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v The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Sbr (Clinton If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, May 21, 1953 Number 21 60 To Graduate At Clinton High School Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday By Dr. W. R. Turner. Seniors To Get Diplomas Evening of May 28. Senior Class Exercises Friday Morning. Charles McNeil Turner Passes In Elberton, - Last Rites Held Here Charles ftflcNeil Turner, 66, a for- The annual commencement pro gram proper at Clinton high school will be ushered in Sunday evening at 8 o’clock in the high school audi torium when the baccalaureate ser mon will be preached by Dr. W. R. j mer resident of this city, died at Turner, pastor of the First Pres- ^ his home in Elberton, Ga., last Sat- byterian church. It will be a union [ urday at noon following an ex- service with several ministers h av- 'ended period 0 f declining health service wim , f un€ra i services were con- 1 ing a part on the program an w I ducted there from the home Sun-1 day afternoon by the Rev. Fred Harmon, his pastor. Burial fol lowed here at 4 o’clock at Rose- mont cemetery, the last rites being 1 attended by many friends and rela tives from here and elsewhere. Mr. Turner was a son of O. L. and Emma Cobb Turner of Greenwood. As a young man he came to Clin ton from Greenwood and was asso ciated in the mercantile business with his cousin, the late B. L. King. In 1914 he moved to Elberton where he was successfully engaged in the mercantile business the past the public cordially invited On next Thursday evening the graduating exercises will take place in the auditorium. The salutatory will be given by Jerry O’Shields, the president’s address by Richard Luk- etat, and the valedictory by Mary Sue Darr. There will be special music, diplomas will be awarded by Supt. W. R. Anderson, and presen. tation of awards and prizes will be in charge of Principal R. P. Wilder. Class officers are: Richard Luk- stat, president; Paul Foshee, vice- president;—Ellen Fraser, secretary; Mary Sue Darr, treasurer. Marshals will be Johnny Webb, Roy Benjamin, Emma Gray, Deborah Dixon, Gene Floyd and Martha Wil son. There are 60 in the graduating class, 25 girls and 35 boys. "Rie list, with their addresses, has been an nounced as follows: Girls Shirley Asbill, Clinton. - - - Shirley A. Bedier CUpton, Patsy Braswell, Clinton. Mildred Brown, Cross Hill. Myra Burns, Mountville. Dorothy Cobb, Clinton. Joanne Copeland, Clinton. Anna M. Corley, Clinton. Mary Sue Darr, Clinton. Ellen M. Fraser, Clinton. Juanita Fuller, Clinton. Dorothy Haupfear, Clinton. Ann Hellams, Clinton. Jqan Johnson, Clinton Barbara J. Livingston, Cross Hill. Patricia J. Macdonald, Clinton. • Betty Jo McDonald, Clinton. Corrine Maye, Clinton. Barbara Mills, Clinton. Claudette Parrish, Clinton* Doris Phillips, Joanna. Montese Reeder, Cross Hill. Barbara Roof, Clinton. Patsy Rowe, Joanna. Maudie Young, Clinton. • Modern Colonial Store Under Construction Here on Pitts St. ICOMMENCEMENT PROGRAM AT T. 0. BEGINS SUNDAY Baccalaureat Sermon At 11 O'clock. GraduaN ing Exercises Evening of May 27. Eleven To Graduate. The seventy-eighth commence ment exercises at Thom well or phanage will be ushered In Sunday morning at 11 o’clock with the an nual baccalaureate sermon in Thornwell Memorial church. Thr> speaker will be Rev. Russell F. Johnson, pastor of tfce Springfield Presbyterian church, Jacksonville. Fla. On Monday evening the annual senior class play will be given in the school auditorium. On Wednesday evening, May 27, the graduating exercises proper will be held in the auditorium at which time diplomas will be pre sented and prizes and medals awarded. The address will be de livered by Rev. Stephen T. Harvin. 39 years. For several years he al so had a mercantile business in Calhoun Falls. In Elberton Mr. Turner was a highly regarded citizen. For 20 years he had served as chairman of the deacons of the First Presby terian church, for a number of years had served as director of the Elberton Building and Loan Asso ciation, was a Mason and a Shriner. He was identified in numerous Miss Mildred Bozard Be Presented Award way*-with-the life of his idopt^tOver WBTTiresdoy home town where he wa§ held in high esteem. Mr. Turner was pleasantly re membered here by a number of friends and acquaintances who ad mired him for his many fine quali ties, and who learned with regret of his pasing. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eva Jane Finney Turner; three sisters. Miss Irene Turner of Greenwood; Mrs. Hoyt Watson of Florence; and Mrs. Eulalia Howard of Barnwell. Mrs. Turner is a sister of John W. Finney, Sr., Mrs. Hubert John son, and Mrs. Robert J. McCrary, all of this city. T. D. Copeland, of this city, has begun the construction of a handsome store building on West Pitta street which he has leased to the large Colonial Stores, Inc., grocery chain with state headquarters in Columbia. The above photo is of a new Colonial Store opened this month in Wlnstnn.SalMn V f The store here will be very similar lu desist, A. P. L6VC. advertising manager, has announced. The new store will replace their Rogers store here which has been operated for a number of years. Colonial and. Rogers stores are operated by Colonial Stores, Inc., with “Colonial” the name of their larger self-service super-markets. The store, Mr. Love states, will be completely modern in every respect, a duplication of those in larger cities than Clinton. The building being erected by Mr. Copeland is 50x100 feet and faces West Pitts street, with W. E. Baker A Son, of Whitmire, as contractors. It will be of brick design and built according to specifications furnished by the lessee, and will be ready for occupancy in September. The store will also have a large adjoining park ing area on the east side with entrance and exit both from Main and West Pitts streets. Miss Mildred Bozard, editorial asistant for The Joanna Way, Jo- T. Layton Fraser deceives Degree From Theological Seminary' Mrs. Wilson, Noted Flower Authority, - To Be Here Monday anna Mills employee magazine, will be presented a Freedoms Founda tion Honor Medal at a presentation ceremony to be broadcast over ra-1 dio station WBT, Charlotte, on The Rev. T. Layton Fraser, pro fessor of Bible at Presbyterian col- The Clara Duckett garden club will have as guest speaker Mrs. W. Harrel Wilson, of Greenville, not ed flower authority, for a meeting Monday afternoon. May 25, at 3:30 D.D-j pastor of the South Jackson ville, Fla., Presbyterian church. To all of the closing exercises tho public is cordially invited : - The graduating class is composed of the following eleven members: Nancy Jean Bell, Jack Augustus Brown, Larry Neil Caldwell, Garon S. Driggers, Mary Alice Hamm, Margie Ann Hudson, John Alien Johnson, Vonnie Nichols. Jane Westmoreland, Joan Westmoreland. Opal Estelle Woodfin. The orphanage opened its doors for the reception of children on October 1, 1875. « —5— — Dr. James Walker Will Return Here To Practice Medicine Boys Roily Bannister, Mountville. Henry Bishop, Cross Hill. Dewey Brazill, Clinton. William G. Coates, Cross Hill. William W. Cromer, Cross Hill. William Dunlap, Joanna. Paul H. Foshee, Clinton. Melvin Franzen, Joanna. Bobby Joe Galloway, Clinton. Alvin H. Hampton, Clinton. Larry Harrelson, Joanna. Maxie Joe Hedspath, Clinton. Adger Dean Kirby (Buddy), Jo anna. Richard Lukstat, Clinton. Kirk Lawton, Clinton. Kenneth S. McCrary, Clinton. Archie Jo McJunkin, Clinton. Bill McKittrick, Cross Hill. Harvey MaLpass, Clinton. William L. Moore, Clinton. " Jerry W. O’Shields, Joanna. Thomas Owens, Clinton. Charles Oxner, Clinton. Thomas G. Pitts, Clinton. Ransome Rauton, Clinton. William T. Rooney, Clinton. Thomas M. Sease, Clinton. Wright Simpson, Clinton. Marvin Stewart, Clinton. Robert Tinman, Clinton. Henry Earl Todd, Clinton. Lewis Wallenzine, Clinton. Billy Watkins, Clinton. Boyce Wilson, Clinton. Burrell Lewis Young, Mountville. Thomas E. Nelson, Clinton, vet eran student. lege, received a doctor of theology degre on Tuesday from Union The ological Seminary in Richmond, Va. I in the auditorium of the Clinton Dr. Fraser was graduated from hUlh school. Mrs. Wilson, who is outstanding in the flower field, will gree and from Union Theological | men t s Seminary with a B.S. degree, and Club members are asked to bring also received a S T.M. degree from' flowers and evergreens from their w h os e! Biblical Seminary jp New York. He own gardens with containers and Northern frogs which will be used by Mrs. Pa., was chartered in 1949. It is a Presbyterian church’ and taught at Wilson in the demonstrations, non-political, non - sectarian, non-1 Presbyterian Junior College in The hostess club t h^f invited profit organization devoted to, thejMaxton N. C., before coming herfr members of tho other four garden single purpose of granting awards i in 1947. |A| present he is pastor. club groups who may invite their to individuals and organizations | of the Edgefield and Gray Court- friends as well as past club mem- Tuesday, May 26, from 6:25 to 6:45 ^ ^ ^ i lecture and make flower arrange- p. m. Dr. Kenneth D. Wells, presi dent of Freedoms Foundation, will make the presentation. Freedoms Foundation, headquarters are in Valley Forge, i held pastorates in ^ the for their patriotic efforts on behalf Owings Presbyterian churches, of the heritage of American Free- d °Miss Bozard's article in the S ep 'Thornwell Gifl been notifited tember,-n9S2rJranra- W3-yr~*WhaH Wins Scholarship E.er. M.D.. that America Means To Us,” was select-! — - - -♦ —v- by Dr. James L. Walker, M.p., that he will be relased from Army ser- ed as one of the seven winners of vice in July and plans to return here in August to open offices for the* general practice of medicine. The announcement is one of inter est to his friends, and former pa tients and the general public. Dr. Walker is now at North Wey the United States in the classifica tion in which it was entered (mag azine article category, limited cir culation). FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoo ver was another of the seven win ners in this group. The Joanna Way was also hon- mouth, near Boston, Mass.,. where ored last year with a certificate of READ THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMENTS REGULARLY EACH WEEK It will pay you. It’* 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 AtS he has been stationed since his re turn from overseas duty in Korea Dr. Walker located here in Au gust, 1950, for the general practice of life in 1951. and a year later was called into ser vice. He is a native of Johnston, a son of Mrs. George D. Walker, and the late Dr. Walker. He graduated from Wofford college and the Medi cal College of South Carolina in 1948 and served a year of rotating intemeship and one year of resi dency in internal medicine at the Columbia City hospital before lo cating here for the practice of his profession. merit “for outstanding achieve ment in bringing about a better un- derstaiicling el the American way Varsity Dairy Bar To Open Next Week Furr and Teague Awarded Trip for Fine Insurance Record Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Furr and Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Teague of the Com bination Division of the Pilot Life Insurance Company, Greensboro, N. C., have just returned to the city from Miami Beach, Fla., where they attended the company’s agency con vention held May 6-13th at the Casa- blanea hotel. Miss !V?ary Alice Hamm, a mem ber of the graduating clas and vale dictorian at Thornwell high school, Jias been awarded a complete four- year scholarship by Civitan Inter national. Every four years the scholarships are given by the club to a boy and a girl in orphanage schools in the state. Miss Hamm, who made the highest rating of any student ever to compete, will have all expenses paid at the college or university of her choice in the state. Dennis Dellinger of Thornwell, who is graduating in June from the University of South. Carolina, was winner of the scholarship four years ago. bers and those particularly inter ested in the subject. Wes tmpreiond < Grodua tti At Naval Academy Ralph M. Westmoreland, who made his home here for a number of years, is a member,of the grad uating class of -the United States Naval Academy and will receive his diploma on the fifth of June. Ensign Westmoreland attended the orphanage schools and college here after which he joined the Navy and was on overseas asign- ment for several years. Upon his release he won an appointment to the Naval Academy where he has made an outstanding record. Ralph has twin sisters, Jane and Joan^ Westmoreland, who are members of the graduating class next week of Thornwell high school. Two Negro Schools To Be Constructed, Cost of $221,363 The board of trustee* of sd»c ( district No. 55, headed by J. J. Cor . wall as chairman, on last Fridas awarded a contract to Lyles and Lang Construction company o* Co lumbia, for the construction of two Negro school buildings for th ? low bid of $221,363. One of the buildings will be at Joanna and the othe- in the Crocss H:II-Mountville area. The schools the board said, will be almast identical except that the one at Jo anna will have eight cl^s room? and the one for the Cross Hill-Mountville area will have 10 rooms. In addition each will have a cafeteria. Thifcis a ?.he.-Lc»t o»l■■corrtTa^-nr-~ ^horized by the board since schwla of the county were consolidated into two districts. C. Y. Thomason of Greenwood was second low bidder with a bid of $227,607. Ten contractors subrr. tted bids, the highest being $251,00 Mrs. Hellams To Give Recital Seniors To Have Class Program Friday Class exercises for the seniors of Clinton high school will be held Fri day morning. May 22, at 11 o’clock in the school auditorium, with the Mr. Furr and Mr. Teague were public invited for the program in awarded the trip as a result of the which members of the class will par- A grand opening of the Varsity Dairy Bar is anounced for next J outstanding volume of life insurance ticipate Thursday, May 28, with a cordial'they sold during the qualifying nfs invitation extended the public and free ice cream cones in the after noon. The new concern is located on South Broad street opposite John-j the convention, son Bros. Super Market. The building is now being worked over and re-arranged for the Bar, which is owned by Coach Norman L. Sloan of the college staff. period. Over 600 qualifying agenf and guests from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia and several home office ofilicials attended Saturday (s "Poppy Day Iveys Return From Panama Lt. and Mrs. Benjamin F. Ivey and small daughter, Cynthia Kent, arrived from Panama yesterday for a visit with her parents. Col. and Mrs. Robert E. Wysor. The trip was made by plane via Mobile, Ala., and Greenville. Lt. Ivey, who has been on duty in Panama since August, 1950. will be re-assigned .after a 45-day leave. They will also visit his rela tives in Cheraw. Western Union Office At Hotel Clinton The Western Union office is now located in the office of Hotel Clin ton with a 24-hour service avail able to the public. A. W. Hartley, proprietor of the hotel, has announced daily hours from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. After 10 p. m., telegrams will be received, he said, subject to delivery early the next morning. Teen-Age Canteen To End Year With Gala Party , . . » ' the sale of 2,000 poppies made by A gala event is being planned for disabled veterans. Proceeds will the last meeting of the Teen-Age | ^ used t0 hel P veterans * nd canteen to be held Friday evening, t ” e * r families. May 29, from 8 until 10 o’clock at the American Legion home- The group will have as special guests members of the seventh grade from Florida Street school, the eighth grade at Joanna and the eighth grade at Mfcuntvile. The party will be informal and Kay Mills’ orchestra will play for round and square dancing. Closing Exercises At Academy Street School t ^ Commencement exercises. of the 7th grade at Academy Street school will be held Tuesday evening, May 26, at 8 o’clock. The public is cor dially invited to attend. ‘ Mrs. Pitts' Pupils In Recital Tonight Saturday, May 25. will be “Pop py Day” with the American Legion sponsoring the sale. Poppies will be sold on ’ the j arnes Pitts’ pupils will give streets by the Camp Fire girls. The ! local organization has as its goal Mrs. Robert B. Hellams, Jr, the former Miss Barbara . Workman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Ace Workman,. Sr., of this city, wiil be presented by the University of Georgia Music department in a senior recital on May 27, at 8 p m., in the chapel of the Umvensty. She will sing from Mozart's opera, ‘The Marriage of Figaro,” Verdi a "La Taraviata,” along with other French. English and Italian sangs. The public is cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Helams is the pupil of Bry an Warner. Summer School At College Opens June 9 Announcement is made that thi summer term at Presbyterian college will open on June 9 The two-month session will extend until August 9. The college closes its doors unon regular second semester activity oa June 1, at this time the 72nd com mencement exercises will be held. their annual spring piano recital this evening at 8 o’clock at the American Legion home. The pub lic is invited to attend the musical event. —n—• '— Steiner Purchases New Home Here Joseph Steiner ha* purchased a new home on South Holland street recently completed and offered for sale, and he and Mrs. Steiner will movi* into their new residence next week. They have been residing on’ West Centennial street. i- FOOD... Is An Important Item With Housewives You will And 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. I