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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 2, 1950
Number 44
New President
Kiwanis Club
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.