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t nr Ar ■? * / ' •; i i , H Y J THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable I V If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLVII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, September 4, 1947 Number 36 CLINTON Business, Professional Folks You Know COLLEGE TO OPEN NEXT TUESDAY ♦R ~t' Orientation Petiod for New Students. Enroll ment to Exceed Recbrd. MIGUEL CASSANOVA PASSES AT HOME; LAST RITES MONDAY Hunter Accepts Montreat Position Miguel Cassanova, 73, died at his home on Florida street at an early hour Sunday morning . after several j years of declining health. He was a | native of New Orleans, La., but had i ♦ i made his home here 16 years, where Presbyterian college will open a | he,served as agent for the Industrial new session next Tuesday when Life and. Health Insurance company, j freshmen will arrive on the campus. 1 until forced to retire a year and a| Registration for former stiidents half ago because of ill health. He will begin on Thursday. * ! was a member of the Catholic church, k On Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the; Mr. Cassanova was married three chapel a welcome service will be!times. His first marriage was to Jo- held for the freshmen, with President sephine Sweetman, and by this union M.‘W. Brown, Mayor L. E. Bishop; two daughters survive: Mis. Alma j and the president of the student body! Rue and Mrs. Norma Rue, of New! welcoming the new students. An in- : Orleans. His second marriage was to j formal reception by the Student Catherine Manley. By this union one G. N. FOY Christian association will follow. 1 son and one daughter survive, Adrian i The freshman orientation program' Cassanova, Columbia, and Miss will continue through Wednesdiy, i Madeline Cassanova of Sumter. His Thursday, Friday and Saturday as’"^ 0 '^ ^ onner Hattie J. Hester outlined in a bulletin mailed to stu-‘°^ Bl a den county, N. C., survives dents. Saturday evening a* reception,^ wo sons ar *d two daughters: will be given the entire student body ^ am ^ Cassanova, Migudl Cassano Report Given On Health Department Work In County SOUTH CAROLINA ONE OF TOP STATES Columbia, Sept. 1—(Special to The ^^QNG FORTY'EIGHT Chronicle). — The State Department; of Health this week issued its annual | report for the fiscal year ending June! 30, 1946 in wl|ich contains details of^ ; the varied and extensive service ren-1 ; dered to Laurens county communities! and individuals by the county health department.^ During thje period covered, 123 per sons were admitted for medical treat ment for the control of venereal dis-j ease, and 656 field visits were made; i in that connection. Tuberculosis pa- Facts Cited Showing Varied Assets and High Rating In Financial Soundness. By E. VV CAPFN Executive Vice-President South Car olina Industries, Inc. I Recent press reports regarding the tients admitted for medical service annual per capita incomes in the va- 1 during the year numbered i42, and nous states, and the accompanying ! in addition to. clinical treatment 2811 disparaging comments upon the com- 1 • field nursing visits were made con-j P ara ^' ve ^y incotnes ip the South- ! cerning the tuberculosis control pro- ern states, prompts the remark thal ! gram by the, Laurens dounty health there are basic causes for the lower i department. 1 ' ! income averages which — did they J. H. HUNTER . at. j . , prevail (and it might have oeen so) Inspections 6y pnysicians and nurs- : H ' . . , , , .ii , , •-_! in the other state-—would have pri es in the county schools in connection 1 K with-! school Hygiene totaled 2,536. John Holland Hunter, b u s i n e s s | Forty-tight classroom talks were de duced similar resists.1 The unfair pronunciamento from by the Student Christian association va ’ • Jr -> Mrs - J ames R-Jacks and An-imanager of the State Training school^ livered on the subject of health, in; Washington, a few days ago, that the Groover Niblack Foy is a highly esteemed Goldville citizen. Likewise, in Clinton," where he is known by many, he is highly regarded. and the College Dames in honor ofi gtla Cassanova of this city; also one for the past five and a half years, 1 addition to visits to 84 schools in the new students. | brother, Albert F. Cassanova, of New ( has resigned effective October L | Laurens county. Eighty-two nursing f Upper classmen will matriculate C> r l eans > several grandchildren. ; ^j r Hunter at this time will move 'visits were made -to follow up the on Thursday with a special schedule Funeral services were conducted Moutreat, N. C., where he has ac- examinations gvien at the schools. . continuing through Saturday. Monday at the graveside in R° se -1 cepted a position as assistant to Dr. Under the crif>pled children pro- Mr. Foy was born in SaUida coup-j The college enrollment this year, mont cemetery by Father W. G.;j R> McGregor, president of the grafn, 72 Laurens county .children ty, a son of the late John Barnn 2ton; according tQ President Brown, wiH, D °y le of Columbia. Pallbearers Were Montreat Association, owned by the were admitted to nursing care. Foy and Carrie Edwards Joy. His exceed the 454 record enronm ~ ent of ,J. E. Kinard of Newberry, H. A.! p res5yterian church . early life was spent in Saluda where ; iast year Au dormitory and class | Lindler, of Laurens, T. Earl Woodruff, South presented economic problem No. 1, was a disservice to this nation proportionate to the high political of fice, from which it came. The state ment was inporrect. The!Truth about the South ijS that vt -rs-rhe garden wc spot of the World, capable of holding he attended the elementary and high school. He was a student at The Cita del for two years until called with the National Guard f^r Mexican bor der service. Returning from that as- room space has been filled to capaci ty, with many students unable to se cure 'admittance. Several changes have been made in the- faculty the coming year. The in Eignraent he served with the national; , ete , |st ot teifhers appeared army until after the armistice was The Chr<m|c]e las , ,„ eek , signed. He was then employed for i one year by Bradstreet company un-j k , til the death of his father, which ne-|NU|IVi«C olVEN cessitated his returning to Saluda to OF APPEAL IN look after home interests. Mr. Foy began teaching school in Darlington county in 1921. He also taught in Marlboro and Orangeburg JOHNSON CASE Laurens Sept. 2.—W. Ernest John- counUes before going to Laurens in Jon, Clinton textile executive con- f' 1925 to head the Watts Mills school | victed of mvoluntary manslaughter lor four years as superintendent, t j at a special term of court held in July In 1929 Mr. Foy accepted the sti-land given a two-year sentence, has perintenden# of the Joanna schools'****! released on bond pending an at Goldville. The schools have been | appeal to the supreme court, it was enlarged and improved during the,learned yesterday at the clerk of 18 years he has headed the system, i court s. office. the faculty now consisting of 151 Johnson was charged with running teacWs. He has made a large con-!over and fatally ^ wounding Berle 4 tribOftion to the education* advagee-! Hooper, four-year old child of -the Roy Workman, Sr., Frank Cauley and Perry M. Moore. The services were largely attended and the mound cov L ered with many beautiful flowers at testing the esrteem in which he was held. The honorary escort was composed of H. A. Snider, Sgt. Sterlin Young, A. B. Jacks, R. L. Plaxico, and T. Russell Cooper. Mr. Cassanova was a man of high ideals. Quiet and unassuming, he In guarding the public health, 283 its - own ^ an y ot**r region oi^ Mr Hunter has soent his entire! visits were made l P private premises, earth as the a11 around place m Mr. nunter nas spent ms entire; cu/immin<>'' anH 54 tn' w hich to Inie.^ » 1 «life here. He is a graduate bf Pres- tw, ° to swimmim, pools, and 54 to nrohablv the dollar hat byterian college and was i employed c 01 ” 1 *? institutions and public prem- j A V S0 - Probab.y. the do Jar ha by that institution as business mana-^s. A total of 118 public complaints purchasing powej _injhe ger for 21 years, going there shortly > ere investigated, and the source 0/; some othei^ parts ol after the late D^r. D. M. Douglas as-! the complaints corrected in 34 cases, j sumed the nresidenev He resigned! Inspections of 171 food handling T| iere is good reasen for .he lac. sumed the presidency. He r ^ gn « d 1 establ ^ hments were made t0 enforce J hat ^ cent of industrial devel- sftiin witlfm^Trammg tch^l 1 where food and milk requirements in the “P™" 1 J as beengreater in the South si null wuii HIP 11 culling senuui wucic * during the Tact 15 veiArc thin in th». he is held in high regard hv the staff i coun ty- Tests and inspections were aunn * 1116 las ! la years than in the he,is neld in mgn regard by the staff ' markets m-lk other stat e s - Geographically, South workers and large family of inmates. a so made of meat markets, m ‘ lk Carolina j th kevstone state of the Mr. Hunter possesses a wide circle. P* an ^ s and dair y possessed many odmirable traits ofj h i s leaving the citv where^he has carried out by the Laurens ^ounty, ynalities in common with the character which endeared him to a !!!_ /If ty where he h ff| health denartment were communii-' o®® 1 " ^° uthern states, and, in addi Among the many other activities 1 Each Southern state has val- large circle of friends, neighbors and those he served in a business way. been identified for many years with department were communu- n„t»t a nd,ng the educational, civic and religious cable disease control, inoculationk, | ^ ha ^ts own outstanding specific Training Schopl Begins New YearVWartt life of tHe community. He and Mrs. Hunter wilk carry tlifi ’best wishes cf many friends as they go elsewhere. Itis> youngesL son^ Herbert, will go to. Montreat, where he will enter infant and pre-school hygiene, adult hygiene, and laboratory work. values. Following are mentioned some of In.praising the work of the county these values as possessed by South health departments, Dr. W. R. Wal-j^' arol * na: •. ■ ^ lace, chairman of the State Board-of! Industrially Health, stated recently that there' H ranks with the top states in work on Monday, Sept. 1. There were no new additions to the faculty (this year. The following teachers b 4"“ ! inent of that section, giving his sup- C lint 9 n Mill village, while returning rei>orted for duty on Thursday, Au- nort and influence always to all ef- from a baseball game in June of last:g us t 28th: Boys and girls at the State 3*rairi- h, * h school. The elder son, John Hol-j have | 3 ^ en no e pi dem i cs of any kind! hydr0 ' electric P°wer development: ing school began their formal school lahH w,n r * rna,n Vl “ r '“ oc a “ *' 1 ««« 1 — '*—* lahch will remain h.re as a student duIi lhe ast s , y “ rs , at Presbyterian college. 1 ■ ». . i gust forts for the betterment of the com- , Mrs. Margaret Holson r Parksville. munity/ and manifesting a personal j H. S. Blackwell of defense counsel! Mrs. Margaret Fouctae, Newberry, interest always in the boys and girls sa * d yesterday that his firm had filed I Miss Mamie Mcllroy and Mrs. Ben who have entered and passed through notice of appeal and called on the Milling, Tryon, N. C. Mayor Proclaims Safety Week For Bicycle Riders the schools during this period. coAirt Stenographer for a transcript of Mr. Foy holds an A. B. degree from testimony and the judge s charge. Newberry college, 1934, and receivedii ^* ien these are received, he said, his M. A. degree this year from the | ***• appeal will be perfected. University of South Carolina. -/ church^. ~ K^'Sjfkycle Porode Here He has been a leader for years in'Saturday MOMing ’ Boy’Scout Wprk in BMe Ridge coun-j ♦ cil, has served as*?^ former scoutmas-l All bicycle riders in the city are ter, and at present if chairpnan of j invited to meet in front of the college is chairpnan of i council. Hb is advancement for the tbuhciL a j useful, public-spirited citizen of Joanna. f ^ 4 Mr. and Mrs. Foy reside oflf Milton library Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clock to form into a group and ride to the Broadway theater where a bicycle will be given away to the Mrs. Naomi Rhodes, Laurens. Mrs. Ailie Hamilton, Iva. Mrs. Ayliffe R. Jacobs, Mrs. Lon nie Hiers and Miss Louise Cox, Clin ton. J Mrs. Rhett Sloan will continue as Home Making teacher. Mayor L. E. Bishop has proclaimed the week of Sept. 1-6 9s "Kids Saf ety Week” as a movement to promote saftey measures on the part of the The Darrs Return From Vacation Stay Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Darr and fam ily have returned from a month's vacation spent in the lower part of the state. During his absence the pulpit of the First Baptist church was supplied community’s youthful bicycle riders. ! by Lloyd E. Batson, ministerial stu- The Turners, Return Ffom Vacation road in Goldville. Mrs. FojTis secre- j rider holding the lucky number, tary to W- A. Moorhead, viig-presi-! To enter the contest children may dept and general manager Joanna ; obtain application cards at any drug Cotton Mills company, and^ likewise store in the city and deposit same gives ijbenatyy of her time xto pro-'bearing their name in a box at the moting"* activities of the community Broadway theater. Also on the as president of the Woman’s club. Before coming to' Goldville she was engaged in Girl Scout and recreation, al work in Columbia. •T City Schools Begin New Year's Work ^ safety imbng riders. ( •v 'fhe 1947-48 session‘of the Clinton public schools began Tuesday nam ing with a large eneollment, both white and colored. * « The list of teachers ^by grades ap- eared in The Chronicle* last week. Anribuncement «vas made that the daily school, session for the first two weeks will close at 12 o’clock noon. Broadway prgoram will be a short Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Turner and children returned Monday from a month’s vacation spent in Macon, Manasas Springs, Va., and Greens boro, N. C. Dr. Turner will occupy his pulpit Sunday morning. WITH SCHOOL 25 YEARS Miss Norma Hallett on September cartoon comedy of about 30 minutes J** 1 wd * complete 25 years service and talks by Mayor L. E. Bishop and Chief of Police Ballard. An adver-. tisement pertaining to the event ap pears in today’s paper! at the State Training school and during this long period has made an invaluable contribution to the wel fare and happiness of the school’s His proclamation said: “Whereas, bicycle ridirfg has be come 1 one of the greatest traffic problems in Clinton and whereas the bicycle is an excellent means of transportation and recreation for the younger citizens of Clinton, it be hooves all of the citizens to enter into a comprehensive safety edu cational program in order tq protect these young riders dent. Mr. Darr will occupy his pul pit Sunday at "both morning and eve ning services. Oak Grove School Opened Monday more than 1,000,000 hp. (Ample pow- , er supply Is a fundamental factor in the indusirial expansion of any state). \ 2. It rankb top in the textile indus try. (5,778,000 active spindles: Value of annual product, $800,000,000). 3. It is, tops in the rapidity of growth of^qommercial trees and in the relative extent of its forests. (Products' Ikumber, creosoted poles, venetfcs, baVrels, boxes, furniture, pulp and paperr- Annual vilue more than $70,000,000 K 4. Among the first in the manufac ture of fertilizers. 5. Outstanding in quality of certain kaolins and clays and in some rarer minerals. 6. South Carolina ranks among the ; highest in purity of water supply “Now therefore, I, L. E. Bishop, wer « invited. Mrs. Robert Cain is Mayor of the City of Clinton, do pro-; principal and Mrs. Carl Bramlette, claim the week of September 1-6 Oak Grove school near here opened, an< M n constant abundance of it. (This Monday morning with special exer-1 factor 15 great value as a basic cises to which patrons and friends ; ' ne ! cessdy * n n^ny 'industrial oper ations). ! t 1 assistant. as “Kids Safety Week” and do cal’, n all citizens to participate in the ivit^s incident to the same. ‘L. E. Bishop, Mayor.’ The purpose of the meeting Ls.toi large famdy organize a bicycle club to promote Watson Completes Pastorate Here THE BETTS AT HOME Architect Boyd Opens Office Here NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL Agriculturally 7. Highly favored in the frequency : and even distributism of aijBuai'Tain- I fall: 48 inches. 8. South Caroling ranks fourth in I the production of rtu^cured tobacco. Value of crop $84,000,000 in 1946. 9. Ranks first in the fresh market shipments of peaches: 9,400 carloads For less than 4c a week you can have THE CHRONICLE, tilled with jin 1946. / local news, delivered in your home.) 10^ Ranks fifth in potatoes sweet Hamp L. Boyd, well known archi- Ne ^ subscriptions invited, anywhere, and Irish; sixth in snap beans; fifth tect, has opened an office in the' Welt " ome and thanks to those 011 L n wa termelons (6,400.000 sold in Dr., and Mrs. C. Bynum Betts have returned' from a mdnth’s vacation spent at' their summer cottage at Flat Rock, ,N. C. National Bank building over Cope- our Honor Roll this week: land-Stone company to offer pros-' pective home owners a planning ser vice. ► Mr. Boyd is a graduate architect of 17 years planning and building experience, including four years wuh, the U. S. Navy as associate architect.; ! Rev. J. O. Watson,-Mrs. Watson and! SHEALY OUT OF CITY three children left Monday for Louis-J Dr. F. K. Shealy is out' of the city ville, Ky., where ML Watson will be; all this week attending the. Univer-' In recent years he has been located a student this fair at the Baptist The-. sity of Georgia School of Medicihelin Rock Hill, and was in the con- * Bailey School Begins New Year Bailey school began its '1947-48 ses sion Monday morning. The school is headed by Mrs. Carl Taylor, princi pal, Mrs. William Poole, assistant. ! READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY' JSACH WEEK They inform yon as to chang ing prices, where yon can sup ply your needs, where yep can- shop to advantage. , 4. Jl -1 BE WISE— i READ THE ADS ological seminary. As pastor of Calvary Baptist j church, Mr. Watson preached his last sermon, Sunday evening before a, targe congregation. In appreciation I of his services and as evidence of the love and esteem in which he was held the congregation presented him a substantial cash offering as a fare well gift. obstetric seminar. Watts and Riverdale Playing for Title * it- •T Watts Mills scored three runs in the first two innings and behind Charley Childers’ steady pitching, went on to defeat Riverdale 5-2, be fore 3,000 fans in Laurens Monday night. The fifth game in the best four ouT of seven title series was scheduled to be played at Enoree last night. Watts leads, three games to one in the Mid-State playoff finals. Joanna, ranking third, lost cut in the last few games of the season. Presbyterian College Football Schedule 1947 Sept. 20—Clemson at Clemson. Sept. 27—The Citadel at Char- * leston. Oct. 3—Sewanee at Clinton (night). Oct. 11—Erskine at Anderson (night). Oct. 17—Parris Island Marines at Parris Island. Oct. 24—Rollins at Clinton (night). H Nov. 1—Catawba at Salisbury. Nov. 7-^-Wofford at C 1 i n 10 11 (homecoming—night), ij Nov. 15—Stetson at DeLand, Fla. Nov. 27—'Newberry at New- berry. . ' . trading business here from 1932 un til 1941. He is also a member of the firm of Home Supply company of this city. Football Practice Begins At College The Presbyterian college Blue Hose began their initial football practice Monday afternoon under a blazing sun. v Practice is continuing daily under Coach Lonnie McMillian, with about one hundred men in the squad including a large number of fresh men. \ r Workers Conference For Presbyterian Group A workers conference for officers and teachers in the Sunday school of the lUrst Presbyterian church will be hfld Friday evening at 8 o’clock at the church. Plans for ‘ the fall prograjtn of the chift-ch will be made. MISS RUTH KING, • / Montreal, N..*C. , ANDRKW J. JOHNSON, JR„ Fh San Francisco, Calif.. MISS BERNICE . JOHNSON,*, Greenville. ( FRANK FALLS HICKS, JR , Union Mills, N. C. MRS. HUGH SMITH, Oakland, Calif. MISS BILLIE DEE HOOPER,* Columbia. MRS. C. E. BRAGG, Newberry. HENRY LEWIS NABORS, Denver, Colo. MRS. RUDELL BROWN, Vaucluse. MRS. W. E. ROWE, Hendersonville, N. C. MRS. ROBERT GARDNER, ' JOE T. CARLISLE, W. L. CROWDER. ALVIN WELCHEL, MRS. GEORGIA LEWI? RAYMOND HARREL£<j CLAUDE PARRIS, Goldville. 1 A’ MRS. WADE NELSON, > J. B. LANGFORD} South Clinton!. MRS. LARRY COG DUX, MRS. JIM BOUKNIGHT, C. E. LEOPARD, A. J. PENLA0HD, MRS. E. E. LONG, p' j West Clinton. 10 1946; brought $1,677,000). 11. Ranks higb 1,1 production of - Cotton; 750,000 bales is anndal ave; - - yge. It is in the first third of the j states raising cotton. 12. The internationally known gar- j dens Magnolia, Middleton, Cypress and others are par excellence beauty and magnitude. Highways 14. South Carolina ranks very : high among the states in number of ; miles of paved highways: 8,354, pro- , portionate to its area, 32,000 square j miles.. The quality of construction is of the best. in (Continued on page two) GOING AWAY TO -jCOLLEGE OR TO TEACH? - W yo* want the Clinton news —have THE CHRONICLE Jel- l«w you. Its weekly visits .will be “like a letter from hdme.*' Student’s and teacher’s rate of $1 50 for nine months. List your subscription today. -t tTHE CHRONICLE ‘The Paper Everybody. Reads” • 1 I ' t /\ .i-.- . _ i. ■>., !'~ •• ,v t t j