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I THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Cleon Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable 3hp (Chrmtirlf If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE You Don't Get the News Volume XLIX Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 17, 1949 Number 45 JOANNA FOUNDATION QUARTERLY BANQUET LARGELY ATTENDED Reports Heard on Com munity Work of the Organization. Regnery Expresses Optimistic Outlook. The Joanna Foundation observed its quarterly banquet meeting in the auditorium of Joanna club on Saturday evening, November 11, at 7 p. m. The board of trustees, pres ent and past members of the board of directors and the leading profes sional and business people of Jo anna participated in this event. The invocation was pronounced by the Rev. James B. Mitchell, pastor of Joanna Baptist church. A delicious meal was served by the Joanna Woman’s club. While those pres ent dined, Kelly Waites was busily engaged with a movie camera shooting scenes of the banquet. The after dinner program consist ed of the introduction of recently arrived religious leaders and re ports and remarks by different in dividuals who., occupy supervising positions in the different phases of the Foundation’s activities. J. B. Hart, treasurer of Joanna Cotton Mills company and a member of the board of trustees of Joanna Founda tion, reviewed some of the past ac tivities of the Foundation and made the prediction that the organization was destined to be acclaimed as one of the most interesting, unique and effective eleemosynary organ izations in this section of the coun try. G. N. Foy, superintendent of Joanna schools, presented and wel comed into the community Rev and Mrs. J. W. Giles, the incoming pastor of Epworth Methodist church and his wife. J L. Delany, super intendent of Joanna Cotton Mills company, and a member of the Foundation's board of trustees, pre- ented and welcomed into the com munity Father E. Gerald Ernst, lo cal parish priest, who responded with a few remarks complimentary of the community and of the activ ities of Joanna Foundation. Miss Ruth Hair, chairman of the Edu cation committee; Milton Bolick, chairman of the Health committee; Vernon Gamer, chairman of the Recreation committee, were called on for reports on the various activ ities under their committees. The reports rendered were received with interest and approval. Miss Kitty Mae Mosely, superintendent of Jo anna Memorial hospital, operated by the Joanna Foundation, reported the work of the hospital during the period from its opening on July 16 until October 31. Jim Winsper, general manager of Joanna Stores, gave an encouraging report on the mercantile activity from which the income of the Foundation is de rived. The highlight of the even ing was a talk by Walter Regnery, president of Joanna Cotton Mills company, in which he reviewed the origin, purposes and achievements of the Joanna Foundation and gave an optimistic report on the general outlook in the textile industry dur ing the coming six months. His an nouncement at the close of the talk, that the employees of the company would be allowed a vacation period from December 23 to January 2 was received with applause. W. K. Waits, a member of the Foundation’s board of trustees, al so, chairman of its board of direc tors, presided and announced that in keeping with custom there would be provided a community Christmas tree on Christmas Eve on which would hang a Christmas tok en for each child under 12 years of age. ’ Johnny Moore, athletic director for Joanna Foundation, thanked the people of the community for their wholehearted support of the pro gram since his coming to Joanna. Mr. Moore, also, talked on some of the phases of his work for the com ing months. The benediction was pronounced by the Rev. J. W. Giles. Centijicatc of §wtf«4tCo* ®1jp (Clinton tthronirlr tc fcarrapej iiAisssms^a AAA Ch ronicle Is Awarded ’Top” Rating In Survey Is Given AAA Rating and Wins Award As “One of the Best Weekly Newspapers of America.” Completeness of News, Editorials, Circulation and Advertising Used As Yardstick By National Research Bureau. this Publication the One of the Best Weekly Newspapers of After a Comparative Evaluation Study of die Newspaper, la Circulation, Advertising Rate and the Market Coveted COMMUNITY RESEARCH BUREAU N«w Ymt, N V. r «f dht I Clinton Has Quota $1,600 In Seal Sale Which Opened Monday The organization conference Ross D. Young Passes At Hospital Here; Rites In Laurens Local Officer Is Acquitted In Negro Death of| Ross Duckett Young, highly es- Laurens, Nov. 14.—'Rufus King, Tuberculocis Seal Sale workers for teemed Laurens citizen and retired 30-year-old Clinton policeman, was Laurens county was held in I^u-1 public died Sunday afternoon' • c< * ul V < ! K by * dl ^ Ct *^ V !fS ict M ? n ‘ rens on last Friday. All workers!,. niairv-k ritnir h*r, h, day of ** ° ctober 14 killm * of * were invited to attend the dinner 1 1 lh B ** lotk clin ‘ c h<re where he Negro fugitive. James Jackson, de meeting and hear an inspirational t had bten * P»bent P«*t two ( scribed as * dangerous character, address by Mrs. D. McL. McDonald. wc«hs. He had been in declining Solicitor Hugh Beasley called the executive secretary of S. C. Tuber- health the past two snd a half years case In General Sessions Court in culosis amociation. ' Fun * ral .ervices were conducted Sh * riff C J V - The campaign was opened in Monday afternoon from the First w,er ** 10 , * inve * 1 ' Clinton on Monday past with soli- Presbyterian church in Laurens by f* 1 * 0 * 1 th * cas ** the f 0 l ,cit0r . i rn , ad t citations being made by the com-1 his pastor, the Rev Ton, C Cook. the f ° r * direcMd^Vtrdlrt of mittee on Bond Sale headed by Mrs. Interment followed in the family * n,cn George R. Blalock. This will be plot in the Laurens cemetery. : Judge J. followed by the general campaign Active pallbearers at the funeral t , . . for sale of seals iginmng on next were A L Mason. I. M Adair. DT. ,h °*~* ** CUntonpolire had been Monday and exU^^ Ufl S- George Blalock, Henry M. Young, Jr>^ <o be °n £ cember 25th. Cooptation from ^anc. Blalock. George C. Young.' th, foUowin, chairman-!* JC Ad.,r 2n*nA”* THE CLINTON CHRONICLE has been adjudged “One of the Best Weekly Newspapers in America” ac cording to information received this week as will be seen from the cer- j tifleate reproduced in the adjoining columns. The announcement was made by the Community Research Bureau of Metuchen, N. J., which has just completed an analysis of the weekly newspapers of this saate for American Weekly Newspaper Pub lishers Council. In the nation-wide survey, THE CHRONICLE was given a rating of AAA which places the paper in the top 20 per cent of the weekly news papers of the state and nation, ac cording to an impartial study and classification of the 10,000 weekly newspapers in the country being con ducted on a state-by-state basis. The ratings are made by the Com munity Research Bureau, an indepen dent research organization, to provide national advertisers with a guide in the selection of weekly newspapers for advertising purposes. In this Continuing Evaluation Study, newspapers of each state are studied, analyzed, and rated in five classification brackets, with approx imately 20 per cent of the papers of a state being placed in each of the five rated groups. The five quality classifications are AAA, AA. A. B. and C. The AAA rating of this news paper means that it rates in the to > bracket. Each newspaper is rated on recog nized quality factors including loea nerws and editorial content, evaluated circulation, volume of local advertis ing and the fairness of the newspa per's advertising rate, based on cost per family reached. Ratings of all newspapers are under general su pervision of a board composed of leaders in the field of journalistic ed ucation, national advertising and weekly newspaper publishing. Four basis quality factors—loca news, editorials, local advertising and circulation—<were considered in ar riving at the standard of excellence of THE CHRONICLE The first two were measured to show reader interest, the third was considered to indicate local advertis ers' interest, and the circulation was weighed for accuracy and judged as a yardstick in measuring local cover age and acceptance by distant resi dents. Naturally. THE CHRONICLE *s proud of this certificate of merit. Ani we are profoundly grateful to our readers, advertisers and commercial printing custocners whose generous support and good-will has made it possible for us to achieve this hign rating. Much of the credit is due to you. was granted by Judge J. Henry Johnson of Allendale. Sheriff Wier said his investigation encouraging: The escort of honor was I of the deacons and elders i comprised 1 >a t v * n *. 1 of the First rape charge. They had been „ 1 Mai1 W t R Anderson; ^ 5 by^ r T.n“' churcT's'nd‘ T la7ge wa j r »« 1 ^ * dangrous character ? h !? t0n w£ ilb r Supt ™, { C -® oyc , e , : number of friends from the county.! ^ th « * hen / f * a,d • f [ om the Lydia Mills—Supt. Walter 1 including Dr J W Davis Dr J Lee chain * an * had Quoted Jackson as Hallmark—Mrs. Clifton Adair; Dap-, y ounj j Thomwell Dunlap A O'Dan- ?a 7 in I h « intended to kill the sheriff per Hosiery MiU—Gary Lehn; Gwen iel H ’ D Henry and C D. Nance of Fairfiel d County. Evans Mill—Supt. Karl H Espieg; f r o m here. ' 1 Sheriff Wier stated the Clinton po- Public Schools—Supt. W R. Ander- Mr. v Young was born in Clinton, lice were called., about 8 a m., Octo- son; Orphanage—Mrs. Dennis Sow- where he had many friends and a her 14, and were told the Negro was ers; Training School—Miss Lois wide family connection. He was a walking along the railroad tracks Blakely; College—Ben H. Hammett; S on of the late Nannie (Blakely) and, near the edge of town. Officer King Bond Sale—Mrs. George R. Blalock; George Thomas Christopher Young. | and another policeman answered the Bangle Sale—Miss Martha Washing- He was born January 9, 1876. and call and when they overtook the Ne BUSINESS MUST SERVE THE PUBLIC Blue Hose Close Grid Season Saturday B, J. C. Penney, in Christian Herald With Newberry RlVOl ton. j spent his early life here where he was The Clinton area has been as- employed as salesman by the late L. signed a goal of $1,600.00 and Jo- H. Davidson and by the present G. A gro, he ran across toward a nearby house and jumped a fence. As the officer started through the fence, the READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY each week It will pay yon. It’s thrifty to shop first In this newspaper, then In the stores as prices change and merchandise be comes more plentiful. BR WISE— READ THE ADS anna $500 00 General Chairman R,(Copeland & Son Arm. In 1910 he was sheriff said he was told, the Negro W Boland asks that the usual e '«-" d •'Usurer of Laurens county - - Christmas slogan of "Shop Early" »" d m » ved l ° Lad™"* H ' held be applied to the purchase of lu- ' or , 2 ? >!« rs and subsequently berculosis seals so that the coun- »? s ele? " d )udg ' 0 P r , oba “' Hls ty's goal may be quickly reached. Ia, , er f ars weredevoted to his pn- j ♦..Ka.w ivate business. Upon his retirement and so that the fight against tuber-: from ^ trM!ur ^, 0 „ ic<l h( . men . culosis may not wane in the coun- U(med with pridf tha , hf had „ an . died millions of dollars of the coun- turned with a rock in his hand and King fired. The bullet struck Jack- son in the lower abdomen and he died shortly. W. K. Waits is chairman for the ty’s money without the loss of a pen- Joanna community drive. ny. Mr. Young was a member and French Resident Visiting In City Coming from Colorado, and on her way back to Paris, Miss Franciue Change Made In Schedule and Route Of Highway Post Office elder of the First Presbyterian church | Wickham is spending a few weeks at at Laurens, and was a member of the the home of Dr. and Mrs. Edouard first class at Clemson college Patte, her uncle and aunt. Miss Wick ham, a Paris graduate with a B.A. degree, is the daughter of the late Dr. Yves Wickham, a well known Effective November 16, 1949, the has been changed both as to sched ule and route. The designation, Greenville, Clinton and Columbia, H. P. O.” has been dropped. The highway post office that will serve Clinton will be known as “Green- ville-Augusta H. P. O.” and will op erate over a route whose principal offices are: Greenville, Laurens, Clin- Presbyterian Men ton, Newberry, Saluda, Edgefield, .7 _ . , Aiken and Augusta. i I 0 Meet I OHight The other highway post office on-. — ^ crating out of Greenville will be Men-of-the-Church He is survived by his wile, Mrs Lillie Ray Young, also of this com munity; two daughters, Mrs. Carl Hart of York, and Mrs. L. B. Massey | French physician attached to Paris , ...» °/ Spartanburg; one son, George H., c ancer hospital, who died two years highway" post "offVcT serving ^Clinton £ oung „ of v La ‘f e f n ^. on f brother - ! ago. a victim of the radium. Her yhanaoH hnth a« tn cohort- *» enr y Young of this city, one sis- mo ther, the former Odette Patry, of ter, Mrs. T. J. Blalock of this city: Geneva, Switzerland, is Mrs. Patte’s five grandchildren and* a number of s j s ter. This is Miss Wickham’s first nieces and nephews. An elder son, , r ; n ♦« Amprioa Lieut. Thos. Duckett Young, of the ♦ army, was accidentally drowned in May of this year at Portsmouth, Va. i ■ OUOg r60pl6 S OTOUp Elects New Officers The Young People’s Interdenomi national group of the city churches ' met recently and the following offi- of the "ers were elected: President, Curtis known as “Greenvme.‘Andersen and ^st Presbyterian church will hold Freeman; Vice-President, Frank Columbia H. P. O.” and serve the their November dinner-meeting this Sec - and Treas., Mona following principal offices: Green- ® v ening at 7.30 at the church. It: * y* ville, Pelzer, Anderson, b e 11 o n > s ann °u n ced that the group of lay- Honea Path, Ware Shoals, Green- who recently attended the wood Ninety Six Newberry Pros- s convention in Atlanta will give) The post office will be closed on perity, and Columbia. As these routes a re P ort . of ^ meeting. All mem- Thanksgiving day, with no window cross, a transfer of mails will be ef-, k* 1 " 5 art? mWted to present, fected at junction of S. C. highways Last month in this column 1 wrote j One of South Carolina's oldest ri- of my experience in Longmont, Cool- valnes flares into 1949 football battle orado, where I lost the trade of a when Presbyterian college invade i hotel because I came to the coticlu- Newberry Saturday afternoon for the s.on that I could not buy the business two teams’ 35th engagement at 2:3D with liquor. New4)erry was the second oppon- But I take no credit for that cru- * nt of PG' 5 flrs t *nd schedule back: cial decision; my father was respor^ 1° 1913 And they have been afte sible for it. He was a farmer and ® a ch other’s athletic throats ever a preacher. As a very young boy. since. i I had understood that he worked at The Blue Stockings boast a decided two different callings, but only grad- record superiority through the yea: . ually did I come to see that my fa- having won 22 games while Newberry ther, in h:s own mind, did not rec- captured ten and two ended in deaci- ognize any real difference between lock. Presbyterian’s total s c o r i r. ; tflem He plowed, he planted, he punch has amounted to 465 points in harvested, and ne applied his industry the series Nowberry has notched 26 v with just the same earnestness that The record, however, hardly iir- he preached his sermon. Thereby plies the tight games that have e - he impressed me with the fact that sued in recent years. PC won, 40-7. he had one ministry; to serve 'last year for the most decisive vic- That lessen was further impressed tory in two decades. The Indians on my mind w’hen I got my first job came out on top by a 6-0 count the in a retail store. I had inborn liking year before that, after Presbyteria ; for handling and selling things, and ^d edged through a 14-13 victor i i my father just before he passed on 1946 and realizing death was near said, Typifying the intense PC-Nev.- “Jim will make it. I like the way berry rivalry in recent years hjs he has started out.’’ I had occasion been the Bronze Derby This symb. L to think on his words later when of athletic superiority goes to the other salesmen were taking cust- | wiftner of each sports event throug.i omers away from me because they the year. cou'd make special prices for a fa- • The Blue Hose will be play.ng the.r vored few—fixed prices to one and last game of the season, all were not then the custom. I had to deal with men to whom thumb-on sca’e manipulation was a fine art, misrepresentation of products were cleverness, and dishonest advertising and labelling were “tricks of the trade.” But if ‘Let the buyer beware" was The Chamber of Commerce coir- the motto practiced by sone business- mittee stated yesterday that the Santa men, it was not characteristic of the Claus for the big Christmas parade majority. In these days when so on December 1st. at 4 30 p m . wii. many look to government to regulate be provided by that organization. A trade practices, we easily forget that merchants or business houses cor.- businessmen themselves led the way. templating entering floats are aske i For every example of shady or not to have a Santa in the parade fraudulent dealing that has come to since more than one of the distir.- attention in a long career, I can cite guished guests is ci fusing to litt’e scores of examples of manufactur- children. ers,‘wholesalers, and retailers who! ■—^ voluntaily put the Golden Rule to |^- . work in their relations with employ- KlWQIHOflS I 0 Meet ees, competitors, and customers. Chomber Commerce Asks Cooperation For Big Parade POST OFFICE TO CLOSE or city delivery service on that date. NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR BOLL While thinking of appreciated ,9 on nd th“'new route the scheduled 1 Union Thanksgiving time of arrival of H. P. O. from Service Announced Greenville is 8:58 a.m., and on the « return trip to Greenville is 6:50 p.m.| a union Thanksgiving service of Mail for Newberry, Columbia, and the city churches will be held at the rh ”,^ a Augusta should be deposited In drop First Baptist church on Thanksgiv- InWrinti^ at main post office by 6:15 a.m., the j ng morning at'10:30 it has been an- subscription to postmaster states, in order to make nounced by the Ministerial associa- dispatch by the H. P. O. Mail forition to which the public is invited. Laurens, Greenville and intermediate The sermon will be preached by the points should be mailed by 5:45 p.m. Rev. J. C. Dickert, pastor of St. in order to make this dispatch. CHURCH GROUP TO MEET The Women of-the-Church of the First Presbyterian church will meet Monday afternoon, November 21, at four o’clock. All members are Invit ed to be present. John’s Lutheran church. SERVICES . AT LYDIA Rev. L. W. Brown has announced that services at the Lydia Presbyter ian church will be held Sunday even ing at 7 o’clock with the public in vited. Welcome and thanks to those on our Honor Roll this week: DR. MORGAN MILFORD, CARL C FINNEY, J. C. RICE, OPHELIA BESSIE Clinton MRS. MARY JOHNSON, Rock Hill. MRS. E. C. LONGSHORE, Lydia Mills. CE, [A WILLARD, HARLEY, Monday, Nov. 21 Spartans Trip Clinton Stars The regular meeting of the Kiwani; [club will be held next Monday nigh*. November 21, in the college dinir.; — ^ : hall instead of the usual meeting date A crowd of more than 1,500 turn- of the 24th. The change from the ed out here Tuesday to watch the previously announced Tuesday mgh Spartanburg Midgets down the Clin- has been pushed back to Monday ton All-Stars, 6-0, in the first annual, President C. C. Giles stated, because Tom-Thumb Bowl football classic, j of a conflict at the college. Jimmy Suber tallied for the visit ing Spartanburg "Y” team in the se cond period. Silas Campbell and King Dixon were the standout of fensive threats for Clinton, whkh ran from the “T” pattern. In a pre-bowl parade up-town in the afternoon Newberry high school band won first place laurels against Whitmire high and Presbyterian col lege bands. METHODIST GROUP TO MEET The Woman’s Society of Christian Service of Broad Street Methodist church will meet at the church Mon day afternoon, November 21, at four o’clock. » 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 each week and where you can buy to advantage.