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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 16, 1950
Number 7 *
-SPORTS-
By DONNY WILDER
The boys from the Presbyterian
basketball courts tasted sweet ven-
gence this week as they redeemed
themselves of two humilioting de
feats handed to them on earlier con
tact with the Wolford Terriers and
the Indians from Catawba. While the
Watts Mills To Be
Converted Into
Weaving Plant
said.
The Watts Mills was erected part-
first time the supply of rabbits has
been replenished in the county in
| ly with local capital in 1903 under about 15 years,
the leadership of the late W. E.l Mr. O’Dell pointed out that the
Lucas. Several years ago the capital ’ co tton tails were let out in areas
'structure was changed and it became, where they could do no damage to
(From The Laurens Advertiser). a division of J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc. itruck farmers or orchards. With
The Watts Mills, division of J. it was .one of the first textile plants rabbit hunting season closed, Mr.
P. Stevens & Co., Inc., heretofore in South Carolina to take up the O’Dell said that the supply should
devoted to the preparation and weav- weaving of other fibres than cotton. J be restocked before the season opens
ing of spun rayon, is planning to con- i n its earliest years it began mixing again as the rabbits will raise two
vert its entire plant to weaving, ac- silk with cotton. In 1933 it took up or three litters by then.
m v ay ° n a " J d ev , e ""f the cnU , re P 13 "' He declared that hunters have
in the mill on the outskirts of this became devoted to rayon exclusively. Kaw,_ tK5 „
city last week. j
The conversion, to start in May, *+ w# » svn II
will call for the instaUation of 400 OOme Warden U UCll
censes will be put to use in restock- WE DO ALL KINDS OF PRINTING
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rayon exclusively.: been more cooperative this year in
observing seasons. “By hunters giv
ing us this help,” he said, “our sup
ply of wildlife should become more
plentiful.”
Mr. O’Dell explained that restock
ing of quail and other gan)e has been
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carried out. He said th£! this prac
tice will be continued throughout the
Hose basketeers were fighting it out
on the hardwoods the prospective sometime during the month of May. I
a- 1 m • ^ X ■ A. 1 J _ _ A. A. _ 1 '
XD Model continuous filament looms XlimS L0OS6 3 000
to bring the pant up to a total of n , , . . '
1,150 looms. It will require some RaDDltS m COUHty
three or four months to complete the » <
i ob - I According to Game Warden Gar
A copy of the notice was as fol- vin B. O’Dell, about 3,000 rabbits ! county,
lows: —t blave been turned loose in the county I Mr. O’Dell said that the hunters’
“It has been decided to convert 1 recently. This year, he said, is the money which is collected through li-.
Watts Mills into a Continuous Fila-
ment Weaving Plant. To accomplish ■
this change, it will be necessary to
eliminate the Spun Rayon Prepara-1
tory Departments iricluding Carding,;
Spinning, ' Spooling' and Warping j
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football team of the season of ’50
was busy working off the excess
■weight they had taken an difHng the
idle months of winter.
Hose Down Wofford. Catawba
The Hosemen made up for their
losses to Wofford and Catawba "but
the Clemsoa Tigers remained the
“Clemson Tiger” and the Presbyter
ians just couldn’t do anything with
them. _ • ; r "
The local team played what some
of the spectators called their sor
riest game against the boys from
Cow College.
Dwight “Easy” Croninger was
sidelined with an injury for most of
the game but he did get in the frac
as during the second period. In this
time the big gun fired 11 points
past the netting.
When these departments have been
eliminated, more than 400 XD Model
Continuous Filament looms will be
installed in addition to present looms
now at Watts Mill. /
“Employees working in depart
ments that will be eliminated may
apply to -the Employment Office for
jobs in the Weaving and other de
partments that will continue to op
erate and which wiR need addition
al employees. The Employrhent Of
fice will render these employees ev
ery possible assistance in finding the
suitable employment.”
The object of the conversion, it
was stated recently by T. P. Town
send, office manager, was to stream
line operations of the corporation in
order to put it into a competitive po
sition with other mills making sim-
. ilar fabrics. i
Clemson took over the lead at the -j-be conversion will require some
reduction in the total number of em
ployees but it cannot be said how
muebi this will be at this tame, he
very outset of the game and once
they held the lead they weren’t to
be overtaken by the' boys from the
PjC. campus.
The final outcome of the game was
a 74 to 51 victory for the “cowdets”.
Hosemen Take t» Grid Grand
The Presbyterian grid gladiators
began the long, hard trek to the
football season of 1950 here last
week as they opened their Spring
practice sessions.
New talent was uncovered in each
division. But the big spark which
looks so good to the supporters of
the local college’s team is the fact
that the entire ten second backfield
of last year will be returning to the
folds of Coach Lonnie McViTIan's
stables. And when I say “ten-second
men I don’t mean that they get tired
pool but two are going to be opened
in the fair city. "
0«*e of the pools will be at Lydia
Mill and the other will be situated
at Canton Mill.
My thanks go to Mr. Bailey who
bas ±ke vision to see one of the really
•desperate needs of our growing town,
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after playing for ten seconds, I mean,
that they can run the 1J06 yard dash{
in ten seconds.
These returning fleet footed men-
ors from heaven are Blake "Kilo”
Katts, Walter Gooch, George Flem.-
mg nad Ken McKutchinson.
In the forward wall the Blue Hose
will have as the bulk of their defen
sive threat ip big (245 pounds, 6
foot 5 inch) Bozo Weir. Another
big gun in the line will be Paul Mar
tin, who has been displaying an
amazing amount of improvement
during the scrimmage session of the
gridsters.
A .lot of prospects have been
brought up to Hoseville for tryouts.
Of course, a lot of the boys won’t be
able to make the big jump from high
school football to the rough, tough
and tumble battles of the college
boys who hit hard and for keeps.
One definite fact is that Presby-
tenan won’t be hurting for quarter
backs—I could count only 12 the
other day and some of their quarter
backs weren’t even on the field at
the time. ‘ .
Three local boys are making the
grind along with the rest of them.
These boys from Clinton are Richard
Hampton (quarterback) Eugene Sim
mons, and James “Wild Man” Lath-
rop. Just to show you the big dif
ference in college football and high
school ball—‘Eugene Simmons was
one of the best guards in the state
last year when he played for Clin
ton High School but now that he’s
over at Hoseville he is having a very
rough time making a go of it.
High School To Meet Newberry,
Union In District Tournament
Clinton high school will clash with
two tough teams in the first go
around of the district tournament in
Union. The boys will encounter the
Union lads and the Clinton lasses
will have a big battle on their hands
for opening tilt as they run head on
into the girls from the “City of
Friendly FoIks”--Newberry.
The Clinton boys won one encoun
ter from Union this year and drop
ped another—both of the games fea
tured one team being a two point
favorite over the other.
The Clinton girls have tied New
berry once but they also went down
for a heavy twenty point count be
fore the sextet from Newberry.
Kiddies Prayers Answered
Swimming Pools
All of the many prayers said by
the young people of Clinton must
have finally been heard for Mr. Si
Bailey has announced that Clinton is
not only going to have a swimming
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Take a look at almost any blockful of new
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country went for with a joyous whoop
and holler. _
They ’re a little smoother now, of course,
1 rounded a bit—and are molded right into
the "body: And they flow, sweetly into
rear-fender forms that look for all the
world like a jet plane’s power plant.
Then look ho*v wonderfully they are
topped off in the upperstructnre—with
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with smart, lUndk-originatedwrap-around
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