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J- The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy anjl Reliable If You Don’t Read , The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume Lm Clinton. S. C., Thursday. lanuary 31. 1952 Number 5 3PE CAMPAIGN TO SELL HOTEL GOES 'OYER TOP' Additional Units Total ing $25,000 Purchased Locally. Open Indebted ness Paid and Improve ments Planned. The board of directors of the Clinton Community Hotel corpor ation, assisted by several stock holders, made an intensive cam paign last week to sell additional stock in the corporation to pay off outstanding indebtedness in open accounts, and to provide a reserve for air conditioning, road advertis ing signs and other improvements. The directors held luncheon meetings daily last week to hear reports of the canvassers and tabu late the results. At the meeting Friday final reports showed that the goal of $25,000 had been reach ed and slightly over-subscribed, representing 118 additional units of stock purchased at $220 a unit. Most of the stock was purchased by individuals and local business firms who had already bought stock in the original campaign to build the hotel. The result of the public-spirited effort means that Hotel Mary Mus- grove is now placed oiTa sound fi nancial basis with a bright outlook for the future. The board is this week paying the $15,000 indebted ness and plans will go forward to get estimates on the cost and need of air-conditioning facilities. This means that the corporation now has only its RFC loan of $125,000 at the rate of 4 per cent, this procedure being aproved by the stockholders when the hotel was erected. The property with this indebtedness has a conservative valuation of $275,- 000. Recently several tentative offers had been made to the board of di- rectors for a loan contingent upon Farmers Group In Annual Meet, Good Report Heard Stockholders of the Clinton Pro duction Credit Association ~held their annual meeting here Satur day, January 19, at which time three directors of the Association were elected. J. T. McCrackin of Newberry and Hugh B. Workman, Clinton, being re-elected, and R. N. .Jackson of Gray Courts was elected to fill out the unexpired term of Wallace L. Martin, deceased. A full report of the year’s opera tion was given by Rex Lanford, secretary-treasurer of the associa tion. It showed that the associa tion now has a tqtal membership of 1001 and made loans of $590,- 000.00 to farmers in Laurens and Newberry counties. The report shows also that the members now own the association, the captial in vested by the Federal Government, $118,400.00, having been paid in full. Reserves of the association now amount to $87,287.00. Of special interest to members was a talk by E. H. Agnew, presi dent of the South Carolina Farm Bureau. Subsequent to the annual meet ing of the stockholders a meeting of the directors was held and offi cers of the association for 1952 were elected. J. T. McCrackin of New berry, was re-elected president and J. F. Hawkins of Newberry, was re elected vice-presidnt. Rex Lan ford of Waterloo, was re-elected secretary-treasurer, and George W. Copeland of Clinton, assistant sec retary-treasurer. • The board of directors, other than Mr. McCrackin, and Mr. Haw kins, are Hugh B. Workman, R. N. Jackson and Lawrence F. Davis. ^ The association’s home office is in the Jacobs building here and serves the credit needs of farmers in Laurens and Newberry coun ties. Branch offices are maintain ed in Laurens and Newberry where applications for loans may be filed. Boy Scouts Observe 42nd Birthday Vascoe Kennedy, Of U. S. Navy, Killed In Car-Truck Crash Vascoe S. Kennedy, at h6me on short leave from the U. S. Navy, was killed and two others injured in an automobile accident in the city early Saturday morning when the caj 'they were driving ran into a parked truck, according to Sher iff C. W. Wier. \ Leo Hornsby, Jr., of this cityf -suffered two broken arms. BOVSCOUTS OP AMERICA rectors fox. a loan contingent upon the leasing of the hotel. Or^he Whitmire High XaNcT final date of the campaign, an offer u * J was received by wire from inter- |xlQy6rS Honored ested parlies in Miami, ria., to U make a loan of $140,000 to pay off the indebtedness and assume the management of the- hotel. The lo cal campaign having been success fully completed, the offer was de clined by the board without Refer ring it to the stockholders for con sideration. The stock sofrt last week was on a cash basis with a definite under standing in writing from the direc tors that the subscriptions would _____ Official Boy Scout- Week Poster ' » President Truman will greet 12 outstanding Boy Scouts in the White House during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 6 to 12, marking the 42nd anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Boy Scout Week will be observed throughout the nation by more than * 2,900,000 boys and adult leaders. Since 1910, more than 19,000,000 boys and men have been members of the organization. “Forward ... on Liberty's Team” is the birthday theme. Two New Members A4ded To PC Faculty To Fill Vacancies ■ Brown Addresses Lions Club On World Conditions driver of the car, Robert C. Knox, .received only minor injuries. Kennedy was on leave to the. funeral of Robert Trammell, a friend of his, who had been killed in Korea. Sheriff Wier said that the three men were riding in a 1950 model Plymouth oar. They were travel ing on Davidson street and had en tered Musgrove street when the ac cident occurred he said. The car hit the back of a partied truck owned by William King the sheriff said. A coroner’s jury was impaneled by Coroner Joe F. Smith and an inques{ has been set here for this afternoon. Mr. Kennedy was a native of Spartanburg county but had made his home here the past twelve years. He was a son of the late W- L. Kennedy and Lena Smith Ken nedy. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. W. F. Gann; three brothers James W., and Berry, all of this city, and his twin, Roecoe Kennedy, of the U. S. Army, overseas. The funeral services were con ducted from Calvary Baptist church here yesterday afternoon by the Rev. J. W. Spillers and the Rev. James B. Mitchell. Interment followed in Rosemont cemetery with military honors. CITY-WIDE APPEAL FOR BLOOD TO BE MADE MONDAY Red Cross Bloodmobile Will Be At Armory, 2 to 8 P.M. Quota of 240 Pints Asked. Life-saving blood for the Ko- rean battlefront will be given by ! Clinton residents Monday ,thd indi- ' cations are that the city will meet attend' '* s ( l uo ^ a °f 240 pints. With Banquet Here Whitmire high’s Wolverines who lost in the Upper State class “B” football semi-finals, were treated to an elaborate banquet here last Wednesday ni^ht at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Tfie oanquet was spon sored by business men from Whit mire, and more than 60 guests at tended. , Walter Johnson, athletic director not become binding unless the en-! 8:4 Presbyterian college, addressed tire $25,000 was raised. I ^ players on sportsmanship and The hotel, with more than 260 local stockholders, is operated by President M&rshaTL W.- Brawn nas announced two changes in the Pres byterian college faculty for the sec ond semester which begins today. Professors George U. Whitehead and James Parthemos have been j Friday night. ' added to the staff as replacements! Speaking .on the subject, “Inter ior Prof. F. P. Thompson and Dr.| national Understanding,” Dr. J. B. Coleman, both of whom re-; Brown indicated this country’s ~ "Americans responsibility irr world leaderehin was underscored by PresbyteRan College P r hs i d e n t Marshall W. Brown in an address before the Clinton Lions club last • clean living. He said the coaches are responsible for the type spirit the board of directors with A. A. McCall holding a lease as manager. City Gas Hearing Postponed To March 3 It was announced from Washing ton Monday that the hearing on the natural gas application by sev eral towns of this section including Clinton has been postponed until March 3. „ The announcement was made by the Federal Power Com mission. The hearing was set for Monday shortly after the North- eawterh Gas Transportation com pany of Boston allowed a contract for 60,000,000 cubic feet of gas from the Transcontinental < com pany recently. Clinton and New berry city councils had filed an application jointly recently for the installation of this type gas sys tem. Chaney's Moves To Laurens 4 Chaney’s Dress Shoppe, which hw been operated here for the past fifteen years by Mrs. Ethel Chan ey, is bevng closed Saturday. The business is being consolidated with the store in Laurens. The building is being modernized and remodeled for four sales floors. In leaving Mrs. Chaney express ed appreciation for the patronage given the Clinton store and cor- dially invites her friends to visit her in Laurens. READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS regularly; 1 EACH WEEK It will pay yon. Itfs thrifty to shop first In this newspaper, then la the etoreo ae prices change and new merchandise It received and displayed. READ THE ADS instilled in- the boys who’ll be the men of tomorrow. He also said that it.is on the football fields that citi zenship is acquired. Head Coach Pete Reynolds of Whitmire high and his assistant, Jeff Prather, were given gifts by the merchants. Bob Lake was toast master, and Joe Rose, business man of that 6ity, promoted the banquet Jackets with block W’s on them were awarded the Whitmire seniors for the first time. Those receiving jackets were Don Reeder, Billy Johnson, Skippy McMurray, Jody Foster, Ken King, Jerry Gregory, Gene Grant, Ford Springfield and Johnny Dickert. Captains McMurray and Dickert received a trophy for winning the District 2 football title in 1951. Pre vious award winners recognized were Foster, best blocker; McMur ray, best tackier; and George Brock, best team spirit. PC Choir To Give National Broadcast Presbyterian college’s robed choir has been selected to give the Easter Sunday program on the national radio broadcast of “Great Glee Clubs of America,”, it was announc ed this week. I^ 1 . Edouard Patte^ conductor of the choir, which annually tours thousands of miles throughout the South, announced that he has just been informed of his group’s selec tion for the important musical spot on the weekly program by the Mu tual Broadcasting system.,The choir sang on this series last summer and drew wide response from through out the country. , Bus Station Not To Change Location The location of the Clinton Bus Statioif will not be changed as pre viously announced, it was stated yes terday by Manager Joe C. McDaniel, also'owner of Jpe’s Esso Service. The bus headquarters will con tinue in operation as in the past with Mrs. Alec Henry as ticket agent. Mr. McDaniel also states that the ifsso Station and bus facilities are to be improved and modernized in the near future. . signed at the close of the first se mester. Whitehead, who takes over the mathematics duties of Dr. Coleman, is an Englishman with an M.A. in mathematics and physics from Cam bridge university He is a retired need for understanding other na tionalities and pointed out the dif ficulty of people inexperienced in world leadership to understand the viewpoint of their allies. As an example, he expressed doubt that our insistence upon even Former Local Resident Spends 103 Days On Front Lines In Korea That’s the capacity of the Ameri- can Red Cross BloodmobiTo which . will set up operations in the Arm ory between the hours Of 2 p. m. and 8 p. m., Monday. I Red Cross officials emphasize' that giving blood is a simple, pain less procedure, and they offer these suggestions for prospective donors to follow. 1. Heavy meals should not be taken prior to donation. 2. During the four-hour period before giving blood, the donor should not eat eggs, meat or fatty foods such as butter and cream. These foods do not affect the donor but rather the quality of the blood for transfusion purposes. 3. A canteen service will provide donors with light refreshments im mediately after donating. Any type of food may be eaten at this time. 4. All donors are urged to go to the Bloodmobile at their agpomted hour so that the operating schedule may be maintained on an even keel. All blood collected will be sent immediately to laboratories for processing into plasma and then rushed to Korea to save lives of America’s fighting men there. Each mobile unit is accompanied by a physician, registered nurses and custodians, and physical examina tions are given each donor to make sure he is able to give. William M. Shields, co-chairmait of the sponsoring Kiwanis club'.* Committee on Business and Public member of the Indian civil service, | so able an Admiral as L. D. McCor- having served in the Far East as div-1 mkk to head the North Atjantic trict and sessions judge. And he has j Pact naval forces would serve our had teaching experience in such interest as well as if we had given well-known English schools as Felsted, Cheltenham college and Repton the Churchill government the strength and prestige which would have come by permitting Churchill Parthemos, holding an A.B. from lto a PP 0| n't a commander in this Erskine apd an MA. from the Uni- area 50 Vlta ^ to England s existence, versity of South Carolina, will lec- Dr - Bro ^7 S ave numerous illus- ture on economics. He spent the past f rat i° ns . language difficulties in year on a Fullbright scholarship in international intercourse.. As one Europe, compiling material for his PhD. dissertation. He has taught previously at the University of South Carolina and Catawba and served in the navy in World War II. Young People To Hold Interdenominational Meet Here Sunday Evening Climaxing American Youth Week, Interdenominatiopal Young People’s rally will be held Sunday night at 6:15 at Thornwell Mem orial church. The program will include “The Call” and film strip, “The Accus ed.” 'fhis meeting is in cooperation with nationwide interdenomina tional youth movement to encour age America’s young people to re spond to “The Call to United Chris tian Youth Action.” Those taking part on the -pro case in point, he quoted a mission ary friend recently returned from Iran who said that of 300 U. S. gov ernment employes in that country today, only two are fluent in the Persian language and one of those has been on extended leave in this country. ‘ Thompson Resigns Work At College For New School Post F. P. Thompson, member of the Presbyterian college faculty for the past four years in the department of economics and education, termi nated his connection with the in stitution this week with the begin ning of a new semeser- Mr. Thompson in November was elected assistant superintendent of Laurens County School District No. 55, headed by C. K. Wright as su perintendent. Offices have been The man who believes he has established some sort of a record by spending 103 days out of 107 directing artillery fire in Korea, has left the front lines. First Lt. Claude H. Plexico for mer resident of Clinton, where he was on the ROTC staff at Presbyte- rion college for two years, recently put away his portable radio and binoculars. He was assigned as as sistant executive officer of the 48th Field Artillery Battalion’s "B” bat tery. He stayed in the lines almost continuously from August 18 to December 3. Until he was assigned to the rear area job, the lieutenant left his “ridgeline bunker” only while the 48th was on the move. During his three-and-a-half-month stint as the “seeing eye” for the artillery, 1 Lt. Plexico directed upwards of 12,000 shells. The most successful of the lieu tenant's numerous^ fire missions came a week before - he relinquished his observer’s job. “It was virtual ly a shooting gallery,” he said. Af ter he zeroed in the 105mm how itzers on a Communist footpath at the base of a lofty mountain, the artillery annihilated several groups of North Korean soldiers as they carried supplies up the slopes. As Communist patrols and carring par ties approached the* spot, Plexico would call for 30 rounds to be con centrated on the target. “We got every Red that used the path,” he stated. Lt. Plgxico served in the Philip pines during World War II. and with the occupation forces in Ger many two years following the war. Since he has been in Korea, he has also had experiences on “Heart break Ridge,” the much publicized hill that has changed hands be tween UN troops and Communists on several occasions. Affairs, reports the recruiting drive has been highly successful in ob taining volunteers. Each donor has been assigned a specific hour by; report between 2 p. m. and 6 p. m. The local National Guard unit will give as a group between the hours of 6 p. m. and 8 p. m. Byrnes Says Court Ruling Favors S. C. opened in Laurens for the adminis gram will be Terry Thnartas, Rich- tration of all school affairs under ard Jacks, Roy Benjamin, Louise the county board of trustees. Tribble and Peggy Sease. * John Holland Hunter will lead ^fasor Promoted the singing. to l £ /* ^ • An offering will be taken for I 0 KOnK Of v«Op?Qin support of youth missions in v for eign countries, and young peoi>le’s work in the state and nation. Joanna Employees Liberal With Dimes A check in the amount of $750 was mailed this week to the county chairman of the Mirch of Dimes drive as a contribution from the “In-the-Plant Community Chest” at Johnna, the amount being set. up by the employees for their part in the annual campaign. Saturday evening the Loyal Or der of Moose there held Its annual -President’s Birthday ball the pro ceeds to be forwarded also to the county \ organization for infantile paralysis. Columbia, Jan. 28.—Gov. James F Byrnes said today “the Supreme Court has ruled in our favor” in commenting on the high court's ac tion in sending the Clarendon Coun ty segregation case back to the :nree-judge federal court. The general opinion among au thorities here was thot the Supreme Court’s* action lays aside the appeal which the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. nad filed. Byrnes himself was among those who so interpreted the deci sion. . “We had moved to dismiss the ap peal on the grounds there were two issues in the case and that only one had been acted upon, and that the issues in the case should not be heard piecemeal by the Supreme Court,” Byrnes said. “The Supreme Court has appar ently agreed that we are right—that the case should not be heard piece meal.” The high court directed the three- judge South Carolina Federal Dis trict Court to make a new ruling in the case which challenges the con stitutionality of racial segregation in public schools. • Friends of Capt. Robert E. Wy- sor, III, will be interested to learn, of his recent promotion to that rank. Captain Wysor, the* son of Col. and Mrs. Robert E. Wysor, Jr., left the States in September for over seas duty and is attached to divis ion headquarters of the 25th infan try in Korea. TO SAIL FOR GERMANY Lt. Col. William; M. Blakely and family of Ft. McPherson, Ga., spent the past week with his mother, Mrs. R. F. Blakely. Col. Blakely is enroute to Camp Kilmer, New Brunswick, N. H., from there he will sail for duty in Germany. Mrs. Blakely, Sally and Bill Jr, expect to join him later. « Son of Resident Receives Promotion Friends of Rev. and Mrs. J. K. Lawton will be interested to know that the latter’s son, Jones E. Bolt, has recently been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and .made commanding officer of the 526th Spider Bomber squadron! Munich, Germany. Lt. Col. Bolt, a graduate of Clem- son college, was formerly one of a team of aerojets from Williams Field, Arizona. Young Accepts Greenville Position Kit Young has resigned his posi : tion with Gray Funeral Home , of this city ''to accept a similar posi tion with R. D. Jones & Sons in Greenville, and has already enter ed upon his new work. Mr. Young plans to move his family to Green ville in the near future. r*. Monts To Teoch Special Course Here The University of South Carolina - is sponsoring a course on “Child Growth and Development" beg in- ning on Wednesday, February 6, at fr30 at the Clinton high scti JOT E. Monts of Newberry, will teacn the course which will be counted for ' graduate or undergraduate level. It is also announced that Monts- will teach “Methods in the Elementary Schools” in the Laurens high school beginning on Feb. 8. FOOD... Is An Important Item With Housewives. You will find helpful Gro cery and Market News in THE CHRONICLE .every week from leading 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.