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I % •■Sf THE CHRONICLE' Strives To Be^A Clean * Newspaper, Complete Newsy and Reliable \ ' I: x If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE A x You Don't Get the News Volume LI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, January 19, 1950 Number 3 K-1- BROWN ASSUMES HELM OF KIWANIS FOR NEWJfEAR New President and Officers Installed. Organization Given. Marshall W. Brown, presWept o' Presbyterian coMege,' became pres ident of the Clinton kiwanis club ^ . \ Jast Thursday evening for 1950, suc ceeding Clinton C. Giles. Mr. Giles, presented the president’s pin ;to the new president, who in turn,', gave a past president’s pin to the retirirtgi head. \ j . Other officers installed were Mr. Giles, vice-president; W. A. Sher- ratt, named as club secretary by the board of directors, ahd the follow ing newly elected directors: B. C. Preslar, Thomas Baldwin and D; S. Templeton for two year terms. Hold-t over members of the board for ari4 other £ear are Edward Ferguson, 1/ M. Smith and Ed King. The new president in assuming of fice asked the full help and cbopbr- ation of the membership for the year. Committees for. Year Committees appointed for the new year' follow: Program—Thomas Baldwin, chair man, (B. C. Preslar, Reece Young, Jl. L. Plaxico, F. Preston Thompson. Finance—0. B. Smith, chairman, Kenneth N. iBaker, L. E. Bishop, F. M. Boland, Sr., W. D. Adair, i. Attendance* and House—James E. Wolfe, chairman, J. Ashby Dick, Tench P. Owens, Janies S. Gray, Hu bert Todd. . . Agriculture—L. B. tiillard, chair man, Reece Young, Pat Dixon, Cald well Henderson, I. M. Smith. ® Boys and Girls Work—W. C. Bald win, chairman, J. Henderson Pitti, Claude Pinson, Russell Cooper, J. Leland Young. Business Standards—John B. Jor dan, chairman, Henry McGee, Jack Shealy, G. A. Burton, Harry Wilkes. Inter-Club Relation and Achieve ment Report—C. E. King, chairman, William M. Shields, Robert F. Black, Robert M. Vance, Sloan Todd. Kiwanis Education—W.' W. Har ris, chairman, Hugh Simpson, S. W. Sumerel, Ratchford Boland, Marvin Robertson. Public Affairs and Public Rela- Governor To Address Farm Group Saturday Hotel Stockholders Hear Report At 'Annual Meeting School Trustees Ask $100,000 Bond Issue For School Purposes College Host To - j MARCH OF DIMES fo. Mid wtUV,~^CAMPAI6N GETS tRc BetRel Presbytery embracing sev- The annual stockholders meeting of the Clinton Community Hotel cor poration was held Tuesday afternoon in the high school building as called Special to The Chronicle, for under the by-laws of the corpor-i Columbia, Jan. 18.—The Laurens ation. A majority of the stock was county delegation introduced a bill' meeting here out of the presbytery | represented in person and by proxy, i n house of representatives last j area had been extended by President I eral coui»«ties in the Chester-York area, held its mid-winter meeting j here last Thursday at Presbyterian i college. The invitation to hold the i UNDERWAY HERE GOV. J. STROM THURMOND r At the annual stockholders meet ing of, the Clinton Production Credit association to be held here Saturday, Governor J. Strom Thurmond will 6e the guest speaker, with a large attehdance of farmers expected. The meeting will be held in the Florida Street school auditorium at 10:30 a.m., according to Rex Lan- ford, secretary-treasurer ' of the as sociation. Reports of the association for the year will be given, and one director is to be elected. Five cash it was reported. . week to authorize the board of trus- The meeting w»s presided over by te , cs t of Hunter S'? 00 ' D,strl « No - 5 R. L. Plaxico, chairman of the board 0 ^urens county o conduct an of directors, who gave a report of ele , c,10n 0 " th ' T"' l0n , ° f l SSUm 5 the progress being made in the con-j™' tha " $1M ’ 000 of bonds, and struction of the building on North 3 JU,hor ,'» ,' he iss “ an « 1 I th ‘ elec l Broad street. No difficulty is now tlon results f^rably. being experienced in securing the proceeds would be uSed to necessary material, it was reported, cons truct ' and equip new school and under the stipulated 320 work- buildings in the district, to repair or ing days agreement it is expected en ^ ar 8e existing school buildings, or that the 40-room hotel will be com- purchase equipment for use in pleted and opened in- July. Funds sch ° o1 buildings in the district and for -its erection are beinc orovided arquire land for the site of school buildings. The bonds would be paid by an [plemented with a $125,000 mortgage annual tax levied on aU taxable M. W. Brown of the institution, who welcopjed the ministers and elders to the campus. They were ‘enter tained for dinner in the dining hall at the no.on hour. J. C. Thomos Chairman For Drive To Fight Polio. Committees To Be Completed This Week. for -its erection are being provided by the $130,000 stock subscribed in a community campaign in 1947, sup- prizes of five dollars each will be given to members present, Mr. Lan- ford said. The association serves the farmers of Laurens and Newberry counties. It now has a membership of 1001 property in the district. and made loans during 1949 to mem-j te j installation of an elevator loan from the Reconstruction Fi nance corporation. 'tk. K i . j • . „ Note.—The bill was introduced by The present board of directors was ’ _ . . reelected for another vear bv the the dele * atlon u P on the request of ctrvVhniHorc- n i PiffvE™ r ^ 1 the s, ^ ocal board of school trustees. stockholders: R. L. Plaxico, C. W. a f a si si«<•>/*h vt t t WDile no public ststement n<is been Anderson, T. E. Addison, J. Leland _ .. « t d c no made to the taxpayers of the dis- ley. W. C Baldwin, W. w! Harts R | "‘ c ‘ ^ ** ‘ S u " <ier > t °‘> d ou^ ^Yarborough* C R C , G G .e S 'i , ° Pf-fdo flTlorthe con.^ction S m ' - 5 e w a BfH Street school which Robert M. »...ce an,! R. E. Wysor,| was destroyed by lire Iasi summer. At a directors chairman; W. C. Baldwin, treasurer; and R. E. Wysor, III, secretary. The board ordered that an audit of the corporation be made by a cer tified public accountant. It also ac cepted the low bid of three submit- subsequent/meeting of the's*... c , , R. L. Plaxico was reelected i V-ltlZCnS redCral Holds Annual Meet, Good Report Heard bers in the two counties amounting to $548,000. House Adds $2 Million To Appropriations Bill Columbia, Jan. JJ. — The state house of representatives only briefly checked its free spending ways to day in arguments over public wel fare appropriations. v But before noon and afternoon meetings were over, it had added almost $2,000,000 more to the $111,- 726,783 general appropriations bill. Most of the latest addition was in tions—James P. Sloan, chairman, Joe 1 $1-^51,000 voted for old age pensions. Delaney, Julian Bolick, W. M. Mc Millan, B. B. Ballard. Vocational Guidance and Youth Organizations—Grover Foy, chair man, W. R. Anderson, Malcolm Mac donald, J. C. Thomas, Dennis Sow ers. Classification and Membership— -R. E. Ferguson, Jr., chairman, C. C. Giles, Dick Templeton, R. E. Fergu son, C. W. Hollingsworth. Miusitf and Reception—H. G. Prince chairman, T. Layton Fraser, C. Bynum Betts, William R. Pitts, John Harris, Ray Pitts. Support of Churches in their .Spir itual Aims—George C. Bellingrath, chairman, Powell Fraser, J. Hewlette Wasson, L. W. Brown, Henry M. Young. * New Member Added To College ROTC . A new staff member has been add ed to the Presbyterian college mili tary department. He is Stg. Mize Johnson, who join- This drove the old age pension allo cation up from $3,283,000 to $4,734,- 000. The bill is now $5,820,000 more than the total when introduced by the ways' and means committee a week ago. An approximately $5,670,- 000 in excess of revenues predicted by the state budget commission. While voting more for the aged, $92,520 more for dependent blind, and $16,000 more for dependent chil dren, house members defeated two other proposed increases. One would have upped the aid for dependent children ^rom $784,000 to $2,45lj000 — a $1,667,000 increase. Also tabled was a new proposed item of $100,000 for foster child i home care. | v Other proposed welfare increases are in the house hopper. Consideration of the money bill, in the house, as it has had since the now on second readiftg, has priority assembly" openejd its 1950 session last week- . Before reaching the public welfare section, however, the house shot the bill’s unofficial total to.$110,167,253 in the building. Piedmont Press Holds Annual Meeting Here The annual meeting of members of the Citizens Federal Savings and Loan association, of this city, was held yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock In the offices of the corporation, with ft. L. Plaxico acting as chairman. The annual financial report of the year was submitted by the officers, Showing,a successful year just closed and a substantial increase in re- Delegates from three high school sources, newspapers attended the annual; R- H. McGee, J. B. Hart and J. The March of Dimes'campaign in m. Laurens county got underway Mon- —Jhe sermon was delivered by the d morning and will eontinu, retiring moderator the Rew Cheves j through January 31 K. Ligon of Rock Hill, on the “Liv- _ , r ... ing Church"’, after which the Sac- Du nn* the two weeks Period, citi- rament of the - Lord's Supper was. z ^ ns o{ the c oun ty'-w.U_ help write- celebrated i ' the answer t° the threat of polio epi- The" Rev. Hubert G. Wardlaw *f> mics next summer by providing the First Presbyterian church of f for continued care and treatment o’ Lancaster, who was nominated f or i P° 10 t P atient s of 1949 and pno moderator at the last meeting ofj^ ars ’ said Chairman J. Hewlette presbytery, was eldtted to this office ! Wasson ot Laurens. It was voted to hold the next meet- y™* Surens county raised ing of presbytery at Northminister ^ n h h lch we J nt n t0 make u up the Presbyterian church'at Rock Hill on j $ 2 5.‘28,00() raised all over the coun- April 20 1950 try This year the committees hope Dr. Tiiden, Bchererof Bethel, York] 10 raise considerably more than in county, made the report on ‘ Pres- any P^vious year in answer to, the emergency appeal from nationa. bytery’s Work. 1 . Rev. Wardlaw of Lancaster report ed on the proposed amendments to the Book of Church Order. Commissioners were elected to the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church, which meets headquarters, Mr. Wasson said. He pointed hut that the county exhaust ed its funds last year and was forced to draw on the national treasury for about $5,000 extra. "The foundation,” he said, ‘‘re-* late this spring ’at Massanetta P or ^ d that the 19*0 epidemic ex- - • -- r hausted reserves, and per patient costs of hospitalization and. medical Springs, Va., as follows: Ministers, the Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Dendy of Rock Hill and the Rev. W. H. iBowman of Clover; laymen and elders, Joe Brown of Fort Mill and Rowland McDow of Lancaster. There were a number of round table conferences and reports on matters of interest to the church. Social Agencies . Hold Monthly Meet In Laurens Thb Laurens County Council of Social Agencies went on record last week at their regular monthly meet-; ing as favoring the establishment of an institution to treat: and care for meeting of the Piedmont Press asso-i Sloan Todd, whose terms had-ex- ciation here jsttt Thigrsday. pirgd as directors, were re-elected In a gener^ meeting of delegates for rthree-year terms. Hold-over di- . ■ - in thfs high sthool auditorium, W. R.' rectors are W. W.. Harris, B. Hubert alcoholics in this state'. The meeting Anderaon, superintendent of the city,Roy^, T. D^Copeland, J. P. Prather was conducted at the Laurens Mills school^, extended the w’elcome, and and T. H. Copeland. I community house with Thomas Babb Moody Smith, of the Spartanburg Scribbler, responded. The principal address was made John W. Finney, Sr., was elected presiding, as a new member of the board sue- i Invocation was given by t.ie Rev. ceeding W. H. Simpson, resigned. Shelton Moose. Following was a re- by Hugh Jacobs, of Jacobs Brothers 1 The board had expressed its regret P° ri - from the executive committee Printing Co., of this city, who ad-jon. Mr. Simpson’s resignation and' presented by Judge Hewlette Was- vised the young journalists to be expressed its appreciation to him for som The following resolutions were adopted by the council as their work i ed the college ROTC unit as a re placement for Master Sgt. George ‘ a J ddTng“$289,232 moW to ‘the''stale F ° gl€ - ^ .'l 0 , hn i son '.^ ll i 1 ^! n °!! r ! education department section. * Last week’s whopping increases were almost all for the education de partment. -The 10 per ^ent pay in crease voted for school teachers alone totaled $3,315,400. the work of Master Sgt. Claude Plex- ico, who stops up into the post held by Fogle. , Johnson will serve, in an adminis trative capacity and coach the P. C. riffe team. TELL IT TO THE_; WORLD IN 1950. The first rule of. salesman ship is that if you have any thing to sell, don’t keep it a sccret.'-TeR—U to the world!— That, in Clinton’s trade area, means to advertise it in THE CHRONICLE. Every week this paper goes into the homes of * the’residents of Clinton, West CUnton, Lydia Mills, Goldvi’.le and the rural sections of this community where your pros pective 1950 customers reside. The more people you tell, the more you will sell! What your old and new cus tomers read and see, makes a lasting impression. The most successful Clinton firms in 1950 will be those who through effective advertising tell the buying public ’ each week of changing prices, what they have to sell, the values they have to offer, the services they are prepared to give. Advertising in THE CHRON ICLE brings customers to your store. i College Host For High School Tourney Presbyterian college will be host to the Upper State high school bask etball tournament a^ain this year, Athletic Director -W. A. Johnson-has^ announced. February 22-25 has been set ^or elimination in -boys’ and girls’ class ,T A^"and “B” divisions. District 1 winners and representa tive schools in upper South Carolina will participate, Secretary E. W. Stokes of the state high school leag ue said. level-headed critics, to uphold every i the association for his invaluable worthwhile project, to beware of, services in the past. being overly critical, to do instruc- 1 The financial statement as of De- ; f°r this year: tive writing, and to be well educat-! cember 31, showed total assets of 1- That the council go on record ed and informed observers. ‘$1,915,226.72; real estate loans; $1,- as favoring the establishment of an Following the general assembly,: 503,037.41; $1,751,168.92 in savings institution to treat and care for al- the delegates divided into six groups, accounts, general reserves and un- c °holics in. this state. The said in to discuss the various phases of high divided profits, $86,339.03. j stitution to be supported from- r**”- school journalism. Melvin Derrick,! The association is .n ew entering enues received from v the sale of al- editor of the Greer Hi Times, led a upon its 41st year of service to the coholic beverages, talk on editorials. The sports discus- ! community and county. Its accounts ! 2. That the council go on record as sion was under the direction of are insured up to $5,000 by the Fedr | favoring a way of recording births Moody Smith of Spartanburg. The eral Savings and Loan Insurance °f illegitjmale^children in this state news discussion was led by Ted j corporation. Its current dividend 50 as not' to give undue and unne- Mears of this city. Harry Dent, of rate is 3 per cent per annum, with cessafy publicity to the individual. Presbyterian college monitored the dividends of approximately.J$52,600 ^ 3 That the council go on record paid to. investors the past year. The as favoring and supporting the cre- association is priniarily interested in aLon of a state institution to care promoting home-ownership. i f° r and treat cancer victims and Immediately following the annual | other incurables., meeting, care have more thaa doubled in the last 10 years.” “It Is only through an enormously successful March of Dimes appeal this year that the National Founda tion will be able to provide continu ing care for the thousands already stricken, while at the same time pre paring for any eventuality during the coming summer when another epi demic may strike." Thom** Loral Chairman ^ J. C. Thomas, well known loca business man, again heads the drive in Clinton as chairman. In Joanna. W. K. Waites will aga.n serve a» chairman. "Last year," Mr Tlv mas said. ‘$1,680 was raised in the Clintoi\ area and we are hoping tnat we will exceed this amount this year, since the need for the worthy cause is so urgent. Committees are being se lected." he said, "and envelopes wil be distributed this ween throughou the city and community for contri butions. Coin receptacles will b' placed in many business firms in'the city. We are hoping there will be a community-wide, generous response to the appeal,” Mr. Thomas said.. talk on feature writing. Doug Kiker, also of P. C., led the conference on make-up - of a paper, and George Espieg, of Clinton, directed the par ley of business managers. a directors’ meeting’ was ! Reid H. Montgomery, of Rock held for the election of officers. The County To Get Hill, director of the South Carolina ( following were re-elected: B. Hubert 1 <£-7 43-/ -r , Scholastic Press associanon, attend-| Boyd, president; J. P. Prather, vice-i'P* 1 » VjQS I OX ed the-meeting and made a few brief! president; J. Sloan-Todd, secretary- Pqj- |_nst Month remarks concerning the state con- 1 treasurer; Mrs. Henry Hunter, assist- U 1,1 vention to be held in Anderson April 1 ant secretary-treasurer; O. L. Long 13-14. _ / ( | of Laurens, and Robert S. Owens, of Betty Jean Sumerel, Jef Clinton , this city, attorneys. .Mayor L. E. Bishop has issued t proclamation calling upon aU resi dents of Clinton and community to join the 1950 March of Dimes s<» that the organization "may draw re newed strength to continue its works of mercy for all whom in fantile paralysis may menace.” t Proclamation Text of the proclamation follows Whereas, at no time before in the history of the United States has in fantile paralysis placed so heavy a burden on community after com- Porks McKittrick high, president of the association, | presided over the assembly. Officers elected for the new year are Wade Burly, of Spartanburg, T n Snenk SunHnv president; Connie Woodall, of.Greer,! IO J P eaR , secretary; and Ted Mears, of Clin- Parks*McKittrick, of Kinards. will ton, treasurer. be the S uest speaker at Bush -River ' Refreshments were served in the ^ a P^ s *. c * lurc * 1 Sunday, Jan. 22, at school cafeteria during the social ^ : 20, and at Fairview chutch at 2:30 hour. Plans Are Set For Census Count In'.Fourth District p.m.; it is announced. Mr. McKittrick is the son of Re». and Mrs. J. R. McKittrick^ of Ki- ( natds, arid has recently finished sem inary training. He will contiue med ical training at Duke university be- j fore going as a medical missionary I to foreign fields. Walter S. Wingo, of Spartanburg,' The public is cordially invited to has been named* district supervisor hear Mr. McKittrick. of the U. S. Bureau of the Census 1 for the fourth district, including ry Two Seaboard Trains Discontinued Since Sunday night, January 8, two Seaboard trains serving Clinton have been discontinued, stated Olin H. Sheely, local agent. The trains Nos. 11 and 12, were taken off temporarily with the per mission of, the Interstate Commerce commission and the S. C. Public Ser vice commission. ~ Trains Nos. 5 and 6 will make the same passenger and mail stops for merly made by 11 and 12, Mr. -Shealy stated. Spartanburg, Greenville, Union and hJFW SUBSCRIBERS Laurens counties. , j u _ Enumerators in the four counties HUN UK KULL will “take to the field” April 1st and r_ officials hope to complete cities in | Where can you get so much for so two weeks and rural areas in three little as a year’s subscription, to THE weeks, Mr. Wingo said. Interviews are being held with hundreds of applications already re ceived, it is reported.' Job interviews for the workers for Laurens county will be held at the court house today at 10 o’clock. The workers selected will be required to interview Jrom 900 to 1,000 persons daily to keep up with the intensive three-week sched ule for completion. The head office for the district is in Spartanburg. 1 • — CHRONICLE? Welcome and thanks to those ort our Honor Roll this week: MRS. J. E. COBB, Gary, Indiana. RICHARD L. JOHNSON, Elmyra, N. Y. , FRANK HENDERSON, Greer. JAMES O. SANDERS, Lydia, -Friends of Mrs. B. R. Fuller will Mrs. L. G. Gordon, of Winston- be glad to know she is improving at Salem, N. C., will return home today the Anderson hospital in Anderson, after a visit with her sister, Mrs. W. where she has been a patient for the R. Turner and Dr. Turner. past two weeks. Spe :al to The Chronicle. .Columbia, Jan. 1$. — An amend ment to the state appropriations bill which provided for a.new method of distributing funt^s for transportation to the^county boards of education was adopted last week by the house of representatives. Under the new m e t"h 0 d , the amount appropriated for school transportation wc^ld be distributed U> *»he boards of education of Lau rens and other counties on the fol lowing formula basis, using 1950-51 figures: One-half on' the basis of the num ber of miles traveled per day. One-fourth on the basis of the number of bus units (a bus*unit be ing considered as a bus or other ve- licle trajis’porting 25 or more pu- >ils). One-fourth on the basis of the number of pupil^ trans*ported.- Previously, the distribution of transportation funds had been based on costs for a prior fiscal year. Un der this system, Laurens county re- .-tived $69,660 for the 4948-49 fiscal munity. striking down loved ones in family after family, and, Whereas, so severe were the epi demic outbreaks; that the toll for 1949 was upwards of 40,000 cases— most widespread of aU time; and, Whereas, the National Foundation for. Infantile Paralysis is performing its heroic work of- salvaging the stricken, expended $100,000 daily, at the height of the epidemic to pay for aid needed by polio patients, and. * Whereas, the bill for polio cart of those attacked by dhis disease- tor the year 1949—alorfe—will ap proximate $31,000,000. and. Whereas, the National Foundation funds are now virtually'depicted end the organization is. dependent upon that 1950 March of Dimes, Janu ary 16-31. for sufficient money to carry on the fight against this ene my, of our little ones, Be it hereby resolved. ( that each and every one of us make the’ 195fJ March of'Dmies a fountain ot fin ancial aid from which the National Foundation may draw renewe i strength to contimae its works o' mercy for all whom infantile paral ysis may menace. So therefore, I, L. E. Bishop, Mu- ” yor of Clinton, S. C., do proclaim and endofcie January 16-31 a time for every citizen of Clinton to contri bute to the success of the 1950 March of Dimes, and the health and welfare of our children. year, out of a total distribution of 52,466,955. The total received by the McSween Tn AHHrpec Laurens county board of education ,V,CiWeen 10 AaOrCSS consisted of $53,820 for operation and $9,8401 depreciation allowance. Draft Board Gives New Office Schedule Effective January 23,' the offices of the Laurens County Draft board will be open frorti 8:30 to 11:30 a.m Monday through Friday, it has been announced by the chairman, J. B. Lewis. - Mr. Lewis said it was the duty of all 18 year olds to register. Presbyterian Men , The Men-of-the-Church of the First Pres-byterian church will.Jiuld_ their monthly dinner-meeting this evening at 6 30 at the. church, the hour being changed from 7:30. The guest speaker will be ,Rev. Allen McSween; pastor of the Pres byterian church at Lineolnton. N. C. •flnouncement is also made that members of the 1949 Presbyterian college football team will be guests tor the occasion^ ~ ~ J V* v 1 •r % >/ .Ui.: