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V ,—L- / The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable -r . ; 1 —:—i. ^■ r - l—: .— n : : 1 -l if... : m - ffllintnu Clfrontrlf If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LIH Clinton, S. C., Thursday, May 29, 1952 Number 22 College To Graduate 61 Seniors Monday Baccalaureate At First Presbyterian Church Sunday Morning By Atlanta Minister. Address to Graduates Monday By President of Louisville Seminary. Smaller Class Due To 12th Grade Addition Four Years Ago. FIRST HONOR STUDENT The 71st annual commencement at Presbyterian college will begin Sunday morning at 11 o’clock in the First Presbyterian church. The baccalaureate sermon will be de livered by Rev. Patrick D. Miller, pastor of Druid Hills Presbyterian church, Atlanta. Dr. Frank H. Caldwell, presi dent of Louisville Theological Sem inary, will give the commencement address on Monday morning at 10:30 in the college’s outdoor theatre on the campus. - -During- thir -occasion,--honorary doctor of divinity degrees will be given the Rev. Harry K. Holland, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, Marietta, Ga., and the Rev. Charles K. Douglas, pastor of Beth el Presbyterian church, Walterboro. An honorary doctor of laws degree will be awarded Ross Lynn, head of the Presbyterian Day School in Memphis, Tenn. All three recip ients are alumni of the college. Mr. Lynn is a son of Dr. and Mrs. L. Ross Lynn, for 25 years residents of this city during which time Dr. Lynn was president of Thornwell orphanage until he retired in 1943. In addition to the distribution of diplomas, numerous awards and medals will be made to deserving students in several fields of campus activity. Commissions in the U. S. Army will also be bestowed upon 18 seniors by the military depart- ment. This year’s graduating class is one of the smallest at the college in recent years as the result of the addition of the 12th grade in high schools of the state four years ago, which meant no high school grad uating classes that year. There are .sixty-one candidates for degrees as follows: Bachelor of Arts Burl Edwin Allen, Conway. Robert Virlyn Atkinson, Winns- boro. Alfred Jackson Beckum, Wash ington, Ga. C. L. Brasfield, Jr., Corpus Christi, Texas. Malcolm McLeod Bullock, Fair mont, N. C. William Edward Carter, Paducah, Ky. Herschel Rice Clay, Thomasville, Ga. William Estes Crosby, Green wood. Sidney Walter Denham, Atlanta, Ga. i 118th Infantry To j Hold Reunion Here On June 7 The fourth annual reunion of Co. D, 118th Infantry of World War I and prior to World War I. will be held 1 here Saturday, June 7, be ginning at 3:30 p. m. in the ban quet room of Hotel Mary Mus- grove. This new location for the meeting, according to officers, is ideal for the purpose and the larg est attendance in the history of the reunion is expected. Johnnie Hamilton of Columbia, who made a brilliant record as a sergeant with Co. D during the war, will be host on this occasion, it is announced, picking up the check for the entire cost. Ser geant Hamilton is president and owner of Hamilton’s Jewelers, with a large chain of jewelry firms in the state including their well known store here. Officers of the organization are P. J. Moore, president, Greenville; W. G. King, Sr., secretary-treasur er, Clinton. Barney B. O’Shields of Greenville, is chairman of the publicity committee and is urging all former members of the fam ous “Old Hickory” 30th division, to be present for the social reun ion. Ernast Luther, Dickerson, Laur ens. Grady Eliot Dixon, Belmont, N. C. Benjamin Lee Eller, Jr., Union. Eldon Lamar Faircloth, Laurens. Valdane James Cause, Clinton. Margaret Hart Harris* Clinton. — Don Kay Hill, Akronv Irtd. Robert Francis Hunt, Greenville. Kirby Bryan Jackson, Sumter. Ralph Douglas Kiker, Jr., Griff in, Ga. Byron Lee King, Benneitsyille. —Johfv David- Love, York.,* 'J.— George Alexander McIntosh, Fayetteville, N. C. Edward Louis Mann, Charlotte, N. C. Harold Nelson Miller, Holly Hill. William Thomas Mulcay, Augus ta, Ga. William Mark Murray, Ft. Val ley, Ga. James Roger Neely, Rock Hill. Robert Warren Pierce, Savannah, Ga. Roy Gene Skinner, Paducah, Ky. Frank Henry Spears Jr., Green ville. Charles Cooper Tedder, Tim- monsville. Pierce Wrenne Timberlake, El gin A. F. Base, Fla. Richard Beverly Weldon, Ben- nettsville. Joe Washington Wheeler, Jr., Thomson, Ga. John Mitchell WitselL Walter- boro. Rudolph Deas Zobel, Jr. Charles ton. Bachelor of Sicence Charles Otis Belk, Jr., Great Falls. John William Callaham, Jr., Lib erty. Rrfeert Elihu Cooley, Jr., Wag- rem, N. C. Joe Bowdein Dodd, Jr., Rome, Ga. George Thomas Fesperman, Jr., Waycross, Ga. LaNue Floyd, Kingstree. Dwight Lee Groninger, Silver Lake, Ind. Lewis Lee Hawkins, Plymouth, Ind. Kenneth Charles Horn, Plym outh, Ind. Sherwood Chessen Jackson, Portsmouth, Va. Charlie Candler Jordan, Wash ington, Ga. Henry William Keeling, Jr., Mc- Clellanville. Jean Cannon Layton, Roebuck. Mack Milo McGahee, Augusta, Ga. Rene Symmes McMillan, Mullins. Paul DeCosta Moore, Atlanta, Ga. Walter J. Morris, Jr., Clinton. Oscar Leroy Patterson, Cross An- James Preston Roberts, Laurens, chor. Ralph Theodore Sasser, Bruns wick, Ga. ter. Joseph Mason Stevenson, Sum- John Milton Stewart, Jr., Rock Hill. Everett G. Tandy, Danielsville, Ga. John Kleier Thurman, Atlanta, Ga. Donald Wharthen, Augusta. Ga. William Paul McKinnon, Jack sonville, Fla. FRANK COLEMAN YOUNG Frank Coleman Young, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Young who re.- side near the city, was first honor member -ef -tbe--gF-a4uabng -class—at Clinton high school Monday evening and -delivered the valedictory ad dress. Kiwanians Go On Conducted Tour Lydia Cotton Milts ;• ♦ Officials of Lydia Cotton Mills were special guests of the Kiwanis club Thursday evening at its regular dinner-mebting. The meeting had been designated as ‘appreciation night’ of the company now observing its 50th anniversary. Following the meeting members of the club went to the plant on an in spection tour. They divided .foto groups directed by President P. S. Bailey, vice-presidents Geo. H. Corn- elson and David S. Cook, Secretary J. D. Hairston, Superintendent J. B. Templeton, M, T. Ficklin, Assistant Superintendent, and all overseers of the mills. . ,. The visiters were given an oppor tunity to see first hand the modern ization and expansion program at Lydia which has been completed af ter being in process for the past few SIXJY-FIVE SENIORS 41 CLINTON HIGH SCH001 AWARDED DIPLOMAS -Baccalaureate Sermon By Local Lutheran Minister. Closing Exercises j-argely Attended. Awards and Honors for Year Announced. Entries Close For City Candidates, Terry Unopposed The time limit for entries in the approaching city primary for mayor and aldermen, closed Saturday in ac cordance with the ruling of the exec utive committee. Secretary Harry McSween an nounced the following.candidates as qualified to enter the June 10 pri mary: leading the groups and explaining the varied steps in textile manufac turing. They saw all the productive processes at the enlarged plant, from the opening room for cotton to the finished product ready for shipment. The Kiwanians were furnished the following facts by officials of-the mills: Number of employees on pay roll, 825; total number spinning spindles, 66,240; number looms, 1560; total payroll for 1951, $1,896,938.46; average weekly payroll for year, §36,479.59; present average weekly payroll, $34,725.88; pounds cloth produced last year, 8,025,789; yards cloth produced, 60,013,830; present average weekly pounds cloth produc ed, 168,000; present average weekly yards cloth produced, 1,000,000; bales of cotton consumed last year, 16,548; bales cotton consumed daily last For ‘Mayor, Joe P. Terry, unoppos ed. Mayor Terry is completing his first two-year term in office. All six aldermen have opposition. By wards the list follows: Ward 1—Hugh C. Ray, incumbent, and H. D. Rantin. Ward 2—S. A. Pitts, incumbent, L. S. Reddeck. Ward 3—W. M. McMillan, incumb ent, Harry C. Layton. Ward 4—W. M. Walker for renom- ination, and James E. Anderson. Ward 5—Woodrow Wilson, in cumbent, Louie Webb and Charles A. Hollis, Jr. Ward 6—James Craine, incumbent, and Arthur Dunaway. Voting To Be City-Wide Under a change in the law ef fective this year, voters will cast their ballots for aldermen in all six wards, the ticket containing the names of all mayor and aldermanic candidates. The executive committee has rul ed that there will be no absentee ballots for the election, such bal lots are only available for persons who are bedridden or under a phy sician's care. Such voters must have registration certificates. It is also pointed out that no per son can vote in the primary with out holding a registration certifi cate. All certificates must be dat ed 1948—May 10, 1952. Voting places will be at the city fire station and Greasy Corner on Pitts street. Sixty-five seniors of Clinton high school were awarded diplomas at the annual graduating exercises held Monday evening in thq school auditorium. The exercises were attended b S capacity audience of parents relatives and friends who gathered for the final chapter of the closing program. Graduates, robed in caps and gowns, occupied seats on the rostrum. Following the proresstoml. the Invocation was offered hv -the- Rev W. R. Terry. The salutatory address was giv en by Tommie Boyce, followed by a song. ‘ A Perfect Day,” by Ida years. The conducted tour lasted httorn -tw-hour^ia-nrtll-Wfich^ cometh unto the Father but by Me.' In those words He sets forth plain ly the path to the actompUshmer/ of the highest purpose that can grip a man’s heart and claim hi energies and abilities—the doing of the will of God. “I am the Way. ’ You are going to take some wa from here, good or bad. right o: wrong, to peace or to turmoil, to joy or to sorrow, to victory or to defeat. The choice is in y<>ur hand Only remember—Christ and H. Way is pot <>n tri.'l In "this ■ h u They TTave ~bec h "p’l'Dven two thousand years of human ex perience. Christ is not on trial; you are. You arc coming to maturity ia • highly agitated world. You need to "reaTTze tnisT "'BuT' tT^fealuatlon" need not cloud your life with pes simism. Rather, you can meet the reality with a high courage and answer the challenge. But if y >u desire such courage you will dis cover it only in a life Committed to the eternal Way of Jesus Christ There are really only two possi bilities, only two ways you can take from here, after all. There’s th-' high road that leads through faith to joy; and there's ♦he to# road th runs through doubt to eternal de spair. / Young friends, don’t you. be de ceived by the many alluring voice- that sing about the pleasures of the world. There is no pleasure in lift READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY EACH WEEK It will pay you. It’s thrifty to shop first in this newspaper, then in the stores as prices change and new merchandise is received and displayed. BE WISE- READ THE ADS College Alumni To Hold Banquet Sunday Night Clinton alumni of Presbyterian college have been extended a cor dial invitation to attend the annual alumni banquet for graduating seniors Sunday night. The supper is scheduled for 6:30 p. m. Seniors will come as special guests of the association, but for other guests the charge will be $1.25 per plate. All alumni who wish to attend the banquet are requested to con tact the alumni office by Friday for reservations. Outstanding Senior At College Named John Callahan, a senior from i Liberty, has been chosen to receive I the "outstahding senior” award l giver, at Presbyterian college com mencement exercises by the Char lotte alumni chapter. Mr. Callahan rendered outstand ing se. vice this year as president of the student body. He also is a member of Blue Key, Who’s Who Among Students in American Col leges and Universities, and will re ceive a Gold P lor service at com mencement. Receives Honors At McCollie School Hugh Eichelberger, Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Eichelberger of this city, has been elected president of the student council at McCallie School, Chattanooga. Tenn., where he is a first year student. He has also been selected to serve as co captain of the football team. u ii Father's Day' Celebration Planned * The Merchants association is planning a special "Father’s Day” celebration, details of which will be announced later in The Chronicle. Stores will remain open on Fri day, June 13, from 6 to 8 p. m., to give mothers and daughters an op portunity to shop for “dads only," it is announced by the association. NEW SUBSCRIBERS HONOR ROLL THE CHRONICLE prints more local news than all other newspa pers combined. It will keep you posted on happenings in the com munity and about people you know and are interested in. -List your subscription to be delivered in your homt, or mailed anywhere. , Welcome and thanks to those on our Honor Roll this week: PVT. CLEVE C. SMITH, c-o P. M., New York. W. A. ARSOLD, Lydia. MISS ELOISE MILLER, Pauline. year, 57; present bales cotton con- sumed daily, 70. The plant and village where the employees reside have been modern ized throughout. The tour of the varied departments was an interest ing experience for the visitors who thanked the mill officials and head employees for the courtesy. Council Refuses Born License After Protest __ City Council in special session Tuesday night backed up a petition filed by residents and property owners on. Musgrove street protest ing the building of a livestock barn on the site known as the old Henry property at the intersection of Musgrove street and the Whitmire highway. Residents of that com munity. about 100 per cent strong, appeared with a petition asking that the P. L. Bruce Livestock com pany of Greenville, not be allowed to build the barn at the proposed location, and Council voted that no license for such a project at that location will be permitted. Council appbinted Aldermen Mc Millan, Pitts and Walker to coope rate with the Greenville firm in seeking an additional suitable site in this section for such a building. Canvass For City Gas Users Closes Saturday An advertisement in today’s pa per reminds the public that Mav 31 is the last day for -interested persons to sign up for natural gas. A number of business firms are listed where those who are inter ested and have not been contacted may go and sign up before the time limit expires Saturday. A city-wide canvass has been in progress to ascertain the number of families desiring natural gas when it becomes available. The canvass is being conducted by the Wesley’s Men’s Bible class of Broad Street Methodist church headed by T. J. McCarty as chairman.- — ■ Cross Hill Lions Nome New Officers Officers of the Cross Hill Lions club were elected at a recent qieet- ing to serve for the ensuing year. They are: W. Miller Leaman. president; H. M. Turner, first vice- president; J. B. Pinson. 2nd vice- president; Sam M. Leaman. 3rd vice-president: G. F. Williams, sec retary-treasurer; J. H Coleman. Jr., tail twister, James II. Floyd, lion tamer. , Retiring officers report a si:.-- cessful year just do J\ by Dorothy Carr. Doris Wehunt Latnrop played a piano solo. "Tri umphal March.” A double quartet sang "The Halls of Ivy.” The valedictory was given by Frank Coleman Young, first honor member of the class. Diplomas were presented by W R. Anderson, superintendent of citv schools, who highly complimented the graduating seniors and gave them helpful words of encourage ment and admonition. After the singing of the alma mater the benediction was pro nounced by YJf. W. R. Turner. Officers of the graduating class are: Dorothy Carr, president; Mary Catherine Anderson, vice-presi dent; Tommie Boyce, secretary: that can compare in the slightest Kenneth Boyce, treasurer. | degree with that which comes with The class mascots, little Paula being in the Way of Jesu^. True. Jones, daughtre of Mr. and Mrs. the ways of the world often seem -Van Jones, and Charles—Holland, the easiest, Wa are surrounded-by son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Holland, j this physical sphere, its things, it? in a dignified manner, xvere seated! attractions. Things we can see. on the rostrum and closely watched touch, experience; things thak^at- what transpired. I isfy our physical appct'tes. Jesus Marshals for the commencement i warns us that the way that leads season were: William Coats, Mary j to destruction is wide and broad. Sue Darr, Chris Patte. Maudalene and the way that leads to life is Young. Claudette Parrish, Richard, narrow and straight. He warns us Lukstat, Doris Phillips and Juanita against those false prophets of a Fuller. The list of graduates, 29 girls and 36 boys, follows: hundred ways to ruin, who promise much but can deliver nothing. Be sure of this, that the way to 4-H Progrom At Training School -+ The annual achievement pro gram and dress revue of the State Training School 4-H club will be held in the school auditorium on May 30 at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited. Mary Catherine Anderson, Brun-, joy and peace, contentment and son Asbill, Kenneth Baker, Edgar | victory, in this world and in the Ballew, Joan Barron, Ralph Bouk- world to come, leads only througii night. Kenneth Boyce, Thomas the Way of Christ. Boyce, Constance Burts, Dorothy : When, as you continue your Carr. Robert Cason. Betty Jean life’s journey, the road forks and Caughman, Ida Gene Chaney, Vir- you pause in indecision, remember ginia Coleman, Lynn Cooper, Mar-, the voice of your commencement garet Crisp. speaker, and all the pastors of Also Miriam Davis, Kitty Delarti^Clinton. who have reminded vou. ey. Catherine Dunaway, Inez "This is the Way, walk ye in it.” Farmer, George Walter Fulmer. Incidentally, never get so fJr away Hoyt Hanvey. Leon Hedspeth. from some spiritual counselor that James Holland, Elizabeth lusti. you cannot hear the constant repe- Richard Jacks. Imogene Jackson, tit ion of this eternal truth. Stqr- L^jra Jennings, Carolyn Kinard, [ close to your church. There you DdkKS’ Wehunt Lathrop, Ross Lath- will be in the company, the fel w nWMargaret Lawrence, Hershel ship, and the united strength of L^ffiMyn. others who are followers f The /Also L. M. Long. Pat Lowe, Em- Way. il.v Me A bee, Ronald McCurry, j In further answer to your needs Glenn McGee. Kay Med lock. Hayn- 1 for tomorrow. Jesus says, "I am the ie Murdock, Dillard D. Neighbors. Truth.” Did you ever stop to con- Sam Owens, Carl Phillips. Clair ! sider that the destiny of the world Pitts, Myrtice Rhodes, Robert Rob- for no one knows how many ^en- ertson, Jaynette Sanders, George erations to come is being decide! Sineath. Clyde Smith. I right now on the battlefields of Also William Snelgrove. Joe truth and error? The outcome Spillers. Dorothy Stogner, Betty which I do not doubt for one mo- Ann Thomas, Carolyn Thomas, ment. is in the hands of truth — T(ii\ Thomas, Joann Tompkins.) (Continued on page eight) Rembert Truluck. Joan Vaughan, i Floyd Walker, Evelyn W.h »t e ** |\ |» • James Clyde Whitmire. Jack | All nil/ Pftilfira Wright. Robert Yarbrough. Dillard rUIIIIUll Young. Frank C. Young. y g* ▼ ■ I • The Baccalaureate Sermon |0Ur UD6IK lOniflhf The baccalaureate sermon was ,UU, lUHiyill preached Sunday evening in the ♦ school auditorium by the Rev. i A round of political spe..king James C. Dickert. pastor of St. \ meetings will be k: 'ktxi-off tonight John’s Lutheran church. The uraon iThursday), when county o’fice service was attended by a large seekers open the Democratic primary congregation, with members of the races. senior class occupying reserved ! Thf , first speaking a ill be • C - - seats in the front. The invocation ter p 0 i nt r r a bv i R*v bv j Re H H n c Ho,t - •r- £ er, by Rev. J. H. Darr. scripture lows . reading by Rev. V. E. Inman, and 1 ,_p nn ,, benediction by Rev. E. K. Garri-- ^ son. Special music was given by the glee club of the school. In addressing the graduating class, Mr. Dickert commended its members on their accomplishment, and said in part: We are not thinking so much in terms of life’s work this evening as we are thinking in terms'of life’s faJM to order.at purpose; not so much of earthly aims as of eternal objectives. Your life-uork and all your earthly am bitions are. after all, only the phys ical framework in which the real you. and your deepest purposes ex ist- Nothing in your life work .or, earthly aims must be allowed to conflict with that deeper purpose. ^ With complete conviction I say to you that the only life purpose which will bring you true joy,, peace, contentment and victorious 1 living is in your doing of the will, of God in all things. Our Saviour, the' Master of life, points you to! this ultimate purpose when He i says, John 14:6. “I am the Way.: the Truth, and the Life. No man t ir Springs. June 5—Hickory Tavern June 9—Laurens Milk? June 12—Gray Court-Owing?. June 16—Joanna. June 23—•Woodvillo. June 26—Clinton Mill. June 30—Cook's Store • July 7—WattsviHe. v? - FOOD... Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Gro cery and Market Ncvns 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.