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•' v \ ■X . J ' l ■ - . # : . / ♦w* ■ -y ■% • THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read- THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 24, 1944 Number 8 * / WITH FARM GROUP W. C. BALDWIN, SR. DIES SUDDENLY Last Rites Held For Well Known Business Man At Rosemont. William Cope Baldwin, 60, owner of W. G. Baldwin Motor company, I died suddenly at his residence near ! the city early last Thursday morning. The unexpected announcement of his passing came as a shock to his,friends and caused genuine regret. The funeral services were held Fr i day afternoon at 4 o’clock frbm the 1 First Presbyterian church. The ser vices- were in charge of Dr. D. J. i Woods, assisted by Rev. J. H. Koh- | ler. Interment followed in Rosemont i cemetery. Both at the church and ‘ grave, the services were attended by [ a large number of friends and rela- I A XT WAD r. - jtives, with many lovely flowers plac- KbA LANf UKU I ed upon the - new i y mac j e mo und at- Since the organization of the Clin-1 testing the esteem in which he was ets 59 While Selectees Report Today For Physical Examination Local Board Also Sent 30 Sunday To Fort Jackson. RED CROSS RAllV HELD FOR WORKERS IUESDAY NIGHT Returned Field Director Tells of Overseas Activi ties for Men In Service. ton Production Credit association on December 4, 1933, Rex Lanford, a resident of Waterloo in this county for 35 years, has capably served as secretary-treasurer. During the more than ten years he has been the secretary-treasurer, the membership of the organization has steadily, grown from 610 in 1934 832 in 19?? to 832 ~Mb?rey loaned- to held. Active pallbearers were: Jack Wr Anderson, • Ratchford . W. Boland, I. Mac Adair, J. J. Cornwall, Tom C. Ov*e«s of Laurens, L. B. Dillard, G. A. Burton and W. A. Moorhead of Goldville. The honorary escort consisted of the officers of the First Presbyterian church. Mpl Baldwin was born in the Mount farmers and stockmen by the-asso- Tabor section of Union county oni * RED CROSS WAR FUND Fifty-nine rtien will' leave this The i^i R e(1 Cross chapter held morning for Fort Jackson, Columbia. a ra jjy meeting Tuesday'night in the i for physical examination ‘prior to ! possible induction into the armed i services within the next few weeks. They were sent by local selective ser- ' vice board No. 50. Th^y ace tative from the National Red Cros .j Mr. Meisel has served overseas with. ciation has amounted to $2,969,037 and the actual and estimated losses on loans made have been $1,435, or less than one-twentieth of one per cent. The association, which serves Lau February 26, 1884. He was a son of the late W. T. and Mary Frances Wishert Baldwin. In 1919 he moved to Clinton and entered the grocery business, pur chasing the Simpson Grocery com- rens and Newberry counties, mak^;pany. In the fall of 1938 he retired loans to farmers and stockmen for I from the grocery busiriess and ac all short-term agricultural purposes. ASSMBIY OPENS ITS SEVENTH WEEK Legislators Seem Confident They Will End Session By March 18. x C" ‘ Soldier Drives 'Tankdozer' In Italy As Shells Fall cepted the local Ford agency. He had held the Frigidaire agency here since! 1927. - rl Mr. Baldwin was a menfber of the| On the Anzio Beachhead, Feb. 20.— i First Presbyterian church and'chair-! “Dixie” took a two-toh load of dirt Ration Tokens Go Into Use February 27 During the week of February 27 the American housewife will begin using red and blue one-point ration t on tokens which she will receive as 1 “change” from her grocer and butch-1 er from her red and blue stamps ! a! man of its board of deacons. Seven j and shells in her shiny steel lap and years ago he was appointed a mem-! shoved it away with the ease of a “‘nr ult*! ber of the board of trustees of Hun- housewife brushing crumbs off the , ’r.f in mt- 'o-. h iVnincc 1 ter school district No. 5 by the county 1 tablecloth. !' ? lu f h ‘1^ u ” ™! board of education. Since the death] Two bursts of shrapnel went un- them P ‘ in 1940 of W. C. Oxley he had served 1 no tjced. So did a dive-bombing that the board as chairman. A useful and i tore a nearby draining ditch apart, upright citizen, he leaves many “Dixie,” in her first day under“Ger- friends here and elsewhere wffo join with the family In mourning his death. high school auditorium attended by workers and “Solicitors who will di rect the 1944 War Fund drive. - •The meeting was presided over by C.a W. Anderson. War Fund ‘chair- Julius Estes Brittain. Morganton, man for the lower part of the county. N. C. > * • v He pre-ented the featured speaker of Julius Allen Nichols, Waterloo. the-rally. Max Meisel, Jr., represen- Tracy Woodrow Dees, Clinton. Lester Leroy Hall, Clinton. a R e( j Cross unit and returned Earl-Manning Counts, Ware Shoals, this country about eight weeks ag - —Hudson Davis, Arcadia. * . He gave a picture of the Red Cros Lucian J. Lawton, Ware Shoals. as the “G. I." soldier sees it. / William Claude Richardson,- Man- Every time a soldier in the jungles Chester N. C. New Guinea was giyen tylood Adolphus Clark Meadors, Washing-.'.plasma, Director Meisel t said that tm- ton D C. 'soldier knew some member of his J*C Cash, Goldville. ''family had contributed this to the John Henry Pace, Rt. 3, Clinton. Red Crofl* SO that he might 'live. Abo James Franklin Wilson, Clinton, - every time a bandage was applied Ernest Eugene Blackwell, Rt. 3, to a wound, the soldier knew that hj.> Clinton mother had made this particular ban- William ' Benjamin Lollis, Gray dage C our t Red Cro/s overseas units are di Chester D. Grenade, Columbia. vided inl6 two kinds—those which William Boyd Driggers, Clinton. , are stat/med near a combat zone and William Davenport Terry, Panama those Who moved to the front lines City Fla : the combat troops. These Red James George Barnette, Rt. 2, Lau- Cross men live with the men and rens • , 1 undergo the same hardships and dan- Benjamin Franklin Simpson, W r ar- 8 er s the soldiers face, ner Robins Ga. | Australia has been designated as a ' Graham Jackson Osborne, Clinton. 1 leave area for men who are stationed Andy Haynes, Clinton. in combat zones. With the design*- John Mason Simpson, Rt. 2, Clin-' tion of this leave area there arose a need for -an institution which could J C Oswalt, Columbia. provide recreation and service for James Sidney Whitlock, Clinton. these men when on leave. The Red Henry Otto Stewart, Greenville. Cross is the institution upon which Oscar Carol Harris. Rt. 3, iClinton. 1 this responsibility has been placed Fred William Jackson. Clinton. The Red Cross has opened Club- James Lloyd Bi/ey, Rt. 2, Clinton. ^ throughout Australia for both offi- William Emorf Stringfellow, Au- cers and enlisted men. Mr. Meisel described a typical Red Cross „club man fire on the beachhead front was ,simply a demon for work. By now, most of the retail stores 1 gusta, Ga. V aescnoea a of the nation will have received from | William'Marler, Rt. 1, Ware Shoalsif m the leave areas On the first story the Office of Price Administration Bryce T/omas Little, Charlotte, a hve story building was a ca e- j through their ration banks, supplies IN. C. ./ - - • ' i t er * a where men could get American of the red and blue tokens from the| John Henry McCu,rry, Ware Shoals. fuOC * 'cooked the American way On Mr Baldwin" was twice married 1 —vr ou“ '"'♦T 12,000,000,006 ordered last fall. The WodiW:Wil*on Crane, Clintpn. . the second story a serviceman would a i. «<*«>* .r. slightly smaller and ,hin-| Mrt e.U» HaUhtoy* W«.' lightweight but durable p 1 a s t i c .[ "Albert Spoon, Clinton. ! Q uar t ers an d showers. To the me i *Dixi6” was once what some peo- first to Miss Grace Crawford of Ab-| bright engineering mind conceived .. a ir v,„ ^icu i beville. From this union one son sur- | the idea of converting her into a ner a < ^ UT,e ant * are ma d e a Shoals. Columbia, Feb. 21.—The legislature .went into its seventh week Tuesday with reduction of the public service commission, divorces, the soldier vote, teacher^’ salaries, the Austra lian ballot and a long list of other vives, W. C. Baldwin, Jr., who was' “tankdozer” to do jobs that bull- 0 . j u a . . legislative subjects, on which to work associated with his father in busi-. dozers apparently do. Her armor and, ?i a ^l pe , d n 0, \ 5 ach n ,° f to t kens 15 as a free conference ori state appro- ness. , guns assure her crew protection that 1 ec ^ or ue ^ oin ' priations entered its third week with His second marriage was to Miss the bulldozer does not afford. I To aid the housewife in switching no sign of a report. . Lucia Mcllwain of Due West, who; The heavy tank acQuircd five tons over to the revised food rationing 'Despite tardiness of the free con- with the following children survive: • 0 f extra equipment — a bulldozer s y stem ’ opA has "prepared the fol- ion. ferees in making their report on the. Thomas E. Baldwin, an aerial engin- four cool, quiet-spoken Southerners— bill on which there apparently was eer overseas, U. S. army; Harry E. < truck, a motorcycle transmission for only one major difference—prohibi-1 Baldwin of the army, stationed at! hydraulic pumps. It also acquired Woodrow Wilson Tucker, Woodruff. wh o have been in the jungle fo • Walter Eugene Byars, Goldville. weeks the shower rooms are the must Dwight Amos Stroud, Utica. N. Y, P°P ular places Mr. Meisel said tha Marvin George Harvey, Rt. 3, Clin- l he Red Cross operates the largest chain of hotels in the world today 1 lowing calendar: ■ Brown stamps: Y and Z.(book 3) ! tion — legislators seemed confident Fort Meade, Md.; Miss Doris Bald- they would adjourn’ by Match 18, win, student at Winthrop college; only two days over the 40 days for Edna and Alberta Baldwin, students which the constitution permits pay. , at the local high school; also a sister A deficiency appropriations bill in and two brothers, Mrs. S. C. Dunlap which legislators’ $600 “extra pay”! of this city, and W. P. and H. L. expense money usually is included Baldwin of Columbia, fias yet to make an appearance.! — ■ —■ Should it follow precedent, it too will] j i have to go through a free conference, 'J r Qnd Jury Named For New Year four cool, quiytspoken Southerners— veterans of the armored service—as crewmen. The odd-faced tank was smooth ing 0$ a deeply rutted road in which even jeeps were dragging their axles when I first saw it'. There was a hot I little battle going on 1,500 yards | away and German armor-piercing I shells kept hitting the road—'some of them failing to explode. Blade Operator Private Douglas C. Byrd of Clinton, S. C., squinted through a slot in the tank's nose. “With this blade I can mov^at least five tons of earth over hard George Geary Hooper. Clinton Donald Henry Vreeland, >Vare will continue valid for meats, cheese, Shoals. etc., until March 20 at their face val-, Charles Edward Armstrong. Gray ues of 8, 5 and 2 and 1 points as in Court. • the ' past. Rqd tokens may be used i Cecil Henry Cooper. Laurens. ! not for'profit but to provide a 'of home - ’ for the men touch a time-consuming procedyre. Teachers pay was the subject of double-barrelled interest in the Twelve grand jurors to fill out the house which has yet to dispose of a^panel of 18 for the year 1944, and resoTution pledging "house support tcrgg petit jurors to serve in general a $10-a-jnonth pay raise for teachers, sess j ons c0 (j r t which convened Mon-, passed by the senate in the money j ( jay ) were drawn the past week by: ground just as slick as a whistle,” he bill; and it is in the midst of execu- j country jury commissioners. . said proudly, live session work on plans for avoid- Th e grand jurors, by township, are! ing suits and statewide equalization of ] as f 0 Hows: salaries of white -and Negro teachers. | Roy G asqufc, Hunter; ' John H. — • Wharton, Waterloo; J. D. Word, Hunr ' ter; M. L. Knight, Dials; H. W. Laws, Laurens; W. K. Waites, Hun ter; J.’ B. Lewis, Laurens; Rossie Wil lard, Laurens; Stewart- O. Brown, Hunter; J. R. Murff, Laurens; H. E. Martin, Waterloo, and P. W. Finley, with brown stamps, however, after February 27.' Green stamps: K, L, and M (book 4) will continue valid for processed foods until March *20 at their face values as in the past. Blue tokens may be used with green stamps after February 27. , Red stamps: Three red stamps—j A8, B8 and C8 in book 4—become Henry Luther Seymore, Clinton. Robert Andrew Gardner, Goldville. Luther L. J. Franklin, Clinton. Joseph “Edwin O'Dell, Ware Shoals. John Boyce Boland, Ware Shpals. Bobby Lee Sanders, Clinton. Cecil Spurlock, Clinton. Franklin David Kernells, Waterloo., Roy Bruce Abrams, Goldville FARM OFFICIALS* AGREE SOUTH CAN MEET FARM GOALS Memphis, Feb. 21.—Southern farm leaders agreed today that increased wartime food production goals can be met this year in the face of acute labor -shortages. Agricultural officials from 13 states. D ar . attending a regional famrlabor meet ing, -added, howeverf, that the gov- RATIONING - BOARD BULLETIN (OPA) BOY SCOUT DRIVE IN CITY TODAY The annual financial drive for the Clinton district Boy Scouts will be :cent increase’ in crop output \y uld Ware ca ‘* * ur ut.ii.o;. n -t every- tokens for buying processed foods. made today (Thursday) under the di- ; Auditor's Books Close March 1 (Compiled-to date for information ... of The Chronicle’s readers). - j Hunter. v’ [rectum of J. Leland Young as gen- t.r.^FQCiTrn Tronnq Green 'They will serve with six holdovers' eral chairman. He is asking for a sta^ L^dM (book 4) expire!'^ last yekr. J. Warren Tinsley, onerous support o( the Seoul hr- March 20. Blue A8 through E8 (book H - 9‘ Walker > ^ ^ Leaman, last 4) become valid Feb. 27, at 10 points ^. s H^rns, J. M. each, for use with tokens; expire May j Babb and G - c Abelmpmbic MEATS and FATS: Brown stamps. Red CrOSS Rally V, w, and X (book 3) expire Feb. 26j For Colored Workers Brown Y and Z (book 3) expire, ti%: March 20. Red A8, B8, and C8 (6ook Here Friday Night 4) valid Feb. 27 at 10 points each, / » for use with tokens, expire May 20. Mothers, fathers, and wives of col- Spare stamp No. 3 (book 4) good foriored men in the service, and colored 5 points of all pork cuts, cured or | Red Cross workers are invited to at- freshy all sausage and canned meat (tend a rally on Friday night at 7:30 if 100 per cent pork, February 18 through 26 only. SUGAR: Sugar stamp 30 (book four) good for five pounds. Expires March 31. 5 lbs. for canning good until February 28, 1945. , SHOES: Stamp 18 (book one) valid indefinitely. FUEL OIL: Period 3 coupons (10 IfaTlons), expire Februay 21. Period 4 and 5 coupons (10 gallons, expire September 30. * GASOLINE: A-9 coupons (3 gal lons) valid February 9, expire May 8. ganization in this community where there are several active-troops. The district’s quota ~tras"~becn cet j-hOMee that assessment books close at $990.00. ' March 1. The law provides .that a in Bell Street school auditorium. An attractive program has been planned. It will include a new sound movie film, and a 15-piece orchestra oF colored soldiers from Camp Croft will furnish a musical program. Those qualified to .attend may ob tain free tickfets front J. T. W. Mims, Rev. H. W. Wa worth. The special gifts committee is headed by R. E. Ferguson., who is also president of the Blue Ridge council. Committee city chairmen named are D. B. Smith, R. L. Plaxico, I. M. Adair, R. N. Blackwelder, J. Hender son Pitts and Robert D. Lynn. The campaign in the Goldville area will be in charge of W. A. Moorhead. F. MrStotts will serve as orphan age chairman, where a troop has re cently been organized. penalty apply after that date, she said, and urged' all those who have not ye*t made’their assessments to do so at once. talker, or Clint Wads- CAPT. CRISP LOSES WIFE Friends here of Capt. A. B. Crisp Baldwin Firm To Continue In Business ■"" ■ •The W. .C. Baldwin Afotor com pany of this city, will^ontinue in will sympathize with him in the business, it was learned •yesterday. death of his wife which occurred Thursday, February 17, at her home The owner, W. C. Baldwin, Sr., died suddenly early last Thursday morn- in Lynchburg, Va. Capt. Crisp is a | ing. The business will be operated by son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Crisp of a son, W. C. Baldwin, Jr., who has MoUntville, and a brother of Mrs. Lpwry Wilson of this city, t been associated with his father for several years. Dudley Jones Promoted To Lt.-Colonel Announcement is made of the pro motion of Major Dudley Jones, Jr., to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. lyt. Col. Jones is a son of Dr. and; l Mrs. Dudley Jones of this city. He ' has returned to the states after serv ing a year in Africa and is now com manding officer of the 69th general hospital^t Camp Swift, Texas. His friends will be interested to learn of his promotion. Friends of Mrs. P. S. Bailey will regret to know she is ill and a patient at Hays hospital. DRIVE CAREFULLY SAVE A LIFE! SO FAR THIS YEAR THERE HAVE BEEN O FATALITIES front AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS i, in I.AURKNS COUNTY Let’s Strive To Make 1944 a Safe Year On the Highways. This date last year, 0 Julian BruCe Palmer, .Rt. 1* Ware LoCal.Board Sends Shod Is. .j . - .* Clyde-Ozgood Hanks. Simpsonville. (TOUT lO Novy Wyatt Orrie Holland, Clinton.. LeRoy Monroe Pace, Clinton. Sloan Hawkins, Chosen, Fla. * James Nelson Richey, Clinton. Milford Dupree Scott. Conestee. Gorden Lee Penland, Greenville. John Alexander Abercrombie, Co [ lumbia. Luther Jefferson | Clinton j James Everette Ma t Ware Shoals. James Lawrence Ferguson, valid February 27 with a total value l* n S ton - of 30 points. They will be good! Edwin Marshall Garrett. Rt. 3. ' 1 * lcmand:5 !or a nve P* r through May 20, for use with red Laurens, tokens in Joying meats and fats. Benjamin Lee Abrams, Three mor^red stamps will become Shoals. . . ‘ „ th v j valid March 2 and others successive-j Francis Marion Day. Waterloo. ‘ ; an ; ' - n ~' ’ ly during the year. Woodrow Oxner, Waterloo. hou ™ uf VN, ' lk ^ 0Vt “ r >' (armer . re- Blue stamps- Five blue stamps Richard Woodrow Goings. Clinton. 1:uit ” unt 1 "■ dor nu i n - Pie-draft A« UwoughMSB in^book 4—-become * K,chard O'Dell Lmdley. Ware valid February 27 with a total value! Shoal*. able *•». machuwrji dead- tough” M n ay.20 h f:,r ui" with S31 M M *" R " ,WWd Sa,M '* ! ‘ '' Local board No. 50 also Vertt 30 had this answer "We bt-iivve we can men to Forj Jackson Sunday ior ex- do it. ' amination. They were: In North Carolina, according to Willie Capers Brownlee, Jr., Rt. 3. I O. Schaitb, crop yonditi r.> and the Laurens. outlook are-generally . good IH-spite John William Seymore, Rt. 2, Clm- the labor shortage; aril pff>-i t\^yill be ' , i ton. ' made to increase acreage v^ith reduc- Miss Jennie V. Culbertson, county, James Aaron Compton. Wilming- Ti.ms expected in dairy hug, . prev ‘. ous !ton. N. C. and poultry. “ Wallace Herbert Franks, Clinton: LtH'al selective service board No - 50 sent four men for induct: n into the navy on Wednesday, it has been announced. They are Alvin George Thayer, Fairbanks. Alaska. Norman Augustus O'Shields. Ware Willqrd, Rt. 1, Shoals. ^ - Benamin Allen Elledge. Jr’ Rt. ‘l r dden, Rt. 1, Ware Shoals. ' *--• James Edward Williams. Lyc a James Watson Strickland, Careen- Mill, Clinton, wootj. I Mr Thayer was transferred/ 7 to a Martin Lee Milam, Rt. 1, Clinton, selective service boc.td in Arkansas Carroll Swight Smith. Mountville. , from which he received Arthur Rayford Martin, Rt. 1, Ware for induction. The other i Shoals. "> reported to Fort Jackson William Ruble Strange, Clinton. — z ’ * William Theadore Queen, Laurens. Kiwnnic f'lnk Tn Warren Blackwell. Greenwood. WO,U> V ' ,UD 10 Jesse Arnold Esmonds, Rt. 3. Raymond Carl Martin, Rt. ly Ware Shoals. ' ,/, John Thomas Calvert, Rt. ly Ware j Shoals. Henry Alvin Caughman, Clinton. John'Frank Hancock, Clinton. Jesse Dean Crane,-Utica, N. Y. • James Rushtdn, Clinton. Samuel Grey Nelson, Baltimore ( , Md. meet this at Hotel Clm- Meet Tonight The Kiwanis club' evening at 7:30 o’cloc ton. Pfc. Otho Johnsoh, on furlough, will be a gue.-t of ti e club and will tell of seme of his ex periences and unswi i questions tn his recent tour of /lyty in the Ala.-k.n and Aleutian arc orders , ee men \