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4 ~ A ♦ W The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Qffar (Elfottan Ctfronirh If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, March 19, 1953 Number 12 Kiwanis Follies Musical Comedy, Tonight, Friday The Kiwanis Follies, featuring home talent in a variety entertain ment, will be presented this eve ning and Friday in the high school auditorium at 8 o’clock. Sponsored by the Kiwanis club, it is a brand new show from last year, and will provide two hours of wholesome, enjoyable entertain ment for the large audiences ex pected on hand when the curtain goes up. The show is being staged and di rected by Doug Blanton and Bruce Galloway, Presbyterian col lege students, assisted by a com mittee from the club. The music will be in charge of Mrs. Harry McSween who has pro duced the following original musi cal compositions, “Not A Star,” “Love Will Linger," and “Fruit Basket.” There will be vocal solos by T. Layton Fraser, Mrs. W. Y. Thomp son and college students. Kay Mills will furnish the orchestra. Jimmy Reid and Rose Moore Net tles will be featured in an Apache dance. the first presentation of the Ki wanis club’s “concert” orchestra, directed by L. V. Powell, with hu morous skits added. A number of Kiwanians are included in the cast. Among the musical skits will be “Neptune’s Court,” “La Melodia de Belle,” a, Spanish number, and “Manhattan,” a musical episode de picting life in New York City. The varied program is sure to please the audience and go over as big as last year’s. Tickets for adulfe are $1.00, students 50c. Tickets On Sale Tickets for the big show are now on sale by the Blue Birds who will GOOD OR BAD, GOOD-JIATURED MAN DELIVERED TELEGRAMS IN JOANNA • B. C. PRESLAR Preslar To Head Sumter Store B. Carroll Preslar, manager of Hamilton’s, Jewelers, well known store of this city, for the past ten years, will leave within the next few weeks for Sumter to become mana ger of Hamilton’s store of that city. Another highlight will be ( announcement of his successor has not been made. Mr. Preslar is a native of North Carolina and was associated with Hamilton’s store at Newberry for three years before coming here in 1943. Mr. Preslar is a first-rate, useful citizen, a gentleman who holds the confidence of all who know him. During his residence here he has given his support to all efforts for community progress and betterment. He has served the Merchants Asso ciation as a director, and the Kiwanis club both as director and president, end has been identified with other • By Mrs. G. N. Foy Joanna, March 14.—People in the community of Joanna did not realize the full import of the words, “Well, this is it,” when M. L. Robertson, local CN&L Railway agent, handed a secretary of Joanna Cotton Mills company a telegram and explained that according to orders received by him that was the,last telegram he twas supposed to deliver. I The secretary held the yellow en- i velope in her hand a few minutes i and then it dawned on her how much the personnel, as well as others in the community, were going to miss having Mr. “Robbie” dash in sev eral times a day to deliver his mess ages, perhaps exchange for outgoing business and stopping long enough to pass out a good word and flash all a contagious smile. For 32 and one-half years Mr. Rob ertson had been giving this service to the community of Goldville and later Joanna, a sort of side job in connection with his railway work. He estimates he delivered something like 500 telegrams a year and sent out at least that number, the major ity of them being to and from Joanna plant. One thousand per year for 32 l /i years would add up to some 32,- 500 messages—a lot of words. Mr. Robbie said his messages have carried happiness to many and good news to quite a few, but some were hard to deliver. One particularly stands out in his memory as a very hard duty to per form—when the message came from the War Department to a widow in forming her of the death of her son and only child. All of the War Department mess ages were sad, Mr. Robbie accepting them almost as a personal loss, but somehow with the frail little widow, it was such a dreaded task that he asked close friends to break the news. Since March 1, all telegraph mess ages have been telephoned into Clin ton and delivered by the same means. Macdonald Named 'Citizen of the Year’ By Local Lions Club- Dr. M. A. Macdonald, president of Thornwell orphanage, was named “Citizen of the Year” by .the Lions club at its meeting Friday evening at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Dr. Macdonald was chosen for his outstanding work as head of the in stitution in the relatively short time he has been at Thornwell. It was pointed out that among his accomplishments haf'been an exten- Robert Wasson Enters Race For Bryson Seat be given part, ot Jbe, proceeds.. lor their work. They can also be se cured from Kiwanis members and a number of stores in the city. To Aid Tonita Ray The Kiwanis club has announced that a part of the proceeds will go to help the hospitalization expense of Tonita Ray who leaves today for the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., for treatment She will be accompanied by her mother, Mm. Dudley Ray. Wysor To Head Chamber of Commerce ’Rte nominating committee of the Chamber of Commerce has selected Robert E. Wysor, HI, to serve as president for 1953. Since the committee is given au thority by the board of directors to appoint as well as select, this ap pointment is tantamount to elec tion. Mr. Wysor has served in recent months as chairman of the zoning committee of the Chamber of Com merce and has made considerable progress in this work. He will take office officially at the spring meeting of the organi zation which is to be held April 14 at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Gary Holcombe has been re elected to serve for another term as treasurer. Miss Browning To Leave for Australia Miss Violet Browning of New berry a former resident *f this city, has gone to Washington where she is now taking a special course of training for a position she will hold with the United States diplomatic service in Autralia. After her two months preparatory work in Wash ington, followed by a short visit home, the young woman will leave for Australia to begin her dirties. Miss Browning is the daughter of Mrs. Nell Browning of Newberry, and the late James L. Browning. She is a niece of Mrs. W. A. Dicus of this city and is pleasantly known here. For the past several years she has held a secretarial position in Newberry with a law firm. / civic activities of the community. Mr.“FreslaFmarned Miss"BerneHa Lynch of Junction City, Kansas. They have fhany friends here who will regret they are to sell their home and leave the city in the near future. They will be missed here in many ways. $7,650 Raised In County's '52 Seal Sale Drive The annual 1952 Christmas Seal Sale conducted by the Laurens County Tuberculosis Association has been completed, President Joe Delaney of Joanna, reported yester day. The total raised through the sale of bonds and seal sales was $7,650.06. The County Association because of national regulations, was not in cluded in the local Community Chest Fund, as was reported at .thfi—tirne.—Mrs*-- Lew ill M... Grai, ’a a.s understood - that the Red Cross, 0 thef"Taf ge * tmprovem e nts made iti a Community Chest Urges Support For Red Cross The board of trustees of the Community Chest of Greater Clin ton has asked all members who contributed to the Community Chest (Jrive last fall to remember the conditions under which the Red Cross received its share of the amount raised. Since it was the national policy of the Red Cross not to join a Com munity Chest to the exclusion of all other drives during the year, it sive building program which has been carried out under his direction. Improvement of the campus itself was also noted, the large wooded area dotted with buildings being planted in shrubs and grass and now stands as one of the beauty spots of Clinton. Practically all the buildings on the campus have been remodeled On Stage America' Be Given Two Nights At Joanna, Mar. 27-28 Work has started on the musical minstrel show “On Stage America,” being sponsored by the Joanna Foundation to raise funds to send one group of Boy Scouts to New Mexico, and another group to Cali fornia to the Scout Jamboree. The show will be given Friday and Saturday, March 27-28 at the school auditorium. It is being di rected by Miss George Henry of the Empire Producing Co., Kansas City, Mo. Taking part in the chor us will be Joanne Flood, Shirley Dane, Brenda Sanford, Patricia Bragg, Caroline Norris, Joanne Reeder, Toni Stroud, Brenda O’Dell, Betty Longshore, Dixie Couch, Loren a Titezier, Jeanette Davenport, Lynda Gail Morse, Di ana Morse. The show will include local amateur talent acts as well as a minstrel circle of ten blackface comedians and an interlocutor. Any amateur talent adts who would like to take part in the show are ask ed to contact Miss Henry at the Clinton hotel or Joanna club at Jo anna. A feature of the show will also be the “Tiny Tot” popularity contest for children up to 6 years. executive secretary, expressed thanks to all who contributed and helped in any way in the campaign. She especially commended the stu dents of the Clinton and Thornwell orphanage schools for their liberal response. The complete financial report fol lows: Laurens Bonds $1625.00 „ Rural Bonds 80.00'Re^ Cross. chapter of Laurens County would receive only that portion of their goal which would have been raised in the stores and industrial areas. The housewives and residential area subscribers were reminded ! that they were giving to everything except the Red Cross, and that there would be a small drive during the spring, in these areas, for the I Robert C. Wasson, former repre- sentaive from this county in the state legislature, announced Saturday that he will be in the race for Fourth dis trict congressman to succeed the late Joseph R. Bryson of Greenville. Citing hi's legislative career and his business experience, Mr Wasson said, “I am in the race to win.” Mrr'Wassdn served six terms in the lower house and did not offer for re- election last year. He is a former school principal and is now a merchant, farmer and cot ton ginner at Hickory Tavern. He is widely known throughout the county and at one time last year considered running. The district includes Lau rens, Union, Spartanburg and Green ville counties. Mr. Wasson is a graduate of Pres byterian college, is a Mason, membe- of the Junior Order, a Kiwanian, el der and Sunday school teacher in Friendship Presbyterian church. He is a former moderator of South Car olina Presbytery. "There is little an individual con gressman can do about the critical situation in which he now find our country,” Mr. Wasson said in his statement. “Pressure on the congress from the grass roots is now being transmitted. The people are telling the congress ‘you must do something do something about Korea, about the high cost of living, about falling prices and so on.’ “But actions taken under such pressure is not necessarily wise. This could be disastrous. “It, is desirable for a government to respond to the general will of the people. My thought, is for the people of these United States to present a well formulated and precise plan of solving these crises, conscious of th>* cost involved, and then press con- gress- for-action: - - ..r to provide a physical environment “As a congressman, I would listen conducive to raising and-training the to tfae voka- of the people.- My ltfys Schools and Teachers Laurens Mail Sale .... Bangles Industrial Units Watts Mill ..... 351.48 624.96 42.50 1081.09 173.19 Laurens Hosiery Mill .... 75.0® 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 (.nance and new merchandise is received and diaplayed. BE WISE- READ THE ADS Mayer To Lead Lutheran Service The Lenten service at St. John’s Lutheran church this Evening will be conducted by a formef pastor of the congregation, the Rev. J. Le- Grand Mayer of Prosperity. He has been invited to return for this ser vice due to the illness of Pastor Hoyymeyer of Laurens, who has been leading the mid-week medi tations. Members and friends of St. John’s are happy that Mr. Mayer has consented to come for this ser vice, and he will be received with much interest. The public is cor dially invited to attend. 'Hie hour is 7:30. Laurens Mills Joanna Communities: Barksdale-Narnie _.. Bethany-Durbin .... Brewerton-Mt. Bethel Cross Hill Eden — Gray Court .... Hickory Tavern .... _ Lanford Mountville .... Mt. Gallagher Oak Grove — Ora Owings Poplar Springs Princeton Trinity Ridge — — Waterloo Laurens County Aux. (Negro Association, includ ing $50 contribution from Joanna.) Clinton Total $1234.53 Clinton Bonds 565.00 Clinton Mail Sale 447.75 Clinton Mill .... .... 12.50 Clinton Schools .... 137.09 Thornwell Orhpanage 72.19 357.90 __ 475.90 ._ .... 25.50 32.50 __ 52.00 fiO.OO „ .... 16.50 71.50 41.00 51.55 45.25 26.00 19.00 . 35.00 71.50 25.00 30.00 54.00 29.20 : $1905.00 Walker Joins Belk's In Shoe Department • James W. Walker of Spartan burg has arrived in the city to be come manager of Belk’s shoe de partment. He will move his family here at an early date. I Mr. Walker has had a number of years experience in buying, fitting and selling shoes. He was for merly with Pollock’s, and until re cently was with Bomar Shoe com pany in Spartanburg. Total $7650.06 Belk's Fashion Salon Opens Today The grand opening of BeTk’s La dies Fashion Salon, street Qeor, is announced for today by Manager D. B. Smith, with all ladies of the en tire community cordially invited. The new Salon occupies the building formerly occupied by Gene Anderson’s, which has been under repairs, renovations and modernization for several weeks. As it happens, the Red Cross quo ta has been increased in this area, due chiefly to the fact that a blood bank program is being planned. Since this is an important program and since many people in Clinton have been asking for such a pro gram, the Community Chest cam paign urges all contributors to make their contribution novt* to the Red Cross, since their gifts to the Community Chest did not include the Red Cross. Others who would have given to the Chest, and thereby to the Red Cross, but were not called upon, are urged to mail their contribu tions to the Red Cross and to the Community Chest if they now de sire to give. County Auditor Here Today For Returns, At Joanna March 24-25 Miss Jennie V. Culbertson, coun ty auditor, will be in Clinton to day (Thursday) to assist taxpayers in filing their tax returns for 1953. She will have headquarters at the city hall from 9:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Friday she will be at Mountville and Cross Hill. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24 and 25, she will be at Joanna from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. At these, the closing places on her itinerary. Miss Culbertson will be glad to as sist all who call during the days. children on a high level. At the same time, the normal op erations of the institution, have been conducted on the normal high plane, it was stated. Dr. Macdonald, a native of Ches ter county, and graduate of Presby terian college, held a pastorate in Moultrie, Ga., before coming to Clin ton as directing head of Thornwell in 1944. Dr. Macdonald will be a guest of the club at an early meeting when he will be presented a plaque, signed by all members of the club, attesting the high regard in which he is held by the Lions club and citizens of the community. work, my religious beliefs, my po litical experience and my civic activ ities have kept me close to the heart beats of the good people of this dis trict. I know what they want and it will be my earnest endeavor to ge. it done. “I’ll try to ‘do something’ for my people if they see fit to elect me,” he said. McSween Holding Series of Services At A. R. P. Church ^ JIM Revival Meeting At Beliview Church A revival meeting will begin at Beliview Baptist church near here on Sunday, March 22, with the Rev. J. H. Darr, pastor of the Fipst Bap tist church of this city, bringing the evangelistic messages Services will continue each eve ning at 7:30 through next week, The store presents an entirely new, with all members and other resi- appearance with a itiodernistic front, fixtures and color scheme, indirect lighting and other features found in large city stores, with am ple room for displays of women’s apparel and accessories. Special Service At Episcopal Church There will be a service of Holy Communion at All Saints Episcopal Mission on March 25 at 10:00 a. m. The purpose of the service is lor the collection of AJnited Thank Of fering given by the women of the church. The public is invited. dents of the community cordially invited. The minister of the church will direct the music. Mason At Home From Hospital Friends of John Mason will be in terested to know he has returned home from the Veteran’s hospital in Columbia where he has been a patient the past seven weeks recov ering from injuries received in an automobile wreck. Mr. Mason is improving though still unable to reopen Galloway’s Barber Shop of which he is manager. American Legion Home Be Dedicated In Special Ceremony The American Legion building, lo cated just beyond the city limits on the Whitmire road, will be dedicated in a ceremony to be held Saturday, March 28, it was announced this week by officers of Copeland-David- son Post 56. E. Roy Stone, of Greenville, com mander of the Department of South Carolina, will deliver the dedicatory speech, according to Rawlinson Mar tin, chairman of the committee in charge of the program. Preceding the ceremony, a barbe cue supper will be served at 6:45 p m. Tickets to the barbecue are $1.50 each and may be obtained at local drug stores. A number of special guests are being invited and the pub lic is cordially invited to the barbe cue and ceremony. An opportunity during the eve ning will be given to those present to inspect the grounds and the budding, which has been named the Copeland-Davidson Post No. 56 American Legion Home. The pro gram committee has arranged a pro gram which it believes will be in teresting and appropriate. Due rec ognition will be given to all who have had a part in the erection and furnishing of the home. Revival services which began at the Associate Reformed Presbyte rian churoh Monday evening are growing both in interest and at tendance. The services are being conducted by the Rev. John Mc Sween, D.D., of this city, who is now spending a large part of his time in evangelistic work in the state and elsewhere. * Services are being held each eve ning at eight o’clock with members of all denominations and others in vited by the pastor, Dr. C. B. Betts, and the congregation. This evening Dr. McSween’s sub ject will be, “God’s Call and Man s Response.” Friday his topic will be, “What We Can Know About Religion,” Saturday, “All-Out Christianity,” Sabbath morning at 11 o’clock, “Religion la The Home, ’ and for the closing service in the evening, “The Dynamite of the Gospel.” Lack of Interest In Palmetto League A group of interested baseball fans met Monday night at Fountain Inn to consider the re-organization of the six-year-old Palmetto league which is faced with disbanding op erations this year unless a sixth club is found. Fountain Inn, Ware Shoals, Fork Shoals, Joanna and Watts were represented at the organizational meeting. The Clinton Mills noti fied the group their team had with- darwn and is not interested. The league is looking for anoth er team its secretary said. The next meeting, it was stated, will be either for organization or disband ing. Miss Burts Capped j At Nurses School JL Miss Constance Burts of this city, a student at the Presbyterian hos pital school of nursing in Charlotte, has completed her pre-el inicai course and on last Friday evening at the capping exercises received her cap along with 66 classmates. Miss Burts is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willi^i. Burts wlv* have been residents of this city for a number of years, moving here from Laurens. In addition to her parents. Miss Billie Burts and Mrs. Karl Espieg, Jr., attended the special exercises. FOOD.-.. Is An Important - Item With Housewives ^ou will find helpful Gro- CHRomr^p ket News in THE \ H , Ro NICLE every week from ^ Stores in the city. Read the advertisements reg- ehlllr** 7 tel1 you abo ^ changing prices each week and needT a^h ^ SUppIy y' our needs and buy to advantife.