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V /• i: THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable ms ffllintmt * If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE r You Don't Get the News V I •1 Volume XLVII Clinton, S. C* Thursday, April 24, 1947 Number 17 CLINTON Business, Professional Folks You Know $7,808,820 PAID IN 1946 PAYROLLS BY TEXTILE MILLS College To" |_aunch Big. Endowment Drive Succeeds Moorhead County Plants Employ 4,794 People With Pro duct Valued at $34,468,- 541. Joanna Leads In Spindles and Looms. Campaign To Be Made In Near Future To Raise $350,000 In Synods of South Carolina and Georgia. / ! An intensive endowment campaign i in the Presbyterian synods of South 1 Carolina and Georgia to increase , Laurens county’s seven 'textile^ , , . ! plants employed 4,794 persons college s present made- ing 1946, according to the annlial re- Q ua t e $200,000 endowment by $350, port of St&te Labor Commissioner R. byterian college is truly an indepen dent church-related college and thus seeks the aid of private philanthropy to" provide necessary funds to meet its financial needs. The college is owned and controll- L. Gamble just released. The statis- 000 is now being prepared and will ed by the Presbyterian synods of ; be launched this spring, the board of DR. M. W. BROWN tics showed 2,714 white male em- trustees and Dr. Marshall W. Brown, ployees, 1,807 white female, 241 Ne- President, announced yesterday., gro male, and 32 Negro females. J The campaign, ^o be launched Population of the villages is listed as among alumni and friends as well 8,650. I as Presbyterians generally, is now ’ Housed in the textile plans were bein « set U P in the 15 Presbyteries Dr. Marshall W. $rowp, president of Presbyterian college, ^ls a native of Newibern, Tenn. He was graduated from Castle Heights Military academy and at tended the University of Missouri. He was graduated with a B. A. de gree from Center college. He did graduate work at the Uni versity of Vienna and the Univer sity otf Chicago and received the M.A. 273,128 spindles, and 7,771 looms, di vided as follows: Clinton Cotton Mills (plants 1 and 1 2), W. J. Bailey, president, 71,824 spindles; 1,804 looms. Kind of goods manufactured, print cloth, j Lydia Cotton Mills, W. -J. Bailey, president; 51,264 spindles, 1,278 looms. Goods manufactured, print cloth, tobacco cloth and twills. Joanna Cottoni Mills company, Goldville (plantis 1 and 2), W. F. Regnery, president; 89,928 spindles, 2,486 looms. Kind of goods manufac tured, shade cloth, drapery fabrics and yarns. Laurens Cotton Mills, M. L. Smith, of the two synods. Both laymen and ministers are being conferred with preparatory to selecting chairmen to head the campaign. “The successful completion of this campaign will place the college on a firmer foundation and enable it to cope with any unforeseen emergen cies that may arise,” Dr. Brown said. The present studerit body is ap proximately 450, and this compaign will enable the trustees to expand the facilities of the college. Dr. Brown pointed out that Pres- South Carolina and Georgia. He traced the college’s history since its founding in 1880 and called it “genuine progress.” This is partic ularly true of the period sinc’e 1928, Dr. Brown said, for the college has 1 weathered the stprm of great pres-1 sure and exigency caused by the eco- J nomic upheaval of the ’30s. During REVENUE BILL; STILL BIG ISSUE Now Goes Before Free Conference Committee. New Proposals Make Little Headway. E. L. LONG Columbia, April 23 ^g-Sfiecial > The Chronicle).—The principal ac complishment of the South Carolina ; Senate last week Was getting tha I state revenue bill into shape to g > .before the free conference commit tee. After discussions that includ- ; ed a two-and-a-half hour night se - Isiop. the senate adopted the amend- i ment providing for a graduated tax on the profits of liquor dealers, with a sub-amendment settling the per centage of taxation at 15 pier cent for profits between $25,000 and $35 - j 000; 30 per cent for profits between $35,000 and $45,000: and 40 per cent .. . E. L. Long, president of the E. L.jfor anything above that amoun*. h he . W _^, r :.T5 ar , S, _ t ^ e - ; a . ri r^ ! Long Motor Lines of Greenwood, is On roll call votes, the senate re affirmed its stand of the week be fore in not eliminating the cigar- its facilities for training an estimated; ^ new highway commissioner from 1,000 future pilots, navigators and; ^ e j g hth judicial circuit, his elec- bombadiers, and throughout this pe- !tion as the su £ cessor to w . A. Moor- riod the college maintained its regu- head of Goldville) ^king place in lar civilian curriculum. Today the college has a capital in vestment exceeding $1,000,000 and is entirely free of debt, he emphasized. Columbia last Thursday. Selection of the commissioner from this cirtuit including Greenwood, A schedule of the intensive cam-! Abbeville ’ Newberry and Laurens over-rode the original recommenda- paign dates and details will be an- counties, was made this year by the! turns of the Senate finance commi'- eite tax and in not lowering the tax on beer to three cents rather than four. There was heated debate on th^ adoption of the graduated tax which nounced later, Dr. Brown said. degree from the University of Wis consin. )Vhile a history instructor at McCallie school, he married Miss p res id en tj 37 ( Q72 spindles, 977 looms Lillian Gross, registrar at the school, and brought her to Clinton with him in 1925 when he accepted an instruc- torship in history at Presbyterian college. When the board of trustees creat ed the position of dean at P. C. in 1928, Dr. Brown was elected, serv ing so capably that he held the of fice, as well as a professorship in his tory, until February 1945, when he was elected president of the institu tion. Dr. Brown has been honored with the Ped.D. degree from Davidson col lege and the LLD. degree from his alma mater, Center college. In addition to multiple duties with the college, Dr. Brown is an elder in the First Presbyterian church and a .member of the Kiwanis club and Chamber of Commerce. As an active educator and church worker, Dr. Brown takes his place Goods manufactured, army twills, sateens, poplins and rayon goods. Watts Mills, Laurens, R. E. Henry, president; 23,040 s p i n d 1 e s ,-1,226 looms. Goods manufactured, rayon and cotton cloths. School Glee Clubs To Present Spring Concert Friday Night House Puts Off Action On State Money Measure Members of glee clubs from Clinton f Columbia, April 22. high, Florida Street, Academy Street; little noteworthy action today in the and Providence schools will give a spring concert Friday-night at 8:00 o’clock at the Florida Street school Capital invested in the m i 11 /auditorium, with the public cordially amounted to $9,459,087, value of an nual product $34,468,541; total wag es, not including salaries of mana gers, $7,808,820. The } combined 27 manufacturing estbalishments of the county have a capital of $11,104,525; valuation of $39,462,087, employees 5,683; total wage payroll $9,162,913. The directory ci clothing factories in the cdunty lists Hallmark Manu facturing corporation of this city, manufacturers of men’s shirts and pajamas. Other industries listed: Fertilizer— C-W-S Guano company of this city, as one of Clinton s leading citizen*. Southern Cotton Oil company, Lau His wqrk as president of Presbyte-1 rens rian college was recently acclaimed 1 by unanimous vote of its board of trustees. Final Report On Red. Cross Drive Exceeding the quota by almost $3,000, the Laurens county chapter of the American Red Cross has wound up its 1947 campaign for fluids. The announcement was made yesterday by W. P. Putnam of Laurens, county chairman. The county reached a total of $13,- Grist mills: E. V. Gblding Grist mill, Waterloo. Ice plants: City Ice company, Lau rens; Colonial Ice company, Laurens and Clinton. .. _____ i* Knitting mills: Dapper Hosiery ’hpills, Clinton; Laurens Hosiery mills. Bottling plants: Dixie Beverages, Clinton; Laurens Coca-Cola Bottling company; Nehi Bottling company, Laurens. Miscellaneous industries: Laurens Glass Works. Printing and publishing industries: Chronicle Publishing company, Clin ton; Jacobs Press, Clinton; Thorn- 07921, according to Mrs. Miriam {well orphanage printing department, Templeton, executive secretary. The Clinton; Advertiser Printing corn- chapter quota was $10,000. The Laurens area total was $8,466.89 and the Clinton-Goldville area $4,612.32. President; Brown- In Georgia Synod Dr. Marshall W. Brown, president of Presbyterian college, is spending the week attending several Presby tery meetlngS^ln i the synod of Geor gia. On Friday evening he will speak at Druid Hills Presbyterian church in Atlanta. Mrs. Brown ac companied him on the trip. pany, Laurens. ColKor Tokos Post With Joanna Foundation James Gordon Collier, Jr., recrea tional director of the City of Chester, since last June, has resigned to ac cept ihe position of director of mens and boys activities for the Joanna Foundation, Goldville, and will enter invited. The program will be under the general direction ^>f Lawrence G. Nilson of Greenville,’“'frid Miss An nette Moorhead, music teacher in the city schools. Mrs. Harry McSwelh will be accompahist. This will be the second concert given by the 350 city schools glee -fl ' concert was presented last Decern The program for the concert fol lows: t Salutation (Gaines). The Heavens Are Declaring (Bee thoven). I Would That My Love (Mendel ssohn). Mighty Lak a Rose (Nevin). Where My Caravan Has Rested (Lohr). Whispering Hope (Hawthorne). Abide With Me (Monk). God of All Nature (Tschaikowsky- Remick). We Sail the Ocean Blue (Sulli van). , Hoo-da Day (arr. Bartholomew). Stouthearted Men (Romberg). Old King Cole (Forsyth). (Morning (Speaks). Scene and Prayer, “Cavalteria Rus- ticana” (Mascagni-Nilson). Admission price for the entertain ment will be 50c. Greenwood legislative delegation un-; tee, and was judged by some sens- der the plan of rotating the county tors as being impractical and un- from which the commissioner is constitutional. Advocates of the tax named. f , jaf:irmed that those opposing it could Mr. Long nas oeen identified with state no basis for their objection^, the motor transportation industry an d that it would be a fairer meaS"- for some time. He will hold office { uure than the others khat wete cor - _ j for four years, his term expiring sidered. mere was : April 15 1051 ^ Little -additional state-wide legi.- The new commissioner replaces lation was enacted during the week. general assembly after the house Commissioner Moorhead who filled When Senators asked for immediate postponed until tomorrow consider-1 , he and a hal( un ired lerra | consent to bring up both the ant, ation ol the senate s amendments to ^ lhe , ate „ „ Boyd of this.city. the all-important general appropn- _ ^ ations bill. _ , _ _ Representative Plowden, of Clar-1 ^*Cn0ng6 Club To endon, ways and means committee SpORSOr CoIlCCr DfivC Lions Club Carnival Enjoyed By Hundreds chairman who explained briefly some of the differences in the senate and house versions of the measure, and Representative Brown, of Fairfield, moved to carry over consideration. Representative Blatt, of Barnwell, closed shop and anti-check-off bill*, there was objection. Among the bil » of general interest which we: i passed by the senate and sent to tl .* J House last week were a bill to t • • taiblish area trade schools to tra » L. W. Marks, of Laurens, county 11* 1 ® youth of the state in trades ai i chairman for the fund drive of the; * nc ^ us t r * es » a bill to provide for i surplus porperty procurement div ion of the South Carolipa Researc Planning and Developtnent Boc * American Cancer society, yesterday announced city and rural chairmen _ and sub-chairman of the campaign _ *** b«hf <S3rldactod fhis month to rafSb[ imd » btH provtdmy members of t proposals for stiff profits taxes the $2,500 county goal. Mrs. Sarah General Assembly mileage at t on liquor dealers. d DeLoach of Laurens, is command- 1 prevailing rate for the ■ remain; Second reading was given by the er of the county Cancer society, and' ot tb® current session, house to a joint resolution to au-^JMrs. Lucy Dial Habenicht, treasurer, j Ro11 calls were taken in the Sc Chairman Marks was in the city i ate week on several propos yesterday and announced that the local Exchange club will haVw charge Gillespie To Speak At Orphanage Sunday Doing a gross business of more than $2,800, the Lions club carnival last Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings was generously patronized and enjoyed by hundtais of people of Clinton and the surrounding area. Deducting expenses of putting on thorize the highway department to continue the wartime suspension of the motor vehicle inspection jaw un til March 1, 1948.' This resolution would take the place of one pre viously vetoed by GovtrnoV Thur- i public for this worthy cause, mond. The vetoed- resolution, on which the governor! action was sustained by the house, would have made suspension mandatory. The current resolution would express the wish of the assembly for continued suspen sion and authorize the department to withhold enforcement of the law, which became effective again with the veto^ Another significant measure re ceiving a second house reading was that by the social security commit tee to amend and liberalize the state’s social security laws to enable Representative Wallace of York, committee chairman said, “the State i KJp W lw>rrv Winner Department of l»ublic Welfare toilTf Of Bronze Derby amendments to the state reven bill. Two of the roll call vot of the drive in this area. He asks the, merely re-affirmed stands taken ptv - hearty support and interest of thej viou sly by the Senate, when th,«£ body voted to keep the cigarette tax in the bill, and refused to lower the Rev. Richard T. Gillespie, Candi date Secretary of Foreign Missions for the Presbyterian church, U. S., will be a guest at Thornwell orphan- beer tax from four to three ceatt> Senator O. L. Long voted with the majority for the higher beer tax and with the minority against the cigar ette tax. He also voted with the majority on the question ol allow- iqg Charleston county to sell beer on Sundays. The amendment to age over the week-end. Mr. Gilles-'that effect was passed by the Sen- pie will preach at the 11:00 o’clock! at® but turned down by the House morning worship hour at Thornwell’ R is now before the first free con- Memorial church, and will addre*snf® r ®nce committee of the session. the combined young people’s groups of the city at 7:30 p.m. in the Thorn well church auditorium. (A free conference committee is composed of several members of both bodies to iron out the differ ences between the Houses.) The amendment which was accept ed by the Senate, setting the per- j centages of. profit of liquor deal ers to be taxed, was offered by Clinton Telephone Service Restored upon the work May 1. He will act th ® carnival and probably an amount as general assistant to Clayton ’k- \ to ^ used ior a special club pro take advantage immediately of 1 amendments to the federal social se- „ ^ curity act. j The Newberry Indians won the lit- j Senators" Long*^ s” K^N^h of ^ tie Bronze Derby, symbolical of 50, Sumter years sports rivalry between the In- The bill wfuch would create a dians and P. C. Blue Hose, in base- state Investjation Bureau ’ was ball Saturday at Newberry. The p assed Wllh very Uttle 0pposK .,, H s:ore WaS 5 ' 2 ‘ _ L last week, although such a .bureau wou}d abolish the present state con stabulary, the one state department Miss Dorr Artist In May Celebration Miss Blanche Ellen Darr, daughter Perreault, executive director of the foundation. Collier is a native of Rock Hill ject, the club will have available I ebration at Blue Mounta about $2,200 for' presentation to the' Mississippi. Miss Darr will of Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Darr of this, EXCHANGE HOMES city,, will be one of the artists of the ‘/Dwarfs’ Dance” in the May day cel- city at Clinton for its projected park in college, also be an and graduated from Presbyterian and recreational program, the prin- college in May, 1946. Mid«Stote League Line-up Normal telephone service was re stored in Clinton Monday morning, Glenn L. McCullough of Greenville, district manager &t the Southern Bell Telephone company, announced. All local service had beeti.t'dead” the national strike was ordered on|X- the morning at April 7. — Mr. McCuBoufto- said yesterday jf that 18 operators and other w6rkers at the local office returned to work ; and that service is again normal. “We are very happy,” he said, “to, have the employees back at their] positions and the action taken here has been outstanding in the district.” j The strike coQtinues at othar points in the district served by manual sys- ’ terns, Mr. McCullough said, but workers are gradually drifting back. During the strike here emergency service was rendered the public by Mrs. Lucius Burns, who heads the office, Wltfc the help of fine*or two! assistants. j Saturday, April 26—Mollohon at Clinton; Rlverdale at Laurens; Watts at Joanna; Whitmire at Newberry. cipal purpose lor which the event was staged by the local Lions club. , The carnival, under the chairman ship of Robert E. Wysor, III, and his committee of Roy Gasque and “Dub” Walker, ran off smoothly each night The booths were well patronized, and the people generally had a good time. Features of the carnival .were the accompanist for the event. Newsprint Shortage Affects The Chronicle Wednesday, April 30—Mollohon at ,. . .. t . . , Laurens, Rlverdale at Joanna; Watts' dls 1 tn * mtl0n ? rizes at tbree mter ' l Whitmire at CUnton.l y>te 40(1 auction -- j of a brand new Oldsmobile sedan on The Chronicle, like other newspa pers, is having difficulty in securing newsprint paper due to a” serious scarcity which we are told may be expected to continue through the Mr. and Mrs^ I. Mac *Adair and over which the Governor has direri sons have moved into Use John B.'authority. The Bureau would pos- Ferguson home on the Laurens road ^ess a well-equipped crimmolo.zy just beyond the city limits, which laboratory, anfi its force would be they purchased some time ago. Mrs. detectives skilled and experienced in Ferguson, who sold the home and crime detection. I surrounding land, purchased the A debate over which was the best ; Adair home on Maple street, which method to rewrite the state consUtu- she is now occupying. < tion, a 21-man committee to study * ' — — | it and make recommendations, or a kj rw/ Cl |DCf*D IDCDC | constitutional convention, took place rStW jUDjLKlDtKj ;»n the House last week. Adjourn HONOR ROLL »ment came before the matter was ready for a decisive vote, and it was There are few families in this com- j not rea L'hed again on the overcrowd- munity who do not read THE;® 0 calendar. Tom Pope of Newber- THE CHRONICLE ^ ^ ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY ( EACH WEEK - They Inf eras yen as to dung ing prices, where yen can sup ply your needs, where yon can shop to advantage. BE WISE — READ THE ADS j Saturday, which was bid in for 1*242*. Thu ear-was furnished to the ' club at cost by Timmerman Moto: company of this city, Officials of the club have expressed their appreciation to business houses of the city who were generous Ut yeir. It is only possible to keep a CHRONICLE. It gives you more local r /. who was defeated in the election few weeks’ supply on hand, and had .. e ws than any newspaper published. tor House speaker by Bruce Luttle- wq not succeeded in securing a ship-1 And the cost is so small, less than 4c J° hn - * Thurmond choice, and a ment Tuesday it would have been a week. New subscriptions invited. number of other House membe i. Impossible to go to press last, night, i Single copies available at the of- favor the constitutional convent n This scarcity, and the high price, flee every Thursday. rather than the committee for "stur necessitates our conserving paper Welcome and thanks to those on. in R the constitution. Such a co - and limiting the pages we print. This;our Hondr Roll this week: MRS. JANIE KING, donating the hundreds of prizes, and necessitates omitting adver- without whose help the carnival tisements and news items reaching could not have been staged. Lions club officials state that it is the intention of the club to make the carnival an annual event. Mrs. Luther Cook of. Owings, and Mrs. Maude Berry of Greenville, are visiting their sister, Mrs. T. H. South, thaweek- *7 us late, which we regre^ We there fore ask our advertisers to let us have copy early in the week to insure in sertion since the paper cannot be en larged at the last minute after the lay-oVt is made. We are doing our level best utyler difficult conditions to serve our' advertisers and read ers. We ask your cooperation. Staten Island, N. Y. JERRY WEST, Sic, San Francisco, Calif. MILES LAWSON, MRS. J. R. BRANSON, MRS. REEDER WHITMIRE, West Clinton. MRS. BILL NELSON, MRS. JAMBS RICHEY. South Clinton. mittee was recommended by C - ernor Thurmond in his inaugural ; - dress. The House worked earnestly a devise some method of delaying n - tor vehicle inspections, despite i 5 j Governor's veto oi the resolut a l which would have postponed th s inspections until March 1.^1948 Another resolution was introduced ■ last week which would have gus- (Continued cn page seven) . t k- \ ■\ 1 •