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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 8, 1948
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FAST BALL IN
MID-STATE LOOP
Brandon and Mills Mill
Lead In Close Standing.
All-Star Game Here
Last Night.
Eisenhower Says
Could Not Accept
'Any' Nomination
New York, July 6. — Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower, just when a draft-
ike-for-president movement was be
ginning to gather important steam
in the ranks of the Democratic party, !
said Monday ngiht that he "could not
accept nomination for any public of
fice or participate in partisan politi
cal contests.”
In a memorandum written to his
Brandon’s Bombers of Woodruff representative for release to
chalked up their third straight v ic-, ne Y s P a P en " en - E u ls « nhow f r , re P e f ted
tory over arch and intl-a-city rival,! a statement . t ^ lch he ^ last Jan-
Mills Mill, on Monday night to boost ^ in withdrawing himself from
their Mid-State league lead to two presidential picture,
and a half games. Spec Padget pitch- Jt said in part, “I will not, at this
ed a six-hitter to win for his team, time, identify myself with any po- 1
3-0. , litical party and could not accept I
Harold Dunn pitched no-hit ball non ? inati o n , for ^ Public office or j
for seven innings Monday night and! Pf^^P 3 * 6 in P artisan political con
then coasted in with a three-hitter
to spark Laurens in an 8-0 victory
YOUNG CLINTON CITIZENS
;tests.
The General’s statement was is-
over Riverdale. Landon Shelton, themed as prominent Democratic party
Cooperative Credit
Grows With Farmers,
Conference Reports Show
Rex Lanford, secretary-treasurer
I of the Clinton Production Credit as
sociation, and J. T. McCrackin of
Newberry. J. F. Hawkins pf Ne>v^
i berry, Wallace L. Martin o_f ..Gray
Court, Lawrence F. Davis J. R.
[Crawford of Clinton, have returned
•from a group confenwice of the 22
Production C r e d>d associations in
South Carpiimj/neld at Charleston
June 29 ancL'SO.
Accordrhg to Mr. Lanford, the pro-
ncluded a panel discussion of
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
MOVES INTO I94S
PLATFORM BATTLE
Leaders Facing Hectic
Job of Preparing Docu
ment for Philadelphia
Convention.
Washington, July 5. — The Dem*r=-
cratic party moved Monday into
what prom-ises to be one of the most
policies and an open^iorum on ^ eL -^ lc periods of its battle-scarred
>|eneral topics and legal matters. Ju- 'history '
/ I 1 i fvr* W Qr» o icr r\ t*oc t/-ton t r\f tho
This week a new fight, the battle
[ granvdncludi
credit policic
of the 1948 plaform, starts at Philu-
ftgures across the country crawled
aboard an Ike-for-president band
wagon that looked as if it might end
with his being drafted as the party
_ . _ nominee at the convention opening
Ralph Harbin, the Brandon Brave ! M da : Philadelnhia
of Greenville, blasted a home run and The ^ from president Truman toj 105 ArrCStS Mode
the wartime Allied commander id ’ p v fjfv Pnlirp
chief took on major proportions Sun-I D Y ^- ,r y rONCe
Down at Gpldville Hoot Whitmore,:day when New Jersey Democratic! Month of June
the Newberry college star, turned in political boss Frank Hague came out
Furman luminary, collected a home
run and a single.
Tuesday night Laurens won over
Brandon, 8 to 5, in a play-off game.
a single to lead his team to victory
over the league leaders
Top row, left to right: Carroll Barker, Sara Ray, and Georgia Young
Bottom row: Rebecca Kirby, Lois Marie Haselden, and Bobby Jordan.
lian*H. Scarborough, president of the
Production Credit corporation, of Co-
i lumbia, keynoted the conference in ... . . ,
Q el Pbia. A resolutions committee
i an address in which he emphasized . . . ... . ,,,
th* growing importance of cooper- 7 rk »" T'v . T
ative credit to South Carolina farm- n ' s<ia), -,. f,ve da),! b « (or » ,h '
I i , „ 0 convention opens.
ers and stockmen. In 194 ( 9,118
[members obtained loans amounting: cent ^ r °f the platform fight
^ to $10,422,000. Wil1 b* the question of Civil Right-i.
Dr. George H. W’llds, distinguished ^ n 8 r y disiagreement over that prob-
Mrs. Hugh Ray, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Young, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Kirby,
Mr. and Mrs. J. K.Haselden, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jordan
a masterful four-hit pitching job to
win for the Joanna Hornets, 9 to 0,
over Clinton Mills. Bill Ray Kenne
dy, Pete Metrus and Whitmore hit
homers to
for Eisenhow r er.
Parents of the children are: Mr. and Mrs. Marcell Barker, Mr. and plant breeder of Hartsville, told the lem 1S one the reasons for the cur-
conference that the advancement rent fast-moving drive to draft Gen.
made in agriculture in South Caro-1 p wi i>b‘ ^ Eisenhower as the party’*
llina is due to a great extent to the ’ candlf,ate
i sponsors of the five-acre cotton con-' So it’s an important fight and it
'test which has been conducted by the i shows every sign of being a fierce
Clerhson College extension service one.
since 1926. Also, he said, much credit j The preliminary uproar over the
is due the Farm "Credit Associations platform s Civil Rights plank has
, i for making available a farm type been so furious that students of
„ credit to the farmers, and the experi- American history can’t help think-
Executive Committee
To Consider State
Rules At Meet Today
The.report of the city police de-, Enrollment by 18-year-olds
hit own 5-star stationery to a hastliy^y the OTOUnted t0 $1 . 58 f 75 ^ V nsldered a , a special <<«««. terW«.t»n and market,ng form.' Then, as now. most „f 'he
highlight Joannas 14-hit assembled group of newspapermen. Ac ♦’ r — Certainly
attack on two Clinton hurlers.
All-Star Game Last Night
group
1 In
: that Harron-
.. , , , , T * r\ - j a lot of credit must also, fury came from the South
it Eisenhower said he knew 1 As , 4 f re P°/ ted f ^ ach the meeting of the Laurens County Dem- be given to th e farmers themselves The 1860 sTran was the Demi-
n, r-isennower sam ne Knew greatest number of arrests, 56, were ocratic Executive committee at 10 .f nr ,h P ir nnt .• . ^ P d n
, ... Iarron ' ha d been overburdened for drunkenness, for which fines of o'clock this morning (Thursday) at 1 tice manv f th d h d " vra ’ v ri 4 los one The
Two power-laden all-star clubs, with innumerable queries concerning $68 4. 5 5 were collected and 183 days the court house in Laurens. tice many of ihese ideas, he ,d,d. :; :e ex.ension of slavery mt > new
representing the cream of the crop of my intentions in regard to the cur- g4ven in recorder’s court. Four ar- James P sloan of this citv cha ir-' A . ' , * , u Bef ° re lt ende<1 ’ the pai ly
players in the Mid-State and Central ren tpohtical situation.” rests were made for d rivmit under J ameshv bioan, or tnis city.cnair 1 AurtlOfl So C Of had broken a P arl with a historic
Carolina leagues were scheduled td! The general then pointed out that tS influence of liquor w h fines of man ’ Called th ^ special sessi ° n to ^ ^ .J l. o. . . 'biash.. This opened the way for the
clash here last night at the Clinton his "decisions and earnest convic- $5l6 00 Yi™ °ur position on enrollment by, Blalock election of the first Republican pres.-
Mills park in the second annual Mid-, tions” concerning his connections; F _ r 1 18 -y ear ‘ 0l< h> and to take such ac '[p . . i -i-j dent, a man named Lincoln
Central all-star game. with any political contest this year hShting, » persons were ar- tion as is deemed appropriate Property July I / The i 860 convention met in
It was stated last meht that a n lhad been outlined in his letter of last i9 eSted i’ Cd i W a aPOr l S ’ " Mr - Sloan said at a " ieetin S of s °me, ' . | Charleston, S. C In that dark and
over-flow crowd of ?000 was exoect- Januar y and that he sti11 adhered to 2 ’ vlolatin « tbe h ^ or law - ^ drunk - committeemen with State Chairman A big land auction saie at Goldville om.nous year the nation was divid-
e^t^ s^e Se tMni batTle them - ' ’ enness, 56; disorderly conduct 12; W. P. Baskin last Friday he would is announced for Saturday, July 17,i e d into several points of view on
classk The seaUn^caicitv of the He add ^ that he was “prcxfoundl>- dnvi . ng . under , the influence of ^tox- recommend that the committee re-, by the Southern States Realty com-|siavery. Northern abolitionists want-
D^k Ld been enSfledtv the addk' by the renewed suggestion, 4; s P €edm « and reckless dr \ v - scind its recent action in permitting pany of Spartanburg an old expen- e d ;u wipe it out wherever it existed.
Er SLStirJ; that I could satisfactorily fill high 'mg, 1; operating autos without 1- enrollme_n and voting bjr
tion of bleachers from Presbyterian
college. -
Games Today (Thursday):
Laurens at .grandon. —
Joanna at Riverdale.
Mills Mill at Clinton.
Saturday:
Brandon at Laurens.
: - Riverdale .at Joanna.
Clinton at Mills Mill.
How They Stand
(Games Through Saturday)
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_ _ persons pn- enced auction organization since 1919.1 Aijrahahi Lincoln, an Illinois Re
public office” cense, 5; damaging private or public der 21. Otherwise, the chairman indi-t The sale will begin at 10 a.m a _at j pohLvaii, disagreed He warned only
His statement immediately touched' prope !; ty ’„ 6; i pvest i gatl0n ° r suspi ' cated the committee probably would which rime Wgialock estate sub-; t0 keep slavery- from spreading into
r iuhilant rpartinn fmm T,., I clon - 7: aU other offenses. 2. , ^tand-rtast in^-its determination to divisioTTwIITbe sold for the high ddl-lnew states and territories
[ofLiubilant ‘reaction from .pro-Tru-, .
man forces ancl leaders of the draft- No charges f or violating parking flout certain state rules which com-1 lar by the heirs. The property has
Eisenhower movement themselves' lawS Were made during 1116 month. ( mitteemen believe to be illegal. The been sub-divided into a number of
! admitted that it had brought the' 225 days we f e given law violators in , committee is keeping books open un- business lots, home sites and small
President again to the front as the^® rfecorder s court. , til July 26, permitting Negroes to en-, acreage tracts. Electricity is available
chief prospect for the Democratic
nomination.
Brandon ...
.... 18
9
.667
Mills Mill .
17
11-
.630
Clinton ....
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14
.500|
Laurens ...
14
14
.500
Joanna
12
15
.444 1
Riverdale
9
17
.346
Handsome New
Post Office Building
Opened At Goldville
Randel X. Cleland
Passes At Hospital
roll and plans to use the 1946 voter's and most of the lots have water and not.
Stephen A. Douglas, an IlUnoi,
Democrat, took- another view: Leave
it up to the people in each new ter
ritory whether they got slavery or
The handsome new post office * wo
Randel X. Cleland, 80, well-known
[farmer of the Mountville section of
[Laurens county, died Sunday after-
inoon at Hays hospital here after a
weeks’ illness. He was a na-
But Southern Democrats dertand-
oath instead of the lengthy one sewerage available due to the coop-
adopted by the 1948 state-eon vention.'eration of the Joanna Cotton Mills e d that slavery be permitted" n all
* jeompany. ; areas At Charleston a major-
The Property is located across the )ty of the resolutions committee
j highway from the Joanna mills and [ brought forth a platform on;, n.rik>
Chapman Again Heads
Local* Legion Post
Bailey Family
Makes Gift To
lia Mills School
offers desirable building sites to those thafview
• who may. desire to build and reside; However, a savage debate was.held
■ m that community. on convention floor—just as *
i A band will furnish music for the convention debate
postal department by the Joanna Cot- ^ he late Charles S. and Luinda Tegion^for^a fourth ® n away dur:ng the sale Interested week-
Grimes Cleland. He was a member g „" .. parties are invited to inspect the beaten.
R. Pope Chapman has been unani-
ously reelected commander
Luinda C°P e I and "Bavidson Post No.
20 of
ton Mills company has been complet-; . , ^
ed and is now being occupied. [of the Mountvilfc Baptist church, and
The postmaster, Mrs. D. M. Carr, was never married.
. . moved last week from a small wood-!,, H e e survived by^ two brothers
Lydia Mills School ien building near the Joanna Mercan- ^bitmire and A. A. CJeland
^ tile company into the enlarged quar-[°^ I^wberry, tw’o sisters, Mrs. Thom-
In the school expansion program , ters which are adequate to handle the , a f Ha i| 0 " of „^i gh , Poi . nt f C ’’ ^r d
which is now . underway in Hunter business of the office. , M ^ s ^ y Cleland of A f la , r \ ta ’ Ga ’
school district the officials of Lydia 1 The new building is 60 feet long Funeral services were held Mon-
Mills were very anxious that a large and 30 feet wide, has tile floors,
over Civil Right:,
held at Philadelphia next
and the majority report was
Mr. Ct,apm V .n er h“ held “me ^ ,h * conv ' n,i “"
.nger.than any predecessor. be fo ^ d on th,.'p ro p e P l3 , A luma> w,th Douglas and adopted a plat-
day afternoon at 4:30 o’clock at the
specific
lunch room be included in the pro- steam heat and other conveniences!. at T he B Rev. wire" Maddln \t^an^Wy 6 ^ , ^ Hiflsdale, Illinois
Since it would cost more than The equipment consists of the new
consecutive term.
War I,
office longer ^than any predecessor.
Other officers are B F Wingard tk ne P ro P e ‘[form which avoided any
first vife commander; Edward LV t.on W.U b^LTd* m aUC ; d «f rl “ ion »" ^vory.
enport, second vice commander; Torn co i umnc 0 f . )da v’ s yarje.r- ® r l3ing f ThiS act:o ^ caused the delegates
vi.o tolumn - 0 * ‘Oday s paper. from seven Southern states to walk
[ out. and the convention adjourned in
! ct*(i#Usion.
[ (Some of the Southern delegate.,
have treatened to walk ou"."of the
; Philadelphia convention, too, but no
exodus as that of 1860 seems
Burnette, third vice commander; Mac
B. Hipp, Jr., adjutant and finance of
ficer; W. S. Horne, assistant adjutant
Regnery Reunion
ing program at Providence school, combination locks are provided, with Da !. is, r ?' ^ a ? lu ® 1 , Gle " , Win ’ mem b e - hl P chairman.
Supt. W. R. Anderson said yesterday, ample work space and equipment in[^barles Wallace and William
Illinois, and in Philadelphia, Pa.
The trustees and administration of
the schools are deeply grateful to
the members of the Bailey family
the,rear.
Mrs. Carr has two full-time assist-!
ants in the office, Eugene Craven and
who have so generously made this &iss Mary Kate Carr,
addition to the school possible, they
said. It will mean much to the
munity, they said.
City Observed
Holiday Monday
New Patrolmen
Graduated Last Week
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Mill Employees
Enjoying Vacation
The J. B. Harts To
Move To Goldville
Employees of the Clinton and Wlll ’ move \ 0 Go ldville during the ieturn Sunda >-
Lydia Cotton Mills are enjoying a
week’s vacation. The mills will re
sume operations Saturday morning.
— —,, The Joanna Cottoh Mills company
Craven of Goldville, and David A. is closed down for the week for their bead „ residence recently vacated, and
Reighley of Laurens, were among the employees. The mills will resume w bich is now being painted and ren-
new highway patrolmen to be gradu- ©Derations Monday morning. ovated prior to their moving in the
tated last week following a three-
Willis T. Curry of this city, Isaac
Clinton was literally closed w . , . , , - -
Monday in observance of Independ-,^ ! g |- ad “- operations Monday morning.
ence Day.
Stores and
business houses were
month patrol school, held at the Area ATTENDS DRIVER COURSE *'*«*'-*‘^ "V V'* , ¥ V nlace in' th.* . m • .i .. ,
Trade school at the Capital City air- 1 James C. Pace, local state highway company of which Mr. Hart was re- bot * k ®£ per a £ d erit ered upon his ^ ’ • oriJ l art,K1 • act -‘
rwrf 'ru-. I. ^ r. n centlv elected treasurer and a mem- work this week. , ^eiauonj,.
1860 Democrats met again at
imore. Five more Southern
,.. . ^Slales-.walked out.—The delegationx -
June 30tT> was the 45th wedding that* remained nominated ' Douglas
anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. for President.
Regnery, parents of Mr. Regnery. j The delegations that bolted held
The Regnerys’ four sons, one daugh- their own convention at Richmond
" 1 —• ter and 19 grandchildren gathered at 1 and nominated John C. Brecken-
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hart and chil- HinsdaI e for the special occasion and ridge of Kentucky
dren, Carol, Lillian and Katherine, ^ b ® Regnerys will lh;s party crack-up handed the
brand-new Republican , party tho
election on a platter after 60 years
;tf almost unbrolten Democratic rule
Today there is no slavery issue
and the Civil’ War of 1861-1865
[rumbling far back in the
erns of history. ___ ■
But the Civil Rights fight is like
the slavery issue in that it take>
summer where they will make their
home. Hunter Now With
The Harts will occupy the Moor- 1 _ ^ v i _ _ . • 1
:ad.residence recently vacated, and Joanna »VierCanriie V-O.
John H. Hunter, of this city, has
next few weeks. The residence is the accepted a position with the Joanna
property of the Joanna Cotton Mills Mercantile company, Goldville, as
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coo
ca\
kS. f c 0 I ir ^ mth Jfa n ^ a ! P° rt in Lexington county. The course paWl officer," and Gaines ^ Boone', cently elected treasurer and a mem-
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the city ' included two weeks of actual road a Clinton teacher, attended the driver ber of the board of directors.
work.
1 No new
Clinton area for assignment.
Mr. Hunter until recently was con- ^hats it all about’.’
The Harts plan to sell their home nert ' d wi,h *»? N Pres,dt, ' t Trum '* n «"• »
^education and training course given, The Harts plan to sell their home ‘ l ‘‘^ '“"a “7 to congress Last Febnlarv^
S a 5 r r.°. 1 T. a .".™L? nt ,0 th 'll coMe **- R0ck Hi "’ ;iune ?"„ W ,t‘ nU i„ S ‘ reet t0 He had announced that he would'bc eomprehens.ve C.»,i R.ghU
Clinton Boys
Attend Boys State 1 “ , *. ^
Three Clinton boys, Ted Mears, MlS. MOOfnead tlOSteSS
Bobby Westmoreland and Don Wild- r
er, attended the Palmetto Boy’s State ' 0r JOOnna Community
held in Columbia the past week, i . T ~
They were sent by the local Ameri- 1 . w - A - Moorhead moved dur-
can Legion, Kiwanis and Exchange ! ng tram ber former home
c j ubs in Goldville into an apartment in the
large new apartment house recently
completed by the Joanna Cotton
Mills company.
Mrs. Moorhead will retain her resi
dence in the Joanna community
where sK>TS how hostess at the. Jo
anna clubhouse, succeeding the late
Miss Blanche Durgin.
21-25.
from the city.
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connected with a Rock Hill firm but I aws ” said. "We must correct
changed his plans during the week t * le reinair Nng imperfections in our
when he joined the Goldville firm. practice, of Democracy.’’
Many Souehtrn oubhe men raised
jebjeetions to. that program In fact,
.they raised the roof. *;
They accused the President of
seeking only to please Northern
T ^ D ,T7^Tr - , Negr 9 Voters. They said such laws
L. C. Barksdale, of Laurens, is the are unconstitutional, and viola’e the
newly elected president of ihe Lake- principle of states’ rights.
Barksdale Heads
Lakeside Club
side country club for the coming
year.
Mac Adair, of this city, is vice-
president. and d. P. Cook, of Laurens,
secretary-treasurer. Directors in ad
dition to the officers are C. C Hough,
Dr. L. L. Long arid W. T. Bolt, of
Laurens, and Fred Oxley of this city.
Now they wafit -to keep .T Civil
Rights program oiit of the 1948 p!at-
>rm. Many of them, wanting to
keep Mr. Truman out of the White
House, are helping push the fast-
moving—Eisenhower bandwagon. 1 '
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Patte Receives Degree
Doctor of Theology
Brig. Gen. Godfrey _
At Fort Jackson The Rev Edouard Patte, professor
• I of sociology at Presbyterian college.
Brigadier General. Ansel B. God- has .been conferred the degree of
frey is spending two weeks at Fort doctor of theology by the American
Jackson, Columbia, for the annual Bible college. He had earned already
summer encampment of the 51st ar-| several degrees in literature, theology
tillery division of the South Carolina and sociology from the University ol
National Guard Geneva.
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