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•i # J- f X / Ml >4* r\ 4 v ^ 1 " 4 ' -r: THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper ^Complete, Newsy and Reliable v i ■ ■ 1 ■ r Volume LXV €lintmi ■; . Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 7, 1945 If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't GeMhe News Number 23 vt* • \ f-* ■ Ix>ndoners. Cheer Eisenhower Accident Fatal To Miss Harriett Hellams Dies In Columbia Hos pital of Diving Injuries. Funeral In Greenville. What Was Once City of Berlin General of the Army Dwtvht D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied expeditionary force, is cominf back to the United States for a visit, the war department has annonnced. He is expected to arrive in Washington on June 18 and hfs schedule includes visits to several other cities. Pictured above is a cheering and enthusiastic crowd of Londoners greeting the famous general when he recently visited in London. Insert shows his latest photograph taken there. Three City Churches Conducting Daily Vacation Bible Schools Thomas E. Hair Heads Water Firm Of Stomp Springs Funeral services for Miss Harriett' (“Babs”) Seyle Hellams, daughter of! ! Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hellams of this i [city, were held from the Mackey j | mortuary in Greenville on Friday af ternoon at 5 o’clock. Dr. A. R. Mitch- 1 !ell, assisted by Dr. W. R. Turner of j this city, were the officiating minis- • J ters. Interment followed in Wood- lawn Memorial park. Miss Hellams died at a Columbia ' hospital early last Wednesday night ' as a result of grave neck injuries sus- : tained Monday afternoon at Aiken when she dived into a swimming pool. She was rushed to the hospital i where she remained in a critical con- j dition until the sad end came. All j members of the family were at her; bedside. Miss Hellams, who was 21 years , 1/ . . . old May 12, was graduated from KlWaillS vjOVCrnOf 10 Winthrop college with a bachelor of; C_ Ga L Ug-g U on Hnv science degree just ten days before Here munuuy her tragic death. She was a popular At DlVISIOn Meet student and took a leading part in ♦ athletics and in campus activities.! a special meeting of the 9th Ki- jShe graduated from Greenwood high; wan j s division will be held here 'school, attended Lander college three Monday evening. June 11* at 7:30 at ! years, and transferred last fall to Florida Street school. Dinner will i Winthrop. She was a communicant of served by the home economics CLOSING PROGRAM AT ORPHANAGE TO BEGIN SUNDAY ii Rev. M. C. Dendy and Rev. J. C. Reid Speakers. 14 To Graduate. One at the first •fflclal RAF pictures oi Berlin since its fsfi. This serial view in the area between Friedrich Hain and Lichtenberg, taken from a low-flying mosquito piano, gives striking evidence of the complete devastation of the Gorman capital. Seaboard Railway Buys Old 'SAL' For 52 Million Dollai The 70th commencement exercises J ! of Thomwell orphanage will be ush ered in Sunday morning at 11:15 when the baccalaureate - sermon be- i fore the high school graduating elass : will be preached in Thornwell Me morial church by the Rev. Marshall C.. Dendy. D.D., pastor of the First : Presbyterian chunsh of Orlando, Fla. ! On Monday evening aX.8-30 in the jchapel, members of the senior class I will present two plays, “Pat’s Matri- ! momal Venture^ and “Rumors j Wanted.” j The annual meeting of the board of trustees will be held Tuesday morning at which time reports for the year will be presented. In the evening at 8 o’clock the graduating exercises proper will be held in the chapel, at which time diplomas will be presented and prizes {and medals awarded. The salutatory will be giv^n by Aimee Cothran and Portsmouth, June 1. — After'ith e valedictory by Helen Burnett being in recpeC'ership far 14 years, the The class prophecy will be given Seaboard Air Line railway was sold Wanda Elledge, and the class The vacation Bible school at the Thomas E Hair of Columbia hr,^ E isc l church in Greenwood. 11*0+ oVi11TVArvirHav rioori tno vtnmn Ssvnnimtf* r r d First Baptist church began Monday morning with an enrollment of 80 children. Miss Virginia S u m e r e 1 heads the school and is also superin tendent of the primary department. The beginners group is in charge of Miss Lou Bell Neighbors. The pastor of the church, Rev. Walter N. Long, is superintendent of the juniors. , Other instructors in the school are Miss Margaret Ann Barnett, Mrs. H. W. Morrison, Mrs. B. H. Suddeth, Mrs. Jobe Holland, Mrs. James Mc Combs, Miss Odetta Mauney, Miss Rosalyn Cason, Miss Doris Fuller. Iced drinks are served daily at re cess by the circles of the Woman’s Missionary society, under the super vision of Mrs. P. W. Mauldin, social chairman. At Broad Street Methodist The Bible school at Broad Street Methodist church opened Monday morning and will continue through June 13. Mrs. P. M. Pitts is general superintendent of the school. Hours are Sunday 10 ajn 7 week days 4 to 6 p.m. The primary department is in charge of Mrs. Hubert Owens, assist ed by Mrs. W. C. Milam, Misses Fay and Martharene Pitts. Miss Kate Mi lam heads the junior group, assisted by Mrs. Craig Kennedy, Mrs. J. B. Dailey, and Miss Odetta Mauney. head of the Stomp Springs Syndicate, an organization promoting the sale of j bottled water from Stomp Springs, When the accident occurred Miss Thursday at public auction on the ! will by Robert Grube. The address before the graduates group of the high school. (railroads passenger station platform i w jij made, by Rev. J. Calvin Reid, The meeting will be addressed by here for $52,000,500. ,|D.D. pastor of the First Presbyterian located in the lower part of the county\ Hellams was visiting in Aiken as the Sam Bundy, of Tarboro, N. C., gov- Purchaser of the line was the Sea-Church, Columbus. Ga. guest of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Spen cer, the latter having been her in- . 4 tt • i „ structor in physical education at According to Mr. Hair, plans are Lander under way for erection of a hotel at; HeUams, by her sweet per-! Sir program'. ” Riprose'nte't.vVs' wlii e r0 ‘* rt J i : e! ernor of the Carolinas Kiwanis dis- board Rai , way company, formed last ' To the '■lo.ing exercise,.the public trict. Lieutenant Governor - O. BJ . . „„ 1S cordially invited. Cannon, of Newberry, head of ^ This year’s graduating class is corn- division, will also have a part on i thf onl y bld d er for the posed of ten girls and four boys ^ rrsm^U dint^^ol 1 Z i SO "^’ disposition an d! ^pr^sent Tom of the ish a small clinic as part of me i , ■ • - tablish many beautiful traits of character ‘ d j v ision. general development of a health re-,^^ herself to a wi(Je circle of sort. Facilities for sports and health friends who were shocked to learn ol The meeting will take the place of l bama and F] or i da . The sale disposes such as a riding academy and *olf | ^ u ^ t r e i v W dea r a n d whose sin- ^ the club ’ S regular meeting scheduled f«f about 3.300 miles of main line, course will be added, he said. The j cere sympat j; y goes ’ out tQ the fami , y i for June_14_^ „ equipment and appurtenances and entire development, he added, w! be i j n their great bereavement. C C /-• started immediately after the war. The deceasd is survived 5y h er'Sgt. FergUSOfl GlVCn Bottled water from th® °i^e f amous j p are nts, wb o are connected with I U nnnra kl£ Dicchame springs is now being offered for sale. n rol]effe . onp brother. 1 OllOrO 6 IS OTg sold under foreclosure Their names and home addresses proceedings, which include the lines| f 0 jj 0W . of the road in Virginia. North Caro-; E i la 'j ane Sharpe. Whitmire, lina, South Carolina. Georgia, Ala- Robart Joseph Grube, St. Augus tine, Fla. Alva Wanda Elledge, Ware Shoals. Mary Frances Tucker, Abbeville. Helen Sidney Burnett, Tampa, Fla. David Arthur Collins. Greenville. Emma Isabel Stevens, Savannah, and certain cash and securities. The new company must also ab sorb approximately $18,000,000 of ...... . . .. . : Presbyterian college; one brother, Mr. Hair has had wide experience Robert Bruce HellamSt Jr . and one in organization and development. Jn Columbia he owns a number of apartment houses and other real estate. Mitchell Sells Cafe Business Mrs. Pitts also heads the beginners and is assisted by Ann Pitts and Jean Bodie. At First Presbyterian Announcement is made by George P. Mitchell that he has sold his busi ness operated as the Clinton Cafe to Cecil Wilson of Laurens, effective June 1, and has retired from busi ness. Mr. Mitchell, a native of Greece, came to Clinton 25 years ago to en ter business. After a few years resi dence here he became a naturalized American citizen. As proprietor of Clinton Cafe, Mr. The vacation school at the First | Mitchell during these years has op-|on the death of D. C. Heustess, a Presbyterian church began Monday erated a clean, first-class eating es- j member of the board and loan com tablishment. He has served only theimitte for several years sister, Mrs. Tucker Irvin. „ _ ; tions and unforeclosed bond issues of Bgt. B. C Ferguson of this city. ^ old company . Before the property received an honorable discharge from j can ^ transferred to the new com- the army at Fort Bragg Tuesday un- a hean on oi der the new point system. He has 100 ^ sale wil , be held June4 j 9 at the points to his credit. Sgt. Ferguson recently returned Citizens FederoJ To Pay Dividend A dividend for the six months P«- 0Ut ! 1 ld w th t contine " tal Seaboard Railway company, drop- riod January 1 to June 30, payable | United States and has been visiting . _ ' July 1 on the basis of 3 per cent per bls parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Fer- annum, was authorized by the board; S 11500 - Ue was processed through the outstanding equipment trust obliga-;Ga. Clayto Lamar Roberts. Anderson. Horace Sparks Blunt, Atlanta, Ga. Aimee GibbeS Cothran^ Greenville. Mary Elizabeth Conrad. Rock Hill. post office building at Baltimore. The new name of the system is ping "Air Line” from the old name of the Seaboard Air Line Railway company. of directors of the Citizens Federal arm y « round and services forces re- Savings and Loan association at their! dlstr ‘ but * on station in Miami Beach,; i i i • f*| il L monthly meeting Tuesday evening.! Fla. LOCOl LlOnsUilb The dividend applies on all classes Ferguson served 38 months, as Honor ChafTIDS of shares, investment and savings. 1 a mpHiral mrns in th* r The financial report showed total assets of $688,566.88. The associ ation’s building activities have been frozen since April 9, 1942, due to government restrictions-. The directors adopted resolutions (a member of the medical corps in the. Southwest Pacific theater of ope!** *' , T . ~ , , ... . .. . . .. . The Clinton Lions club will honor ations and while there was awarded . . . . . . . , .. ~ ^ ku tbe Clinton high school state baseball the Asiatic-Pacific campaign ribbon ; ,. Kq — ; _ o , iri f K „ with three battle stars. Young People To Attend Conference Helen Beatrice Crowell, Atlanta, Ga. Mary Virginia Kennedy, Lauren.^ Margaret Juanita Hillhouse, At lanta, Ga. Family Night At First Baptist Churc,h morning with a large enrollment and will continue through June 15, with a two and one-half hours study-rec reation period daily. The school is headed by Miss Eva Harris, director of religious education for the church best food he could purchase and has given courteous and considerate at tention to the public. Mr. Mitchell is a first-rate citizen, one allvays ready to do his part glad- The Citizens, oldest building and loan association in the county, is The Woman’s Missionary society will be hostess to the other mission ary organizations of the First Baptist church and the Brotherhood on Mon champions with a supper on Friday day evening* at 8 o'clock, i evening at 8 o’clock. Coach D. S. | The program will include a play- iTempleton asks members of the team 'let, “It Pays to Be Patient.” depicting to assemble at Hotel Clinton at 7:45 ; the need of a new nurse’s home at ^Uj go to "Happy Acres” in a group , the Baptist hospital in Columbia. | for the event. IThis will be followed by a moving . _ % The departments are in charge of anc^generously to help any wor- the following superintendents: Mrs. 1 thy cause either in time of peace or Julian Bolick, nursery; Mrs. Grady'war. By his affable manner, straight t Chandler, beginners; Miss Betty! dealings and integrity of character Hams, W. A. Moorhead, T. D. Cope Hunter, primary; Mrs. David Tern-(he has made many friends in the ^ ^ ' pleton, junior. 'city. He has made no announcement The Young People’s Leadership i Also invited are members of the; P'cture. “The Healing of M. Dondo.” school for the Presbyterian Synod of Presbyterian college baseball team. The picture vividly portrays medi- headed by the (ollowing officers ard South Carolina will he held in Co- a successful season, levalm.ss.unanes at work in a leper directors: B. H. Boyd, president; J.! lumbia June 8-13. The delegates will The Lmversity of South Carolina col my in Atnca Platt Prather, vice-president; B. Hu-) he housed for the week at Colum- | however, claims the championship. College ROTC Unit Adjudged 'Excellent' as to his future plans. ’ The June term of criminal court bert Boyd, secretary-treasurer. Di rectors: B. H. Boyd, B. Hubert Boyd, J. P. Prather, S. W. Sumerel, W. W. land and T. H. Copeland. Liberated Prisoner To Speak At Leesville bia college. Those who will attend i h asin 8 their claim on the fact that t w/ j g# i from here are Virginia Gray, Julia l he university played more games) _ 9 ® Taylor. Anne Owens'.'Barbara Ander- l han the local team, son, Joy Godfrey. Lillian Dillard, Ay- Vs. Clinton Legion Darcy Harris, who is spending a 60-day furlough at his home in Lau rens after being liberated recently will convene in Laurens on the Hth.!j. peak duril *t he Sunday school hour A venire of 36 petit jurors to serve Leesville Petit Jurors Drawn For June Term Court Presbyterian college’s Reserve of ficers Training Corps unit has been adjudgecj “excellent*” in its annual U. S. army inspection, Dr. Marshall W. Brown, president, has been in formed. The college military unit, which wears the blue star of contipued ex- cellenee as a part of its official in-]M. Templeton, signia, has won this highest ROTC Braswell, S. B. Neal, Harry Nettles, | A rrnnn p«l p nr C umm p r rating continuously for the past fif- ; H. L. Eichelberger, J. B. Hart, R. C.; ^ ^ teen years. ! Satterfield, L. R. Pitts, James Yar- liffe Jacobs, Cornelia Harris, Betty Lt. Som AnderSOH Taylor and Mack Hamilton. -■ * • ■ ■ — Expected Home Blackwell Announces For Lower House Homer S. Blackwell, well known Laurens attorney, announces himself from a German prison^ camp, will j in today’s paper as a candidate for 1 the house of representatives from | I Clinton Legion will play Wood- j ruff Legion team ondhe Presbyterian (College diamond next Wednesday at - ^ ;5:15 p. m. Mrs. Sam F. Anderson received aj The Woodruff team is composed of wire Tuesday from her husband, Lt. j their high schoool team, winners of Anderson, stating that he had ar- the state class A baseball yhaampion- itethe Sunc le S»u^herfi kor* V-» a C« Methodist church, near hereT^Sunday morning. The public is invited. were drawn by the commissioners last week. Jurors from this section include: Hunter township:. T. E. Jones, 0.1^,.. . # c*. u Fate Fuller, Eari Children s Story Hour rived in New York and expects to arrive home Sunday. ship. Clinton's team will be prac tically the same that won the class Lt. Anderson was reported “miss- B championship two weeks ago ing in action on March 2 over Ger- Woodruff was undefeated in high Laurens county, to fill the vacancy niany. Two weeks ago Mrs. Anderson! school ball and so was Clinton with in a the general assembly caused by was advised by the war department j sixteen straight victories, the recent resignation of James H. ! that he had been fojind and "re-! Hazel, Woodruff’s star twh-ler. has Sullivan. The general election will turned to military control.” Lieut, pitched Legion ball for three years, ! be held on June 26. Anderson at the time he was report- 1 and is undefeated"'this season. ed missing was stationed in Eng-1 Wilson Purchases land with the Eighth Air force. The unit, commanded by Col. Paul D. Strong was inspected by Major Eugene B. Chase on April 18. General Election In County June 26 borough. Jacks township: Tan M. Ray. Scuffletown: Charles Murphy. 1 A story hour will be held* each Fri- Clinton Cafe day through August 3, at 4 p.m. in j the library building with Mrs. Julian THE WAR IN BRIEF A notice of election appears in to-| OKINAWA: Tenth army soldiers day’s paper for a general election in | and marines moved swiftly toward Laurens county June 26 to fill a va- southern tip and fought for complete cancy in the general assembly from! possession of Naha airdrome. Cecil Wilson, well known young . man of Laurens, has purchased the Spanish WfQT VctS Coleman in charge. All children who Clinton Cafe and assumed the man- • will enter the first, second, third oriagenfent of -the business on June 1. Elmore G. Bramlett, of near Lau- fourth grades in the fall are invited Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and little rens. was elected commander of the Coa^’h Templeton will start Red McGee against Woodruff. The ace has a record of thirteen wins and no losses for the season. BULLETIN (OPA) RATIONING BOARD to attend. ‘ daughter have moved to the city. this county caused by the resignation of James H- Sullivan. Qualifications for voting, regula tions for election and the list of man agers by precincts is included “in the commissioners notice. Presbyterians To Omit Services Sunday Services at the First Presbyterian church Sunday morning will be omit ted to give the congregation an op portunity to attend the orphanage commencement exercises to be held in Thornwell Memorial church. The announcement is made by the pas tor, Dr. W. R. Turner. PHILIPPINES: Eighth army ele-1 ments captured Aritao village, ten, miles beyond Santa Fe, in drive to- j ward Cagayan valley of northern Lu- ' zon; Sixth army units on Mindanao met stiff opposition in closing trap on'Japanese. CHIN.A: Chinese moved to within ( 21 miles of Luichow and launched en circling threat to that former Ameri- j can air base city; Japanese abandon-' ed four industrial towns in Hong Kong area. BURMA: British troops battered two miles across Jap minefields in Burma today in pursuit of enemy forces falling back towakl Thailand from mountain positions 150 miles north of Rangoon. COMMUNITY NEWS “The Favorite Family Newspaper” You will find the “news” of the week from South Clinton. West Clinton and Joanna in THE CHRONICLE each week. Happen ings about people you know. If you live in these communities and are not a subscriber we invite you to place your subscription with our representativn. Have the Newsy CHRONICLE in Your Home department of South Carolina Unit- ! " ■ ed Spanish War Veterans at a meet-! (Compiled to date for information ing in Columbia last week of the of The Chronicle’s readers), council administration. j PROCESSED FOODS: BLUE E. C. Conner, of Cross Hill, was (STAMPS N2, P2. Q2. R2. S2 noW elected chaplain of the department, i valid, expire .June 30; T2. U2. V2. The usual convention was omitted W2, X2 now valid, expire July 31; this year because of wartime regula- Y2, 2. Al, Bl. Cl now valid, expire tions. August 31; Dl, El, FI, Gl. HI now 7 valid, expire Sept. 30 New Ration Stomps 1 MEATS and fats: red A kl W l-j * j I ! STAMPS E2. F2. G2. H2. J2 now Are INOW Validated valid, expire June 30; K2, L2. M2, X-. — ♦ p<2 now valid, expire July 31; QZ” R2. Ration officials yesterday suggest- S2, T2, U2 hqw valid, expire August ed the destruction of expired food 31; V2, W2. X2, Y2. Z2 .now vali«a. ration stamps in order to avoid con-i expire September 30. 1 ' fusion. Those which became invalid ( SUGAR: Stamp 36, got>d for 5 lbs.. Saturday are red starr|ps Y5. Z5, A2, expires August 31. . s B2, C2, and D2 and blue stamps E2, SHOES: Airplane stamps 1. 2 and ^2, K2, L2 and M2. 3 now valid. New shoe stamp be- New stamps, worth 10 points each;comes valid August 1. are blue Dl, El, FI, Gl. and HI and red V2, W2, X2, Y2 and Z2. 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