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/ ^' r THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable 4 If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIX Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 21, 1949 Number 15 Lydia Mills' Oldest Citizen > CENTRAL LOOP OPENED TUESDAY Clinton Mills Falls to Ware Shoals Here Be fore Large Crowd. River- dale Wins. The Central Carolina baseball league opened its season Tuesday night with big crowds. The Clinton Mills team, opening its season here, fell before Ware Shoals, 10 to 4. Roy Bridges, former Sally league hurler, scattered nine hits well and homered to aid his team in an initial victory before S. C. Money Bill Action Expected, House Takes Vacation Columbia, April 18.—Half of the i General Assembly resumed debate on money matters Tuesday while the other half took a virtulal vaca tion. The House of Representatives | voted to consider only local uncon tested matters during the assembly’s 15th week. That means that only a handful showed up for the token meetings. , The senate, meanwhile, still is JOANNA TO PAY $299,000 BONUS Wage Dividend Increase of 38% Over Last Year. 1600 Employees To Par ticipate in Distribution. Approximately 1600 Joanna Cotton Mills employees will receive wage dividend checks averaging $187.00 per person next week, it was an nounced yesterday by Walter Reg- ^ , nery, president of the mill, sweating over the 1949-50 general _ ’ , _ , .. “ • I. This marks the eleventh year appropriations bin wmch has soared s j nce 1937 j n which the Joanna em- 2,000 fans. • . ! even higher than the record pro- ployees have participated in such a In pre-game ceremonies, P. S. Bai-| ^ nHi na ^ ley, president of the mills, tossed out the opening ball which Mayor L. E. Bishop bounced into left field for a posed spending approved by the profit-sharing plan. House. • i Each employee eligible for a full One unofficial addition of the bonus will receive approximately 9.1 adopted Senate amendments put the per cent of his earnings for the past bill’s total at $113,356,991. This com- year and the bonus checks will total pared with the $110,096,940 report $299,360. The total dividend declared recommended by the Senate Finance is 38 per cent more than the one Committee and the $113,340,126 total declared a year ago and almost 200 passed by the House. per cent more than the one paid in Principal increases in the Senate 1947. rally. Potts whiffed 14 Riverdale have been $1,928,750 for public, Mr. Regnery, in making the an- batters but yielded the win to Har-; school teachers’ salaries;'$682,599 for nouncement to the Joanna employ- I rington, who relieved Snyder in the school pupils’ transporation; $100,- ees, sounded a note of caution with On April 11, Mrs. Dora Harris, ^h. Shortstop Medlock, of River- 00 for a central state farm market; regard to present business trends: and $96,000 for the State Forestry i "This wage dividend was made pos single. J. C. Boyce, superintendent of the .mills, was behind the bat. Riverdale Tops Watts Riverdale, in the opening game at Enoree, defeated Watts Mills, 6-4, by means of a five-run seventh inning C. OF C. HOLDS APRIL MEETING; OFFICERS NAMED •GRANNY’’ HARRIS affectionately known as "Granny”' dale, led at the bat. Harris, celebrated her 92nd birthday, and received congratulations and best wishes for many happy returns from many friends during the day. j She has lived in the Clinton com munity all her life. Mrs. Harris has lived through four wars, being a little girl of seven when the Civil war was fought. She is unusually active for her age and, is often seen in the yard of her home talking with friends and neighbors. She enjoys visiting her children who WHERE THEY PLAY Central Carolina Friday: Riverdale at Watts. Clinton at Ware Shoals. " Saturday: Watts at Riverdale. Ware Shoals at Clinton. Tuesday: Riverdale at Ware Shoals. Clinton at Watts. Commission. . ] sible only because there was a good Many other amendments are ex-(market for the cloth produced by pected. Amortg the controversial sec- Joanna Cotton Mills company for 1 tions yet to be considered is the about the eight months ending with State Welfare Department appropri- November 30, 1948. Since December ation for old age allotments. 31, it has been difficult to sell cotton Other statewide matters continue cloth at a profit. The situation today to pile up on the Senate calendar is no better and prospects for an while the appropriations bill holds improvement are not good. The long priority status. and short of it is that mills as a Thirty-seven measures are up fori whole are producing more cloth than . second or third reading. is being sold. Sooner or later such There seems little prospect that mills that cannot produce goods of any but uncontested bills will be 'proper quality at the right cost will W. M. Walker Succeeds Hamer As President. Officers and Directors Elected and Activities of Past Year Cited. The April dinner-meeting of the ! Chamber of Commerce was h^ld Tuesday evening in the college din- - ing hall. The meeting was presided over by the retiring president, R P Hamer, j who. was extended a rising vote of >| thanks during the evening for his ■ services the past year. It was announced that the terms of five directors had expired. C. W Anderson. P S. Bailey, R N. Black- welder. M. W. Brown arid W. R. Pitts. Under a newly adopted voting system, the members were furnished W. M. Walker, a member of the ten names nominated by a commit- firm, Bishop-Walker Pharmacy, was tee. with ,each member requested to named Tuesday as president of the vote for five from the group and rn- Chamber of Commerce for the com- turn their ballots to the secretary ing year. The result of the tabulation shov ed Meeting Monday the board of di- the following elected for three-yeir rectors elected Mr. Walker to sue- terms: W. W Harris, H L Ei ht - ceed R. P. Hamer, who automatically berger. C C Giles, R. L Plaxico a id becomes vice-president. S G Dillard Holdover mernoe r s >f Mr. Walker is president of the lo- the board for one and two ye . ; cal Lions club and is one of the well Bj Hubert Boyd, L E Cason Robert Walker Named C-C President known young business men of the city. George W. Cox Dies Suddenly; Rites At Gray Court George W. Cox. 53. died suddenly _ _ A ... , , ,, early Friday night at his home here The Senate has held two special million and a quarter dollars has aftcr re t urn ing from his work for 4 do not reside in the community. Sh* The KmTcoHo^leaa- 01115 Tl. 06 P r °? er n is loved bv all who know her for The 5’ 0tt ? n ?, ea * considered until the money bill is be forced to shut down. her manv admrable tra^ of JhaJ- Ue 0pen Fnday m * ht ’ April 22 ’ out ol the way. ' 'Mr. Regnery stated that over one acter and attractive personality. SChe K Ule The 560316 has held two special million and a quarter dollars ha W1, l b 6 Played each week on Friday night sessions, may call others this been paid in bonuses since the inau- TJranny . has five children. Clar- and Saturday nights. week in an effort to send the ap- guration of this profit-sharing plan ence Harris of Laurens. Mack and There are four teams in the cir- propriations bill back to the House ever eleven years ago. “ cr y7 j near Clinton, Mrs. cuit, Joanna, Ninety-Six, Matthews py next Tuesday. The bonus distribution last year Stella McLendon and Mrs. Alice and Greenwood. j Further amendments may be of- was $217,000. Motte -of Lydia; thirty-five grand-j The opening games Friday night fered on third reading however. • • children, fifty-five great-grandchil- will be between Ninety-Six and Jo- House refusal to go along with the r drwi. aryl one great-great-grand- anna at Joanna. Matthews and Senate in all its amendments, and Clinton Students chl,d Greenwood in Greenwood. Senate refusal to withdraw from I- Mmc;** Pocfiwsil Saturday night Joanna will play at them, would send the bulging bUl to ,n ' V ' U5,C resiivai f~^**m*±w* a# \A A+tWkAvir* m • . - . , I A number of students In the Clin- ' ton schools participated in the Music ' Festival at Winthrop college the past week. On Wednesday Miss Martha Wash- I ington, music instructor for the local schools, accompanied Miss Barbara i Workman and Charlie Foster, solo- E Johnson. D B .‘bnith, W. K Waites, A B, Godfrey, M D Milam, Jr., Perry "M Moore, D O. Rhatac and R E. Wysor, HI Under the r.c* pl-n the boar t A dirCvtjrs elects the officers. Tucy re ported the following e ection President, W. M Walker Vice-Pre>.der\t,. R P Hamer Secretary. Miss Iona Blake.y. Treasurer, B Hubert Boyd The new president, when Intro duced. asked the support and help of the entire membe. n.p dunrg n.s : Ninety-Six. Greenwood at Matthews a f re * conference committee. t Mid State Opens April 27 ._ . , ... _ The Mid-State baseball league will 50Cl0l Workers To Joanna Young People To Give Play Sunday The young people of Joanna Bap- °P 6n on n6xt W’ednesday, April 27. U-lJ C*nnloranra list church will present a play. Teams include Lydia Mills, Monarch. HOld Conference -Joseph of Arimathea,” Sunday eve- Ottaray. Mollohon, Newberry, Lock- Here MOV 4fH ning at 7:30. | hart. Jolly Street and Whitmire { m Member* of the cast are: Joseph. C> n "?*" lng "J** 11 V, ydla The Piedmont Regional conference . , , t Horace Hamm. Jr.; Esther, Betty P 1 *? " hcr f’ 3t ot the South Carolina Conference of *£, t f te part on !. he p £ gram Ann Thomas; Nicodemus, Wallace Ottaray, Mollohon at Newberry. Work. Dr. George H. Aull of '' ,or * iman received a B rat- (Bud) Carr; Joash, Carl Phillips; Lockhart at Jolly Street Annah, Dorothy Carr; two women, _ Ga 7* es ^ n .** P Iayc .lin Clinton Wednesday, May 4. Joyce-fc»dy and ClaudetU Parish; J liesday ’ * edn6sda y- Thursday and Thr-# mMsinn wilI ^ hAlH . page, Bobby Hair; a soldier, Carl Saturday. prologue, Mrs. Clemson college, d,rector, will meel'^f . C, *K“'^ nd j, „ Mr. Foster an A rating in the boys Stroud; reader of Louis Murphy. Music will be given by the youth choir of the church. The public is invited to attend. Three session will be held: Morn ing at Presbyterian college audito rium. a "dutch” luncheon al Thorn- w-ell orphanage, and afternoon at the State Tra.ning school. • The Parent-Teacher association, under the leadership of Mrs. John T. Young, will prepare for and re- The annual union service of the ceive the members of the confer- churches of Clinton in the interest ence and their guests. To Raise Funds In Cify for Bible Teacher's Salary In Schools Blue Hose and Lydia Play Here Tonight of the campaign to raise funds for ^ the Bible Teacher’s salary in the The Presbyterian college and Ly- c jty schools, will be held Sunday dia Mills baseball teams will play evening, April 24. in the First Pres- tonight (Thursday) at 8 o'clock at byterian church at 8 o’clock division. Thirty-nine members of the girls glee club of Clinton high school, ac companied by Miss Washington and Miss Katrine Martin, received a sec ond rating, as did the sextet compos ed of the following members: Misses Gerry Trammell, Martha Galloway. Polly Davenport, Ann Pitts, Barbara Workman, and Josephine Leaman. On Friday, thirty members of the the day. The announcement came as a great shock to his friends and fam ily, and brought regret to many who administration, knew and admired him A printed annual report listing the The funeral services were held activities of the past year was put Sunday afternoon at 4 30 from m the hands of all members present Friendship Baptist church near Gray by the secretary. An In Memo-iam” Court, and attended by a large gath- space was provided on the re xirt for ering of friends. The service* were W J Ba.ley and W P Jacobi, ru in charge of his pastor. Rev J. H bers of the organua ion who had ' Darr of this city, assisted by the Rev * passed away during the year. Newbeme Patterson Interment fol- Retiring President Hamer spoke lowed in the church cemetery briefly of the woik c: the your l The follovying nephews served as thanked-all committees and ort.cer* pallbearers: Paul Cox. Everett Cook for the cooperation given him Wesley Knight, Lewis Wallace. La- The guest speaker was Jirr Re i nier Stone and Thomas Bramlett. chairman’ of the The honorary escort consisted of commission that several friends and relatives of the Workmen’s Compen-.-. deceased and the deacons of the First Reid was introduced by C Baptist church. and said he had been Mr. Cox was a native of Laurens on community deve’o^ment county and a son of the late O. Foun- than the compensat.on Law Ir tain and Essie Martin Cox. He was ing forward for tn« progre; a member of the First Baptist church development of your community . <• of this city Mr. Cox moved to Clin- said, the South Carolina Rt search ton several years ago during which and Planning board is at your s**r- time he made many friends by his vice to give free information or a - admirable traits of character. For sistance desired in seek.ng new in-* some time he was connected with the dustries. But plann.ng of comnuu- local locker plant. For the past year sions is of little value, he said. u.i- he had been associated in business less the citizen* of a town back up with Chirk' Ray under the name of the promotion plans that may b«* State Inda struf idministers % r* o 1 3 5» V. 1 by C C. < Gila n asked to >peak a:, a The Garden club will have charge ^°y s and £ irl * club of the sixth Ra y and Cox - operators of the meat undertaken. of decorations. The conference is composed of in' dividuals interested in the general and seventh grades at Florida Street school tok part in the festival and received a "B” rating Bill Turner, department at the local A & P store It a good idea. Mr. Reid said. the Clinton Mills ball park. The Ly-, The speaker for the occasion will State ’ not n6L6ssaril y second place in the bovs solo group, dia team is a member of the Mid- ^ Dr D wl g h t M Chalmers, pastor, S0 ^I a ‘ .. They were accompanied by Miss State league opening April 27. of (ht> Westminster Presbyterian 11 Aing C0U J? Ues C ^ mp ° se Washington and Miss Agnes Davis. Miss Dorothy Carr, of Joanna, was awarded an "A” rating in the piano solo contest. Miss Carr is a ninth grade student in the Joanna school. State league opening April Z7. of the Westminster Presbyterian It is announced that the proceeds r hiirrh of Greenville Rltdnion l region. Oconee, Green- will go for Boy Scout work. Dr Chalmors is one of the out- ^ 11 . e ’._ Laol ' ens ’. Ch6Ster ; Lancaster, NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL standing ministers of his denopiina- ; d York tion and it is expected that a large crowd will greet him in his inital Pickens, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Un- i oi Enoree. f r every city to ha ■ c a plan or* * f tnere is to t>e ne v business and growth the citizens must give oi the; time and services tc the program Your Chamber of Corpmerce. city adm.mitration. and other or gam lions should all - < t >ge.> they plan and build ‘ >r tnc ‘ut ire •iriji, ... ^ uid, wants J. B. appearance in the city. He is a grad- J. B. Frontis uate of Davidson college, being the . la rojorw valedictorian of his class and a Phi L0S6S mOfher ,^ re . J” P .t read “ Beta Kappa. He was recipient of _ , - ICLE today than eve ' bc a . ' the Hoge fellowship at Union Theo- Friends of Mr. and Mrs. it was founded ‘‘k 19 °- T a i 0 gj ca i seminary, Richmond. Va. He Frontis will sympathize w th them reason—its a live served the Church.By-The.Side of in the death of the former's moth- fulIU mterort m its news and ad- ^ Ro>d Grpi . nsbor ' N c , or er , Mrg . Anme McKay Frontis. -w,- ter tsihh 'delivered in vour sor ne years, then was pastor of the dow of the late Dr. Datfid Beatty i,. .. , than 4c a week delivered in your ^ £ resbyterian chu f ch char . Frontls , p hysR ., un „( , hl r Kidgv &ngle copies available af the ot- lottesville Va where he ministered Spr.ng section, fice Thursday for 5c. t ^ e students °f the University of Mrs. Frontis who was a native of Welcome and thanks to those on Virginia. Following that pastorate Baltimore, Md. passed away Fri- Cglethorpe Spring Sports Schedule our Honor Roll this week: MRS. L. L. YOUNG, R. D. D. No. 3. MISS MARGARET TAYLOR, Joanna. CLARENCE DUNAWAY, ' MISS VIOLET GINN, West Clinton. MRS. R. L. GRANT, MRS. E. C. BURDETTE, Lydia Mills. HOTEL COFFEE SHOPPE, Clinton. AUTOMOBILES.... are becoming more plentiful, many prices are being changed in the industry and new mod els offered. You will find interesting and helpful "automobile news” each week in the advertising columns of . . • THE CHRONICLE "The Paper Everybody Reads" dents at Duke University. His pre- day at the Batesburg-Leesville Pres- sent pastorate in Greenville was byterian church with interment in undertaken to build up the West- the Ridge Spring Cemetery. minster church which is located in . one of the fast growing sections of the city. ^ The members of the canvassing committees of the various churches are asked to meet immediately after the service in the Sunday school I rooms of the church to make plans ieft the canvass for funds that will begin on Monday morning. At Presbyterian College ♦ — The following are the remaining home engagements in various spring sports at Presbyterian college: Tennis ^atnmazoo April 21 Woffprd . April 25 Furman ...f. May 4 Baseball ' Oglethorpe April 30 Newberry May 3 Me- ver May 9-10 Erskine May 12 Track Furman April 23 SC State meet May 13-14 New business, be! > i community, the speakc to have a full knowledge of that ojnmunity, its advantages and pos- interested in many sibilities. It things, education, its political struv- 4-H Club Will Meet Tuesday The Clinton Girls' 4-H club will meet at the high school on Tuesday. 1 April 26, at three o’clock with all members invited to be present, and 1 to bring notebooks and all demon- j stration materials available. Mrs. ! Adeline Long, assistant county home | ! demonstration agent, will speak at 1 the meeting. All girls who wish to attend camp this summer ore in vited. . ' THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING Your messages regularly in THE CHRONICLE will be seen and read by thousands of people at leisure. The life of the weekly home paper is longer than that of any other advertising medium. -t • . Advertisers who have tested all available mediums of advertising in the county declare that THE CHRON ICLE does the 4 whole job very satisfactorily alone.' There is no hit-or-nviss when merchants and busi ness firms use THE CHRONICLE to reach their poten- tial "customers. / Lt. Col. Fraser Among Leaders For Student Conference ^ ture. tax rat*s. civic club*. Chamber Lt. Col. Powell Fraser, professor of. C mmerce. social and religious of military science and tactics at life, law and order, and the general Presbyterian college, will be among attitude of the .people on economic seven leaders of the spring training and other matters Mr Reid said in conference of the South Carolina closing. "Your town i< the image o Student Christian association to lx its business men. and it is what* vou held at Camp Long near Aiken Fri- do that counts largely in vou- pfa: - day through Sunday. ning and future success " Colonel Fraser, who is faculty ad- — visor for the campus Student Chris- SCOIT TRAlvivr tian association, will bo accompanied Th Aw r,,, “ „ to Camp Urn* by Ben Collms, re- s,™ ts w*! t<,un '' 1 ' B ” > ' cently eleet.d president tor next >prmi tra ,„ : ., s „., SR , n t0 ^ year of the coilege Christian or- Camp Old Indian on Aprd 30 and ganization. and eight student repre- M ay i. 1949. The sessions wfu t^' sentatives. His topic for Ithe three gi„ a, , /cIock „„ gaiurdav ar.i days will be Christian Associations end at 3 d m Sunriiv r >i,r i , 4 and Worid Relaiedness ' Students; ,eade rs h a P |T ^n a*Lu n ^” of Presbyterian college, the Uni- ~ versity of South Carolina. Wofford. Converse, Columbia, Winthrop. Clemson, The Citadel. Erskine, and Furman university, Coker and Limestone colleges will gather at the annual meeting. Presbyterian Men To Meet Tonight The Men-of-the-Chur.h of* the First Presbyterian church will hold their April dinner-meeting at 6 45 this evening. Officers for the new year are to be elected, it has bee announced. • The guest speaker will be Dr . A B e n f i e 1 d , Jr., vice-president of Louisville Theological seminary, Louisville, Ky. READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REG! LARIY EACH WEEK It v II pay you. Us thrifty to sh*’*' Hr*| in this nru>pa'x*r then in the stores as pricts change and met el-andise ‘ e- iotries more plen* u* •* ‘ BE WISE— READ THE ADS