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f 7 \ . \ THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the Newt Volume XLVIII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 15, 1948 Number 29 BRANDON STILL TOPS MID-STATE ' Laurens Pushing Top Contenders in Hot Race. Dunn Stops Joanna. Young Cross Hill Woman Drowned In Lake Greenwood — i The body of Mrs. Dorothy Watkins Perry, 19, was recovered Monday .. . fi^bm Lake Greenwood at the spot, | where she drowned late Sunday i while urging rescuers to save her, 1 friend. The Brandon Bombers, of Wood- was found at Fosters; ruff, outlasted Clinton Mills Tuesday Landing on Lake Greenwood seven; night in a slugging fest to gain an ™ les south <>f Cross Hill about 3:30 ; 11-10 decision at Woodruff and hold P 111 - a one-game lead in' the Mid-State i Sheriff C. W. Wier said it was be- league over the on-rushing Laurens; lieved the young woman may have Tigers. Clau'dell Smith’s triple with suffered a heart attack.-She was in two out in the eighth inning scored a rowboat with three others of the Ray Acton from first with the win- same community, Thomas Foster, ning run. Burnett, for Clinton, hit a Mrs. Mary Foster Kopp and Russell home run. ! lusti, when a sudden windstorm ' Laurens Tigers, the “IT team of | c ^ used , the 50211 to capsize, the sher-, the home stretch! found a pitching sai< L master in Harold - Dunn in gaining 1 Foster swam ashore and he and an 11-2 verdict over Joanna’s Hor-! his mother, Mrs. L. F. Foster, got an- nets. Dunn allowed five hits, three; other boat and hastened out to the of'‘them coming in the eighth for sfxst where his sister, Mrs. Kopp, and Joanna’s two runs. Ham Werner’s j Mrs. Perry and lusti were in the wa- TWO PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE BOYS USE "THUMB" TO CLARKIA, IDAHO home run, double and single provid ed impetus for the Laurens scoring attack on Whitworth—Joanna twirl-iming fairly well. ter. lusti was holding up Mrs. Kopp and Mrs. Perry appeared to be swim- er. Bud Bowie provided the fielding, feature of the game when he pulled! The sheriff said he was informed Mrs. Perry called to the rescuers, “I down one of Guy Prater's long drives: can make it. Get Mary.” They got with a bare-handed catch in deep left! Mrs, Kopp, looked around, and Mrs. center in the sixth innnig. ! Perry was gone. Continued search Riverdale and Mills Mill did not j failed to locate the body, play. - . | Deputy Sheriff Mace Langston. Hi ♦ It. V* * : ** - » Clinton and Joanna will meet in a playoff game Friday night at 8:15 at the Clinton Mills park. Games Today (Thursday): Brandon at Mills Mill. Riverdale at Laurens. N. C., recently hitch-hiked 3,000 miles to Clarkia, Idaho, where they are attending a forestry camp untii Clinton at Joanna. Saturday: Mill Mill at Brandon. Laurens at Riverdale. Clinton at Joanna. How They Stand Brandon 20 13 Laurens 19 14 Mills Mill 18 15 Clinton ’... 15 18 Joanna 14 19 Riverdale 13 20 $342,911 Poid with Thomas Foster and Grover Mc Mahan, found the body after drag ging for hours. 1 1 Mrs. Perry’s husband, Paul Perry, j of the navy, is stationecTTh the slate September L j of Washington. She had been living! Armed with a sign, shown above, i at the home of her father, W. J. Wat- 1 which was labeled “2 Presbyterian kins, a mile and a half from Foster’s 1 College boys bound for Idaho, will ; Landing. i appreciate a lift. Thank you”—the Coroner R. I. Burgess set ,a.n in-! two boys left Clinton and reacned quest for 2 o’clock Thursday after- j their destination eight days later, noon. ! record their progress they had In addition to her husband, Mrs. U ‘ hose rode them autograph the .606 | Perry is survived by her parents, Mr. •576; and Mrs. W. J. Watkins; three broth- By—applying a good- rule of an Normal, 111., brought cake out to “thumb,” Bob Hellams, Jr., son oi the travelers while they were wait-] Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hellams of this ing for the next ride.. city, and Nick Neville, son of Rev Federal Tax Collections In State Reach All-Time High j Columbia, July 12—Federal taxes J collected in South Carolina during ! , the fiscal year-ending Jane 30 soared ; to the all-time high figure of S207,- ,435,191.32, a gain of m->re than $29.-, 000,000 over the previous fis al year, it was announced yesterday by H. C. Pitts, assistant to Collector ot In‘.e - nal Revenue' William P. B vers. ' Most of the gain was .n ‘.he per sonal and corpora’, i :n;< me brack- • ! et, which accounted : r $134,042,205 during the past year, compared witu $158,743,937 the prevaup ye . . a gam of almost $26,000,000. But other brackets were up as .well, • with ted- eral insurance contributions (social security taxes) $10,041,711 in the fis cal year c -mpared with $8,511,762 Tn , 1947 and Thiscellaneous taxes, 'includ ing luxury, transportation and excise taxes, $9,366,000 for the pa<t year compared with $7,515,373 the previ- i ous year. r Ten-- years ago- just before Mr Bowers took over as collector of in- 1 ternal revenue, the total federal tax es collected" wa? only $12,101,084, a i little less than s:x per cent of the, present total. Seven years before | that, in 1931, the total collected in | this state was only $1,977,960. DR D .1 BRIMM 1—For the four fiscal years-pm-or the one just passed, collections kept Included in the signatures are two ■?«“!' much on a '* vel and Mrs. John Neville of Horseshoe, girls who listed their ages as 16, both I j back of the oil-cloth sign, which they of whom were from Winona, Minne-j sofa.. —_ There are a total of 41 names on the sign, which gives some indica tion of the number of rides.obtained. On Sunday. June 13, the boys at tended service at the First Presbyte rian church, in Miles City, Montana., which they describe as a “real West ern town.’'’ ». Their trip was concluded on Jane 15. when they arrived at the caiAp, $173,709,337 the year ending June 30, 1944: $181,578,035 in 1945; $181,306,927 in 1946 and $178,185,500 in 1947 The ( 1945 figure was the highest prior to the 1948 record just chalked up. The bare figures indicate a drop o! about $3,000,000 between 1946 and 1947. Actually there was a large in crease that year in iiy.oihe taxes, probably comparable to the increase ! during the year just past, because the repeal of excess profits taxes became effective on January 1, 1946, causing DR. D. J. BRIMM, NOTED EDUCATOR, DIES SUDDENLY —- — Deon of Presbyterian College Faculty and Highly Regarded Citizen Laid To Rest Saturday. Dr. Darnel Johnson Bnmm. tired prefessnr irf^-Bible at 1 ter m ' 'lege, d ed suddenly last Thursday morning while ing 'from his home to the post He had not n nun cement gre.it ‘h esny- early walk- offue. been ill and the an- t his death "came as j k to his family and wid« circle of friend*. When stricken he was rushed, to the hospital by ambu- lan e but had passed aw ay before ,. . . a, drop in revenue of many millions pa,-a i aif i u ., s .riven . ... which they wrote as being located dollars j^r year, so that the small Sir'-''’ - f une'al "services were cm- . , recenUy mailed to Uie.r parnns as a m very preaj iountry. -W» are right drop that actually took place would Huc'cd’ Saturday afternoon at 1 34»;«n, E. T. J. C. and Janws Watkins; . h ,, . ;m.U» Jool •> »now-«i«»d rMiun*; been miicti Idffsr hril out mill-. ./Jo -i, f.nt'i»fr>bTtuna 455ithree sisters, Mrs. H. P. Bounds, Mrs.! amnd, from Ashretlle was tarns that se»m to disanpear m the >idua , „ d cmp<1Td , t , Maat summer srhuo student nth Maior W.lUrd Jones Jorme- h- aky. ^as the last wnu««,oh_the sigh. and other Uses sharply mereased .n|meXrs o?“h. eoltege i forming the escort. The services were ' in charge of the pastor. Dr. W .424 i Marie Hill and Miss Ruby Watkins. .394 i ♦ Out In County Jn Welfare Funds GoldviUe Name To Become Joanna Onf August First - with Major Willard Jones, former li branan at Presbyterian college, who, though not recognizing the boys, saw the PC caption and tunned around and drove them to’ Richland, Ky. One autograph they won’t forget is that of Louise Stubblefield, who. Foj- the return trip, they will have i volume anolher banner painted with the; —^ words, “Returning to South Caro-’ id TIL iuaa’’ which, they hope, will bring a* ^nTS. W, J, JOCKS much luck as the one they used whe* they he ark? d for the “potato state.” R Mrs. D. M. Carr, GoldviUe post- Pcsses At Home After Short Illness Columbia, July 13.—(Special te The master, has been notified by the post Chronicle). — Expended for public' office department that the changing Spend Week At Camp welfare assistance in Laurens county of the name of the GoldviUe office ■ * ^ ior the 1947-48 fiscal year thnougn ] to Joanna, has been approved effect-j May was a total of $342,911, accord-i Lve August 1 ing to the May report of the state 1 County 4-.H Clubs To^ 1 Boll Weevil Report For Past Week Mrs Fannie Prince Jacks, 53, wife of W. T Jacks, died Thursday mght at her home near the city after sev- Laurens xxmnty 4-H club boys and The boll weevil checks :n Laurens era ^ mun; hs of declining health and ! girls will attend Camp Long in Aik- county last week on the ten. farms • a critical one iiays illness. The change in name was recently, en cfiunt y July 19-23 The young i checked each weeii showed an aver-' The funeral services were held department of public welfare, which requested on petition of a large per-! peoplc will be transported on school age infestation of 5.4 per cent. Vlt h SaUirtii - v afternoon at 6 o’clock from was issued this week. - • ■ - centage of the residents of the mill i buses driven by experienced drivers,.infestation showing from one t» 16 i0ra >' FuncraJ Home conducted by The total sum spent for public wel- community that centers about Jo-1 county extension a g ents state ’ per cent on individual farms, accord- ^ :i n J. W«K)ds and Dr. Wm fare assistant in South Garolina dur-1 anna Cotton Mills company.. At first; Fjf f , ‘ qfi . , avo mg to County Agent C B. Cannon.) Turner - Interment 'fiJ lowed m Rose- ing the fiscal year through May was it was suggested that the name be | K1 - gnpH y ' t>Qys amt S6 $9^51,547, of which the largest jdi-jJoanna Town but later the formal vision was the $6,900,881 spent for | request for the name oJ Joanna was old age assistance. i filed. —The-Laurens county .welfare total j According to President Walter (for the fiscal year is broken down Regnery .the suggested change was 6s follows: $280,108 for old age as-!made to have a name more closely tied-in with the Joanna business. “We want the world to know,” he said, “that Joanna is the home of Joanna Fabric.” sistance, $6,070 for aid to the blind, $42,714 for aid to dependent chil dren, and $14,018 for general assist ance. During the month of May, the 1 . ~ ~ ~ ’ average award per case tor all pro- QuilM Galled To ActlvE grams of public assistance in Lau- V . \a/:*.L D mm L rens" county was $21.22, .which was, Wlin lx OAK Or slightly higher than the state aver-l^ a j or • Qo es J 0 J^cksOTI building arriving per. Mrs. -Beatrice Sloan of the State Training school staff, and Mrs. W. K. Brown and Mrs. T. B. Sumerel of .the are “““"ithe county last ^eok nkowed the leaders for the summer outing thifee per cent • infestation on 111 eight farms poisoned a* compar'd to) The servici*s were average infestation on the farms not j friends, poisoned of 13.5 per cent. ; neighbors who knew Individual checks on farms oveH Jacks for her many Johnson Named Principal Of York High School a* high ] a - -character i as 64 per cent infestation. Mr. Can-J Jack> i— —j *-»—-j kukiir was a non reported, and July'hnd August! rt ‘ ailIf y her .entire (Turner, assisted by a former pastor Dr, D. J. Woods.. Surrounded by 1 friends and a wealth of floral tnb- ; dieSy the body , was laid to rest in the I .anr.tiy plot in the church cemetery. Dr. Brirrm was born in Atlanto, Ga., July 20, 1862, a son of the late Re\. William Waldo and Elizabeth Johnson Br.mm He attended Foot- worth college. Central university and received his bachelor of arts degree from, Southwestern Presbyterian un iversity. He was graduated from i Columbia Theological seminary. Col umbia, in 1890, and received'hij •J»t- torate of divinity from Davids;*) 1896. a professor in Hebrew a pel Columbia seminary for sev- years, then accepted the positio i cf superintendent of Catawba Mili tary academy at Rock Hill. Before coming here he was superintendent of the city schools at York. In 1909 Dr. Bnmm moved with h:> native of this fami1 ^ l° u F lmto " to become profe- life was sor Hible at Presbyterian college. attended by a relatives and and loved .Mrs. fine attributes will .determine the cotton production i s 7* r ‘^ She ^as a svember of Dun-| a t f>oslUo " , he ubly fllled untl1 hl r 1 i ^ ^ » . rP;.! rf*mpn I TWO vp;ir«s 'aOix * vn A ■ ri ■ the! age of $20.56. In the county, 2,1231 persons received a total of $32,4761 in welfare payments during month. Of the amount expended J 01 '’- we L ■ fare assistance in Laurens county 1 during May, approximately 81 per cent went for old age assistance, two per cent for aid to the blind. 13 per cent for aid to dependent children, and four per cent for general assist ance. Spent for welfare assistance South Carolina during May was total of $937,336. Sgt. William N. Quinn, for the IROTC unit it Presbyterian college, j^ his du H es . A uK»st 1. He has| Big Auction Safe At past several years stationed with the ” unit at Presbyterian college, report to Fort Jackson in the next few days for active service. He j will have the rank of major. Major Quinn has been a highly re garded instructor at the college and his friends here, while regretting his departure, wish him well as he goes in ito his new. post in so far as boll wee.viJ is concerned. ; Creek Presbyterian church. ! Farmers who are following instruc-' The deceased is survived by her i tions as outlined by experiment sta- 1 nui J’ ; ‘ ind ‘ tw »' brothers, J H Prune Hanrid C. Johnson of this city hus!' 10 "* "*'*“'“* So<nl results B , Mn ‘»; “J '<■■£ p ‘"«» °1 «*“ art^nlpd a -T^«itinn rtrinoirral n T 1 m the USe ° f the neW dUStS, hr Said, dnd tW - W SlStgEU. MlSSCS Emma accepted a position as principal of, . 1. -land Mattie Prince, both of Clinton the York high school, and will as-1 j been prpcipBil of the Ford school in Laurens for five having returned there m 1946 follow ing his releaw? from the naval ser vice. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Pres byterian coHegr and- has done ad ditional study at the University of ^ Golcfctlle Son j A big land auction sale will br held !».t Golds ille Saturday beginning at Frue Bus Service To Fuller Meeting It has been announced by Robert 10 o’clock under the direction of the Johnson tnat tie First Baptist church Southern States Realty company of Spartanburg. The sale will include the Blalock a : During the recent war he saw ser “! th ^ aroli n* and Furman univer- esta t e suhriivision to be sold by the [ rice in the European theatre, bolding s y ’ the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Mrs. Quinn and children will re- j main here for the present at their home oh East Walnut street. ! Seven Lose Licenses On Liquor Charges Columbia, July 13.—fSpecial to The MrS. Nannie F. Lake Chronicle). — A total of 190 South Carolina drivers, of which seven were- -Laurens couaty residents, had their driving licenses suspended dur ing the last half of June on charges of driving under th6 influence of li quor, according to the semi-monthly report of the motor vehicle division KATES HIGH AT W1VTHROP i Miss Jean Williams, rising senior jat Winthrop college, is on the list of distinguished undergraduate students reagp tract*. Passes At Laurens Laurens, July 12. r — Mrs. Nannie Ferguson Lake, widow of T. D. Lake,! died early Sunday morning at the Laurens County hospital. Mrs. Lake was a lifelong resident of the South Carolina highway de-Jof Laurens. She was a daughter of just announced for the second se mester of the 1947-48 school year; Miss Williams is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Williams of the Wads- comimmity. —— heirs for the high dollar., The prop erty which faces the Joanna Cotton Mills company property has btn-n sub-divided into a number of busi ness lots, tome sites aud ‘small bc- A band will furnish music and cash prizes will be gives away. . Announcement of tine nation wiD be found in the advertisiog columro* ototeda^r paper.— ~ - r partment. the late John A. and Margaret Wat- . FOOD Is An Important Item With Housewives : Ti The drivers charged with drunken'ers Ferguson, .members of well- driving in Laurens county ranged known I*aurens county families. Mrs. from 27 to 58 years of age. 'Lake was a member of the First Baptist church. • - ’ [ Survivors include four sons, John F. Lake of Laurens, Paul Lake of Tampa, Fla., and Ed and Williaffi J. Lake, both of West Palm Reach, Fla.; ffopr daughters, Mrs. Fleming Jones !of Laurens, Mrs. Joe Phinny of Co- j Item'With Housewives YOU will find helpful Grocer, J^ fc'SSSS N. Barksdale of Greenville; seven grandchildren and two great-grand children. Funeral services were conducted at 1 You will find helpful Grocery and Market News in THE CHRONICLE every week from leading food stores in the city, • Read the ^ivertisements — they tel) you s about changing •prices and where you can buy to advantage. 11 o’clock Monday morning froln the i First Baptist church by the Rev. J. | E. Rouse, assisted by the Rev. T. C. I Cook. Interment followed in the Laurens cemetery. THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” Blankets Clinton, South and West Clinton, >J < .GoldviUe, and This Entire Community Every Thursday Morning. i r There is no hit-or-miss when merchants and business firms us t THE CHRONICLE as (heir advertising medium It is both effective and economical. ... We. take your messages directly into the homes of the heart of your business—your potential customers—where they are read at leisure through the week by ail members of thf family. A ’ There is No Substitute For NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING retirement two years ago on AugUi ! io. For a number of years Dr. Brinun supplied several Presbyterian church es in the county as'pastor. For the past 26 years he had taught the La dies Bible class at the First Presby terian church and was one of the ( faithful and highly regarded mem bers of that-* congregation. Not only was Dr Brimm an out standing Bible student but also a wel' known writer. His publications in clude. "The Bible Student and Re ligious Outlook,” which he edited jointly with the late Dr W M M;>- Pheeters for several years, and a number of pamphlets and Work book unsold and New Testament histor; D • Brimm w as a popular and he aved professor at the college In Ihe 1947 annual which was dedicat- Ted to him following his retirement, students- wrote the following: “To a wortny teacher, a genuine and under standing Tiend, a man of indomi table courage and strength of charac- ! ter ’ loved and respected by student and .faculty, "We si nee rely and’ with" great pleasure dedicate this Pae-Sac ’ Dr. Bnmm was married twice. Tu, first marriage was to Miss .Via: v El- • izabeth Muller of Columbia who die 1 "THE CHRONICLE brings a great in 1922. By this union one .son sur- amount of pleasure to our hdme each vives, Henry M Bnmm >f Richm >nd week.’ - a lady subscriber said yester- Va. A second son, William Wald-* day in renewing her subscription. of Miami, Fla,, preceded bun to the - The same will be true in you: home grave just a month ago' Mis tb^a if you are not a member of our large son, Daniel, was killed :n an autonur- tamily of readers. New subsr: ptions bile accident in California will have a bus each night next week to toke those going to Laurens to ' attem? the Laurens Baptist Associ ation*! reviral to be conducted by 'Dr. Ellis At Fuller, preM*Jc:i: the Southern Baptist Theological sem,- nary, Louisville Ky.. July 18-August 1. Thr bus wjJJ leave the each p;gh4. - begrgnrng 7:30. The public is cordially invited to attend these meetings, and Mr. Johnsw states there will be no charge lo passengers to ami from Laurens. square NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL \ invited, anywhere. Welcome and thanks to • ■ our Honor Roll this week; CPL MARION W SHAW; Fort Lewis, Wash; H. M. BRIMM, Richmond, Va. DONALD W. SMITH, Edgefield: JULIA NORRIS, Cross Hill. ELEANOR SHAW. . : . . Clinton. MRS. HELEN OWENS, MRS. BERTIE ROWE, , JAMES SMITH, .WILLIAM SPURLOCK, West Clinton. aboi se year ago. His secdnd marriage, was to the * rner Mrs. Lilia Herndon Li ■ o. merly oT York - w i< _ aghtfoot, M.irv’fVes. S-Sgt. Matthews On New York Leave S-Sgt. Stepheri J. Mathews, local Army and Air Force Recruiting of- iicer, .left today tor ..a stay at home in Jordan, New York, and will return to this city August 4. While’ S&t. Mathews is away anyone desir ing to join the army or air force is asked to do so at the Greenwood Post Office ir^Greenwood