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m . / Thursday, December 6, 1951 [ THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Page Firt 4 % DETAILED DEPORT MADE OF GRAND JURY PRESENTMENT AND ATTACHED REPORTS V « The 1951 grand jury made its fin-1 al presentment recently with at tached committee recommenda tions. Pr*Mnixn«ni To His Honor, Judge J. B. Pruitt, Presiding Judge, Laurens County Court of General Sessions: Final Presentment of the Grand Jury for the year 1951. * We have passed on all present ments handed us by the Solicitor. All committees appointed to con- * sider the various affairs of the County have performed their du ty and have submitted their ' re ports to the Grand Jury, which has M approved the same, and there is at tached to this presentment the re ports of the committees. The Grand Jury recommends that these rec ommendations be put into effect. The members of the Grand Jury wish to extend to you the Presid ing Judge, our hearty appreciation for the kindness and courtesies which you have shown toward us. We commend you for your just and l fair dealings with those who have come before your Court. We also wish to thank the Court officials for their coutesies to us. In ar- i ticular would we thank Bailiffs Little and Willard who have so faithfully assisted the Grand Jury in its work. k The Grand Jury would like to recommend to the County Delega- • . tion that all jurors’ pay be increas ed to $7.50 per day. In view of the fact that the Grand Jury is intended to be a continuing body and that some times its recommendations are lost sight of in following years, we rec ommend that a committee from the new Grand Jury be appointed to work with proper county officials in working out plans toward effect- • ing the recommendations of this presentment (Hie following are the committee reports.—Ed.) Court Houso We have made an inspection of M the Laurens County Court House and find the following: The "walls in the offices of the County Auditor, County Treasurer, Supervisor and Clerk of Court are in bad condition. The vault in the Treasurer’s Office is so bad that the books are ruining. We also rec ommend that some shelving or some suitable place be fixed in the Office of the Clerk of Court in or der that old books and other rec ords might be stored in order to keep them from ruining. The floor in the County Auditor’s ig office is full of hole# and is very w dangerous. We recommend that the pipes and guttering in and around the Court House be cleaned. Some of * g these pipes seem to be stopped up and therefore causes overflow which ruins the walls of the build ing. We recommend that the walls in f and painted and that the floor in the above stated offices be repaired the Auditor’s office be replaced w*ith concrete and rubber tile. We again recommend that toilet facilities be made available to the colored people who are summoned to Court and have to atend to va rious other county business and urge that this be attended to as quickly as possible. We would like for new and com fortable chairs be furnished for the Grand Jury and Petitjl Jury Rooms tVe have asked for 1 most of the above recommendations in prior recommendations and would like for same to be cAmplied with be fore the next meeting of the Grand Jury if this be possible. County Hama We, the undersigned, Members of the County Home Committee of the Laurens County Grand Jury, having visited the County Home, hereby submit our report and rec ommendations. two bridges very bad. We recorti-, mend the road be put in good con- i dition until the black-top can be, finished. Road from John Cook’s ; Store, to Stewart’s farm needs shap-! ing up and top-soiling. Terry Road —this road has been in very bad condition for years but now it has been practically rebuilt in prep aration for hard surfacing, and is in our estimation, one of the best engineered roads in the County, year the Grand Jury recommended Piedmont Church Road — last that this road be improved but nothing has been done about it. We recommend that it be worked at one County District may be ef fected for the next school term; however, lack of building facilities will limit the consolidation to a great extent. Jail We, the undersigned, have in spected the Laurens County jail. We find the jail well kept and very clean and would like to commend the keepers for same. We have , investigated the new program now being set up for re pairs and construction work at the Laurens County jail and would like-to recommend that said pro gram be carried out. once. 1 We recommend that the road First: We find our County Home in good condition considering the building program being carried on there and the inconveniences that go with such a program. Second: We wish \to commend our Supervisor, Bennie B. Blake-1 improvement being carried on atj ly, and others responsible, for the; the County Home. connecting Lisbon nad Mountville CflNStmOS HoilSC 111 highways by way of a. p. Gray ;L aurens December 13 and John Montgomery s farm be worked and top-soiled in places in order to be usable in bad weather We also recommend that the Roy Crawford road be continued— The Daffodil Garden club of Laurens, has completed plans for _ the “Holiday House” which it is blaT-toppinglromTuther YoJng's ^wworing cm Thursday. Dec. 13, at the home of Mrs. M. F. Motes, 726 W. Main street. Christmas decorations are to be featured throughout the entire lower/flqor of the lovely -Colonial homtf, and the public is invited to attend. The hours are 4:00 to (5 ; 00 j»nd T:00 to 9:00 p. m., and the admission charge will be 50c. Light refresh ments will be served. Residents of Clinton and the surrounding area are cordially invited to attend. SAY: ‘I SAW IT IN THE CHRONICLE” THANK YOU ‘DIE FOR ALL YOU ARE WORTH’ Hugh L. Eichelberger •NEW YORK LIFE MAN 29 Years Experience PROFESSIONAL INSURANCE INFORMATION FURNISHED FREE Member The National Association of Life Underwriters to Miltons—joining highways No. 26 and 47. Laurens County roads as a whole —Third: We find the water supply to be insufficient and recommend that it be increased as soon as pos sible as this is one improvement urgently needed. Fourth: We wish to commend those in charge of the County Home for their faithful and effi cient services in caring for the in mates of the home, other members of the Laurens Fifth: We wish to thank the County Grand Jury, Judge Pruitt, Clerk of Court Walter Dunlap, Sheriff Wier, and other officials of the Court, for their consideration and cooperation. Road Committee The Grand Jury Committee on roads has inspected a good many roads over the County and find quite a number of hard surfaced and more being constructed, but we still find roads—many of them —that are in bad need of repairs. In the past the Grand Jury Road Committee has recommended and re-recommended that some of these “'bad” roads be improved but nothing seems to have been done about these recommendations, and we think that this Committee’s re ports should be given some atten tion. Now that the County has the machinery to do the job these off this machinery be kept busy on looked after. We would recommend the highway roads should bs County roads and discontinue build ing private drive ways, etc. Some of the roads of which we inspected are as follows: Road from Warrior Creek Church to Craig Hunter’s House—in good condition—has been widened—fills built up and bridga built Yt Len Yeargin road—in fair shape and wide. We recommend that it by Luther Stone’s house. Other should be black-topped to join road fork runs into Highway No. 92 and 6 miles of black-topped road will join 3 hard surfaced roads. Robert Harris road—was black-topped several years ago—some fills that went bad have been built up and repaired but ditches need cleaning out. For some reason this road was not tied in to highway—a few feet highway and we recommend that this be black-topped at once to of dirt road was left adjacent to make it complete. Hosea Cook road was to be black-topped but only about a mile was completed. The rest of the road is in very bad condition with are in good condition but there are still many that need improving and we recommend that these have attention in the very near future. In the past it seems to have be- tome a habit to start work on a road and then move on to an other before the job has been com pleted. We suggest that where pos sible and a practical road. Once be gun, be completed before moving on. We also recommend the General Assembly supply the money needed to carry on this work. Audit The Grand Jury received the re port of the audit of the Laurens County offices made by C. C. Me-} Gregor & Company. This audit i seemingly covers fully all the of fices of the County but members of the Grand Jury have not had time to make a full and complete study of said report. Said audit will be filed with the official records as soon as same has been studied by the Grand Jury. Education We, the Committee on Education, have investigated the Educational Program in Laurens County and submit the following report as of November 13, 1951: (1) Consolidation — As a result of a new school law passed by the Legislature at its last session, Lau rens County Board of Education has consolidated all of its school districts into one district—Laurens School District No. 55 with a nine- member board of trustees. Five of these trustees are active members while the remaining four are serv ing in an advisory capacity until certain proposed legislation em powers them to become active members. (2) State Aid for Teachers' Sal aries has increased approximately 20 per cent over last year. (3) Transportation—As of July 1, 1951 the State took over the entire transportation program advocating student drivers for all state-owned buses. 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