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: - , > THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable * Volume XLVIII If You Don't Read ——. THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 17, 1948 Number 25 BASKIN CALLS MEET FOR TODAY State Executive Com mittee to Hear Proposals of Various Counties. RUN-OVER RACES HELD TUESDAY e Copeland, McMillan, Wilson and Craine Win In Alderman Contests. Columbia, June 15. — A special In run-over races held Tuesday for meeting of the South Carolina Demo-! aldermen from wards two, three, five cratic Executive Committee was cail-and sjx, considerable interest, was j ed today for Thursday noon by manifested by supporters of the > Chairman William P. Baskin. eight candidates. Baskin said the committee will hear In ward two, L. L. Copeland, Sr., resolutions and recommendations incumbent, won over R. L. Plaxico. from various county committees and The vote stood: Copeland 157, Plaxi- citizens, some of them urging another cOTTTr state party convention. | i n ward three. Alderman Billy There have been some protests McMillan was re-elected over his op- against the voting oath required ofiponent, Robert-Wysor, III. The vote Democrats, and of the question of stood: McMillan 173, Wysor 110. 1 negroes enrolling in the party. The, Jn wards five and $ix there w * ere oath covers support of segregation close races In fi Woodrow L. Wil- on educationa! and social ievels. (son won ovef Carl Campbell*. The A J C J U ?f: n ? <? mTnittee .„ had de ;!cW was: Wilson 193, Campbell 176. manded that the committee call a j n ward s j x> j ames Craine won new convention by June 18, threat- over Walker Gre g ory by a margin emng to break the party line to send !of twQ votes The count stood; Craine » delegation to the National Conven- 192 Gregory 190. , . . , ' The general election will be held Charleston county’s Democratic, late in August, the new officials to,,. leaders last mght proposed changes assume 0 ffi ce j n September for two-' SuiTlfllCr School Af in the voang oath, but endorsed it ar terms Mayor L. E. Bishop was j n i . • general. Some few negroes have en-, renominate d on the first ballot a! v^SbytCNOfl ColICQC lolled in the party, although such^ week a g 0 over ^ wo 0 pp 0nen t s> • • j action is required only of whites, I „ £nd have threatened court action if .. The new cou J lcl1 w 1 ) 1 consist of j -three new members and three hold-' ' overs from the present administra- YOUNG CLINTON CITIZENS Joanna Employees To Get Service Awards Top row, left to right: William Wilson, Earl Todd. Linda Bridges. Bottom row: Kit and Stephen Hill, Jean and Marjorie Arnold, Fred and Jane Ellen Fowler. Parents oi the children are Mr. and Mr*. L. M. Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Todd, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bridges, Mr. and Mrs George M. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Arnold. Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Fowler. LAURENS NEARS LEAGUE'S TOP Is Close Runner-up to Mills Mill in Mid-State Standing. In Mid-State league games Tues day night Mills Mill defeated Joanna 9 to 3 at Woodruff. Curtis, Duke uni- versity star the past season, hurled masterful .three-h:t ball in his debut on the mound, fanned eight and walked five. ■ > In the Clinton-Laurens game here. Manager Dan Kirby took over the pitching job and held the locals at bay most of the time while his team won 9-5 before a large crowd of fans. Laurens scored five runs in the sixth ! to clinch the argument. Joe McGee SPECIAL PROGRAM SATURDAY RIGHT Presentotion of Gold Watches, Rings and Pins Will Be Made to 87 With Long Service Records. Free Baseball Gome. Opened Yesterday Heavy Income From Liquor Tax Money For Towns In County Following the policy of recogn.z.ng faithful service, Joanna Cotton Mills Company will present gold watohe., * rings, and pints to those whq have been employed there for twenty, fif teen and ten years, respectively, m an impressive qerefnpny to be he.d Saturday night. June 19, at 7.30 o’clock at Clark Field, in Goldville. A special feature will be the .nduc- ,lion of the five employees with 1 and Monk Raines pitched for Clin- twenty-five years service into the Old ! t° n - Timers club by W. H. Regnery, o' The victory lifted Laurens to with- Chicago; president of the corporalion. , in one game of the league-leading A free ball game between Joanna an t Mills Millers of Woodruff, with a Laurenr will follow the presents.‘.or. chance to go on top in the They are denied full party activity. Under the suggested Charleston red-hot . Last year ^awards. 415 employee- d One hundred fifty-six ’ students- Columbia, June 15.—(Special to the pennant race, have enrolled for the nine-week sum- chronicle). — J. N. Caldwell, sec re- | Brandon and Riverdale . did not Plans f-r the event have been version, voters would swear that they,^ on ‘ four, five and six will be mer school session which began yes- tary Q f the South Carolina Aiuuicipal P' a y on account of ram “believe in *md will support the prin- represented by new councilmen, terday at Presbyterian college. ^ ciples of the Democratic Party of,^ 1111 Cooper elected in the first South Carolina and that I believe in P ,imar y* and Messrs Wilson and _ „ „ and will support the social and edu- named m Tuesdays primary, t facu j iy and wi jj teach cational separation of the ra^es as "' ards on ®> two- and three will oe bus i ncss law. Mr. Owen„ 0 defined by the State Constitution of re P resentec * ^ , e incumbents, who. a j e Presbyterian college and re association, this week announced the Tench P. Owens, local attorney, estimated amouhls five towns in Lau- is a member of the summer school rens coun ty will receive in the 1943- a course in fiscal year as a result of a 50 per business .aw. Mr. Owens is a gradu- cen | increase which the 1948 general. 1895 were re-elected, Hugh C. Ray, Cope-1 ^ ^ joined his * father Robert S*. assemb * authorjzed in the Stat * U ,j t__ > recently joinea nis ramer, m oeri 3 : quor tax allocation to municipalities. laffd and McMillan. Aldermen Joe P. Owens, in law r practice acre after Terry and J. W Hedspeth in wards, having ’ been graduat ed from the Uni- | The legislature this year directed six, did not stand for re- vers jt y of Virginia school of law. an increase of from 10 to 15 per cent Games Today (Thursday): Clinton at Brandon. Mills Mill at Riverdale. Joanna at Laurens. Saturday: Brandon at Clinton. Riverdale at Mills Mill. Laurens at Joanna. i five and [election. Kindergarten School At Presbyterian Church Plans for operating a kindergarten school under the direction and con- j trol of the First Presbyterian church < are being completed, but it will be . . . , an interdenominational school, it The FFA judging team from Clin-j^***’ Reeves was instructor m Eng-1 the state municipal association. j hsa been announced. Children who high school won top honors last, Ijsh at 'he University of Alabama, diS tnbution for. the present are four (whose fourth birthday oc- week in a judging contest. The team | institution from whlcd he '® ceiv- { dsca i year [ s on a population basis curs before November 1, 1948) and,Pl a ced first over four other schools ? ‘ s h ma ^'^ , e8 T ee .‘ us ® n y or towns. In preceding years towns five are eligible. , Laurens and Greenjvood counties. b. ur y has resumed his former P 0 * 1 'i h b alloted the tax on the ba- * r r t on as nstrnrtnr n F.nsl sh at t)u. i na ' e Deen lne lax on nounced by Walter- Regnery, v.cc- president and general ! manager, ac.d it is expected that o 1 irge crowd will be, present for thi second annua’ service award, pro n tut.on in which ■ nety-tw i men a w .men will oe honored. Gold w.dches.“<.r; prlately .en graved, will be aw. : ded to 26 en- Local FFA Team Tops In Judging Contest George M. Reeves, Jr., a native of ! in the state liquor tax distribution to Mills Mill Spartanburg and a former air c >rps towns in South Carolina, which rep- Laurens captain, has accepted a position in resents a 50 per cent raise of the Brandon the English department to fill the va- share of the tax received by indi- J°3nna cancy caused by the resignation of vidual cities. The additional allot- Clinton Richard G.* Dusenbury. Last year ment for the towns w r as sponsored by Riverdale How They Stand ... 13 12 12; io k 9 9 9 10 12 13 .591 .571 .571 .500 .429 .350 mpleted 20 years »r. Gold r.ngi, representing the Kiwanions To Observe 25th Anniversary The. Clinton K.wams club . . . , i n u • The Hickory Tavern team won sec-: woia as instructor in tngnsn at the i . .. .. . .... - A trained personnel w.ll b e m :s .i University of SoulK Carolina dnd s.s of the amount of l.q^r sold wTra-t celebral( , 2Mh bir , hd on 1 ••• - - their limits. Distribution of the charge. ployees who have c of service this yt bearing emblems front entrance of ‘he mill, will be presented to 26 employees wHa have reached the 15-year mark. The 35 workers who have completed 10 years of service will receive pias bearing designs similar to th se oa the rings. The length of service has -oepn figured as of March 31. tha close of the tiscal year , 1 After the presentation will awards. W. K Wails; July if the assistant su- N Mrs. H. G. Prince, an expe-I ong mgn S * )re ana oiner schools, ^ ouuu. v-.uow- dl, “; in lheir limits Distribution of the ';V ,;ur j 1 w C il 15 Dir;nQay 0,1 JUiy of Joaana Cotton Mills. C balw-spe^afi were Laucens, Greenwood, continue his graduate w o« 'heir hmite Dismbutton w.th ah apptopnate program. re : and chairman of 1 tv hospital drive.. work in Richmond, Va., this summer, Gray Court-Owings. The mem-,there. P*£ S^5*S ,vaU«ble fW many ’V.' ^ xlU g;ve a re ^ rt on ,he P will head the work Adeauate suu- bers of ^ local team are as fol_ : Amon 8 Clinton young people who;y lon from tne tax avaiiaoie tor many og mtlon f rom Kiwams International. jf thls i UMd - r ai S i.ng campaigft It is plies and playground equipment will lows: For dairy cattle - P° ultr y and!have registered for the session are; town s which previously have re- A special committee has been named reported that $28,000 has been raised ^ y H ^ eggs, Robert Cobb, James Kenneth Virginia Henry, Jpan- Harris, Mary ceived none of this revenue. to arrange the program. | to djle which 1S 000 short of the Haselden, Jr., and Jimmy Haupfear; Kent Wysor, Dorif Fuller, Cornelia- The amount alloted to Laurens Jhe club was organized on July. 17, goa i )jf $34 000 to oe raised locally be secured, it is stated. Further to help parents, the sche- f or beef cattle, hogs, 1 and sheep, Harris, Lillian Dii|lard, J. Edmunds dule of opening and closing dates, g bea j y L awson( Sammy Compton and Young, William S. Clarke, J. Ferdi- . holidays, etc., will be made to com- | jj mrny Haupfear. Inand Jacobs, Jr., Wyman Shealy, Jr., ply with that of Jhe public schools., e Bobb Dean Dail Alvin Bagwell, The opening datfe will be early m- wiu ue a uisirici comesi - whitaVo,- u/oitor a e 4u sometime in July. The Greenwood- Hairy Whitaker, waiter Morris, Jr. September. A nominal fee per month will will be charged to defray operating Laurens county federations expenses. represented by the Clinton team. Additional information may be ob- 1 tained by calling the church office. Month's Gas Tax Totals $5,841 Rock Bridge Chapel To Be Dedicated be | Late applicants are requested to 1 register within the next 10 days to j receive full credit, Dr. B. C. Mur doch, academic dean, said yesterday. r I Rock on the Ground Broken For Handsome New Theatre Ground has been broken on North Broad street for the erection of tne city’s handsome new $100,000 theatre building. The job will be pushed, ac- 1 Dedicatory exercises for Bridge Presbyterian chapel, —Columbia, June 15.—Special to.The 1 Greenwood highway three miles from Chronicle).—Laurens county receiy-, the city, have been announced for cd $5,841 this month as the county's Sunday afternoon, June 27, at 4 share of the monthly gasoline tax al-1 o’clock. The public is cordially in- T , . „ lotment, according to State Treasur- i vited. Funds for the erection of the cording to Manager Leland Young, er Jeff Bates. A total of $315,313 was: building were raised by members of in th e hope of having it completed distributed among the counties of the'the First Presbyterian church, which , by the first of the year. McKoy-Hel- state, the amount received by each. s P onsor s the outpost. geisqn company, of Greenville; are county being based on the number of! Or. Thornwell Jacobs, of Atlanta, | the contractors. motor vehicle licenses sold in the a native of this city, will preach the The new theatre will be the last county. The June distribution, which dedication sermon, is made on gasoline tax receipts dui- ing May, is the highest on record. L^t June, a total of $280,235 was distributed among the counties, of which Laurens counTy received $5,-! 175. The amount alloted to the coun-i Miss Doyle Thomason University Graduate county towns has risen steadily since the 1946-47 fiscal year. The, increase for the city of Laurens from $3,873 in 1946-47 to an estimated $22,615 during 1948-49 has previously been announced by the Municipal associ ation. The estimated increases to be received by other towns in Laurens' county during the 1948-49 fiscal year, as compared to the amounts received | in 1946-47, are as follows: Clinton, $3,241. during 1946-47, an estimated ^ $18,711 for 1948-49; Cross Hill, no share of the tax in 1946-47, an esti- 1 mated $1,722 for 1948-49; Gray Court,' none for 1946-47, $1,315 for 1948-49; Waterloo, none in 1946-47, $492 for 1948-49. If state alcoholic tax revenues do not decline, towhs in South Carolina will receive about $1,982,506 in the 1948-49 fiscal year, or almost two million dollars, ,in contrast to the $628,774 allocat 1946-47. 1 1C23. with the late B H Boyd as its first president. Several of its charter members are still active in the work - of the organization. I word in architectural design, the | owners state, and is being erected on one of the choice business lots in the ,city. The auditorium down stairs will . , seat 600, with 256 seats in the bal- AcCOptS PoSltlOll 1 cony. The latest and most modern ed in the fiscal vear 4 The latest and most Miss Frances Doyle Thomason of ! equipment is to be used throughout, ties is one cent of the six cent gaso-| this city, was among the 2,051 grad- “ line tax in South Carolina. The uates receiving degrees at commence-| Bible School At remaining goes to the State Highway ment exercises the past week of In- p 11 * C I Department. diana University at Bloomington, ^GlIVIGW jCnOOl ^— 1 Ind. She received the B. S. degree * ~ ‘ ♦ ~ D 1 a A ffAnri 1 from the school of education. A Bible school at Bellview Bap- rresoyrermns Airena M iss Thomason is the daughter of fist church will begin registration Pioneer Conference Ml and Mrs c T Thomason. They m attended the graduation exercises A number of young people ? and Miss Thomason returned with With Local Bank the First Presbyterian and Thornwell them to lhe Clty ‘ Memorial-churches are attending th$ ; - , -• • Pioneer conference at Lake Green - Donkey Baseball wood this week. !_ J . .. . Misses Inez Tucker, Myra Adair, SatUrClOy Night and Grace Young are counsellors fo$ the conference. Those attending in clude: Ellen Fraser, Hugh Eichelber- ger, Jr., Kenneth Baker, Jr., Carroll Hart, Joanne Copeland, Patsy Mac donald, Bill Turner, Larry Caldwell, Mildred Bell and Nancy Bell. S. James Von Hollen, s.»n of Mr. and Mrs J. H. Von Hollen, of §outn Clinton, has accepted a position with M. S. Bailey A Son. Bankers and en tiered upon his work there Tuesday. Nflr Von Hollen graduated with an Friday night at 7 o'clock. Classes A.B. > 3eg:et > from PresTijMerian col- will begin Monday night at 7 o’clock! lege and in August will receive a with all children of the communfty degree from the University of Geor- jinvited- to attend. Rev. and Mrs. gia School of Commerce which he :Kenneth Brown of Ridgeville, wilLhas been attending since his relem conduct the school. . I from service. Special Services At Shady Grove Church Revi L. \V. Brown has announced Sunday school at Shady Grove Pres- bytenan church Sunday at 2:3o. preaching at 3 p.m Special services will begin at the church next Monday night at eignt o’clock and continue through the following Sunday with Dr. M. A. Macdonald, of this city, as the 'guest minister for the services. • Tinman's Bakery To Opeh In City Tinman's Bakery, headed by J. L. Tinman, will open for business Fri day, June 18, at 307 North Sloan street. The bakery will offer the public a complete .line of pastries; breads and rolls. Mr. Tinman is well known as a baker, having been connected vsith the college dining department for about ten years. > When this goal has been reached, S66r000 will be added to this amount by Joanna Cotton Mills Co., thus making possible the erection i>f a S100.000 hospital for Joanna employ ees and the Goldville communi'ty After Chairman Wa ts' remarks,, an offering will be taken to give all interested persons -an-opportunity to have a part in the building ot tne hospital. , ■ The public is cordi ally invited to attend the ceremonies and the ball game as guests of the m:ll which has bough t the entire seat mg capacity of the ba 11 park for the i Mtcasion. The following are the names of those who will receive ? awards 25 years: Ge:rtrude Flow. Robbie Franc; is, Betty Furr. T E Osborne, Joe T Purdy 20 years: Eunice Bragg. If D. Bragg .MB Bridges, M. L. Bridges. T.>au a Burton, J E. Byars, 1C. J. C raig. Etta Craig. Ch rystell Flow, F. W Prady, A J G so ell. W L. G; a- ber. E iugenia Gunter Horace' Hamm. J if Jacks. W M Johnson. F C. Nabor s. B W Oxner . Mary G Ox- net, J , M. Rowland. J S Rowland, E W. Tucker. J W Vaughn. W. P White . Chaney Smiti a (Negro) a t . Stores To Close Monday, July 5th . - 4 FOOD Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Grocery and Market News in THE CHRONICLE every week from leading food stores in the city. Read the advertisements — they tell you about changing prices and where you can buy to advantage. A donkey baseball game will be played here on Johnson Field Satur day night at 8 o’clock under the aus pices of the Clinton Exchange club. The game scheduled here recently was called off because of rain. All advance 1 ' sale of tickets at that time will be honored the club has annunc- 1 |ed. Tickets are 60c for adults, and |30c for children under twelve. I Makes High Mark At Texas Air Base Friends of Pvt. Frank H. Loftis of this city, who Is taking his basic j training at an air force base in San 'Antonio, Texas, will be interested to j know he has made the second highest mark of his flight recently in apti tude and placement tests. Frank expects at the completion of his basic in July to enroll in the flight chief school.' • I MR. MERCHANT .... ~ 9 There Is No Substitute For NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING Your messages regularly in THE CHRONICLE will b.e seen and read by_ thousands of people at leisure. The life of the weekly home paper is longer tharr that of any other advertising medium—it is kept and read through out the week by members of the family. THE CHRONICLE is the most economical and most effective-advertising medium you can use in Clinton’s trade area to reach your prospective customers.' THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” * Clinton stares and business houses upon the recommendation of the Merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce, will close Monday, July 5. for the. Fourth holiday ob- - v \ c Busu i -- a ual on the morning of the 6th NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL ; >;j ^newspaper published you the am hint of iocal w’.il f.nd .n THE CHRON- is a home newspaper th.it practically all homes of There ; that gi\ es news vou ICLE. It goes into this community' and is read by all members of the family at leisure. New subscriptions invited. • Welcome and • i m^s to • e 'ot> our Honor RoR t^iS week; ALFRED C WISfc, F 2c, ■ San Francisco, Calif, MISS, MATTIE LOU PRINCE Clinton. LUTHER MEDLOCK, rfd v- i.; ' - MRS. JAMES G. HARRIS, H. SPELCE, MRS. A. M BERRY. MRS. T. W. SPIRES. MRS. W M. SELLERS. ' West Clinton. Mattie Smith (Negro). 15 years R L. Boyce, C E Bragg, K H Brannon, D. J. Buchanan. & W C oper, Earl Crapps. A C FarmerT J C Farmer, Daisey Franks. Minn e .Frazier. Alda R..e Fulmer. E\ .e Johnson. Mildred Morgan. T R Mor gan. R B Nabors, tc J Osborne. C H. Oswalt. Laura K„y, B L Sax Johnnie St »gner.„J E Thomas. Lou ise Thomas, W L Thomas, ,W P .Xhomas. 1_ J. Wallenzme. Alathea Whitmire. . 10 years Floyd Atk ns. E. E Bar- • bee. Lucille R Bedenbaugh. Carroll J Black, Sallie Bridges,’ James L Brown. William P Byars. Evelyn Campbell. W E Caudell, Charlie (. o!e, Tillman E Crapps. Thom.is S. Crawford. H ,M EHiott. Everlenu Frazier. Ira M Guyton. Morton W. HanjaL.JuJja Humphrey, H L L-- verTR F McCoy. Woodrow W Mer chant. S P. Motes. C O Norris. D h Owens. T G. Oxner. H L Prater. Gladys Price,. Henry Puckett, G.’.let c P Rowe. E. A Stroud. J F Stroud. Nea. it l rotter, Nliom ,y. t * -. Belle ' am. J Clyde Y< .mg Lu T\vo Announcements For the House Charles B: CulberUdn and Robert L Gray, both of Laurens, announce theid candidacy in today’s paper for the house of representatives in this summer’s primary. j Mr. Culbertson i- a merchant and , Mr. Gray is an attorney.