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I \ • l i ■■■ /. i • *- f V-r 4, [HE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable . . . . ^ • • • T 3hp CUntmi Chrnntrlf If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIX Clinton, S. C., Thursday, February 10, 1949 Number 6 ’48 County Textile Payroll $12,042,170 V 5 All Manufacturing Enterprises Have Payroll of $14,408,517. Annual Production of Seven Cotton Mills Reaches $54,346,130, With 5,233 Employees. Joanna Cotton Mills Leads in Spindles and Looms, Clinton and Lydia Mills Second and Third. HEARr DRIVE GETS UNDERWAY BOND ELECTION SET FOR APRIL 12 Col. R. E. Wysor Heads County Campaign. This Community Asked To Respond. A drive for funds was begun Tues day in the county by members of the ; county chapter of the American $350,000 Bond Issue To Be Voted Upon In Spe cial Election for Water, Sewer and Street Im provements. CENTRAL CAROLINA LEAGUE PLANS 56-GAME SCHEDULE; MID-STATE DISBANDS Fast Textile League Opens April 19 With Games On Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Clinton, Joanna and Riverdale New Members In Eight Team Loop. County Farmers Make Two-Day Grazing Tour manufacturing establish-) Mr$ SQ ,| y p QSSes The 38 ments in Laurens county paid total wages of $14,408,517 during the fis cal year ending last June 30. Te^-' tiles account for $12,042,170 of the amount paid to 5,233 employees. An average of 6,359 employees shared in these earning, according to the 13th report of the South Carolina Depart ment of Labor, just issued. Value of the manufacturing estab- At Home Here, Rites At Padgett's Creek At a meeting of city council held Heart association to help stop the on Wednesday, February 2, a peti- spread of heart disease in the na- tion by freeholders of the town was i , ♦ ! tion. The drive, national in its scope, presented asking that an election be Laurens county beef and dairy i will continue through February 28. held on the question of issuing and ( producers, other farmers and busi- Col. R. E. Wysor, of this city, is selling bonds of the Town of Clin-; ness men interested in grazing made campaign chairman for the county, ton * n *be amount of not exceeding an annual tour of the county Tues- with Mrs, W. P. Jacobs as co-chair- $350,000, the proceeds of which to day and yesterday to see what is be- man. Chairmen and workers have be used to extend and improve the i n g done in the transformation of the (By Pete Pederson in Greenwood Index-Journal) Dr.. R H Park, of Greenwood, long-time secretary of the Central Carolina league, will step up from his old job this year to head the eight-team textile loop for 1949 The veteran local baseball fan and >tTi- cial was elected unanimously by the eight directork <v? the Central Caro lina at the league's first formal moet- th eyear, held at Blazer’s on night. v-iian men emu wurners iidve — — — —“ *•■**'*'"'- mg uuuc m me u anaiui maiiun ui me :1 , T u j ^ eyear held at B l’t also been named for Laurens, and existing waterworks system, sewer- county from all-cotton to a diversi- j Greenwood last Tuesdav Mrs. Sally Clifton Bobo, 87, widow W. K. Waites will head the drive in a 8 e system and electric system. Also f ief i agriculture. * ‘ ~ ‘ . of J. M. Bobo, died at her home here, the Joanna community petition by freeholders of the town last Friday night after a brief ill-| H . L. Eichelberger is chairman of> as P re f ^ted asking that an elec-1 ter ;- dairymen ness - ! the special gifts division, J. J. Corn- ,lon be , ne ,,. 0 ^ tbe ^ uestl0n 0 ‘‘ NhU “ I schedule being carried out: Began at this year, and that Riverdale. Joanna ... . . .. . , ai The funeral services were held wall heads the business district, W. ; in “ f n , selling Donas oi tne i 0 * 11 the Eric Martin place at Owings. and Mills and Clinton Mills, all of last ‘"eluded r.™ * E. J. S,„a„. A. J. yea,.. H. A. Benson, assistant secretary Tuesday’s tour was of special in- of the league, said that Whitmire of the following last year's league had dropped out Mid-State, had been taken Creek Baptist church in Union county ’ Walter DanhofT is Lydia Mills chair- ce ^ dl ^ g t $ ^ 00 - 000 ' the P roceeds ^; Hughes. Lewis C. Hughes and Rob- into the Central Carolina $15,227,(171 »: XT Ajdifc"* crSqg.‘to“cte»’£ lute I : irtTHttlSr »• Vl«-pmldei»t for IMS will by Tevtiles account lor the very great Moore and J. H. Darr, officiating. I chairman. Dr. George R. Blalock ^ I'P r J.,. '‘I^HewalkT "" Laurens for lunch. Clyde E Crocker, of Riverdale. one majority of the manufacturing wages p a llbearers_were Broadus Sud-1 the medical adviser for the county. ; slleels ana siae\AaiKs. In the afternoon they met at Ed of J the three new team ^ m . he i ea , uc . in the county with a total mill popu-1 deth> F c. Pinson, Porter Watson, - A large number of solicitors have Upon checking the respective peti- Copeland’s dairy farm on the Lau- Blll Bishop of Ware Shoals "vwt J. A. Jones, E. W. Estes, C. \y. Coop-i been named Chairman Wysor states,: tions and finding that each of them rens-Clinton highway at 1:30 p m.. e kvted secretary-treasurer in i the ef, Ezell Bobo, and D. M. Page. In- and the campaign will be c4ijducted has the required majority of the with stops at League’s dairy, T P. newly-created post of assistant sec- terment followed i» the church ceme- in the hope of securing a generous freeholders’ signatures, council and D. Eugene Brown’s dairy, Byron re tary will be filled by Hugh Ben- tery. response from the public. Those adopted an ordinance ordering a and Cecil Brown’s dairy, and Robert [; on Q f Watts The last rites were attended bv a who desire f° mail their contribu- special election to be held on April H. Roper’s beef farm, larer irathprini? of relativps and i tloris are as^^d to do so as soon as 12 on the question of issuing and, Yesterday at 9 a m. the tour began 1 friends "ami the flowers were many j th " chiarman. selling the bonds asked for in the at C P. Hill's home, Lanford com- 'and beautiful South Carolina has been asked to petitions. Formal notices of the elec-t munity, and from there the tour in- ' i contribute between $50,000 and $75,- tion will be published in subsequent eluded stops at Ross Templeton. J. Mrs. Bobo was a daughter of the 0 00 of the $5,000,000 the association'issues of The Chronicle. Herman Power, Marcus S. lation of 9,675, or about one-fifth of the population of the county. Textiles represent $10,858,332 capital invest ment and manufactured products valued at $54,346,130. Housed in the textile plants were 279,224 spindles and 7,868 looms, di vided as follbws: Clinton Cotton Mills (plants 1 and 2), P. S. Bailey, president, 71,824 Boyd, J. spindles and 1,804 looms. Goods man- 1 i at e Robert and Elizabeth Cliifton, a! is attempting to raise in the nation. The date for the special election w Tinsley and Carl Thompson, with ufactured: print cloth, yarn fabrics, highly regarded family of the Pad- More than i0 per cent of the money was fixed by the council as late as lunch in Laurens. Lydia Cotton Mills, P. S. Bailey, 8 ett s Creek community. She was a ra j sed j n t he state will remain in it. April 12 in order, that citizens who Some 30 officiaLs, managers and team representatives of the 1949 Cen tral Carolina circuit gathered to thrash out details of the league’s by laws and set the stage for the sea son's opening. After a long discussion the meet- Yesterday afternoon they met at in « finally agreed on a 56-game president, 51,264 spindles and 1,278 no ^ le gf#itlewoman of beautiful: q 0 i w ysor po i nted out desire to ^ote in the election and T. J. Leake’s store at the edge of '‘fiedule opening Tuesday. April 19. looms. Goods manufactured: print 1 Christian character, admired by Besides providing for research, who have not already procured coun- the city, and at 1:30 p.m visited C and rinsing Saturday, August cloth, yarns. j many for her lovable traits of char- education and community service in ty registration certificates may have w. Anderson’s beef cattle farm, I M. with the Shaughnessy play-offs to Joanna Textile Mills company, Jo-j ac ter, all of whom will learn with conjunction with heart' disease, an opportunity to get them when the Smith’s dairy farm, J T Addison's follow that date, extending in’, the anna (plants 1 and 2), Walter Reg-j regret of her passing. Sduth Carolina will be able to add registration board meets on the first beef cattle farm, S. Gary Dillard’s ,,rst week in Septt>mber. The deceased is survived by two another instructor in the Medical Monday in March. Certificates must beef cattle farm and the State Tram- daughters, Misses Florence and Ag- School 4\ Charleston and secure the have been issued not less than 30 mg school, nes Bobo, and one son, W. R. Bobo, ’ services of top-flight ’ cardiologists days before the election to qualify ^ nery, president, 89,928 spindles, 2,692 looms. Goods manufactured: shade cloth, drapery fabrics, mop yarns. Hallmark Manufacturing corpor-. ation, Clinton, shirt manufacturers, is listed in the report Laurens Cotton Mills, M. L. Smith, president, 37,072 spindles, 942 looms. Goods manufactured: cotton, rayon. Watts Mills, Laurens, J. P. Stevens, president, 28,528 spindles, 1,152 looms. Goods manufactured: rayon fabrics. . all of this city. Cook Accepts Position As Vice-President Clinton and Lydia Mills as visiting professors if the money is a voter in this respect. Further in- raised. formation as to qualifications and The campaign will be conducted requirements for voting in the elec- locally and throughout the state in-' tion will be published later, city of- tensively for several weeks. ficials state. Rites In Newberry Scout Charter Presented Troop ^At Lydia Mills Miss Annie Beard Passes In Whitmire, Former Resident Here By far the greatest amount of dis cussion developed over highly-con- troversial Article 3, long a thorn i.i the side of semi-pro textile ball. Las* year the league was ‘’open,” and dm not require any *‘bona-ftde employ ment” of players. Four of the eight teams represent ed in the league this year moved t * David S. Cook has arrived in the For Eugene F. Lawson Also Gwen Evan Mills, Clinton, president of the Ciinton and Lydia j Funeral services for Eugene F. R. M. Levey, president. Manufacture i Cotton Mills in charge of manufac- Lawson, who died at the home of ed goods: upholstery fabrics. - ! turing. The mills are headed by P. S.: Mrs. Sam J. Shannon in the Bethle- Palmetto c(> rporation, | Ba ii e y as president. j hem section of Newberry county, 90Yt Lydia Mills attended a parents She was daughter of the late iowY'g three' Yutsiders.'’’This opp<)s- Laurens, K. C. u orien, presiaeni, 1 M r . Cook was graduated from the were held on Thursday (Jan. 27) at supper Tuesday evening at the Lydia Henir y and Martha Powers Beard and Miss Annie Penel ipe Beard, 89. close the league “tight”—or use only died Sunday morning at the home of b a ii players who were regular em ber niece, Mrs. William W. Lewis, in ployees of each mill. TTie group was Whitmire, where she had been can-»deeded dr Or fined to her bed for ten years, fol-,N in ety Six Mill. The remaining four ^ lowing an injury to her hip on De- teams were opposed to closing the Forty scouts and parents of Troop ce ™ i ° cr _ league completely, insisting on al- R. C. O’Brien, president, 606 spindles. ) Philadelphia, Pa., Textile school in | Leavell’s Funeral home, Newberry, school. " * was born in Abbeville county near Mill heating plants used 12,239 1922. For the next three years he j Services were conducted by his pas-. The charter from the National Ninety Six on January 26, 1860 She tons of coal. was connected with the West Point, I tor, Rev. G. H. Hodges, and Rev. B.' Council of Boy Scouts of America was a charter member of the Wo- The report also gives a directory; Qa., Manufacturing company. From 1 S. Drennan of Inman, assisting. In-1 f 0 r the operation of the.troop for one man s Missionary society of the for the eounty, listing other Indus-1J925 to 1931 he was manager of the ! terment followed in Rosemont ceme- year was presented to George Cor- Methodist Episcopal church. South, ing group was headed by J. A. Chap man, of Enoree (Riverdale). When the deadlock developed, both sides presented their case at length. Instead of the three officials (presi dent, vice-president and secretary) tries, fertiUzer plants, ice plants, knit- Pepperell Manufacturing company at tery, Newbefry. nelson, ~a”s YheYepFesentafiveYf Ly- Carolina conference^.and serv- voting to break the tie, Supt. M Neill ting mills, ^ DOyhnf P lanls -, PJ , ‘ ng Opelika, Ala., and with their New, Mr. Lawson was born in Laurens dia Mills by John Fans, Laurens her church with devotion and loy- offered to compromise on two out- and publishing industries, the Lau J iYork offices for the period 1931-35. ‘county and was the youngest son of rens Glass works, Laurens, and Dap per Hosiery Mills of this city From 1935 to 1947 Mr. Cook was i the late W. F. and Mrs. Sallie L Exchange Club To Hold Ladies Night county district chairman of Boy man y y^ a rs she resided here, side players. The compromise was . Scouts. In a short talk, Mr. Fans ™ home of her sister, Mrs. R. H. accepted. — manager of the Pepperell Manufac- Lawson. He was reared at Thornwell stated that polls show that tw r o of who survives. She is also Moves to play four games a week, turing company at Hiddeford, Blaine,) orphanage and was employed for tvery three boys w r ant to be scouts, survived by a number ot nieces and were defeated by vote of the direc- and from 1947 until recently he held several years by the Southern rail- while in Laurens county only one in ne Pfi^ w s- ( tors, as was a move to play Tuesday, j the position of president of the High-1 road in Columbia until he returned 12 ever become scouts because of the funeral services were held fr^m Thursday and Saturday. The old land City Manufacturing company at to Newberry due to ill health. He lack of adult leadership. He made an * de borne of. Mr. and Mrs Lewis playing dates uf Tuesday. Fridav and j Talladega, Ala., resigning to come The annual ladies night of the ex- here at.ei a number of years success- change club of Clinton will be held ful experience in textile manufactur- on next Monday, February 14, at thej* n S he entered, that field. Presbyterian college Oining hall at Mr. Cook has a wife and two young 8 pjn., according to an announcement daughters .vho will join him the first by W. B. Able, club president. ) of March - The y Wl1 * occu Py th e fo) > A varied musical program will be mer d * R art residence on Walnut presented by Miss Gloria Owens,! street recently purchased by the marimbist, Mrs. Ed Sadler, vocalist, 1''^nton Cotiun Mill:. and the college quartet composed of Jim Hollandsworth, Contey Dubose. T Pononf Rnf Pete Hay, and Cy Mallard. Robert B. 1 ° repeal I\ar Control Program 'Hellams will be the toastmaster. A gala evening is in prospect for the “Exchangettes and friends of j Coiinty Agent C. B. Cannon stated the club. (ytsterday that the rat control pro- was a member of Central Methodist I appeal to parents to support the •T ,nda y a, ' ern oun,-conducted by the Saturday were’ again adopted witn church. scouting program by giving at least ‘* ev - LeGrande Moody, Jr., and the ^ocal provisos. Survivors include his widow. Mrs. two hours each month in guiding '-unnolly Gamble, Jr. Interment Another motion to suspend league Eunice Shannon Lawson; two sisters, their sons toward becoming good cit- uulowed in the Whitmire cemetery play during the week ot July 4th. Mrs. Bettye Lawson of Clinton, and izens. came near, passage but was finally Mrs. Mattie Gregory of Blackstock;! j b. Abercrombie, Scoutmaster, RJq Increase defeated. The holiday coming on six brothers, Jim and Victor Lawson,: pr esen t e d tenderfoot badges to the a,*' . _ Monday this year, the regular Tuea- both of Clinton, Louis Lawson of follbwing charter members of the bnOWn Ifl County day night game will he moved bank. Dayton, Ohio, the Rev. A. A. Law-! troop: Sammy Wray, Junior Tiimb- 1 . j one day in order to provide Fourt i son of Nocatee. Fla., Alberi Lawson Un, Tracy Coker, Benny Johnson, VJinncO »*o July entertainment, of Pauline, and Robert Lawson of Tracy Dees, Bruce Walker. Millard ^ I On the vote for the acceptance of Thomasville, N. C. A number of niec- Phipps, Billy Willard and Eugene; ^ urens count y ginned consider- the compromise “two outsider” es and nephews also survive.. Nelson. ) abI y more catton this year prior to clause, seven members voted to a - Active pallbearers were Sam P. i Committee certificates and lapel Ja n^ a ry than during tlx- same C ept the compromise. Manager Uoyi The following membe s make up, g rain conducted last February under the committee in charge of arrange- | puspices of the Laurens County ments for the program. James C-j Agrici 'tural committee will be re- Dickert, Grady Chandler, G r a d y i p eated t year. Adair, J. L. Boyle and Gary Hoi- : committee, he said, authorized combe. ^ , j^e campaign rt a meeting held .ast ^ week when it a. t discussed thu an- 1 nual grazing tour, rarn demonstra- ; ons and 4-H club work Local Students On College Dean's List Shannon, James N. Shannon, Cecil pms were presented to the following . ,er i° d year, according to the Moore, of Watts, did not vote. Lawson, Harold Austin, Harold Law- by Carroll Pitman, local field scout department of commerce report. | o lhe .. actions by the group includ- son, A. E. Lawson, Marion Lawson executive: Orin D. Daws, Clyde ^ total of 19 - 263 bales wer e gin- ed t he adoption of the Wilson ani and Willie-Lawson. Trammell, P. L. Piercy, Rev. J. H. n ^ d _ ,n the county against 13,963 last ( Goldsmith 97” balls for league use. • Walker, George Cornelson, and ; The officials arranged with Ralph Cecil E. White On Scoutmaster J. B. Abercrombie. f , 1S trend 15 carried out over most Crutchfield of the Spartanburg sport- ii . •. r i. The scouts presented a flag cere- , the state, 863.116 bales having in o goods store to again draw the University Faculty mony with the pledge of allegiance been g inned * n the state this year to the flag and a short stunt. prior to January 16 against 633,644 Cecil E. White, oit’ this city, is a • The Woman’s club of Lydia served ^ ear u new member of the law school fac- the supper. Mrs. Wallace was in Orangeb&rg is the largest cotton ulty at the University of South Car- charge o>f songs and games. growing county in this state. This | Cards are being sent out to the ’ V? 3, ! farmers notifying them that the rat Forty-four student', at Presbyterian 1 bait will be available at the county college have been named to the i agent’s office at $1 for a three-pound dean’s list (for first semester Schol- ! package, the same price as last year. A graduate of Presbyterian Mr. Pitman reported that 125 - vear J5.024 bales had been ginned college and the University law school, scouts from the county wilF attend fj* 1°^ ry ^* , an increas ^ °\' er aiiolment of money to v arious oll:- the league. astic averages. To qualify for this group, the registrar stated, it was necessary to have an average of 2.4 or above for the first semester of the academic year. Clinton students included on the list are John Holland Hunter, Jean Harris, Ferdinand Jacobs, Grace City Teachers Hear State Supervisor he is now completing work at Colum- “open house” for scouts of Blue * be bales of last year durfhg b'.a university, New York, for his Ridge council and the Palmetto be same Period- master’s degree. He is a member oi council in Greenville. Wig and Robe and Phi Beta Kappa, — honorary scholastic organizations D. L. McCormac, state high school supervisor, addressed the faculty 6f Young, Lee Blakely, and 'Sidney i Maxwell. MR. MERCHANT . . . THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING If you want to move mer chandise let us h e 1 p y o u through our advertising col umns. Your message will be read at leisure by a large po tential audience including all members of thousands of fam ilies. THE CHRONICLE “The Paper Everybody Reads” auditorium Tuesday afternoon. He gave a practical and timely, discus sion on modern phases of education, emphasizing the 12-year program and NATIONAL HEART WEEK Hejaz Temple To Hold Greenville Meet is JOIN’S THOMAS FIRM W R. Gamble, of Laurens, has ac cepted a position with J. C Thomas, Jeweler. Mr. Gamble is a veteran ot World War II and attended a watch makers school in Greenville. ce rs u. Another meeting in two weeks time may be held to present the revised by-laws as adopted for the signature Oil' each director. Hejaz Temple, of Greenville, sponsoring a joint meeting of nobles 1 ~ ~~ and members of the various Masonic _ bodies of the district in Greenvville NEW SUBSCRIBERS on February 14. The meeting will be j-|ONOR ROL* Methodist Group In Attendance Contest ohter educational matters. FEBRUARY 14-21, 194$ j held at Parker high school audito rium at 8 p.m. and will be open to | f ladies. Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun will make his official visi- BISHOP NA^IED OFFICER At the annual meeting of the South Carolina Municipal association held in Columbia on ^londay and Tuesday, Mayor L. E. Bishop of this city, was elected a member of the executive committee for the coming year. DONNY WILDER RATES Donny Wilder was given honorable mention in news writing in the rating contest the past month by the Win- throp college journalism department. We welcome new subscribers to our family. If you are a newcomer tation at this time and local Masons ! 0 the , c ' 4 \ l wo invrt ^ you to join our At the conclusion of the contest Pel- are cordially invited. The Youth Fellowship of Broai Street Methodist church is* beginning an attendanqe contest on Sunday eve ning, February 13, ,to continue until April. Meetings are held^each Sunday evening at 6:45 and all Methodist young people are invited, to attend. large family fo readers. If you want 1 the news, you want THE CHRQ.V Assistants Named For Laurens Heart Drive 1CLE. ** ? %ierican Heart Association 2 177$ BROADWAY. NEW YORK 19%> Judge J. Hewlette Wasson and Mrs.' W. Hummel Harley have been named j assistants in the city of Laurens to Col. R. E. Wysor of this city, county chairman of the American Heart as sociation, which began its campaign for funds Tuesday to continue to February 27. Welcome and_^ thanks to those on cur Hon >r R 11 this week: MRS. W E. B! )YtV Gainesville, Fla. • ^ i GPL. RCXBLRT E BOUKNICHT, Newburgh, N Y MILS. J M FICKLIN, M hir *villp. XL..-, 'i CANFIELD, Lydia Mills. C. J. BLACK, Joanna. MFMBFR COLLEGE CHOIR Miss Helen Hamilton, daughter os Allie E. Hamilton,of th.s city. t -» has been chosen as i >i the t''Uring choir at Mitchell college, Statesville, N C, where she is t freshman. \ Ay \' schedule for the league this year. The arrangement for umpires that • existed last year will be continued with possible downward adjustment in compensation of the umpire-in- chief and changes in league dues, and lowshrp 1 emblem pms will be pre sented those with perfect attendance. ■ Miss Barbara Workman :s pres. - 'out of the group: Counsellors are Mrs. Lewis Pitts, Mrs W.knot Sheah/ and L. S. Reddeck