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THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable She (Elintmt Qlhrotttrlp \ If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XU 11 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 1, 1943 Number 13 Army Mei^ Become Victory Gardeners Dedication Service At Calvary Baptist Hughes to Preach Fare well Sermon. Service $ Men Roster to Be Unveiled. - — BOYD ELECTED BY DELEGATIONS TO ROAD BODY B. H. Boyd, well known business man of this city, his' been elected to the state highway commission from the Eighth Judicial circuit comprising the counties of Laurens, Abbeville, Greenwood and Newberry. He will succeed T. A. Sherard, Abbeville ! banker, who has held the post for the past four years. Mr. Boyd, according to the provis ions of the law, was elected by the legislative delegations from the four counties included in the circuit. It., A was stated at the conclusion of the ; b€c° me P astor of East S,de Ba P t,st joint meeting that his election was j church. - unanimous. j S. G. Mayfield, president of the Mr. Boyd has long been connected! Men a Blble cla f s > wiB present a ser- NEW DRAFT RULING PROHIBITS GIVING LIST OF SELECTEES FOOD SITUATION SERIOUS, EXTENSION OFFICIAL STATES The Chronicle wi day by the local dr hiling by state he; that names of possible army in available for publ advised yester- board of a new ; Iquarters advising! Calvary Baptist church has an nounced a special dedication service 1 0 ne, but only tho: Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in con- j for military se: nection with the farewell sermon to! nounced. Three Production St Outlined By Dr. Wofk ,r Needed in '43. ation, or to any-, ^ actually inducted The food production situation is so ice will be an- j serious as to suggest three steps that might be taken in 1943, Dr. D. W. Convalescent soldiers from a local hospital at Miami Beach, Fla., to a nearby victory garden by the army air forces technical ~, am shown hoeing fas a bean patch as they bolster the 'S feed production while working their wmy to health. Their werk la thscongkly ■npuslned so that none of the mew become a victim of to the sua. / T. B. Association Holds Annual Meet R. L. Ploxico Re-elected President. Other Offi cers and Directors Named. Baptists To Hold Dedicatory Service New Education Building To Be Dedicated Sunday With Special Program. On Sunday morning, April 4th,* at with the business life of the commu nity and has given liberally of his time to the promotion of the county’s road development program in recent years. By experience and qualifica tions, he is well equipped for the im portant office to which he has been elected. Mr. Boyd Is president of the Citi zens Federal Savings and Loan asso ciation, a member and past president of the local Kiwanis club and has been identified with the banking, in surance, building and loan and other business activities of the community for a number of years. His many friends here and elsewhere will leam with interest that effective Apri) 15 he will become a member of the highway commission for a four-year term. be preached by the pastor, Rev.} Newspapers hereafter will an- Watkins, director of the Clemson ex- Ralph D. Hughes. Mr. Hughes recent-i nounce those, men accepted for the tension service, said yesterday, ly resigned the pastorate and will. various branches of service after they 1. As many gardens as possible leave next week for Macon, Ga., to'have been inducted, an'd not those for family use might well be culti- issued calls for examinations and in- vated by town people on vacant lots duction. The lists will be furnished or in backyards where there is the local boards and will require enough knowledge and experience about ten days, after which they will and where soil conditions are suit- be released. 1 able. This would help supplement the Because of the new ruling the list scarcity of canned goods and to re vice board to the church which was purchased recently by the class with others contributing, honoring the'of 89 white men to be sent to Fort lease some of these goods for other Jackson on next Wednesday, April necessary war uses. 7, is not published today. It was stat-vi 2. School officials would do well to ed by draft officials yesterday that' consider readjusting school months _ one-third of the group will be mar- so that the peak load of farm labor hearts* of the rrien in seiwice” Officers ried men and the balance single men could better be taken care of during of Urn church have especially invited who hav? reached their 18th birth- this year. The labor situation is sen- boys in jhe service who are members of the church and Sunday school. There will be reserved seats for mothers, fathers, wives and sweet- nffirpre 11 o’clock, the First Baptist church At the annual election of officers wiU dedicate ^ new education meeting of the Laurens County Tu berculosis association held in Laurens last Monday, R. L. Plaxico, of this city, was r4-elected president for the coining year beginning April 1. Other officers elected were W. A.' Moorhead of GoldviRe, vice-presi dent; Miss Beaufort Copeland of Lau rens, secretary; J. Leroy Burns of Laurens, treasurer, anil R. E Babb, Mrs. R. H. Roper and Mrs. L. G. Balle, all of Laurens, members of the executive committee. Directors were elected as follows: Mrs. George R. Blalock, P. H. Hob son, Mrs. T. J. Peake, B. H. Boyd, Dr. F. K. Shealy, Robert Lynn, Rev. C. B. Betts, Joe. Delaney, G. N. Foy, Mrs. John Carey Bolt, Mrs. Broadus Pinson, Mrs. George Babb, Carl Mar tin, O. L. Long, Dr. J. G. Hart. Also L. G. Balle, Mrs. J. R. Murff, E. D. Easterby, Mrs. T. Hun ter Owings, Miss Hallie Howard, Mrs. Gray Harris, Mrs. Robert Richardson, Mrs. Harry Williamson, Dr. Felder Smith, F. A. Dial, Mrs. Roy Owings, T. P. Townsend, Mrs. Sara DeLoach, Mrs. Mabel Little, C. K. Wright, L. H. Taylor, R. M. Cushman. J. Leroy Bums, treasurer, read a detailed financial report and Mrs. W. A. Whitlock, executive secretary and field worker, gave a report of the past year’s work. President Plaxico announced the three chief projects for the coming year as follows: (1) An intensive ed ucational program on tuberculosis throughout the country, to be worked out through the schools, and, among the Negroes, through their churches; (2) Monthly clinics to be held at the county hospital; (3) An intensive program of visiting rejectees and work on rehabilitation cases. building during the worship service. The dedicatory message will be brought by Rev. W. S. Brooke, gen eral secretary of the South Carolina Baptist convention; and the dedica tory prayer will be offered by Rev. Edward Long of Greenville, a former pastor. The public i$ cordially invited to attend this service, a program of which follows: Organ, “Holy City,” Adams. Doxology. Invocation. Hymn, “Lead On, O King Eternal.” The Scriptures. Anthem, “Awake, Strength, O Zion.” Morning prayer. Announcements. Hymn, “I Love Lord.” - Offertory prayer. Organ, “O Thou Sublime Sweet Evening Star,” Wagner. Historical sketch. Sermon, Rev. W. S. Brooke. Burning of note. Dedicatory prayer, Rev. Edward Long. Hymn, “The Church’s One Foun dation.” v Benediction. Organ postlude, “Postlude,” Silver. Put On Thy Thy Kingdom, these to be present. The program follows: “The Star Spangled Banner,” the congregation. Invocation, J. P. Oakley. Song, . “Onward, Christian Sol diers.” . j Presentation of service board, S. G. j Mayfield. Song, “America.” Sermon, Rev. R. D. Hughes, pastor. 1 Song, “God Bless America.” Talk, J. C. Lowe. Song, “God Be With You TiU We) Meet Again.” The names to be placed on thei board follow: Members of the church: Lee An-! derson, Jack Anderson, Darrell Big- ^ hundred additional U S armv . ! , °raer/o Proauce ">oa- Edward Biebee J B Barberv nunarea acumionai u. i>. army stuffs m ^ fonn of milk or beet ^ oee, toward tugoee, J. a. Baroery, air corps cadet candidates arrived at ann ivini? the manure from the cattle Joe Sam Caughman, Harvey Foster, Presbyterian college Monday to ioin f P *u g tne ™ anure r ^ m P 6 cattle Lamar Ficklin Charles Galloway “,'7, couege Monday w» join | to ^ crops Wherever this ts a prac- Lamar ticxun, Lharies uauoway, thelr f eU ows in the 39th AAF college ^ * mav well be eon- George Hill, Tommie Galloway, A. J. trainim? detachment located on procedure, n may weu d* con Harvev Charles Huahes Valdee lraimng oewenment located on me 5^^ by f arm€rs who are think- 2^e y, Pnfn! Kina KinirT 1 campus ‘ Th “ bnngs ^ toUl of air ing of advancing the war program to Hodge, Rufus King, Oscar Kmard, j cadets at ^ co ]ieg e to 400. utmost pw—. w Willie Lawson, C. E. Leppard, Frank) This week the new group, adding Maddox, James Meadows, Oliver ^ voices to ^ a] ^ d J’ mak £J Quinn, Arthur Sanders, Leonal San ders, Vernon Trammell, Hughston Trammell, Oliver Williamson, Luther Maddox, Milton Milam, Jr., Jack Padgett, Ralph Riddle, Broadus Henry the campus merry with their songs as they march from drill field to classroom to laboratory, began the serious business of preparing them selves mentally and physically to take their places with their older THORKWELL SHARES IN DUKE FUND Summer Closing To Begin Next Week The usual Wednesday half-hc liday for the summer season will begin this year in April instead of May as last year. The agreement, which has been signed by a large number of business firms of the city, will become effec tive April 7 and continue through September 29. The extended holiday period, the petition states, will give employes and employers alike an op portunity to vultivate Vict>ry gar dens. A group advertisement appearing today on page eight pertaining to the closing and signed by 31 firms, asks the hearty cooperation of their cus tomers in carrying out the agree- CUSTOMERS 10 GIVE COUPONS TO FARMERS South Carolina farmers who pro duce meat and butter at home for sale must now collect from their cus tomers the correct amounts of red point stamps from war ration book No. 2, according to the state Office of Price Administration. Last week, while retail sales of butter were frozen, tanners were permitted by the OPA to sell butter without collecting point stamps. This authorization ended midnight Sun day. Under the meat-fats rationing pro gram a farmer who sells meat, but ter or other home produced items covered by the program should keep “„°/eacH ^onS:^ warble Uppard. Marvto Ho.UcUw. ^attoXtoari Td 1 rV'iwW^'LveTn “rlcenUy forX «r-' Phy, ‘ C “ pr0gram Uught by th ' U ' S - n^rT^dTheMd. ^ ^ must turn over to the board the red ^ 3^ rd y. _ point stamps he has collected during the month. He must comply with this regulation, the OPA said, whether he sells to individuals or to stores. At the same time, the OPA re quested that farmers who produce more meat, butter and the like than their families can consume refrain from spending their own red point Stamps in war ration book No. 2. While farmers may spend them if days during the past few months. [ ous, and the necessity for production It was further stated by officials; is imperative. Shifting" the time of that the April call will take all single | operations of schools so that they men available and that the May will not be in sessions during the quota, which has not yet been an- peak labor season in each opunty is nounced, will consist of married men.; one of the most practical ways of The same regulations will apply to' helping this situation. 19 Negro selectees to be called on 3. A considerable amount of co4- April 26th. • | tonseed meal is in the hands of farm people through their having swapped seed for meal. Clemson college has long pointed out the possibility of feeding cottonseed meal to cattle and still recovering 60 to 75 per pent of the fertilizing valu? in the manure I from cattle. The best possible war | use of such meal would be found, in ' many cases, in feeding it to dairy or I beef cattle in order to produce food- 200 ADDITIONAL AIR CORPS CADETS ARRIVE AT COLLEGE ON THE WAR FRONTS British Eighth army on rear guard of Axis forces chases Rommel more than 20 miles up the Tunisian east Trustees of the Duke Endowment at their annual meeting in New York Tuesday appropriated $760,545.32 to ment. 105 hospitifc and 40 orphan homes) ^ in the Carolinas on the basis of their' - c , . work for 1942. tgg jnipmcnts Of this amount $637,787 went to From Cmintv hospitals and $122,758.32 to orphan- 00 rrom v - oun *7 ages. Thomwell orphanage of this city, in the distribution will Local eggs are going to war, ac- recei ve coniin * County Agent C. B. Can non. They are. being assembled at Starnes, Charles Trammell, Trammell, Carter Wright. fighting brothers in the world’s great- coast, taking Gabes and El Hamm * Members of Sunday school: egt combat fraternity—the U S army enroute, as three U. S. divisions Alvin TrammeU, James Arnold, air corps 7 threaten from central mountain posi- Ansel Smith, Rufus Sullivan, Thomas, Xhey 5^^ into an intensive aca- ! tlons u - s - ,or c« in Gafsa area only Wooten, D. V. Wright,,,Jr., Waters' dem jp program taught by the college miles from juncture with British King, O. R. Hughes, Howard Jackson, teaching, staff under the direction of Eighth. Aerial assault further im- Royal Foster, Marshall King, Thur- Dr Marshall W. Brown, dean, and Axis retreat. Algiers radio says an equally intensive military and> Br ^* s ^ nav y lands at Sfax. physical program taught by the U. S. Military restriction of Britain’s army officers under the orders of sou lh and east coastline and inland Captain Carl Turner, commanding *° a 10 - iuile depth, effective April 1, officer. (suggests Allied invasion of Europe, The new group is being housed in sector as main Allied base. Smyth dormitory and in the college Mud holds command-,on Russian gymnasium, and • are receiving their Soviet troops capture three meals in the college dining hall. , more villages south of Bely as they In addition to the air corps train-1 move 111 closer to Smolensk. Hold Friends and relatives here of Major ing program, the college is continu- against German attempts to cross John Wallace Copeland will be in-1 ing its regular college curriculum Donets In Kharkov area still firm, terested to leam that he has been with a complete absence of friction 1 D. S. planes fire Japanese destroy- promoted to the rank of lieutenant and disunity. Dean Brown stated yes-1 €r * )urn five to seven colonel. ) terday, although the total number of seaplanes at Faisi in Shortland is- Colonel Copeland is stationed at students it is now serving is over 650} lands, bomb Tavoy dock area in Bur- compared with its regular enrollment ma pounds Japanese villages of 350. i in Mayu peninsula. John W. Copeland Now Lieutenant Colonel they wish, the OPA emphasized, they I Stuttgart army air field, Stuttgart, will make a valuable contribution to! Ark - where he is post quartermaster the rationing program by saving their land a ^ so budget and fiscal officer. point stamps in such cases and mak- 1 Col. Copeland is a graduate of the;^^ |( C Cf;| we || ing more rationed foods available to ROTC at Presbyterian college, from * * * . persons who do not have facilities for which he was commissioned into the rQSSOS At nOSpitol producing foods at home. ! infantry reserves. Later he was trans- ^ ferred to a tank regiment and in 1938' went into the quartermaster corps. ) He has also served as a sub-depot quartermaster with the CCC. He was ordered to extended duty with the H. J. Bober Called For Army Service IMPORTANT NOTICE TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS Tenn., to report for army induction on April 7 at Fort Jackson, Colum bia. • V Mr. Baker, who is assistant mana ger of the J. C. Penney company store, came to Clinton a little over a year ago from another Penney store. Mrs. Essie Wheeler Stilwell, wife of Kemper S. Stilwell, died at Hays hospital early Sunday morning fol- THE CHRONICLE today announc- lowing a short illness. i es an increase in its subscription rate Funeral services were held Monday from 50 to * 2 00 a y ear - effective air corps in March, 1941, and was afternoon at 5 o’clock from Silver-j Ma y 1 - first stationed at Turner Field, Ga., street Lutheran church with the pas- Several months ago the daily and Horace J. Baber has been notified by his draft board at Murfreesborov^ wb ere he was promoted to rank of tor, Rev. P. D. Risinger in charge ^fn- a l ar Se number of weekly papers of major. terment. followed in the church ceme- the state announced an increase m Col. Copeland is the son of Mrs. tery with a large gathering of friends their subscription price. No such in- Dave W. Copeland of this city, and attending the last rites. * crease up to how has been made by $6,255.67 against $6,697.80 last year.j"^ ^ “‘i37,886 Register Conme !the tTuck ^hedule arr^ged b^ the 111 LoUrenS County Maxwell to Greenwood, will receive,'****' $6,766.06; Epworth orphanage, the ra J? nf* an dozen Methodist institution at ColumbU, from f the 0 count? $8,484.14. Eleven other small orphan-, •****" rom the atato are TnriiiHeH in the and a total of 1,225 cases from the the late Mr. Copeland. Laurens Merchants To Observe Holidays According to an announcement in Mrs. Stilwell was a native of New- TKE CHRONICLE, but we now find berry county, a daughter of the late lt imperative that such action be N. B. and Frances Pauline Feagle taken increase is due to the m- Wheeler.-She was'itrved and admired' creasin * 0081 ot Pouting the paper, for her many fine qualities and the an increase just authorized by OPA announcement of her death brings in the P rice of newsprint, increasing genuine regret to all who knew her. ta xes and overhead. Added to this is Mr. and Mrs. Stilwell had moved a larse reduction in. national adver- The Laurens Advertiser last week by the Merchants association of that to Clinton only a few days before the tlsm S a* a result of the war. The In the recent registration for war city, an agreement has been signed latter’s death. They were lifelong ?maB adjustment must be made if ration book No. 2, 37,886 persons reg- j by merchants and business firms to residents of Silyerstreet until recent- we are to continue to perform our istered to Laurens county, the state close each Wednesday afternoon be- ly when they moved to the Cross usual service and give our readers to' 'toto tocluded In ‘^..utTwh^ S. bounced. Office of Price Administration has ginning April 1 list. The distribution is based on the days of care for orphan and half- orphan children for the year. Workers Needed To Fold Surgical Dressings The local Red Cross chapter has is sued an urgent call for workers to help fold surgical dressings in the Red Cross room in the library build- tog. The room is open Tuesday, Wed nesday, Thursday and Friday after noons from two until five o’clock, and Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 until 6:30. Anyone who can as sist with the work either to the after noons or evenings is asked to do so to order that the chapter may com plete the required number of dress- togs. 'September 1. scheduled stops are made. This makes a total of 5,297 cases, or 13 carloads, of South Carolina eggs that have gone to war, as it were, since these co operative shipments were started to early February. Coftnty Hospital Shores In Price Fund In the Duke Endowment distribu-i tion announced Tuesday to 35 South Carolina hospitals, the Laurens coun ty hospital is included for an appro priation of $1,078. CAPT. JONES TO CAMP DAVIS Captain Willard L. Jones, who has been on a two weeks visit to his fam ily here, left Sunday for Camp Davis, N. C., where he is now assigned for special work. OVERSEAS SUBSCRIPTION RULE CHANGED m Renewals of newspaper subscriptions to soldiers overseas may now be paid by parents or friends without direct orders from the service man to whom the paper goes, under terms of a new War Department order on which a postal ruling is based. In recent weeks it was necessary for a soldier in army service to ask to writing for renewal of a subscription as well as for a new subscription, but that no longer is the case. It still is necessary to have a direct Order from the soldier himself before a NEW subscription can he entered for overseas, but this no longer is necessary in the case of renewals. THE CHRONICLE does not send expiratiori notices to m§n in the service for the reason that such subscriptions are usually paid for by local relatives and friends. It is therefore important that the date on the label be watched and the renewal to the office before the expir ation date. All suberiptions are discontinued when they expire. and continuing to Anchor section. I type of paper they are now re- Besides her husband, the deceased ce ivmg. is survived by two sons, Harold K. Tbe tocrease of 50c a year amounts 1 Stihvell of Pearl Harbor, and J. V. to less than one rent a week. For less Stilwell of Newberry; two daughters, toan four cents a week the paper Miss Gladys Stilwell of Spartanburg, . Wl11 ** published and mailed to our and Mrs. Evelyn Miller of Columbia; subscribers. one brother, Ernest A. Wheeler of The new applies to all sub- Little Mountain; two sisters, Mrs. scr ' bers ex rept the men from our Corrie Fulmer of Columbia, and Mrs. commun ' ty toe armed forces. This Ellen Epting of Little Mountain; and spocial concession is made to them nine grandchildren. which means there will be no in- One of the deceased daughters, r rease in the price of their subscrip- Miss Gladys Stilwell, was formerly a ^ ons * • member of the local high school fac- ; Renew als at the present rate may ulty and has a wide circle of friends ** made up to May 1. An announce- in the city who will unite in extend-! ment ot **** chan S*. to which we di- ing their sympathy. She is a mem- our subscribers*' attenUon. will ber of the Spartanburg high school ** founc l on ^^n. faculty. ✓ — CADET PITTS TRANSFERRED Mrs. Francis Glenn of Abbeville, Friends of Aviation Cadet W R/ and Mrs. Paul Godfrey of Columbia, Pitts, Jr., will be interested to know were week-end guests erf Mrs. Ansel he has been transferred from Wayne, B. Godfrey and Mrs. George R. Bla-|Pa., to Yale university. New Haven, luck. Conn., for a month’s training.