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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 13, 1950
Number 15
C. OF C. HOLDS
* APRIL MEETING;
♦ OFFICERS NAMED
Members Hear Address
On 'Government Trends.'
• Walker Succeeded By
Truluck. Activities Cited.
The April dinner-meeting of the |
ORGANIZE FOR
WEEVIL FIGHT
Farmers Discuss 1950
Control Program.and
Name Committee.
A represehtative group of farm
ers, business men, vocatipnal agri
culture teachers, and veteran agri
culture teachers, with various gov-.
Chamber* of Commerce was held ^rnment agencies represented, met
LEGISLATURE IN
14TH WEEK WITH
BIG ISSUES AHEAD
Stote Finonces, Deficit College President
I M~... m.: I I 3
And Dean Listed
in "Who's Who
Tuesday evening in the college din
ing hall. ■ :
in the agriculture building in Lau- j
rns Thursday and discussed boll
The meeting was presided over (weevil control program for 1950,1
by the retiring -president, W. M, with J. W. Tinsley, chairman of the |
Walker, who, with the secretary,'agriculture committee, presiding. L
Miss Iona Blakely, was extended a M. Sparks,-Extension Entomologist;
•rising vote of thanks during the .from Clemson college, discussed;
* evening for their services the past (briefly weevil control for 1950, and
year. ' «• ipointed out the damage from weevil
It was announced that the terms and other insects to the cotton crop
of five directors had expired. Un- for 1949. Mr. Sparks stated that,
• der a voting plan adopted last year ■ based on official figures from Frank
the mefnbers were recently furnished 'o. Black, State StatistiWPfi’s office,
ten names nominated by a commit-j Columbia, showed 39 per cent dam- j
tee, with each member requested to| a ge from boll weevil and other in-
^vote for'five from the group and re-, gects to the county’s cotton crop i
turn their ballots to the secretary. 1 i 6S t year. This amounted to an es-
The result of the tabulation showed Itimate of 11,900 bales with a total
the following elected: L. W. Cooper, value of line and seed lost due to
J. B. Hart, Gary Holcombe, Hugh ingect damage to the county’s farm-
.Aacobs and W. M. Shields. Hold-ov-i ers $1,901,000.00—an enormous lost,
er members of the board are S. G. Mr. Sparks pointed out that in the
Dillard, H. L. Exthelberger, C. C. E>;lension circular 349, titled, “Cot-
Giles, W. W. Harris, R. P- Plaxico, ton Pi- oc i uc ti on anc } insect Control,
A. B. Godfrey, M.D. Mzlam, JivP. .g^ib Carolina, 1950” with refer-
M. Moore, D. O. Rhame, R. E. Wy- ence to p 0 jg 0ns f or ^is spring’s use,
S0T ’ , - A , ,!the best all-around insecticide for
Under the present plan the board; coUon insect control in South Car0 _
of directors elects the offers. They | Una js a dust mixture containing 3
and New Election Laws
Still To Be Settled.
Columbia, April 10—The (General Dr. Marshall W. Brown, president
Assemly’s 14th weary week, opening of p r e S b y terian college, and Aca-
Tuesday, promises to be much like , _ „ ^
the 13th—and the 12th. demic Dean George C. Bellingrath
The big issues will be finances and are listed in tne 1950-51 edition of
election laws. Scores qf other varied Who’s Who in America, just off the
and interesting matters will be on press.
House and Senate calendars, and Who’s Who sets its standard as
they probably will be left right there, aiming ‘‘to include the names of the
The House will turn itself into a best-known men and women in all
‘‘committee of the whole.” The com- lines of use fill and reputable achieve-
mittee then will hear the state aodi- ment—names much in the public eye
tor, treasurer, commissioner and tax not locally, but generally.”
commissioners on a subject of inter- In addition to his position as the
Central-Carolina Textile League
Opens Here On Tuesday Night
Clinton Cavaliers, Joanna
To Meet In First Game
L. S. Bunton/ Of
Near Clinton,
Killed By Auto
est to all—money. .
The immediate problem is meet-
head of Presbyterian, Dr. Brown re
presents South Carolina on the
Lawrence S. Bunton, 46, who .re
sides .near here, was killed almost
instantly early last Friday night about
three miles north of the city on high
way 30o when he was struck by an
automobile.
Post Four-Team Loop
Consists of Clinton,
Joanna, Watts ond
Wore Shoals.
_ ^ ^ x- —• wv* * VS A .4 A A U Wil Vil
ing a looming $7,800,000 deficit in Board of Control for Southern Reg-
state operating funds. The long-range iorral Education and formerly served
problem is finding ways to keep def- a s president of the South Carolina
icits like this from cropping up, a Historical Association. He was dean
task that apparently only new taxes °f P-G. before assuming the presi-
can do. dency in 1945 and served a term as
While the assembly ponders these bead of the Southern Conference of
problems, the State Budget Com- Academic Deans,
mission has ordered a six per cent. Dr Bellingrath, an ordained Pres-
spending cut and use of a $3,922,000, byterian minister, has served as aca-
treasury surplus, piled up in happier ^ em ic dean at the college since Jan-
financial days, to keep the state cost uary. 1949. He came to Presbyterian
The Central Carolina Textile
league spri n 8- s into action here nex*:
Tuesday night when the Clinton
Mills team and Joanira Mills mee’
, in the opening baseball game of the
Mr. Bunton was a native of Green- '1950 season Thfe game will be played
11a »W* 4t«» V...A * *
| ville county but had been a resident
1 of this county the past 12 years- -
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon from the Gray Fun
eral home with the Rev. Kenneth
Brown and Rev. 'R. H. Gause in
at the Clinton Mills enlarged park
The two teams will meet for their
second game at Joanna on the fol
lowing Friday night.
The opening game nere will be the
first time the two fast teams have
vr i A C4 V X
charge. Interment followed in Unity 1 met in more than a year. A record
Baptist cemetery in Greenville coun-J crowd of about 5,000 is expected at
of debt.
the ‘‘Home oi the Cavaliers” when
the umpire calls ‘‘play ball.”
An advance sale of season tickets
after spending ten years as president
percent gamma benzene hexachlor-
iide plus 5 percent t)DT in an insert
j carrier. This dust is commonly spok-
en of as BHC. During the discussion
(of weevil control, comments were
reported the following election
President, R. S. Truluck.
Vice-President, W. M. Walker.
Secretary, Miss Iona Blakely.
Treasurer, Gary Holcombe.
A printed annual report listing the . , , •
activities of the past year was put 8‘ v > n ' r< 7 loaning agencies, insec-
in the hands of all members present Ihcide dealers, machinery equipment
by the secretary. An “In Memori- d ,f alres and “ thers wl,h Florence to
am” space was provided on the re-| the P art their concern would aid ih
^ — - weevil control., 4
The machinery dealers and insec
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A House-approved comprehensive °f Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in
election law bill has priority status Rabun Gap, Ga. He also had served
in the Senate. It is up for third and first as dean, then as president of
final reading, but more amendmento'Piedmont College of Demorest, Ga.
may be proposed. Then it has to-win
H °tZ ISSTe^ to get its firs. City Democrotic Club
look at the Finance Oommittee’s se- Meets Friday Night
cond draft of the 1950-51 general ap- , ^ p* ...
wim orarx oi me isnooi general ap- c n *
propriations bill too. The report was rOf KGOrgOMIZOtlOn
ready for introduction last Friday ♦ r*" “— **~ j !
as far as the committee was con- A meeting of the City Democratic turned out to be Bunton s body. The ( Louie Lyles, shortstop
ty.
Nephews served as active pall
bearers. The honorary escort was
composed of members of the night and tickets for the opening night has
carding shift of Joanna Cotton Mills been announced at several places in
where he had been employed for the city, as will be seen from a dou-
several years' past. ble page congratulatory advertise-
The driver of the vehicle was ment from a number of business
Grady William Bloomer of Kingsport, firms in toNiwy’s paper.
Tenn. His brother, C. L. Bloomer, The Clinton team is headed by
was a passenger in the car. Claude Crocker as marK^ge^. He has
Sheriff C. W Weir said Bloomer announced the following probable
told him that he saw an object ly-jline-up:
ing in the road and thought it was Mickey Livingston, catcher,
the body of a dog that had been run
over. The sheriff said the object
Charlie Gaffney, first base.
Frank Arevalo, second base.
» Atort for William Hugh Simpson, who
iiad passed away during the year.
The guest speaker was the Rev. J.
K. Johnson, pastor of the Presby
terian church at Greer, who spoke
on “Trends and Tendencies in Gov
ernment”. Mr. Johnson spoke of the
importance of the Constitution and
retaining of the rights belonging to
the states. He deplored present gov-fdrain on limited supply that mieht
ernmental tendencies, and said that ' ' ' — ♦ • -
principles should be put ahead of
subsidies, hand-outs or expediency
ticide dealers stated that they would
do every thing possible to have the
material on hand when the farm
ers needed the equipment and poi
son but insisted that the farmers
make their purchases as soon as pos
sible to relieve any undue heavy
be on hand.~ The loaning agencies
insisted that those persons borrow
ing money are requested to poison
^He discussed the agricultural situa-j their cotton against boll weevils,
tion, the impractical Brannan plan, ‘ It was recommended lay the Ex-
and the enormous amount of com-+tension Service that each farmer
modities held by government. (purchase 25 pounds of poison for
He said the federal aid bill for ( each acre of cotton planted and store
education is dangerous and he on the farm and use when the weev-,
strongly condemed the measure andjii appears. It was pointed out by
pressure methods used by some
teachers upon congressmen and sen-
1 ators attempting to get the bill pass
ed in Washington. We need to con-
* trol and operate our own schools he
said, to reduce districts and to de
mand more efficiency in the opera
tion of the schools. Every one dollar
received from the federal govern
ment costs taxpayers $1.30 he said.
The speaker said we need economy
in government when we face the in-
escusable fact that government is
insecticide dealers that there will
not be any surplus BHC and that
prices are advancing now.
In making weevil counts through
out the county to determine the per
cent of infestation, these volunteer
ing to assist J. L. Adair, Jr., veteran
agriculture teacher, Hopewell com
munity; J. S. Boozer, agriculture
teacher at Clinton high; W. E. Simms,
agriculture teacher, Hickory Tavern
school; S. C. Gambrell, agriculture
teacher at Gray Court-Owings school,
operating with a five billion dollars I ~a'V~ ' ,
deficit annually, and taxpayers are and James Wasson - ,armer and gm -
loaded with a $260,000,000,000 nation
al debt. This must be paid back wi f h
hard money he said, and should an
other depression come the whole bot
tom will drop out. Risk capital is;
ner. Hickory Tavern community.
The county agent's office will do
their part in d ecking weevil infes
tation.
It was brought out in the meet
ing that best results could be ob
tained where it is as near a 100 per
c nt weevil control program in ef
fect throughout the county.
M. B. Henderson, of Owings, made
a motion that the chairman appoint
a boll weevil committee. Mr. Tinsley
appointed the following to serve
with him on the committee; J. W.
Tinsley, chairman; James Wasson,
farmer and ginner, Fred Taylor,
subsidies, we must - participate jni niana § er * Naeo Farm Supply, Lau-
government affairs as citizens, we as! rt ‘ ns ; Rex Lanford, Clinton Produc-
Americans must assume a watchful' ti° n Credit Association, Clinton; Ro-
i;one, he said. He said he was in
favor of labor unions but that they
should be controlled and every man
gfven a fair chance. The Taft-Hartley
l.nv was defeated he said because of
the attitude of President Truman and
John Lewis, the dictator. Continuing
he raid the proposed FEPC bill is
dangerous and should be killed.
In conclusion Mr. Johnson said
we must not sell our birthright for
attitude and stand for those tradi
tions and principles that have made
this country great and that are need
ed to develop the character of peo
ple. * ‘ *
STEW *AT SHADY GROVE
The public is invited to a chicken
stew at the Shady Grove school Sat
urday evening, April 15, beginning
at 6 o’clock.
Cold drinks and coffee will also be
served. Carroll Johnson will be the
cook.
A cake walk will also be held.
A_
bert A. Harris, farmer, ginner and
merchant, Youngs community; S.
C. Gambrell, agriculture teacher; J.
T/. Adair, J. Henderson Pitts, C.W.S.
Guano company, Clinton; and M.
B. Henderson, Owings tarmer and
president bf the Laurens county
Farm Bureau.
. O —— V--V, A M AAV.
cerned, but printed copies weren’t club has been called for Friday night
available. at 7 o’clock at the high school build-
The bill wiH have to lie over for ing by L. B. Dillard, secretary. All
one legislative day before it is dis- city voters are invited to attend the
cussed again. The committee al- meeting.
ready has announced it calls for The meeting has been called to or-
spending about $106,000,000. This is ganize the club, elect officers and an
quite a drop from the approximately executive committee, and make plans
$117,000,000 approved before the for the municipal primary to be held
undercarriage of the auto caught the I - —
body and dragged it for about 65 [ Ralph Harbin, center fte'd.
feet. i “Choc” Burnett, left fled.
At a coroner’s inquest held here] Guy Prater, right field.
Harold Blackstock, third base.
Saturday afternoon the jury return-. Manager Qrocker has not announc-
1
bill was recommitted.
Two other J’special order” bills. aldermen lor two-year terms begin-
ire awaiting the Senate. One would ning in September,
replace the seven-member State J ^ <—
Aeronautics Commission named by D aa,
the governor with a 14-member body DClK S UDSCrVllig
elected by legislators, representing 1Ca.l Anniversnrv
the 14 judicial circuits. The other' , ^ rn Mnrmer J qr y
provides for Jasper County's annex- „ u . t * v. u
ing Yemassee township, now in Beau-1 Belks Department store, whirh
** I nnpnpn hprp in Anri! »c fKic
fort county.
ed a verdict that Bunton “came to.ed his hurler for the open ng game,
his death by being straddled by a( The four-club league is likely to
1947 Ford driven by Grady W.,be one of the fastest ever organized
Bloomer”. j in the state. It consists of Clinton,
in June to nominate a mayor and six 1 The accident was termed “una- Watts, Joanna and Ware Shoals.
voidable” and a recommendation was'.Ware Shoals, pennant winners in a
made that the driver not be held | hot home stretch battle last year,
responsible. t win begin the defense of its title
opened here in April, 1935, is this
week observing their 15th anniver
sary, as announced elsewhere in to
day’s paper.
The store, a member of the well
known Belk chain, founded in 1888,
County Peach Crop
Killed By Freeze
County Ag^TT'Cannon said ^ hich now JS °T 3 ? 0 st ° res ’ H
yesterday that the freeze on the night been ^modbled and enlarged severa’
of April 6 finished destroying the tir "* s s * nce lts °V emn & h v ere :
Elberta peach crop in the county. It . Tbe fil ™ maintains a buying office
is doubtful if there will be a car of JJew York and one in Charlotte
peaches shipped from the county this ^ C . - ’ and Manager D - Smith of
season he said the local store states the y are con_
In 1945, 238 equivalent cars val-' stan , tl y searching the markets for
ued at $271,800 were shipped; in 1946, quality merchandise to offer the buy-
328 cars with a market value of ing P ub lc at reas<ma hte pnees.
$250,227; in 1947, 352 cars valued at ^
$230,141; in 1948, 29 cars valued at Clnnn DirPffrnr
$36,700; and last year, 48 cars val-
The deceased is survived by two; against Watts in ^Laurens,
sisters and four brothers, Mrs. Lil-1
lie Waldrop, Laurens; Mrs. Amie
Johnson, Piedmont; J. W. Bunton;'
Hickory, N. C., H. B. Bunton, Pelzer,
S. S. Bunton, Gastonia, N. C., E. W
Bunton, Anderson county.
Last Rites Here For
Mrs. Catherine Richardson
Where They Flay:
Games for the first week follow.
Tuesday:
Joanna at Clinton.
Ware Shoals at Watts.
Friday:
Clinton at Joanna. .
Watts at Ware Shoals.
Saturday:
Joanna at Clinton.
W-are Shoals at Watts.
Tuesday (April 25):
Watts at Joanna. .
Clinton at Ware Snoals.
Three games will be jltoyed each
uel at $43,628.
Industrial Editors
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League Officials 1 James P Sloan, of this city, per-
«— ?. i. U isonnel manager' for Joanna Cotton
I 0 Meet Mere Mills, has been elected to the board
♦-—— of directors of the American Associ-
A meeting of Central Carolina ation of Industrial Editors. He re
league officials will be held Monday rently attended a meeting of the
night at 7:30 in the new. Clinton group in New York.
Mill community center. Final plans Mr. Sloan has charge of publica-
for the league opening and "a thor- tion of the Joanna Way, new lively
ough discussion of all new and old community magazine for Joanna
rules will be held. which appears monthly. He will rep-
The officials will be-the guests of resent the Carolinas, Georgia and
Claude Crocker, manager of the CHn- Florida on the board of director^ of
ton baseball team. the association.
Mrs. Catherine H. Richardson, 91,
of Whitmire, widow of John Rich
ardson, died Wednesday afternoon at inree s wm ^ yea eacn
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ruth , ^ Tuetrtay, Friday ^\d Satur-
Whitaker, near NewberVy, after sev- id An s wiI1 ^ layed at
oral years of declining health. I
Mrs. Richardson is survived by two i ® ^
daughters, Mrs. Whitaker, and Mrs. | _ ™
G. H Laws of Elizabethton, Tenn;|Robet. Sellers WlHS
one son, D F. Lovelace, of Raleigh, Tmrkku
N. C.; two brothers, Dan and John , • • IDCciOfl I rupny
Hardin of Tennessee; 28 grandchil- ~ ^
dren, 55 great-grandchildren, and Rob^j-t D Sellers, Jr, senior at
severa! great-great-grandchildren. j Princeton, has been named-the 19. r >t)
Funeral services were conducted
on.Ffiday afternoon from the Whit
mire Baptist church by the Rev J.
A. Cave, assisted by the Rev. B. R
Nichob Interment was in Rosemont
cemetery here.
FOOD...
Is An Important
Item With Housewives
You will find helpful Gro
cery and Market News in THE
CHRONICLE every week from
leading food stores in the city.
Read the advertisements reg
ularly — they tell you about
changing prices each week and
where you can supply your
needs and buy to advantage.
County Delegates
To Attend State
Convention April 19
•
The state Democratic convention
j will be held in Cqlumbia next Wed-
J nesday, with delegates in attendance,
; from all counties in the state as re- |
cently elected at the county conven
tions.
Laurens county elected the fol
lowing eight delegates to the con
vention: Fred W. Taylor, Mrs. Nene
Workman, Ralph T. Wilson, Thomas
A. Babb, W. W. Harris, Rolfe Clark,
J. Roy Crawfond and R. C. Wasson.
Fred W. Taylor is the newly elect
ed chairman of the executive com
mittee. Chairman Taylor has an
nounced that Ralph T. WilsqiuJKill
serve on the credentials committee,
and W. W. Harris on the platform
and .esolutions committee.
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The last census in 1940 gave Clinton a populace num
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Lawrence Ferguson Joins
Father In Business
Lawrence R. Ferguson has return
ed to Clinton and is now associated
with his father,' R. E. Ferguson, of
the Industrial Supply company.
Mr. Fergu>on recently graduated
from N. C. State college, Raleigh,
majoring in textile manufacturing.
His friends will be interested in his
return to the city.
Mr and Mrs. Ferguson and daugh
ter, Patricia, are now occupying a
J. E. Anderson apartment on Maple
street.
recipient of the Treide wrestling
trophy at the institution. The trophy,
is awarded annually to the Nassau
wreMlt-r contributing most to the
sport by his spirit, ability and sports
manship
Mr Sellers is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. R D Sellers of Taylors. HU
mother before marriage was Miss
Annette Todd He is a grandson o£
Dr and Mrs H L. Todd of Clinton,
and will enter Harvard university m
September to major in business ad-
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Revival Services At
Lydia Baptist Church
Revival services at'the Lydia Mil’s
i Baptist church will begin Sunda; .
ApiiTL’16. and continue through the
following Sunday Services will be
iheld each evening at 7,30.
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will do the preaching for the series
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