The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, July 27, 1950, Image 2

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¥ l'aj;e Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, July 27, 1950 liniE LEAGUERS TO ENTER STATE MEET Tournament at Florence Next Week. Joanna Club Wins City Trophy. Midget-Junior Awards Also Given. — Clinton's Little Leaguers will leave Sunday morning at 9:30 from Florida Street school for Florence and the state Little League tournament which will be run on the double elimination system, by which a team will have to lose twice before being kr. eked out of the state race. 1 ne all-stars have played several quet wll be given for all the Little Leaguers at 8 o’clock. Last year little Miss Emily Bailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. S. Bai ley of this city, reigned as queen of the first Little League baseball tour nament which was held in Charles ton. This year the host city, Florence, will have the Little League queen. Clinton intends to bid for the State Little League tournament in 1951. If the invitation is accepted it would mean about 150 little boys from over the state will be in the city for one week., i c.v t ru thi try ue. ;n s Cli: aition games, winning about half cave played. The team .will end exhibition games tonight i>t the Spartanburg Little Leag- Spartanburg defeated Clinton pnrtanburg 4-2 last week, and . . wil! do their best to top them n the final game before going to Florence. Tonight, just before the game, Car- lisie Xeely will present the city Lit tle League t.ophy to the winning club. Joanna. Immediately after this presentation ttie Midget trophy and Junior trophy will be given to the Midget and Junior winners. Academy Street has won the Midget trophy. Joanna and Lydia will finish their series by tonight. Lydia won the first game. 6-5. It is hoped that a large crowd will turn out t > see the ball game tonight and the presentation to the three winning clubs in the city leagues. This work has taken in about 250 boy? from Joanna and Clinton in the summer baseball program. All three leagues have played about 135 ball games during the season. Anyone desiring information on the Little I.eaguers while they are in Florence may get in touch with Mr. Neely at phone 852 or his home. C.inton's schedule will not be known until the drawing of opponents takes place Sunday evening at 7:30. Im mediately after the drawing a ban- County's Monthly Share In Gas Tax Continues To Rise Special to The Chronicle. Columbia, July 25—Laurens coun ty receives $7,666 this month as its share of the distribution to the coun ties from the gasoline taxes collected in June. One cent from the state tax on gasoline, which was raised this month from six cents, is placed in a special fund each month for allocation to the counties. The $7,666 allotted^to Laurens county this month is an increase ov er the $6,831 the county received from this source in the same period of last year. A total of $381,070 is distributed to the counties this month from the total gasoline tax collected in June, a rise from the $332,180 received by the counties in the corresponding period of 1949. i - Meeting Friday For Cotton Buyers, Ginners H A. Ropp, county administrative officer of the PMA, will hold a meet ing for the benefit of all cotton buy ers and ginners of the county at the Agriculture building in Laurens at 3 p.m., Friday. July 28. The purpose of the meeting, Mr. Ropp said, is to explain the duties of the cotton buyers and ginners in the carrying out of the provisions of the 1950 marketing quota program as it relates to the buyers and ginnefs. Marketing quota provisions of the act take effect on August 1, he said. Long Branch Club Hostess To District Group Farm Women — The Long Branch Home Demon stration club was hostess to the East district of the County " Council of Farm Women on Friday afternoon July 14 at Leesville church. The clubs represented were Wads worth, Musgrove, Shady Grove and Long Branch. The following program was given: Call to order by Mrs. A. A. May in the absence of Mrs. J. K. Hasei- den, district director. Song, “Onward, Christian Sol diers.” Devotions, Mrs. Roy Harris. Creed of County Council of. Farm Women—group recitation. Greetings by Mrs. Joe Poole, pres ident of Long Branch club. Roll was called and minutes read by Mrs. Hugh Bonds Workman. Highlights of state short course at Winthrop was in the form of a panel discussion by Mrs. T. B. Sumerel, Mrs. W. R. Brown and Miss Blanche Cox. Mrs. Robqrt Wasson, president of the County Council, made an address and displayed the “Gee Book Shelf” which was won for the outstanding achievements of the council for the year. Special music was furnished by Mrs. McLeese Cunningham, Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Sumerel and Miss Cox. Report of the year’s work was read by the president of each club. After the singing of “God Bless America,” followed by the salute to the flag, the group enjoyed a bounti ful lunch on the campus. CLINTON, JOANNA CONTINUE TO WIN IN CENTRAL LOOP By DONNY WILDER Clinton Schools To Open Sept. 5 The Clinton Cavaliers enjoyed a big four-run fourth inning in down- _ ing the cellar-chained Watts War- Coleman Raunion riprs 5 to 1 Tuesday night at Watts. The Clintonians gathered four hits 1 and scored four runs in the fasi ! fourth. Mickey Livingston, Charley' The Clinton city schools will open Tuesday, Sept. 5, it has been a n ”ithis an annual occasion nounced by the superintendent, W.' R. Anderson. Dillard Family Holds Reunion A reunion of the famii¥of the late T. J. Dillard was held Sunday at Mineral Springs, near Laurens, with I the following relatives and friends in : attendance. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Neighbors, A. , L. Nabors and family. Misses Lou Belle and Josephine Neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Dillard, Mrs. J. B. Bazemore and children of Jackson- ! ville. Mr*. J B Wilder. Mr. and lira G. C. Wilder and daughter 'of Mc- iCormick, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Maher , and Mrs. Ada Campbell and son of Spartanburg. Mrs. Sara Smith of Charlotte, Mrs. Fannie Parrish, Miss Lillie Young. Mr. and Mrs. Mace Young, and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wal lace of Laurens. A Q1&U) WOAWRi OKeaXhe Box Office Opens 2:45 Saturday 12:45 Shows Run Continuous Thursday and Friday, July 27-28 Written by Frank Nugent and Patrick Ford Produced by Argoty Pictures Corporation • Dtttnbtffed by RKO Radio Picture* Saturday, July 29 Wp—P—w—we—— am ^ ***§ miOTT CGSIHlOjO WHO DOW IT? wmiimaiHi wuias gaisan uaaAiuww* Monday and Tuesday, July 31-Aug. 1 news limi WtTTTtM IT Ml00 UU mnx rr mm vwm A MINI 1.1. m*w iglMKI mi WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 MYSTERY STREET (Murder Mystery) With Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett MOV^S BETTER MR! CtOL THE CASINO WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, July 26 and 27 GIRL SCHOOL (Mystery of the $30,000) With JOYCE REYNOLDS and ROSS FORD. Feature: 3:26, 7:00, 9:29. > ..Also... DRUMS OF THE CONGO ^ (Jungle Adventure) With STEWART ERWIN, ONA MUNSON and DON TERRY. Feature: 4:28 and 8:38. Chapter 13— Cody of the Pony Express 9c and 35c FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, July 28 and 29 G«n«'s ■ * flghtln' (hariff I GENE AUTRY W CHAMPION A CCMUMMA tlCTUM Feature: Fri.: 3:42, 7:42, 9:34. Sat.: 2:12, 4:04, 5:56, 7:48, 9:40 C hapter 5— Atom Man vs. Superman 9c and 35c MONDAY AND TUESDAY, July 31 and August 1 Feature: 3:26, 7:26, 9:16. NEWS-SHORT. 9c and 35c Gaffney, Louie Lyles, and pitcher 1 Zeb Eaton all connected with safe' blows in the big inning. Clinto'i rushed in another run in 1 the sixth oh Guy Prater’s one-base clout. Eaton held the Warriors in his hand all night as he gave up only five hits. Watts’ lone run came in the sixth when Thomas blasted for the wall, i The Cavaliers pounded the Watts’| pitcher, Potts, for nine hits. All of Clinton's hits were of the one-base species, since no Clintonian was able to get extra bases on Potts’ i offerings. The Watts’ Warriors had a bad de fensive night by committing five er rors. Clinton went into the game with out the aid of their regular second, baseman, Frankie Aravelo. Lyles held down the position quite well, but Blackstock errored one ball from Lyles’ regular shortstop spot. Clinton will play Watts here Fri day night, while the Joanna Hornets' will journey to Riegleland. Joanna 2, Ware Shoals 0 The Joanna Hornets were bounced out of the second place position they had occupied for so long last week, but they bounded right back and went ahead of the Ware Shoals Rie- gels. Tiie Hornets insured their sec ond place spot by blanking the Ware Shoalers Tuesday night, 2 to 0. The Clinton Cavaliers remained ahead of the Central Carolina field by a three- game lead which they held over the rejuvenated Hornets. The Hornets suffered last week af ter losing some of their key men, but Manager Dan Kirby put a stop to this and hired four new ball players. Among them were former big leag uer Buddy Lewis, Rube Melton, who shut out the Riegels Tuesday night, and a first baseman who answers to the name of Brock. All of these men are not only dan gerous in their own different depart ments. Melton was a winning pitcher with the Greenville Spinners in 1949. Lewis saw a good deal of action with the Washington Senators. He is reg ularly an infielder but in his debut with Joanna he roamed tne right field position in the absence of regular Babe Ellis. Brock is a big man. about the size of Joanna's other first base- man, Jake Dan^ls, and he stands up to the plate like he means business. He also handies himself well around the initial sack. Tne Hornets rode to victory be hind the tight four-hit pitching of Rube Melton, who sat the Riegels down with a 2-0 defeat to consider. Although a little wild and running the count to three-two a lot of times, Melton put something on the ball which the visiting Riegels just could n’t get hold of. They connected with the ball but their blows weren’t solid and would either go into the infield dirt or they would pop up. Melton struck out three and walked three over the road to winning the game. Joanna and Ware Shoals breezed along for three scoreless inqings, but the Joannians finally broke the ice in the fourth. Fred Matsh singled and moved to third when hammering Hal Walther drilled a single. Marsh scor ed when first baseman Brock lifted a high fly to deep left field. Joanna’s second and last run came in the sixth inning to ice the game for^ the Hornets, although they al ready had the margin of victory. Paul Fouts got on the basepaths by an error amd was moved to second on a sacrifice by Fred Marsh. Clean up man Walther again came through in a clutch and belted another single, this time scoring Fouts from second base. Bill Voiselle was rationing his hits but the Joannians managed to group their hits to produce runs. Voiselle gave up only six hits, as has been true of the pitchers of the Central Carolina league, who have been giv ing up precious few hits. Voiselle fanned four with his knuckle ball and - was unable to control it against two batters. Walther, Joanna third baseman, was the only man to garner more than one hit all night. He connected with a double and two singles in four trips to the plate. The new-comers, Brock and Lewis, were also trying to prove themselves and they picked up a hit apiece. Lewis and Brock also stole a base each. Fred Marsh col lected the other hit for the Joan nians. Phillips, Wright, Snider and Man ager Red Barbery were the only Rie- belmen who could get solid wood into something thrown by the roar ing Rube. Riegel second baseman Ray Bow den was tossed out of the game in the early part because he argued a little too feverishly with the umpire. There were a good many heated ar guments since both teams wanted this game and were out for l^lood. Both pitchers had a couple of er rors committed behind them, but only one produced a run. Barbery and Voiselle booted chances for the Riegels and third baseman Walthers gungled two hot grounders for the Hornets. Ninety-three descendants of the late Absolam and,Matilda Thompson Coleman held a family reunion at Camp Fellowship, Lake Greenwood, on Sunday, July 23. This was the first gathering of the Coleman fam ily in 17 years, the last reunion being held in 1933 at the home of the late L. M. D. Young near here. Of the seven children born, to this couple, one son, James Haddon Cole man, 80, survives and is living at Cross Hill. He possesses the sterling qualities of this fine couple. Dinner was served picnic style from long, well-ladened tables. An enjoyable day was had by all present and it is planned to make CLUB MEMBERS ATTEND Several members of the Shady Grove Demonstration club attended the East Dristict meeting held at Leeville church July 14 with the Long Branch club as hostess. This is a new club recently organized. i, COMMERCIAL PRINTING This completely equipped combi nation Newspaper-Commercial Print ing plant can serve you better. Our goal is to give our customers the kind of service they want—to give Clinton a BETTER NEWSPAPER. CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. CARD OF THANKS May I thank the voters of Laurens County for elect ing me as one of your County Commissioners. Your sup port is deeply appreciated and I will do my best to serve you in a satisfactory manner. CLYDE G. JONES Card of Thanks I wish to express my sincere appreciation to you good people of Laurens County for elect ing me to serve again as your Game Warden. I am keenly conscious of the confidence and responsibility imposed in me, and my earnest prayer is that I may serve you in an upright and progressive manner. Thank you again. Garvin B. O’Dell t • ::::::::::::::: ettomiUo+vL P'vou&hj, If You Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don’t Get the New* 0 %