their i" ue wee ptoced aulo.m.U' r a “ d , "® alh ' r “
.... . * ono oon little villa just outside this city.
capital investments *9.803 289, tota . virtuall J the e „ tlre war staffs 0(
nU l ,s <£,. e,? P y 5 ' 2 ' t0tl ‘ 1 both nations participated in day and
wages $5,994,623. ! night discussions which ended Sun-
, The industrial establishments in- "yay afternoon with a press confer-
Period four fuel oil eluded in the report by classification, : ence bef ore a group of war corre-
ration stamps will be valid January are as follows: spondents flown secretly from Allied
30. Meanwhile period three stamps. - Bakeries (1), Ideal Bakery, Clin- headquarters halfway across North
which became valid December 23 are, ton Africa
good for the purchase of nine gallons] Fertilizer plants (2), The Southern
through January 29. Cotton Oil company, Laurens; C-W-S
GASOLINE—Coupon No. 4 in “A” ;Guano CO t Inc f Clinton.
(Compiled for information of The
Chronicle’s readers).
COFFEE—Stamp No. 28 in war ra
tion book No. 1 noW good until mid-
nght February 7 for one pound.
FUEL OIL
These are the high spots of the
conference, which Roosevelt and
i Churchill agreed was unprecedented
of “B” and “C” gasoline cards must
have their automobile tires inspected
by February 28; holders of “A” cards
must have their tires inspected by
March 31. Thereafter “A” card hold-
...... . a , .ers must have a tire inspection every
city, died Sunday afternoon at his six m0 nths; “B” card holders, every
gasoline books now good for three] Feed and Grist mils (1), Babb’s in history and may decide the fate of
gallons until March 22. Mill Laurens.
TIRES Final date for initial in- j ce pia^ (3) f Colonial Ice com-
spection of tires on trucks, taxicabs p an y ( Laurens and Clinton; City Ice
and other commercial vehicles has, c 0 Laurens.
been extended to Feb. 28. Thereafter] Mineral and Soda Water plants (3),
tires on these vehicles must be in-, Dixie Beverages, Inc.; Clinton; Nehi
spected every 60 days or every 5,000 ] B ott ^ n g Co., Laurens; Laurens Coca-
miles, whichever comes first. Holders i C ola Bottling company.
* * XU * ^ r\ *> 8-4 r* 11 r\ rs 11 r»4 _ _. __ . , . —
Miscellaneous industries (1), Lau-
home where he had been ill the past
ten days.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon from the late resi
dence, being conducted by his pastor,
Rev. M. R. Wingard and Rev. E. Z.
Pentz of Greenville.
Mr. Baker was a native of Adairs-
ville, Ky., a son of Leander Baker,
four months; “C” card holders, every
three months.
SUGAR—Stamp No. 10 in war ra
tion book 1 good for three pounds
until January 31.
WAR BOOK NO. 2—The date when
Clinton residents will register for
war ration book No. 2, which will be
used in the “point” purchase of
rens Glass Works, Inc.
Printing and Publishing (3), Ad
vertiser .Printing company, Laurens;
Chronicle Publishing company, Clin
ton; Jacobs Press, Clinton.
Clothing factories (1), The Hall
mark Shirt company, Clinton.
Cotton, Silk, Woolen mills (8),
Clinton Cotton Mills (plants 1 and
2); Joanna Textile Mills company
the world for generations to xuune.
1. The leaders of America and
Britain, both military and civil, have
agreed on a war plan for 1943 de
signed to maintain the initiative in
every theater of the war.
2. Churchill and Roosevelt agreed
that peace can come only, through
“unconditional surrender” of Ger
many, Italy, and Japan.
3. Generals Giraud and de Gaulle,
meeting for the first time under spon
sorship of the president and prime
minister, are negotiating for a Unit
ed French movement designed to put
French armies,, a navy and an air
force again into the field against the
Axis.
4. Premior Joseph Stalin of Russia
(plants 1 and 2), Goldville; Laurens was kept informed of the results of
residence, capping off his chimney,
Mrs. J. T. Foster (Aunt Lucindy be
ing the name by which she was gen
erally known) claimed to be the first
lady that was ever a resident of the
incorporation. Mr. Henry Young, a
valued citizen, is now the oldest liv
ing resident, born and living within
the town limits uninterruptedly to
the present time.
The story of the naming of the
place is unique. A dispute was in
progress on that point, some advocat
ing the name of Five Points because
of the roads going out of the town,
in five different directions, and in
honor of one of the most unfavor
ably known sections of New York
City; others wanted it named Round
Jacket after one of the favorite citi
zens of the place, who always wore
a round jacket. But just about that
and in the number of families and
public buildings.
As early as 1855, the Presbyterians,
under the leadership of Rev. Z. L.
native of Ohio, and Mrs. Martha Ep- many products heretofore unrationed,
ley Baker of Augusta. He spent his' has not yet been fixed.
early days at Gaffney and was a j *
prominent business men in Green- ! DVRH TO ^PPAIf AT
wood more than 40 years, retiring !,' , ^
about 10 years ago. He was promi-jCOLLEGE CLOSING
nent in Masonic circles and was a, ♦
former potentate of Hejaz Temple. | ' Announcement is made that H. C. i
Mr. Baker served his city as mayor Byrd, president of the University of ]
for several terms and was an active Maryland, has been secured as the!
and loyal member of the Lutheran, commencement speaker at Presbyte-
church. He served as a member of, rian college for the graduation exer-
the state highway department for Vises on March 8.
Cotton Mills; Lydia Cotton' Mills,
Clinton; Watts Mills, Laurens; Lau
rens Hosiery Mill, Laurens.
Electric generatin gplants (3), Clin
ton Cotton Mills; Duke Power Co.
I (Boyd’s Mill), Laurens (Charlotte),
jDuke Power Co. (Tumbling Shoals
plant), Laurens (Charlotte).
wys
Holmes, had built a church and or- moters of the Winton-Greenwood
several years and ^s one of the pro- Announcement of other speakers
the- conferences. In fact, Churclrll
and Roosevelt offered to meet Stai n
“very much farther to the east,” b it
the Russian chief was unable to leave
the LL.S, S. R» due to the need of his
directing the present Red army of
fensives.
The president and prime minister
also have been in communication
I wtft Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
i and “have appraised him of the
measures which they are taking to
! assist him in China’s magnificent
“Ration coupon banking,” a new! and unrelaxing struggle for the corn-
type of banking service for retailers | mon cause.”
RATION BANKING
PROGRAM BEGINS
4. Maximum material aid to Russia
and China will be one of the prime
ganized it on July 28th, but even a
little earlier, in 1854, the Methodists
had moved in a church (named
Mount Zion) from the country, a lit
tle north of Clinton. Mr. James
Wright, a good Methodist steward
Calhoun highway. He had a number
of friends and acquaintances here
who will regret his passing.
In addition to hs wife, Mr. Baker
is survived by five children: Dr.
Stanley C. Baker of Greenwood,
who was a leader in every good work, j Ralph B. and Richard Leonard Bak-
was the. leading member of that or-' er, business men of Newberry; Prof.
and wholesalers of rationed com
modities, designed to make the na
tion’s ration program work more ef-! aims of the U. S. and Britain
to have a part on the closing pro-1 fectively, was inaugurated yesterday 6. Roosevelt visited American
gram are to be announced later. | by M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, and i troops in the field in North Africa,
Forty-three students are listed by The Commercial Depository,-both of the first American president to visit
the registrar as candidates to receive ] this city.
degrees at this time, the March grad- ] This is a war service that the gov-
uation to be the first since the col- 1 ernment has asked the banks to un- _ _
lege has been operating on the new 1 dertake and will be put into effect I ly guarded, barbed-wire-surrounded
an active war theatre since Abraham
Lincoln.
The meetings were held in a close-
accelerated system. ] as soon as the necessary supplies are inclosure at a hotel in Casablanca
Immdiately following the gradu-; received. Local firms handling three under the greatest secrecy.
. adon exercises 68 per cent of the rationed comnu ^
of the town had a very interesting Presbyterian college, and Miss Mary male seniors will receive orders to' gar and coffee
ganization and very early in the life ( Kenneth N. Baker, of the faculty of ation exercises 68 per cent of the-rationed commodities — gasolne, su-i Prime Minister Churchill arrived
union with the Sabbath school, which
lasted until the War Between the
States began. The citizens erected by
Neal Baker, of the faculty of Green-| report for officers’ training, college
wood high school. Also surviving are officials have announced,
one sister, Mrs. Carolina Miller; a j M
subscription a school buildng, on the brother, Floyd B. Baker, of Gaffney, 1
MERCHANTS MEETING
HERE FEBRUARY 4
Merchants of Clinton and this
community will be given an oppor
tunity to learn details of the new
“point rationing” program soon to
become effective, from an OPA of
ficial at a meeting to be held in the
high school auditorium on Thursday
night, February 4, at 8 o’clock.
The planned meeting will be in
charge’ of Mrs. Delle Putnam of the
4istributive education department.
All merchants are urged to be pres
and eight grandchildren.
Cotton Ginning
Figures Double
Mrs. McSween Added
Jo Orphanage Faculty
lot now occupied by the city graded
school, and Mr. Wright became its
first teacher. The citizens took great
pride in it and it was really the cen
ter of the town life for at least -six
or eight years. This subscription list
has been preserved and formed the
basis on which, in 1872, the organiza
tion known as the Clinton High.. T ic . . . „ ,• .. T n
School association was formed Ini to Januar y 16 > report showed as McSween s mother, Mrs. Larry B.
released yesterday by the special, Dillard, is also a member of the or-
county agent of the bureau of census, j phanage teaching staff.
As of this date f941, 11,286 had i Mrs. McSween is here with her
been ginned. This latest figure shows parents while Lieut. McSween, chap-
that ginnings doubled over the pre- - lain in the army, is stationed at Camp
vious year. | Stewart, Ga.
Mrs. Allen McSween, with the
, opening ^f a new semester, has ac-
jeepted the position of Bible teacher foods (sugar and coffee at present
may -open ration for the meeting first. When President
checking accounts which will be'Roosevelt arrived by plane a few
handled by regular tellers and in the hours later, he dispatched Harry
same way regular checking accounts; (Continued on page four) «
are handled. | ■ m
Accounts may be opened only by y|ai /* A k J|\ A T/\
gasoline distributors, who will con- MN I AM|/A|llN 11)
tfnue to take coupons from service, II fMwIl IW
stations, and by firms included in the Dfpiy \A/Cf\llCCV\A V
following: all retailers of rationed DLvIN fTLUnLjDAT
that association every subscriber was
given a vote for each $20 subscribed.
There were only five or six streets
laid off, and on a few of these some
attempt to form sidewalks and to set
out shade trees had been undertaken, I
but as late as 1865 the town had a
poverty - stricken appearance, the
general opinion being that Clinton]
had seen her best days; and very few]
there were to prophesy otherwise. 1
The Civil war had taken off every
man of enterprise, closed every store,
ent to gain information on the new, even to the post office, destroyed the
regulations and learn how to chart ] railroad and had given a sickening
A total of 22,083 bales of cotton in the orphanage schools and entered an< f later the processed foods) whose a city-wide campaign for the col-
were ginned in Laurens county prior upon her work the past week. Mrs. ] sales °f a H food merchandises were 1 lection of tin cans in which all house-
$$,000 or more during December, wives are asked to participate, will
1942; chain stores, and all food begin next Wednesday, February 3,
wholesalers and other food distribu- under the auspices of the Chamber of
tors back of the retail level. Commerce, as previously announced
The banking service will not cost anc j explained in The Chronicle,
persons using the system a cent, since! Housewives are asked to assist in
OPA is paying the banks. ] the collection by placing their box
of "prepared” cans on the street curb
in front of their homes for the truck
collectors who will start on thrs date,
with the Boy Scouts making the can
vass. r ■ ^
John Hunter will sene - as th-»
scouts’ senior patrol leader, with
Lonnie McMillian, David Tribble and
their merchandising and operating
course for the duration.
Mrs. Whitlock Named
County TB Worker
blow to the town and everything in it.
II
I came to the town of Clinton to
make my home in 1864, having it in
my heart to become pastor of the ;
Clinton Presbyterian church, joined
In a pastorate with the neighboring,
churches of Shady Grove and Dun-!
can’s Creek. The Clinton church was 1
organized on July 28, 1855; the Shady |
Grove church in 1859, while the Dun-1
can’s Creek church belonged to the
Mrs. W. A. Whitlock, of Laurens,
has been named to succeed Mrs. R.
C. Bohlen, resigned, as field worker
of the county anti-tuberculosis asso
ciation.
J. Leroy Burns, treasurer, report-1 regime of the early settlers and was
ed a total of $4,884-41 from the 1942: first set up as a preaching place in 1
Christmas sea! campaign, comparedf 1755, or thereabouts, if any official/
to $3,107 in 1941. The goal for 1942 account of its organization could be
was set at $3,500. The annual open
meeting of the association drill be
held in Lpurens March 22, and all
who have given financial support te
the seal aale are entitled to ^attend j
found. When I reached the town, if
town it could be called (for it could
be called so only by courtesy), its
only public edifices were the Presby-
and Methodist church, both ef
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For Soldiers Overseas
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THE CHRONICLE does not send expiration notices to men in the
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local relatives and friends.
Under the new postal ruing, no subscriptions will be continued
after expiration. It is important, therefore, that the date on the label
be watched and the renewal in the office before the expiration date.
If this is net done, all papers in arrears will be stopped.
Ratchford Resigns
Cross Hill Pastorate
The Rev. J. E. Ratchford has an
nounced his resignation as pastor of
Liberty Springs Presbyterian church
at Cross Hill to accept a call to the ]Bobbie Paxico as group leaders
Elise Presbyterian church at Hemp, ] In view of the forthcoming rations
N. C., effective in February. j ing of canned foods, all tin cans
Mr. Ratchford has served the Cross available now should be salvaged for
Hill, Lisbon, Mountville and Rocky ] the tin, as well as the steel contained
Springs churches in this county for jin them. The government is asking
the past three years. He is a native i for this salvage and housewives
of Waxhaw, N. C., a graduate of should consider this one of their pa-
Presbyterian college and is pleasant- trlotic duties.
ly known here by a number of i The War Production board has is-
friends. jsued the following instructions as to
[ <) how to “prepare" cans for salvage.
Mann ResignsI First: Wash cans thoroughly (they
* - - must be clean).
Second: Remove paper label (pa
per weakens detinning fluid)..
Third: Open bottom as well as top
tion, *in shipping and in detinning
inside as well as outside).
Fourth: Flattan can (step on it
heavily—don’t hammer—saves stor
age space in your home, in collec
tion. in shipping and in detuning
Orphanage Position
Robert A. Mann, for the past three
years shop superintendent at Thom-
well orphanage, has resigned to ac
cept a defense position in Clio, Ala
bama. Mr. and Mrs. Mann and chil
dren left Tuesday for their new home
and their friends here will regret to