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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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DETAILED DEPORT MADE OF GRAND JURY
PRESENTMENT AND ATTACHED REPORTS
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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.
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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.
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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.
Some consolidation within the
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