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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, March 22,1951
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Number 12
SHERIFF WIR SAYS
COUNTY M
IN BAD SHAPE
Budding Overcrowded
and Inadequate To
Properly Handle Prison-
^ prs, Officer Tells Social
~ Group.
Laurens, 'March 20.—Expressing
concern at what he described as de
plorable conditions at the outmoded
Laurens county jail. Sheriff C. W.
Wier told members of the Laurens
County Council of Social Agencies
Tuesday that something should be
done to remedy the situation.
Sheriff Wier spoke at the regular
monthly meeting of the organization
and said that the jail is overcrowd
ed, out of date and entirely inade
quate to handle prisoners in an ac
ceptable manner.
He declared that juvenile offend
ers must be locked up with harden
ed criminals and misdemeanor cas
es with those charged with felonies.
Plumbing facilities are unsatisfac
tory, and there is no proper way to
partition off male and female pris
oners, he added.
Upon a request by the iberitt,
Mrs MMkI B. Little, president of
the council, appointed a committee
to study the problem and submit
a report at the next meeting The
Rev. Tom Cook, pastor of the local
First Predbyterian church, will act
as chairman and will be assisted by
E. V Golding of Water loo, and Mrs
The Rev. J. Ed Roust, chairman
of tha council** 1mm lor fee agod
and the Rev Grange S.
of the
uoab
Mother and Child
Killed In Auto
Wreck Near Kinards
A Methodist minister's wife and
infant son were instantly killed Sat
urday night about 11:20 at the inter
section of two farm-to-market roads
about two miles south of. Kinards.
The family was returning to their
home at Waterloo from a visit in
Conway.
Mrs. Betty Hicks Smith, 21, and
14-month-old son, Rollins Franklin
Smith, wife and son of the Rev.
Clemson M. Smith, died when a car
driven by Peter Kinard, colored, a
resident of the Gary’s Lane section,
smashed into the side of the Smith
car where Mrs. Smith and son were
sitting, according to Sheriff T. M
Fellers of Newberry county, who in
vestigated the wreck.
Mr. Smith is pastor of the Water
loo Methodist church and a student
at PreAyterian college, commuting
daily to his work. He was dazed and
slightly injured, though not thought
seriously injured.
The Smith family was traveling
in a 1950 Ford and Kinard was driv
ing a INI Buick. Both cars were
badly wrecked.
Sheriff Fellers said Kinard came
to his office Sunday morning and
surrendered, saying that he was the
driver of the car that struck the
Smith car. Kinard was placed in jail
to await a coroner's inquest
Sheriff Fellers stated that at the
time of the wreck two Negroes fled
from the scene and disappeared in
the darkness The other man was lat
er identified as Nelson Hartman
that an inquest would be held later
Double funeral service* for Mrs)
Smith and little son were held Tues
day morning from the Union Math-
odist church neer Conway, with the
Rev R M Tucker, the Rev D L 1
Wart* and the Rev M B Patrick of |
tot-
EasterGreetings
As the Easter flower brings
forth its breathtaking blos
soms ... so may the Easter
Season usher in greater
health and happiness for all
Red Cross Workers
Asked To Complete
Work Hits Week
College Robed Choir
To Give Programs
In Several States
John B- Jordan, chairman of the The Prekbyterlan college robed
Red Cross drive In the CUnton-Jo- 1 choir has arranged another ten-day
snne area, stated that funds are still | lour it is announced by David Max-1
short |?M of the N.SM goal j well, president of the sinprrs
Mr. Jordon stated that he hoped 1 The tour will include eleven con-
all divisional chairmen would com-'certs beginning April I and ending•
plcte their work this weak and turn the 19th. They will appear in Pres-
.n their reports to him Immediately bytenan churches at Charlotte. W. C.'
He iiiii>l>aalio<1 that If anyone on)Danville, Covington, and Staunton,
the var;ou> lists was mused whan]Vo, Washington. D Alexandria,
FredmckMurg and Norfolk. Va.;
of- Wilmington, N C« and M
for
he Mated, NwuM hove M| The chair, dhtactod by Dr Bdward
County Farmers To
Hold Cotton Meet
Next Monday
Farmers and business men of the
county interested in cotton produc
tion this year are invited to attend
a meeting on Monday, March 26, at
2 p.m., at Shipman’s Flying Ser
vice Field (airport) located just
off the Laurens-Clinton highway.
The meeting will be a discussion
by Clemson College Extension
specialists on boll weevil and oth
er insects and disease control for
this year’s cotton crop. Also there
will be on display machinery, both
dusters and sprayers.
According to County Agent C. B.
Cannon, county farmers for the
past several years have lost heav
ily from cotton insert and disease
damage. Last year’s damage from
boll weevil, boll worm, leaf worm,
cotton flea hoppers, thrip, ascochy-
ta and rhizoctonia fungi will long
be remembered, he said.
Monday’s meeting will be held
by the county cotton committee
and the agent's office.
According to the PMA office,
j 25,528 acres were planted last year
I out of an allotment of 32,722 acres.
I There w no acreage control or al
lotment this year on cotton with
* farmers of the United States asked
! by the government to produce a
I 16-million bale crop this year
Eoster Musk Program
Sunday Morning At
Brood Street Methodist
RUSSIAN PANEL
10 BE HELD AT
JOANNA MARCH 30
'
Escaped Iron Curtain
Natives To Describe
Soviet Worker's Life.
Sponsored by Joycee
Group.
What is life really like for ‘.he
working people inside Russia*
Three Russians, with' thei rRus-
sian-bom interpreter, will discuss
this and other questions in the Jo
anna school house on Friday, March
30. Their visit will be sponsored by
the Joanna Junior Chamber of Com
merce
At 7.30 p.m. a panel discussion
will be held, with tickets available
from any member of the sponsoring
organization. If there is available
space it is announced, after the Jo
anna people have been provided
seats, the doors will be open to those
without tickets.
Prior to the meeting at the school
the Russians will be entertained *c
a luncheon at the club house at
noon, will hold a press conference at
2 pm with representatives froux
several daily papers, and at • pm.
will be guests of honor at a dinner
in the chib house attended by statn
and national Jaycce officers and alt
local members of the Junior Cha*-
The Russians are sent out by
Research Institute of
believes that If Americans get thssr
information about the land behind
the Iron Curtain frees people who
hove lived there, rather
Russian propagandists, they will
a war to Dereu*<fe the Ri
had _
that a home for the aged, distinct
from the county home which is for
the indigent, be built on a site
cr the city, to be entirely
from the county borne. Efforts to
establish such a borne will be con
tinued, air. Rouse declared.
The council took note ef the pass
ing of the late R. E. Babb, and
adapted resolutions prepared by the
Rev. Tom Cook, chairman, and Ray
mond Hill, member of the reeolu-
tiojw committee. The resolutions
spake ef hkn as a “faithful and be
loved fellow member, aNectkmetely
known to all who knew hkn as
Judge Babb ” Proceeding further it
raid that "he eras vitally interested
in every phase of comwmrdty up
lift, giving freely of his time,
strength and sound wisdom.” In
closing the trtxite, the resolutions
said “Truly, it can be said otf our
friend, that if all citizens were as
Godly in their daily walk and con
versation, there would be little need
for the profession that he so worth
ily adorned.”
Eoster Ploy To Be
Given at Orphanage
"Whom Seek Ye?” an Easter play
by Louise Henry DeWolf, will be
presented in the Thomwell Mem
orial church at 7:30 Sunday evening,
March 25. Music will be furnished
by the Thornwell choir. The jnd>-
lic is cordially invited to worship
with these young people at this
hour.
W1NTHEOP GIRLS AT HOME
The Winthrop college students
from Clinton and this community
arrived home yesterday for a week
of spring holidays.
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County
To Moot Morck 30
To Hoar Specialists
A senes of dairy
been arranged for dairymen hi Lau
rens county.. The first meeting Is
scheduled for March 90 at • pun.
in the Agricultural building at Lau
rens.
County Agent C. B. Cannon said
the serica is being sponsored through
the cooperation of the Palmetto
Dairymen’s Federation, Inc. Wal
lace L Martin, commercial dairy
man of Gray Court, is pram dent of
the federation.
The topics for discussion will be
"Soles vs Production,” XUre and
Management of Spring Grazing,”
and "Management and Planning for
Summer Pasture." Specialists from
Clemson College Extension Service
will take part in discusring these
subjects with representatives •of the
federation.
Age it Cannon said the meeting is
open to the public. He urged per
sons interested in dairy production
to attend the series.
Local Boy Receives
Annapolis Appointment
Guy Blakely, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Add Blakely, of this city, has
received an appointment to the
United States Naval Academy, An
napolis, Md.
He will receive the aptitude test
in April and as it is a second alter
nate appointment will continue his
education at the Citadel, Charleston,
where he is a freshman, while await
ing acknission to the academy.
Leoman Jones With
Bank of Clinton
Leaman Jones, formerly connected
with the bookkeeping department of
the C. W. Anderson Hosiery com
pany, has accepted a position with
Bank of Clinton and entered upon
his work this week.
Revival Services At
Cafvory Baptist
Calvary Baptist church will con
duct a revival meeting March 25th-
Aipril 1st Dr. 6. H. Jones, editor of
The Baptist Courier will do the
preaching, with services beginning
each night at 7:00 o’clock.
Rev. J. W. Spillers, pastor of ths
church, invites the pvfclic to attend.
The big
tolls the
dote, and Mr
la
it iHlsw of OJ*
to the call kriog
Anyone who hot
the •oholUUon. and I
make a contribution, is
call Mr
Touchdown Club To
Hold Aword Night
et 7
On Wednesday, March
o'clock in the college dining hall,
Clinton Touchdown chfb will
serve "award night” at
a 9100 dutch dinner will be
Trophies will be pr tee tiled to
Thornwell orphanage, Clinton high,
and Presbyterian college.
An added feature of the program
will be a showing in technicolor of
the 1900 Orange Bowl JoeJfcoll game.
Clemson vs. Miami, and other enter
tainment All members of the organ
ization are invited.
Miss Emily DiNard To
Accept Abbeville Work
Mrs. M. J. MdFadden and Mias
Maggie Lovett of Joanna, are spend
ing several weeks at Inverness, Fla.
They were accompanied for a stay
of several days by Miss Emily Dill
ard of this city.
Miss Dillard recently resigned her
work as director of religious educa
tion at the Predbyterian church in
Rogersville, Term., and will leave
the first of the month for Abbeville
where she has accepted a similar
position with the First Presbyterian
church. ,
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
HONOR ROLL
If you are a newcomer to Clinton
or this community we invite you to
take THE CHRONICLE. The cost is
small for the pleasure and helpful
information you will get.
Welcome and thanks to those on
our Honor Roll this week:
MRS. WILLIAM CROWTLL,
Clinton.
J. H. TURNER,
San Diego, Calif.
HARVEY HULETT,
Jacksonville, Ga.
CALVERT R. MARSH,
Lykesland.
'MAXWELL FERGUSON,
Cottageville.
SGT. WM. GUY COPELAND,
Columbia.
JOSEPH D. OAKLEY,
San Diego, Calif.
oratorical contest tor the
ansenitivs year Last year ha
it out la tha state
Fletcher won over three
Itrict winners here last
night in the area competition at Clin
ton high school Other contestants
{were Charles King. Jr, Easley. Wil
ma Jean Martin. Ware Shoela, and
Talmadge Skinner. Anderson
Derrick'« subject eras "The Priv
ileges and RecponatoiUtiee of an
American Citizen ” The state ora
torical contest will be held March 23
at Loris high school.
The contest we* held under the
direction at R. P. Chapman, area
commander W R Anderson pre
sided. and R P. Wilder was tfcne-
keeper.
Z. B. Riddle Posses
In Birminghom
Z. B. Riddle. 66, died at his home
in Birmingham. Ala.. Sunday after
a year’s declining health. He was
a native of Laurens and was con
nected with the Southern Railway
nearly 50 years.
He is survived by the following
brothers and sisters, Mrs. F. M.
Stutts of this city; Phiss Riddle of
Laurens; and Mrs. Charles Hill of
Charleston.
Funeral services were held Mon
day afternoon in Birmingham.
Cannon Soys County
Peach Crop Safe
Laurens county peach growers
escaped damage from cold weather
last week according to County
Agent C. B. Cannon. Orchardists
are still worried, he said, over fu
ture frosts when it is recalled that
last year’s frost as late as April
20th finishing destroying the coun
ty crop.
It is generally reported over the
Piedmont peach area that the crop
suffered practically no damage by
the recent freeze, i
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Local Girls Listed On
Erskine Honor List.
The list of Erskine college students
qualified for the honor roll on first
semester subjects Includes Miss
Mona Blakely and (Miss Louise Trib
ble of this city, members of the
freshman and senior classes.
Miss Blakely is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Blakely, Jr. Miss
Tribble is the daughter oi Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Tribble.
ttoUD Saog.” arrangement by
Tariaatkowsky. Crown Him King.”
from the cantata, "Hgil. Redeemer
t>y Henry BMhap Willtrte A duet,
"Tha Crucifix.' by J Fbure, will
v
at
' bald. FoJ lowing the
, junior choir win have
Idertng several I
1 eluding "Jeeu. San ef
Holy - by Charles Sam
Lord Is My Shepherd” by
md a hymn. Into
My Savior Went” The pitot
tfially invited to attend
Evangelistic Services
At First Baptist Church
In cooperation with the Southern
Baptist church east of the Miasissip-
pi river, the First Baptist church ef
this city, will hold a special srrtee of
evangelistic services March 25-April
1. The pastor. Rev J H. Dorr, will
preach, and arrvtcea will be held at
7:36 each evening.
All members are urged by the pas
tor to put forth every possible ef
fort to make the services of lasting
importance. Hundreds of Baptist
church** and thousands orf people
are combining their efforts during
the weeks of March 25-April 8 in
an evangelistic campaign to remind
the nation and world that Christ is
the only answer for individuals and
all mankind
• return home, and finnRy fist at
this lemifi j> He has been here etsout
It months and m employed to a Mow
York factory
MoknUy, tfi, southern Rm-
a worker m a sugar re
fining plant ut the Ukraine He wan
drafted into the Ruasinn army at th«
of the war. taken pet
beck to Germany as sieve IMmt. re
fused to return heme, and gat tea
the United Mates about five months
ago
Mrs. Ada
daughter of one of the
vtk ministers
government who was driven out in
1681. was employed to the Office oV
War Information during the past war
is a successful writer, editor and
translator. Among her work in thn
County Auditor Here
Friday For Tax Returns
Miss Jennie V. Culbertson, coun
ty auditor, will be in Clinton Fri
day to assist taxpayers in filing
their tax returns for 1951. She
will have headquarters at the city
hall during the hours 9:30 am to
5 p.m. Miss Culbertson’s appoint
ment here will bring to a close her
itinerary over the county the past
two weeks.
Kiwonions To Heor
Erskine Quartet
The Kiwanis club will have as
its guests this evening a mixed quar
tet from Erskine college in a pro
gram of special music.
The program is in charge of the
committee on Support of Churches in
Their Spiritual Aims as a part of em
phasis being placed on religious ser
vices being held in the city this
.week by several churches. The
meeting will begin promptly at 7
p.m.
Eoster Cantata At
Calvary Baptist
Calvary Baptist church will pre
sent an Easter cantata. "The East
er Hope,” by Charles Francis Lane
on Sunday evening at the regular
worship service at 7 o’clock. Choir
director is Mrs. J. E. Land and Mrs.
Bobby Boyce, pianist. The public
is cordially invited to hear the can
tata.
translation is the book, "Why 1 Es
caped,’’ by Peter Ptregcv. Russian
flyer.
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Garber's New Store To
Hove Opening Today v
The grand opening of Murray
Garber's new store is announced for
this morning (Thursday) at 9 o'clock
with the residents of this entire com
munity invited for the event. The
store is located in the former loca
tion of Sumerel’s Department store
between Hamilton's and Copeland-
Stone company.
Mr. Gaiber, a successful merenant
at Laurens for the past 20 year?,
states that his store here will be for
women exclusively, with a brand
new stock of spring and summer
merchandise just unpacked and
ready for today’s opening.
The store is one of the most at
tractive in the city, having recently
been painted, decorated and re
arranged to make shopping conven
ient for the public. Their opening
announcement appears in today’s
paper.
FOOD...
Is An Important
Item With Housewives
You will find helpful Gro
cery and Market News in THE
CHRONICLE every week from
loading 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
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