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Clinton, S. C., Thursday, August 23, 1951
CROW ADDRESSES GROUP AT LAURENS
ON NEW STATE SCHOOL LEGISLATION
Director of Education Finance Commission Tells of
State-Wide School Improvement Program and Says
There Must Be Heavy Consolidation of School
Districts To Meet Conditions of the Law.
Special to The Chronicle.
Laurens, Aug. 20.—At a meeting
Thursday night in the court house
attended by approximately 200
school trustees and patrons, Dr. E.
R. Crow, cWreotor of the state’s
new educational finance commis
sion. delivered an exhaustive dis
cussion of the new state-wide
school improvement program un
der which it is possible that Lau
rens county’s 44 school districts
will be reduced to only two
mum 250 potential applied only to
new high schools.
Participants in the round table
discusion included Chas. L. Milam
of Mountville, former house rep
resentative, Col. J. B. Cooley, of
Mountville, Robert C. Wasson of
Hickory Tavern, fincLJas. L. Was
son of Hidkory Tavern. Mount
ville and Hickory Tavern now
have high schools. Their questions
largely concerned the future of
established high schools with en-
Dr. Crow’s address was practi-j less than the 250 po
cally a reaffirmation of the address
made in July by Dr. Jack Martin
before the Laurens County Board
of Education as reported on Au
gust 2. In addition, he conducted
a round table discusion after his
main address.
Dr. Crow pointed out that the
consolidation will be necessary to
tential
Mr. Milam wanted to know what
would keep the larger towns from
imposing their views on the rural
sections and making the tax load
too heavy to bear. Chas. F. Flem
ing, chairman of the county board,
answered for Dr. Crowe, pointing
out that tax levies would have to
CLEMSON PROFESSOR TELLS LIVESTOCK
MEN OF FARMING CONDITIONS IN JAPAN
Prof. Ritchie Makes Talk To Local Livestock Breed
ers of His Trip and Farm Conditions Abroad. Pays
High Tribute To Producers of This County.
anese people are smart as a nation,
and can copy anything in manufac
turing articles such as tractors and
farm tools. Japanese people are not
practical in their farm operations.
He said there are a lot of good peo-
Prof. R. R. Ritchie, animal hus
bandry teacher of Clemson college,
spoke to the Laurens County Live
stock Producers association in the
Agricultural building auditorium
Monday evening, August 6. James
T. Addison, of Joanna, presided) pie in Japan and much progress
over the meeting. j has been made in that country
Pfc. Ritchie spoke on his trip to | through aid from the United States.
Japan in 1948-50, working under] Natural resources for manufactur-
the direction of the army in the are small and the mills are not
livestock program. The United allowed to operate over 40 per cent
States department of agriculture j capacity in order not to come
requested Clemson college to grant competition with United States
Prof. Ritchie leave of absence to go: goods. Prof. Ritchie stated that no
to Japan in the interest of livestock °? e in America should ever worry
production. : about livestock production ever
u *_* ■ ,. , y u* competing with the livestock in-
, J T£ l s , about ‘^ dustVy of this country,
size of the state of California and _ . J
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Number 35
Mrs. D. W. Mason
Claimed By Death
At Advanced Age
Mrs. Erpma Finney Mason, 79,
widow of the late D. W. Mason,
died Monday morning at the Bla
lock clinic after a brief illness,
preceded by several years of de- j
dining health.
The funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 5 o’clock
from the Gray Funeral Home by|
Dr. D. J. Woods, assisted by Rev.
Tom Cook of Laurens. Interment
followed in the Presbyterian church
cemetery.
Pallbearers were, her five sons,
and C. D. Nance, Sr. of this city,
and Jodie A. Chandler and James
T. Addison of Joanna.
The services were attended by
UNTY FARMERS
SHOW TREND TO
PASTURELAND
More Permanent Pas
ture Program Being De
veloped On Farms and
Pushed By Supervising
Board.
According to Ryan F. Lawson, of
the Hopewell community, chairman
of the Laurens County Board of
Soil Conservation Supervisors
there is a decided trend from ter-
a large gathering of friends and racin g an< l row crops to more per-
relatives from here and elsewhere man< ‘ nt pastures, hay and grazing
with the many floral tributes cro P s m County Soil Conserva-
banked upon her grave attesting t,on district
the esteem and love in which she Other members of the board as-
was held. sisting Mr Lawson m the county-
Mrs. Mason was a native of this' wide program are W P. Dickson of
j county, a daughter of the late Isaac I fl}* Hopewell community. Sam B
has 80 million people. Japan is not Ritchie paid high compliments to] an( j Sarah Glenn Finney members Fleming of Ora. and J W Tmeley
meet conditions of the law and that 1 be voted on by all the qualified
the law was passed to conform voters
with recent court decisions.
He estimated that after the con-
Col. Cooley wanted to know if
the state finance board would pay
solidations are completed that j for transportation for Negro chil-
there would be an average of 3 {dren where their parents engaged
school districts per county, some
a few more and some less. He
cited court decisions as a basis for
his opinion that a county could
have only one achool district if
the county board of education
thought best.
He pointed out that wherever a
school* district had a white high
school, it must have a Negro high
school at comparative facilities,
but that the number of schools in
each case would depend on the po
tential of 250 high school pupils in
the district There could be one or
more white high schools and one or
more Negro high schools, but the
number of high schools for each
race would not necessarily be the
same. He explaiifed that the mini-
. livestock countix" ThV priricipaI livestock producers of L.ur ens
crops produced are rice, sweet ,nd| county. He stated that he knows
of a widely connected and highly! a od J. D. Wasson of Route 3, Lau-
regarded family of the lower part re ns.
private transportation. Dr. Crowe’s
answer was involved, but he left
the impression that all transporta
tion problems would be worked^
out satisfactorily in time.
The question of the Wasson
brothers involved the status of es
tablished schools in established
j communities. It was in answer to
these questions that Dr. Crowe
pointed out that the 250 potential
applied only to new high schools
and that the district boards would
have a larg* hand in handing such
matters. He added that a 15-mile
ride was considered by educators
as a criterion and that this and
other things would likely be taken
into consideration in the case of
established schools.
cold.
The number of livestock is small.
The meat consumption for the na
tives is approximately two pounds,
10 eggs and three quarts of milk
Rites Held Sunday
For Sgt. Wilburn,
Killed In Korea
The body of Sgt. Robert W. Wil
burn, 26, whose parents reside near
the city, arrived here last Thursday
morning and was removed to Gray
Funeral Home where it remained
until the funeral hour.
Sgt. Wilburn was killed in action
in Korea on August 8, 1950, and a
number of fatalities during that
period are now being returned
home by the War Department.
The funeral services, attended by
a large number of friends and rela
tives, were held Sunday afternoon
Orphanage Schools
To Open Monday
in
irish potatoes, wheat and barley.I no catt l e breeder in the state who 0 f the county. Her late husband,. This trend indicates that more
The fish industry is an important bas contributed more in Hereford \fr. Mason, who preceded her to and more farmers are carrying out
source of income also. The climate! cattle than S. G. Dillardi the grave a number of years ago, 1 the district, as well as the depart-
of Japan varies from mild to very | °* Clinton. He further stated he ] was f or a number of years chief of | ment of agriculture, objective of
was glad to see Angus and Short- ( police for the city of Clinton until 1 using each acre according to its ca-
hom cattle being increased in Lau-1 forced to give up the work because pacity to produce, and treating
rens county. | 0 f declining health. each acre according to its needs^
Prof. Ritchie explained the beef As a young girl, Mrs Mason Mr Lawson said.
I bull testing project at Clemsoq ] lived in Laurens and attended the Soil Conservation Service person-
per person per year. during his talk. As he explained it,; Laurensville Female Academy She! nel assigned to assist supervisors
They have no natural pasture) tbe P ur Pow is to determine the wa s a member of the First Pres-i in carrying out this objective, point
grasses. No fertilizer or manure is flesh compared to the byterian church of this city, a i out the fact that 90,(MX) acre
applied to pasture lands. Some tim-
othy hay is grown. A course wild
grass is harvested tor hay.' The
manure from livestock is consider
ed the most valuable part of the
livestock. There are no Hereford
beef cattle bred in the country. The
Holstein dairy breed is the only
milk type cow found in the coun
try. Feed production for livestock
is a big problem as well as food
production in that the average size
farm is only two and one-half
acres.
The native cattle is mostly used
as draft animals to work and then
later butchered. The United States
amount of feed consumed. The charter member af the D. A. R. j the Laurens Soil Conservation dis-
young bulls must have been drop- chapter when organized here many t trtct are considered beet adapted to
ped either in December, January years ago, and a charter member pasture and hay crops
or February and must be approved of the local U. D. C. chapter and During the past six months, a to
by a committee before entering the. member of the American Legion tal of 1.344 acres has been put to
feeding project at the college. The j auxiliary,
calves will be kept in individual
pens and fed separately, weighed,
etc. The calves are to be fed from
120 to 180 days and then sold. The
only charge will be for feed and
soiling cost.
S. G. Dillard of this city .and
James Addison of Joanna, are en
tering animals in the test.
Homecoming Sunday
department of agriculture secured! a* p n
from the Curtis Candy company of At KOCH Bridge v-nlircn
Chicago dairy bulls’ semen and 1
shipped it to Japan to improve the
dairy cattle. Sevan calves were
born from artificial breeding said
Prof. Ritchie.
Most breeds of hogs in Japan are
i Berkshire or Yorkshire but, like
The Thorn well orphanage schools
will open their new 1951-52 ses- __
sion next Monday morning and | other livestock" of the "Country!
at the Hurricane Baptist church j tilla, Fla.
are again headed by B. S. Pinson
as principal. *
The following is a list of teach
ers:
Mrs. L. B. Dillard, Clinton.
Mrs. Edgar Blakely, Clinton.
Miss Frances Brockington,
Kignstree.
Miss Sara Culp, Edgemore.
Mrs. Sam Earle, Laurens.
Mrs. Turner Martin, Laurens.
H. A. Bauknight, Greenville.
Miss Luva McDonald, Iva.
Miss Mary Ann Yancey, Uma-
with interment following in the
church cemetery with military hon-
‘ors. The services were conduct
ed by the Rev. James Williams,
assisted by the Rev. R. H. Cause of
Lockhart.
Staff Sgt. Wilburn was a native
of Tennessee, but had spent most of
his life in this community. He was
a son of Austin J. and Stella Baker
Wilburn. He was a veteran of
World War II and served over
seas, and was in the army nine and
'one-half years. During his service
he received the Purple Heart, the
Silver Star and the Good Conduct
medal.
In addition to his parents, he is
survived by one daughter, Joyce
Ann Wilburn, of Fork Shoals; three
sisters, and one brother, Mrs. Letha
Jennings of Laurens; Mrs. R. E.
Lyles and Miss Elvin Wilburn of
Greenville; and Perry L. Wilburn
of Middleburg, Ky.
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Musgrove School
To Open Monday
The Musgrove school will open
its new session Monday morning,
August 27, at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Larry
DeShields is principal, and Miss
Blanche Cox, primary teacher.
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Mrs. Earl and Miss Yancey are
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Greenville, and Mrs. Jack Arnold
of Seneca, resigned. Mr. Bauk
night is added as a band instruc
tor and will hold a similar posi
tion with the Clinton high school,
it was announced last week in the
release of. the teaching staff for
the coming year.
Lions Club To Sponsor
Hagan-Wolloce Circus
Here September 8
Saturday, September 8, will be
circus day in Clinton.
The Lions club will sponsor the
Hagan-Wallace circus on that day,
officials of the dub have announced.
Afternoon and night performances
will be given.
Danhoff Joins
Lumberton Mill
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Danhoff
and family have moved to Lum
berton, N. C., where the former
has accepted the superintendency
of a cotton mjll.
Mr*. Danhoff until recently was
superintendent of Lydia Cotton
Mills here. .
Cooper To Operate
Big Cattle Farm
Lynn W. Cooper, well known au
tomobile dealer of the city, has
purchased the Bob Smith farm
near Kinards consisting of 515
Sunday has been designated as
annual homecoming day at Rock
Bridge Presbyterian chapel near
the city, with picnic dinner to be
served on the grounds.
Duvall Weathers, student pastor,
will preach at 11 a. m., preceded
by Sunday school at 10 a. ra., and
will include the historry of the
church, special music and other in
teresting parts on the program
I All people who have been affiliat-
1 ed with the church since it was or-
w a r»^r^n C H° r S y tn V h^ ff b ^h John R Holland Grocery & Mar
Weathers and asked to bring lunch k city's popular food
^ ^ 1 stores - » celebrating their 10th
church, Rev. Homer Holt, will be- ^mimS^nd Sontimnn*
gin his work on September 1. He] * g
needs much improved breeding.
Prof. Ritchie stated that the Jap-
W. L. Copeland,
Clinton Native, '
Dies In Spartanburg
Wister L. Copeland, 80, of Spar
tanburg. formerly of Timmonsville,
died at a Spartanburg hospital
Sunday morning after an illness of
ten days.
The funeral services were con
ducted Monday afternoon from a
mortuary of that city with the Rev.
Norman Shands as the officiating Hopewell Methodists
minister. Interment followed in the! r
Greenlawn Memorial Gardens.
Mr. Copeland was bom in this
city on July 25, 1871, a son of the, The Hopewell Methodist congre-
late J. Frank and Mary Alice Clary gation is erecting a parsonage near
Copeland, one of the widely con- ( the church to be occupied by the
fleeted and beloved families of this pastor, Rev. J. E. Kinard.
community. He has a number of. The Hopewell and Kinards
relatives here and is remembered churches are now in a joint charge
permanent pasture Thu brings the
During her long residence here) total to date for the dutnet te
Mrs. Mason made and held many, 14,753 acres, Mr Lawson said,
friends. She had many lovely Very cloee allies of permanent
traits of character, possessing a pastures are serieea, lespedeza and
sweet and kindly disposition. De- kudzu, which are being used to s
voted to her home, her family and: great extent each year for supple
church, and her friends, she leaves mental grazing, he said. These per
many who will join with her fam- ennial crops serve to furnish grax-
ily in mourning her death. i ing during periods of extreme dry
She is survived by five sons, weather such as was experienced
George W. Mason of Charlotte, N. during May. A total of 1,005 acres
C., A. I. (Gus) Mason of Laurens, of sereciA was seeded this sfging.
Joe F. Mason of Seneca. Fleming! bringing the total acres in the du-
Mason of Summerton, and Billie jtrkt to 6,975.
Mason of this city, end two daugh
ters, Mrs. Carroll D. Nance, Sr.,
of this city and Mrs. Jodie A.
Chandler of Joanna; four grand
children and three great-grand
children. She was the last mem
ber of her immediate family.
10th Birthday Sole i
Announced for Week By
John R. Holland Store
will also serve as pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Lydia Mills,
and with his family will occupy
a residence in that village.
Building Parsonage
by many of the city's oldest citi
zens. He was a member of the First
Presbyterian church in Spartan-
with Mr. Kinard as pastor. The
Epworth Methodist church at Jo
anna was made a separate charge
^ . — — ~ a a VC VilCX*
burg, and was a retired book-: i ast year with the Rev Joe Giles
keeper. | as pastor.
Survivors include one daughter,' ^
Miss Mary Alice Copeland, with the w* I T C L
highway department at Columbia;] I OylOr 10 dpOOK
one son, Major L. Byron Copeland, C Ar Prpckwforinnc
with the armed forces in Tokyo,] u ■•CSUyTcnans
Japan; five sisters, Mrs. Pearl C “
Bray, Mrs. Jewel McKnight and . The ? uest u minister Sunday morn-
Mrs. Juanita Hardin, all of Spar-j 11 ?* fhe First Presbyterian
tanburg, Mrs. W. H. Stover of Day-' ^urch ^wiU be the Rev. ^George
tona Beach, Fla., and Mrs. Ben W.
West of Terre Haute, Ind., and one
brother, E. T. Copeland of Raleigh,
N. C.
Abrams Enters Drug
Business In City
through next Wednesday
The store was opened ten years
ago by the late Mr. Holland. Fol
lowing his death the business was
continued by his widow, Mrs. Hol
land. Four years ago her nephew,
Furman Buchanan, joined her and
assumed the management of the
business as a part owner. The
store has recently been re-arrang
ed to make shopping easy and con
venient, new departments added,
and cleanliness is emphasized six
days a week, Mr. Buchanan states.
Manager Buchanan announces
special bargains for their birthday
sale. Their announcement of the
event in today’s paper gives a pic
ture of the store from the outside,
and interior views of the stock ar
rangements, vegetable and meat
departments. The management in
vites the public to attend their
birthday celebration.
Hurricane School
To Open Aug. 30
The new session of Hurricane
Mr. L*waoo indicated • that tea
accomplishments in pasture and
hay crops represent only one phase
of a complete conservation pro
gram which has been planned on
1.243 farms in the district, involv
ing 199,815 acres.
Each of these plans is based on
an inventory of the land on the
farm, known as a soil conservation
survey. With this map, which
shows the capacity of each acre to
produce crops, the SCS technician
visits the farm and assists the farm
er in outlining the best land use
and treatment for each acre.
The Soil Conservation Service
then is available to render on-site
assistance in getting the plan into
operation on the land. This assist
ance includes staking out meadow
outlets, terraces, and farm ponds
and recommendations on crop ro
tations, pastures, and other soil
conservation practices planned for
the farm.
Mr. Lawson, who has released the
mid-year report of district accom
plishments, said that the Produc
tion and Marketing administration,
through its conservation payments,
as well as other agricultural agen
cies, has been of assistance to farm
ers in getting their plans into prac-
ttce.
Aiken Taylor, son of Mrs. Geo. W., school will open August 30 at 8:30,
Taylor of this city. Mr. Taylor is | it has been announced by the prin-
doing post graduate work at Duke. cipal, Mrs. Thomas F. Milam.
University on a Fellowship from ♦
Columb.ia Theological Seminary, - 1 1
Decatur, Ga.
Kiwonis Barbecue
At Armory Today
The Clinton Kiwanis club wiH
give a barbecue this afternoon
(Thursday) beginning at six o'clock
to which the public is invited.
Tickets are on sale at $1.50 each,
the net proceeds to be used for the
work of the club. It is announced
by the committee in charge that
the head chef will be Lee Willard,
noted for his good cooking of such
menus.
HORNSBY AT FT. BRAGG
Pvt. Lionel L. Hornsby of this
J. W. (Bill) Abrams entered upon] city, is at Fort Bragg, N. C., with
Softball Standings
, Methodist
his new work Monday morning as! the 28th Infantry division to take National Guard
a member of the firm of Howard’s, pert m the huge Exercise South- Baptist
ern Pine now in progress on the,
sprawling maneuver area there.
acres, cattle and equipment.
Mr. Cooper states he will devel _
op the property into a big cattle; Copeland-Stone company, now re-
farm.
Pharmacy, being associated with
Pharmacist Howard Smith, who
has owned and operated the busi
ness since it was purchased last
year from the firm of Bishop-
Walker Pharmacy.
Mr. Abrams, a licensed embalm-
er, has been connected with Gray
Funeral Home the past several
years until his recent resignation.
He is succeeded by George C- (Kit)
Young, licensed embalmer, who
has returned to the city from Rock
Hill where he was associated with
the Bass Funeral Home.
Howard’s Pharmacy will move
into their new location at an early
date, the building vacated by
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Methodist 4, Clinton Mill 3.
Baptist 16, Presbyterian 5.
Methodist 9, Lydia Mill 8.
National Guard 13, Clinton Mill
Baptist 12, Lydia Mill 4.
Clinton Mill 12, Presbyterian 7.
Games Tonight
Methodist vs National Guard.
Baptist vs Methodist.
Games Friday
Presbyterian vs National Guard.
Lydia vs Clinton Mill.
Games Tuesday
Baptist vs Clinton Mill.
Presbyterian vs Methodist
' REVIVAL AT LANGSTON
Langston Baptist church an
nounces revival services to begin
Monday, August 27, with services
each evening .through Friday at
7:30. The pastor, Rev. Carl Bish
op, will be assisted by the Rev. J
K. Lawton. The public is invited
to attend.
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