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- ► < ♦ L ■ I THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be A Clean « ewspaper. Complete ewsy and Reliable (ttltnlim If You Don't Read THE CHRONICLE Yoii Don't Get the News Volume LI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 2, 1950 Number 44 New President Kiwanis Club .,4;, Boil Weevil Losses Heavy in 1950 Report Shows B. C. PRESLAR B. C. Preslar, manager of Hamil ton’s of this city, was elected presi dent of the Clinton Kiwanis club on Thursday evening to succeed W. M. Brown. The retiring president auto matically becomes vice-president and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Preslar has been a member of the club for several years, and of its board ol directors. He was the offi cial delegate from the club to the Carolines Kiwanis District conven tion held recently in Spartanburg. A native of North Carolina, Mr! Pres lar moved to Clinton in the summer of 1943 to become manager of the well known Hamilton’s firm. At the same time W. C. Baldwin, John B. Jordon, W. M. McMillan and Reece Young were elected new mem bers of the board of directors for two-year terms, succeeding Edward Ferguson, I. M. Smith and Ed King. Carry-over members of the board for another year are Thomas Baldwin, R. M. Vance and D S. Templeton. At a subsequent meeting of the new board J. Sloan Todd was elected secretary for the year. The new officers will assume of fice the first of the year. Clinton Has $1200 Quota In County Christmas Seal Sale Beginning Monday, November 6, volunteer workers for the Bond Sale of the Laurens county Tuberculosis Association will call on individuals, business houses and industries in the-city for help in raising the city’s •bond quota of $1200. Chairman of the sale this year is Mrs. James P. Sloan, and her workers are Mrs. B. R. Aus tin, Mrs. H. F. Blalock, Mrs. Marshall Brown, Mrs. t. W. Cooper, Mrs. Gary Dillard, Mrs. Caldwell Henderson, Mrs. Thomas F. Hollis, Mrs. Hugh Jacobs, Mrs. .Carlisle Neely, Mrs. Roy Pitts, Mrs. R. L. Plaxico, Mrs. D. O. Rbame, Mrs. Bill Shields, Mrs. Goyne Simpson, Mrs. J. C. Thomas, Mrs. E. H. Wilkes. For many years the County Bond Sale has been a mainstay ot the Association in its fight against tu berculosis. The association carries on a full-time program against this di sease, of which one of the main fea tures is education. Its effort is to bring the facts about tuberculosis before all the people—white and Ne gro—of Laurens county, so that they may know ho^w to avoid contagion. An extensive case-finding program is also carried on. The mobile unit from state headquarters—set up to make mass X-rays for large groups of people—is a frequent visitor to the county. A free X-ray clinic is held each Friday at the county health department for everybody. H. M. Faris is president of the county as sociation, and Mrs. R. L. Gray is ex ecutive secretary. Chicken Stew At Grove School Clemson, Nov. 1—The boll weevil caused an estimated crop loss in South Carolina in 1950 of about 42 million dollars, according to an esti mate calculated by Frank O. Black, agricultural statistician. He points out that there are rndhy “ifs” and “ands” in calculating such losses but says the above is his estimate at the present time. “Based on the estimate of 440,000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight from conditions on October 1, 26 per cent weevil damage, stnd two per cent loss from other insects, the loss of lint is calculated as 190,000 bales or 91 million pounds of lint,” he ex plains. “Loss of cotton seed is fig ured as approximately 77,0C0 tons. At 40 cents a pound far lint and $75 ! a ton for seed the loss comes to 36 million dollars for lint and 6 million dollars for seed, or 42 million dol lars for both,” he adds. D. W. Watkins, director, Clemson 38 Amendments To Be Voted Upon In General Election One amendment to the state con stitution affecting Laurens county, will be voted upon in the general election, November 7. The amend ment which limits the bonded debt of any county, township, school dis trict, municipality of other political subdivision follows: A JOINT RESOLUTION propos ing to amend Section 5 of Article X of the Constitution which among oth er things limits the bonded debt of any couniy, township, school district, municipal corporation or other polit ical subdivision to eight per centum of the assessed value of all taxable property therein, so as to authorize School District No. 11 of Laurens county to incut bonded indebtedness not exceeding thirty per centum of the taxable property therein. There are also three statewide pro posed amendments to the constitu tion to be voted upon in the elect ion. One would eliminate the require- m I i REV. PINCKNEY j L. BAl KNIGHT Extension Service and chairman of ment °f payment of a poll tax be- the South Carolina State Cotton com mittee, in commenting on this esti mated loss suffered by the cotton farmers of the state, pointed out that the loss would have been many mil lions of dollars heavier but for the systematic boll weevil control program waged by county cotton committees during the year. He also called attention to the fact that this loss affected not Only the cotton far mers but also the general economy of the state. He emphasized that cotton farmers should realize that they will be con fronted with the ’ weevil problem again in 1951, and that they along with agricultural workers, commer cial and business people, and others concerned should begin now to get ready for an even greater fight against the weevil than the one wag ed this year. “Cotton growers can begin the fight now by destroying cotton stalks; by planting winter cover crops; by securing and storing a supply of in secticides; by securing spray or dust ing equipment which may be avail able; and by taking proper care of equipment already on hand,” he states. “They can prepare for next year’s cotton crop by securing and storing fertilizer materials and by as suring themselves of an adequate supply of good planting seed.” Bauknight Goes To Sumter Pastorate; Garrison Comes Here Shady There will be a chicken stew at the Shady Grove school house Sat urday afternoon November 4, at 2:30 o’clock. The public is cordially in vited. Carroll Johnson will be the cook. Sponsored by the home demonstra tion club of that community. READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY EACH WEEK It will pay you. It’s thrifty to shop first In this newspaper, then in the stores as prices change and new merchandise is received and displayed. BE WISE— READ THE ADS County Farm Bureau To Make Drive For 600 New Members Next week will be membership time for the Laurens county Farm Bureau, President M. B. Henderson of Owings announced yesterday. A drive to enlist 600 new members in the Bureau, the Voice for Agricul ture, will be launched in every com munity in the county. “We want to make this Farm Bu reau a live and powerful thing in our county,” Mr. Henderson declared, adding that every farmer will be given an opportunity \o^ become a member. “And, any farmer who does not join the Bureau and actively support its work is simply neglecting his work," he added, pointing to the many benefits which the organization has obtained for farmers. Henderson said the county Bureau in the past has never had more than 350 members but, "this time we’re out to enlist a sizeable delegation.” C. R. Workman of Kinards, a mem ber of the board of directors of the South Caro.ina Bureau, urged all county farmers to work along with the Farm Bureau. “Together, we can solve the many problems facing the farmer,” he de clared. “But, he added, “unless we join the Farm Bureau and make the voice for agriculture strong, then we will be in sad shape.” He pointed to the present decline in cotton prices as a concrete exam ple. “The Farm Bureau has been fighting to hold the price, but we farmers haven’t been interested enough to get behind the organiza tion and give it our support. “Until we realize that in unity there is strength, then we have no right to even hope for a square deal for agriculture,” he declared. Assisting Henderson and Workman in the membership drive are W. P. Dickson, secretary-treasurer of the county organization, Heath Copeland, director for Hunter township, W. E. Bell, director for Jacks township, and other members of the Bureau. fore voting in elections in South Car olina. A second would make it un necessary for a voter to obtain in addition to his county registration certificate a municipal registration certificate; and the third would elim inate the requirement that school districts must have an area of not less than nine square miles nor more than 49 square miles. There are some 30 aditional pro posed amendments affecting single counties, and not statewide in effect. The notice of election, requirements for voting, and list of managers by precincts, appears in today’s paper. County Fair Now In Full Swing With Heavy Attendance The First Laurens County Fair, sponsored by the Laurens Exchange club, opened Monday and will con tinue through Saturday. Large crowds daily are attending the fair grounds and viewing the varied ex hibits. Tuesday was white children’s school day with thousands from all parts of the county attending. The Clinton schools closed at noon in or der that the pupils could attend. The Thornwell orphanage children also attended yesterday and a group from Training school, transportation being provided by the Laurens Rotary club and free admission to the midway was given by Prell’s Shows, together with free rides, entertainment and refreshments. Yesterday was Merchants’ day, to day will be colored school children’s day, free; Friday an automobile will be given away, and Saturday will be the final day. The Trinity Ridge Home Demon stration club won first placed in the community exhibits, adult division. Others ranked in the following order: Hickory Tavern, Shiloh, Barskdale- Narnie and Shady Grove. The Lau rens JHA-FFA took first prize in the junior division for community ex hibits. Others ranked in this order: Long Branch 4-H, Ford high FFA, Clinton FFA and Hickory Tavern FFA. It was expected that the judg ing of exhibits would be completed yesterday. Clinton-Honea Path Meet Here Tonight In Homecoming Game Clinton high school will celebrate homecoming tonight at 8 o’clock as the Red Devils take on Honea Path’s Stingers at Johnson field. Buoyed up by a 24 to 0 win over Greer in their last encounter, the Red Devils are looking forward to the tilt with Honea Path, who last week downed Belton by a 26 to 0 score. The homecoming festivities during halftime will include the crowning of the winner of the “Miss Clinton High” contest. The finalists in the competition are Sue Cooper, Eloise Marshall, and Charleen Turner. Big and Little Four Grid Standings In State Unchanged South Carolina’s eight college foot ball teams followed the form charts this past week to bring about only minor changes in their relative re cords. Intra-Big Four standings werfc un changed as Clemson edged Wake Forest 13-12 and Florida downed Furman 19-7 after The Citadel took Presbyterian 7-0 and South Carolina outscored George Washington 34-20 in Friday games. Little Four standings were un changed. but better for Wofford and worse for Newberry after Wofford gave Newberry its seventh setback in a w:n!ess season 21-0 and David son swamped Erskine 44-0 in games Saturday night. ’ Both Clemson, meeting Duquesne this Saturday at home, and Soutn Carolina, taking on Marquette in Columbia Friday night, strengthened their Southern conference records, their respective victories. Clemson appears headed for an un defeated season, marred only by its 14-14 tie with South Carolina, as it meets steady losers in its remaining four games against Duquesne, Bos- DR. EUIS FULLER DIES SUDDENLY IN CALIFORNIA 2 Funeral Services Today In Louisville, Ky., For Widely Known Minister And Educator. The Rev. P. L. Bauknight, pastor of Broad Street Methodist church the past five years, was appointed Sunday by the Methodist conference at its closing session In Columbia, j ton college, Furman and Auburn, to St. Mark’s church at Sumter for! All eight state teams are active this the coming year. week-end in seven games, .with the Mr. Bauknight will be succeeded I only intrastate meeting being Wof- here by the Rev. E. K. Garrison who comes from Trinity church at Dar lington. The Rev. Joe 9^ es wa s returned for a second year to the Epworth church at Joanna. The Hopewell and Kinards church es were put in a new circuit with Rev. J. E. Kinard, Emory university student, as pastor. The Rev. M. B. Patrick was re turned as superintendent of the Greenwood district, in which the Clinton, Joanna and Hopewell churches are included. The Rev. H. O. Chamoers, a for mer pastor here, was returned to the Anderson district as superintendent. Rev. J. H. Kohler was returned for a second year to Bethel church at Chester. Rev. L. E. Wiggins, also a former pastor, was returned to the Woodrutf pastorate. Mr. Bauknight and Mrs. Bauknight during their five years residence here have made many friends who will regret to know they are leaving the city, and whose best wishes will fol low them. ford’s with Furman at Greenville Friday night. Virginia will be at The Citadel Dr. Ellis Adams Fuller, president of the Southern Baptist Theologic.l Seminary in Louisville, Ky, broth. r of Mrs. L. B. Marion of this city, died Saturday night in San Die^o, Calif. Dr. Fuller. 59, suffered a he t attack He collapsed while speak.m; in a San Diego church and died aft. r being rushed to a hospital. His wtia was with him on the trip to Ca'.i- fornia and was at his bedside when ne died. The funeral services will be heU this afternoon (Thursday) in the Al umni Memorial chapel on the cam pus of the Seminary he had headed as president for the past eight yea: «. Burial will follow there in Cave Hill cemetery. Dr. Fuller was well known he 9 by many lifelong friends and ac quaintances who learned with regret of his passing. He has preached here on several occasions and only lad week it was announced in The Chronicle that he would be tne three state elevens are out of state that night—Erskine at Stetson, New berry at Milligan and Presbyterian at Catawba. Little Four standings: Wofford 2 0 PRESBYTERIAN 1 1 Erskine .11 Newberry .. ... 0 2 Presbyterian Announces 24-Game Basketball Slate A rugged 24-game schedule will face the Presbyterian college bask etball team when it moves into ^SC SI cage action under the direction of new Coach Gene Lorendo. The Hosemen make their opening pass on Dec. 2 as hosts to Lenoir- Rhyne. Four other games are on the pre-holiday ( slate, and the team re turns after Christmas to enter a three-a-week grind that swings through January and February. Coach Lorendo, former University of Georgia star athlete who also ser ves as football assistant at Presby terian, started putting a veteran squad through its practice paces last week. And he’s pushing hard in an effort to get the boys in shape for the early opener. Special Services At Thornwell Memorial Special services are beipg held eacli evening this week at 7:15 at Thftrinvelt Memorial cfiurjph in ob servance of Religious Emphasis Week. The Rev. A. G. Mclnnis, pastor of the First ' Presbyterian church, Sanford, Fla., is the guest minister for the week. The services will con tinue through Friday evening. Blakely To Lead Head Springs Services The Rev. William M. Blakely, pas tor of the Associate Reformed Pres byterian. church in Greenville, will hold a series of special services at | the Head Springs A.R.P. church near Mountville Friday evening through | Sabbath. Services will be at 7:30 p. m. Friday, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Saturday, and 11 a. m. and 4 p. m. on the Sabbath, with friends of this community invited to attend the ser vices. Mr. Blakely is the son of Mrs. R. F. Blakely of this city, and the la‘e Mr. Blakely. Saturday afternoon, while the other s P ea * ter for Religious Empha.vj Week services to be held at Pres byterian college in the early spruit Dr. ^Fuller was born in Gross Hill April 1, 1891, a son of •John Rhett and Ida Lee (Adams) Fuller. H« received his A. B. degree from Pres byterian college m 1912 and w is awarded the degiee of doctor of oi- vinity from P. C. in 1924 He reced ed the degree of master of theolo-ijr from the Southern Baptist Seminary in 1921 and also did post graduate work at the seminary for one ye*r. After serving as pastor of Soutta Main church in Greenwood, 1922 .a 1924, he went to Earle Street chur a in Greenville' for 1924 and 1925 and was pastor of the First Bapti .t church of Atlanta from 1928 to 1941. He had been president of the semin ary since July 1, 1942. Dr. Fuller was general ■'uperinte 1- dent of evangelistic work of t. a Southern Baptist convention for thit o years, 1925-28. He had also served as president of the Baptist Hoi: o Mission Board of the Southern Ba - list convention, 1928-42; chairman if the Georgia Baptist Hospital Com mission, 1938-42, president of t 9 Georgia Baptist convention, 1939-if; chairman of the executive commit tees of the Baptist World Alliance He was a Mason and a Rotarian. On Dec. 17, 1925, Dr. Fuller mar ried Miss Elizabeth West Bates »f Greenville and they had one son, El lis A. Fuller, Jr., a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, and two daughters, Sara Elizabeth, a student at Baylor university, and Ida Lee, a high school student. It was Dr. Fuller’s ability as a baseball player that give him a chance for. an education. He had been taken out of school at 14 to work on the family farm near Cross Hill and Mountville. Presbyterian college heard of hia baseball ability and offered him a scholarship. Before his graduation he had declined professional base ball offers to become part-time pas tor of Beaver Dam Baptist church where he had been baptized. For five years he taught school, preaching in country churches on Sundays. Later he attended the Sem inary and served as student pastor at Campellsburg, Ky. Under his presidency the semin ary added 18 buildings and 40 acres of ground. Game Warden O'Dell Says Plants Available In Quail Program County Game Warden Garvin B O’Dell announced Monday that he has been allotted about 75,000 !es- pedeza bi-color plants for farmers who would like to set them out in the departments’ quail propagation program. Mr. O’Dell said that the usual practice is to set out about 1,000 plants in patches of about an eighth of an acre each. He asked farmers who are inter ested in the plants to call on hin and he will furnish them free of charge. The plants, he said, will be sent him from the State game depart ment. s He also asked that applications be made to him as early as possi ble as the forms have to be sent to Columbia before the plants can be shipped out. Mr. O’Dell’s address is Ware Shoals, Rt. 1. P.C. Plays Catawba Saturday Night Presbyterian college picks on the strong Catawba Indians, Saturday night, at Salisbury. N. C., in bidding to climb back to the .500 football percent mark. The Blue Stockings have won three games while losing four so far this season. They dropped behind in the NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL won-lost count for the first time last week-end in bowing to The Citadel. Until then, P.C. had alternated week ends in victory and defeat. Coach Lonnie S. McMillian has scored wins over Furman, Western Carolina Teachers and Erskine and met defeat at the hands of Clemson, Davidson. Wofford and The Citadel His team was “up” again defensive ly at Orangeburg last Friday but couldn’t quite muster enough offense to overcome Citadel’s seven points. The biggest value you can get is a year’s subscription to THE CHRON ICLE at a cost of less than 4c a week payable in advance. Nowhere will you find so much community news of interest as in this “family news paper”. Welcome and thanks to those on our Hon,or Roll this week: MRS. ROBERT O’SULLIVAN MRS. E. C. PRESLEY M. M. WINDSOR H. H. JACKSON MRS. CLAUDE MONROE City JOHN M. SIMMONS Mountville , J MRS. SHELDON BEEMAN Lima, Ohio; MRS. MARY LOU RUSHTON Chappells. S. C. Sunday To Be Homecoming Day At Bush River Church The program for homecoming day at Bush IjtivVr Baptist church. Sun day. November 5 has been announc ed. The public is invited to bring pic nic lunch and come for the reunion. The following program has been arranged for the day: 10:30 a. m.—Sunday School. 11:20 a. m.—Worship with Rev. H G. Hammet, speaker. 12:10 p. m.—Honoring an Illus trious Son. 12:30 p. m.—Reminiscing. 1:00 p. m.—Picnic lunch. 2:00 p. m.—Inspirational singing led by C. V. Reed. 2:15 p, m.—Ordination Service for Parks McKittrick—Sermon by Rev. J. R. MeKitUfick. Special music for both morning and afternon services will be ren dered by Miss Margery Smith and Mrs. B. E. Williams, accompanied by Mrs. S. P. Harris, church organist. 4-H Boys Win With Calves At Newberry Fair Laurens county 4-H dairy calf members did well at the Newberry county Fair last week, winning $71.00 in showing their calves. Wofford Wood of the Greenpond community, won first place in jun ior class, and first place in open class. Don Willis of the Greenpond com munity, won first place in the Guer nsey senior yearling, third place in ot^n class. Eddie Jones, son of Mr. ind Mrs. H. T. Jones of Mountville, won second place with his Guernsey senior yearling in the junior show and tilth place in the open show, Hyett Chapman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elblrt Chapman of the Oak Grove community, stood first with h s Guernsey junior yearling and founh in open class. John Pitts Listed fn Clemson's Who's Who 1 Clemson college has announced 32 seniors to be included in the 1950 “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities”, selected on the basis of each students’ excellence in scholarship, other qualifications and participation in extia-curricula and academic activities. John H, Pitts of this c.ty. is in cluded in the released list. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pitts. FOOD... Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Gro cery and Market News In THE CHRONICLE every week from leading food stoies in the city Read the advertisements reg ularly — they tell you about changing prices each week axd where you can supply your needs and buy to advantage.