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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 19, 1947
Number 25
NEW HOTEL DRIVE GOES FORWARD
CLINTON
Business, Professional
Folks You Know
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JOE DELANY
Two Boys' Baseball
Leagues To Be
Organized In City '
The Clinton Recreation Commis
sion will organize two boys base
ball leagues under the full super
vision of Wilmot Shealy, recreation
al director. All boys in the com
munity between the ages of eight
and fifteen inclusive are invited to
meet at the Florida Street school
Friday, June 20 at 10 o’clock.
The following tentative rules have
been adopted:
. 1. There will be two leagues. A
class I league of boys who have
reached their 12th birthday but have
not yet reached their 16th birthday,
therefore, this league will be com
prised of boys 12 to 15 years of age.
A class II league will be composed
of boys who have reached thieir 6th
year but have not reached their 12th
year, therefore, this league will be
comprised of boys 8 to 11 years of
age.
2. Any boy in the community is
eligible to be a member of a team.
3. The teams will be formed ac
Jo. Many, superintendent of the,“ rdi "* 10 ^hool that a boy last
large Joanna Cotton Mills company, The schools are not re-
YOUNG PEOPLE'S
LEADERSHIP SCHOOL
LARGELY ATTENDED
Consecration Service
Brings Week's Program
To Close. Elect Officers.
AAA Cancels
Unfilled Orders
Uader ACP Program
1947
720,000 to $165,614,000, the AAA of-
tfice has cancelled all outstanding un-
1 filled orders for lime, superphosphate
and terracing placed with it to be
paid for under the purchase order
plan of the AAA, according to H. A.
—, . . ,, r> i . »|Ropp, county administrative officer.
The Presbyterian Young People’s To’ . . .
, . . . ... o j . i Laurens county farmers had re-
leadership school of the Synod of 1
South Carolina closed Sunday
night at Presbyterian college here
with a consecration service and in
stallation of the new officers as
Clinton Fire Deportment V«|a *1 aa dCDADTCD
Shares In Insurance Fund !5/0 r /00 RcPORTcD
Columbia, June 17.— (Special to, YESTERDAY AT NOON
j j iThe Chronicle). — The fire depart- _ .. _
Due to an anticipated reduction m cnts o( tw„ towns m Lauren, coun. lU CA F flF VTftfK
'47 ACP program funds from *301,-|, y clinton and Lallrens are among ll" jALC wl jIvVIV
the 91 qualified departments which
have just received allocations from |
the one per cent tax on fire insur- 1
ance sold in municipalities, according
to Insurance Commissioner L. George*
I Benjamin, Jr.
Clinton received $516, an increase I
quested a Yotaf of 6,534 tons ‘of! over its allocation last year for 1945
ground agricultural limestone, and. of anc * Laurens received $<95,
738 tons of 18% superphosphate atl an increase of $148
Group Workers Pushing
Intensive Community
Canvass to Raise Need
ed Funds for Project.
the time cancellations were made.
Of this tonnage requested 1,671 tons
To qualify for the allocation, a fire
department must have serviceable
Miss Carolyn Bearden of Welford, 0( Iim( , was delivered , 0 lhe (armers Are fighting equipment valued at not
took over the presidency of the Pres- and 1863 tons cancelled AU oI th ' e |less than *1,000 and not fewer than
byterian Youth organization in South
Carolina succeeding Charles Turner
of Winnsboro.
738 tons of 18% superphosphate wasl ten firemen > P a id or volunteer.
A total of $73,904 was paid to the
91 departments, an increase of
$18,000 over 1945. The distribution is
made annually.
Goldville, is a successful mill exec
utive and a useful, unselfish citizen
of his community.
Mr. Delany was born in Lowell,
Mass., and educated in the public
schools of his home town. As a young
man he worked in textile machinery
plans and several cotton mills. He
attended night classes at Lowell Tex
tile institute from which he was
graduated with honor in 1927.
In 1928 when the Joanna Cotton
Mills purchased the machinery in a
mill where Mr. Delany was working,
he helped dismantle the plant, ship,'
and finally erect the machines in
Goldville.
Mr. Delany was so impressed with
the wonderful climate here, the
friendliness of the people, and good
working conditions he decided to re
main in Goldville. He began with the
corporation as head of the newly
established testing department and
in 1938 became assistant superintend
ent. Upon the retirement of P. B.
Mitchell as superintendent in March,
1945, Mr. Delany was made general
superintendent of the mills.
-4^ In 1931 Mr. Delany married Miss
Lena King of Belton, a graduate of
Anderson college, who was then a
member of the Joanna school faculty.
They have two attractive daughters,
Kittie, age 13, and Dorothy Patrice,
one year old.
Mr. Delany is a member of the
Clinton Chamber of Commerce and
Kiwanis club, and a past president
sponsible for, or connected in any
way with these teams. This method
of using schools is simply to deter
mine with which team the boy will
play. Each school area will have a
team in each< league. The teams are
to be drawn from Florida Street
school, Academy Street school, the
high school and Providence school.
4. A boy who is not in school may
play with a team, but he will play
with the team in that area where
he would go to school if he were to
attend.
5. Once a boy has played with one
team he cannot play with another.
6. Each team shall have a manager
who may be either one of the players
or a non-player older than the age
represented by the team.
cancelled, as none of it had been de-
, livered at the time notice was re-
The consecration service, held on ceived to cancel the undelivered su-
the campus of the college late Sun- perphosphate, Mr. Ropp said,
day evening, was the climax of the; .. ... _.
week of intensive training conducted . .
(or the leaders among the youth o( i 1"^“^ " ot “, mor « J! r,or „ a .
the state. Approximately 125 young1Reported In County
people including the officers of Sy-i. n . n a er c ^ >r ers | , / ~ 1
nod’s young people’s council which ’ P P * an er-. Columbia, June 17.
embraces the entire state, the of-
Smoll Forest Fires
ficers of the Youth Fellowship in the
eight presbyteries of the state and
representatives of the Westminster
Fellowship of the colleges and uni
versities of the state.
The theme of the Leadership
school was the theme of the Pres
byterian Young People’s ffclloWship,
“Here Am I — Send Me,” around
which the daily Bible study was
built and the theme of the vesper
messages each evening by the Rev.
James Overholser of Greenwood.
Attending the Leadership school
this year were representatives of
other denominations in South Caro
lina.
Charles Turner of Winnsboro, re
tiring president of the Youth Fel
lowship in South Carolina, wha is
(Special to
racing requested under the purchase!The Chronicle). — The 2.3 acres of
order plan, this office had obligated timber destroyed by forest fires in
$71,578 to farmers of Laurens coun
ty for practices to be carried out this
year. After cancellation of all unde
livered orders for lime, terracing and
superphosphate, the balance remain
ing as obligated to farmers is $47,-
049.33.
7. Each player must have a written 1 also president of the Presbyterian
permission from his parent before
he will be allowed to play.
8. Each team will play two games
weekly.
Boland To Attend
Kiwanis International
Convention In Chicago
The local Kiwanis club will be
represented at the 32nd annual con
vention of Kiwanis International in
Chicago June 29-July 3 by its pres
ident, Ratchjord Boland.
Business Ad professional leaders
from all sections of the United States,
Canada, Alaska, and Hawaii will at-
of the latter organization. He is a tend the convention opening Sun
director in the South Carolina Tu-
Laurens county last week was the
second smallest amount in the New
berry district, which is composed of
nine counties, the state forest com
mission has announced. Edgefield
county, where no fires at all were re-
Jported, had the best record for the,
“Approvals issued for practices to district,
be carried out at the expense of the 1 McCormick county had the largest
fanner have not been cancelled. We amount of acreage burned in the dis-*
do not know whether the status of j trict, recording 57 acres burned by
these approvals will remain as origi- two fires. But total forest fire dam-
nally written or later revised. No 1 age was small, amounting to 98.7
new approvals for practices may be acres destroyed by ten fires, the sec-
issued unless instructions received ond lowest percentage of any dis-
are cancelled or modified
berculosis association and the Lau
rens County Red Cross chapter.
Mr. Delany, in addition to his re
sponsible position as a mill superin
tendent, is a public-spirited citizen
of the Joanna community, who gives
his support to every effort for the
betterment of its people. In all war
efforts during the recent war, he
took an active part and helped Gold
ville “go over the top” with every
quota assigned in the various drives.
He has many friends in Clinton, and
in Goldville he has .earned a place
in the esteem of the community to
which he is devoted as a loyal adopt
ed son.
$74,500 In iTb. Bonds
Sold In County In Moy
day, June 29.
Gome 10,000 persons are expected
to attend the five-day meeting, which
wiH be based on the service organi
zation’s administrative^theme for this
year, “Build for Peace—Patriotism—
Opportunity.”
The program will feature address
es by outstanding figures in Ameri
can and Canadian public life, elec
tion of officers, club activity confer
ences, and the foremost in entertain
ment. \ .
J. N. Emerson, of Pullman, Wash.,
prominent West Coast chain store
Youth Fellowship ni the Southern
Presbyterian church, is one of the
three youth representatives from
the Southern Presbyterian church
to attend the International Youth
convention at Oslo, Norway, this
summer. Mr. Turner v will leave
June 30 for New York, where he
will board a ship for Norway. While
in Europe he intends to visit much
of the war-torn sections in the in
terest of the youth program.
The Young People’s Council of
the Synod completed plans this week
to attend the assembly Youth Lead
ership school at Montreal, N. C.,
July 22-30.
The entire group of young peo
ple at the conference attended a
special service at the First Presby
terian church here Sunday morning
when the pastor, Dr. W. R. Tur
ner, spoke on the subject, “When
Vision Comes the Heart Responds.”
The choir at the service was made up
of young people from the conference
directed by Miss Olivia Ledbetter of
Columbia.
The officers of the Presbyterian
Youth Fellowship of South Caro
lina installed as a special service
follow: Carolyn Bearden of Wei-
ford, president; Valeria von Lehe,
of Walterboro, vice president; Sid
ney Robinson of Chester, secretary;
Clarence Calcote of Laurens, treas-
Hill,
Grand Jury Creates
Special Committee
For Law inlorcement
trict in the state.
However, in South Carolina as a
whole, forest fire damage was fairly
j high, although considerably below
j the totals during the first three
months of the year when timber fire
destruction was at its height. In the
entire state, 970 acres of woodland
Laurens, June 9. — A special law.
enforcement committee, “seeking to i was t> urne d la st week by 38 fires
coordinate the various law enforce- j. . .
ment agencies” and perform other LlttlO SligH Boy
duties, was created by the grand jurj ! p aS s es Af Hosnital
and returned its presentment to the raa5C5 n05 P ,rai
LATEST REPORT
ON
CAMPAIGN
i
At the mid-day luncheon yes
terday at noon all subseriptlons
to date were reported
by the
exeeutive committee and group
managers.
The report showed a
total of
$70,700 In stock subscriptions.
Division managers and their
assistants showed the following
stock sales:
Division A—
P. S. Bailey. Manager:
Wm D. Adair
$ 254#
Perry M. Moore
176#
E. M. Timmerman
... 308#
Division B—
• ••
R. W. Boland. Manager:
W. R. Anderson
$ 374#
W M. McMillan
.. 368#
W M Walker
.. 398#
Division C—
H. L. Eichelberger, Mgr.:
1 Archie Clark
8 242#
W. A. Johnson
11##
R. M. Vance
Division D—
C. C. Giles, Manager:
.. 15##
Lynn W. Cooper
8 178#
Si W. Some re 1
176#
Robert Wysor
352#
Summary:
Division A
$ 748#
Division B
m#
‘ Division C
S#8#
Division D
.. 7#4#
Exec. Cougmittee ..
.. 41.22#
Grand total
|7#,7##
Laurens county court of general ses
sions last week.
A recommendation was made to
the sheriff that he use every effort
to bring to trial certain organizations
in the county who seem to be charg
ing illegal interest on small loans.
Otiier recommendations were:
We recommend to the magistrates
On Monday night in Roddy’s ban
quet hall in the Masonic Temple
building, nearly a hundred men met
at dinner..to launch the campaign to
sell stock to finance the new Clinton
William Leonard (Bill) Sligh, 21-j hotel. It was one of the largest group
months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- j 0 f business men ever assembled in
liam Wallace Sligh of this city, died^g c jjy j n the interest of a comma-
early Sunday morning at the Green-| n i t .y project.
ville General hospital following an,
R. L. Plaxico, general chairman of
operation. | Ihe organziation, presided at the dm-
Fun« r .l «mc« w.re conducted „„ w ‘ lch was , red and strveJ
Monday afternoon from the Firrt b Mr and M „ p L Rodd o1
Baptist, church in Wh.tmire by the dy . s Resuurant In hls ope „ m ,
hiarks, Mr. Plaxico took occasion to
express his appreciation to.all in the
organization for their support of the
! project. He congratulated memberi
of the executive committee, who.
of the county that when a warrant is * t p*,\i e ' , ,
j j_ . .Rev. A. L. Phillips. Interment fol-
issued for disposal of property under • * . j • » ,
ii*n that 4Kj> . lowed in Rosemont cemetery here,
lien that the party or parties be!
hr«..<rM ♦-id k n T*'* htUe boy is survived by his
brought to trial, and not be allowed I „ ,
to settle the case out of court. iff « Tam Irandparents.
The grand jury has purchased a . .
fan for use in the grand jury room^ Mr?’ nd 'tuaT', * ran K dm0ther *’ the past four weeks or more!
in the court house, and we authorize i ossi ig o ew erry. have worked hard to secure initial
the proper officer to make payment '
Revise Schedule For
Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of
New York city’s historic Marble Col
legiate church, and close Thursday
U. S. savings bonds sales in Lau-j morning, July 3, following the ap-
rens county totalled $74,500.00 forbearance of Earl Bunting, president
of the National Association of Manu
facturers. ,
owner and president of Kiwanis In
ternational, will preside at the vari-! urer; Helen Hogue, of Rock
ous sessions. The convention will 1 president of Bethel Presbytery, Ola
open with an address by the Rev. Jane Jennings, of Charleston, presi
May as reported by D. F. Patterson,
savings bonds chairman for Laurens
county. <
Sales for South Carolina for May
totaUed $3,110,363.25.
Mr, Patterson calls attention to the
hew Bond-A-Month plan which' the
banks of this community and across
the nation are now making ajuattable
to their depositors. Under This plan
Foster To Supply
Special features have been plan-1 ins, president of Pee Dee Presbytery;
ned for wives of Kiwanians in at-j Earl Morris, Jr., of Pickens, presi-
tendance, while a teen-age canteen dept of Piedmont Presbytery; Zelda
will be established for boys and girls.
Summer School Opens
At Presbyterian College
dent of Charleston Presbytery; Ann
Taylor of Ridgeway, president of
Congaree presbytery; Carolyn
Bearden, of Welford, president of, DunCOn Creek Church
Enoree Presbytery; Lewis Haigler,!
of Kingstree, president of Harmony; Prof. W. O. Foster, member of the
Presbytery; Jiffie^Beckman, of Mull-! Presbyterian college faculty, will
conduct services at Duncan Creek
Presbyterian church near nere dur
ing the absence of the pastor, Rev.
James S. Gray, who is away for the
summer months.
Gambrell, of Owings, president of
South Carolina Presbytery; June
Matthews, of Hemingway, historian;
Frank Perrin of Union, editor of the
“Scribe;” Frank Perry of Presbyte-
jrian college, Westminster Fellowship
the depositor Authorizes the bank to
issue and deliver to him a bond each) The summer school session at Pres- president. The Adult Advisers are
month, charging the purchase price byterian college opened Tuesday!the Rev. Russell W. Park of Lake
to his checking account.
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with an enrollment of 160, according City, and Miss Eva Harris of this city,
to President M. W. Brown. Registra j Assisting at the Leadership school
tion was completed the first day and
classroom work began yesterday. The
school will run through August 16,
during < which period students have
an opportunity of making a total of
nine semester hours.
The school is headed by Dr, B. C.
Murdoch as dean. Members of the
faculty, in addition to Dean Murdock,
are: S. P. Hatchett, Kenneth N. Ba
ker, John W. Harris, N. G. White-
law, B. K. Timmons, Bernard H.
Boyd, R. M. Burts, Edward Nolan,
Edouard Patte, a new faculty mem-
The schedule for the fast eight-
club Mid-State textile league was re
vised during the past week so that
beginning this week, games are now
various problems facing these offi-1 0 f Laurens,
cers. R. N. Jackson, foreman, C. S., The changes, decided upon at a
Pinson, C. M. Curry, H. B. Workman, league meeting, Will not affect the
Laws ' week of July 4 as originally carded,
officers state. /
WHERE THEY PLAY
Saturday, June 21—
Mollohon at Laurens.
Riverdale at Joanna.
Watts at Newberry.
Whitmire at Clinton.
Monday, June 23— ^ 1
Mollohon at Clinton.
, Riverdale at Laurens.
Watts at Joanna.
Whitmire at Newberry.
Wednesday, June 25—
Mollohon at Riverdale.
Clinton at Watts.
Laurens at Whitmire.
Joanna at Newberry.
STANDING OF CLUBS
(Games played through June 14)
! subscriptions. He expressed thanks
to C. W. Anderson for his leadership
as chairman of committee, to W. C.
, Baldwin for his services as treasurer,
and to Tom Addison and Lelana
Young for their leadership given t#
the general sales organization.
Chairman Plaxico introduced J. H
MERCHANT WINS TRIP
A. J. Merchant, local representa
tive of the industrial division of the
Pilot Life Insurance company,
Greensboro, N. C, has returned from
a trip to the company’s home office.
Mr. Merchant won the trip as a re-
ber for the coming year, and Miss*suit of outstanding industrial and or-
Bernice Johnson, who resides near
here. .
dinary productipn during ^ sP^? ial
contest during the past tmee months.
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for same.
“We have appointed the following' Mid-State Leaque
committee from the grand jury to be **
known as the Law Enforcement com
mittee. This committee will meet
with the sheriff^ the solicitor and
other county officials fronu-lime to
time seeking to coordinate the vari-] played on Mondays. Wednesdays and Pitts. Jr., who related some of n.J
ous law enforcement agencies, and | Saturdays, according to an announce- experiences in interviewing pns-
to acquaint ^the^grand jury with the. me nt made by the president, L. S. j pects. Mr. Puts said that wherever
he went he was well received and
given a sympathetic hearing and he
is convinced that all solicitors wou!S
receive a sympathetic hearing be
cause the people of Clinton are hea : ; -
tily ip favor of the new hotel and
many are waiting for the opportunity
to subscribe.
H. L. Eichelberger said. There a e
more people in Clinton who want tdi*
I hotel than anything I have ever see x
in 25 years. A great many people
; have asked me if they could bay-
stock in the new hotel and the only
Ixeason I did not sell them was be
cause of a desire to conform to tne
1 t>lan of campaign, which demands
that no person be solicited by a wot k-
1 er who does not hold his assignment
i card. I am so enthusiastic for the
1 new hotel that I have made^p my
mind to sell double the amount
stock that I originally intended to
sell." Mr. Eichelberger is a 'member
of the executive committee and a cL-
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
HONOR ROLL
Keep posted through THE CHRON
ICLE of the happenings of 4his com
munity. All local news you will find;
were the members of the regional: in “your favorite newspaper.” The Riverdale
office, Dr. LeRoy P. Burney, region-'
al director of religious education for
the synod of South Carolina, and
Miss Jane Chamblee, associate re
gional director.
cost is less than two two-cent post
age stamps a week.
Thanks and welcome to those on
our Honor Roll this week:
RADIO STATION WKDK,
Newberry.
MISS LUVA MCDONALD,
Iva.
MRS. LUCIUS P. BURNS, '
Mountville.'
MISS JOYCE LAND,
Buffalo.
MRS. G. W. MOORE,
Clinton.
MRS. LEE ROY LELL,
West Clinton.
Joanna ....
Watts ... .
Whitmire
Laurens
Mollohon
Newberry
Clinton
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15
15
15
11
6
5
4
6
7
7
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16
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v»s»° n manager. '
.682'
682 i L Bobmd* manager of Division
500'tr~ an<i C. C. Giles, manager of D.~
375 .vision D, spoke enthusiastically of
238 the cam P ai $ n Mr. Giles $aKL~Yv>u ^
.190
BOLAND ILL AT HOME
">4 I
F. M. Boland, cashier of The Com
mercial Depository, has been con
fined to his home the past ten days
on account of illness. His many
friends unite in wishing for him a
speedy recovery.
H—A
men are the backbone of Clinton,
and I ask you, is Clinton to be a
backward town or are we going
ahead like many of the nearby
towns? Raising $214,000 isn't going
to be an easy job; it isn’t going to be
done by sitting in your offices or at
home. We must go out and make tne
necessary sales; we must see our
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