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The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable ®hp QUintmt (Djnmtrlr If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News- Volume LIV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 4, 1953 Number 23 m ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES HELD AT PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE MONDAY Graduates Presented Diplomas and Honorary Degrees Con ferred Upon Johnson and Hodges. Woodson and Sibley Are Speakers. Medals Awarded, Highest Honors Announced and Reserve Commissions Given ROTC Seniors. Commencement exercises at Presbyterian college came to a close Monday morning when graduates received their diplomas, two honor ary degrees were awarded and the large audience of fathers and moth ers, brothers, sisters and friends assembled in the outdoor theatre heard the graduating address. The address was delivered by John A. Sibley of Atlanta, chair man of the board of directors of the Trust Company of Georgia. Mr. Sibley said that never before had totalitarian government risen to such a position of dominance. He drew historical comparisons before the strong stand of the United States in the early days and the weaknesses of more recent days. Two striking weaknesses, he cited, were failure to support the League of Nations and the Yalta agree ment. We are now living in two worlds, the speaker said. “One is where the dignity of man is recognized, the other is where freedom is in conflict with those who would en slave it". To be lead out of this world situation, he said, we must have a united nation and stand behind the man in the White Bouse. The exercises were presided over by President M. W. Brown. Walter A. Johnson, completing 38 years of service to PC athletics, received an honorary doctor of laws degree, and the Rev. Bob S. Hodges associate secretary of the general council of the Presbyterian Church, U. S., and w— - an alumnus of the college, ' was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of divinity. Twenty-seven senior ROTC ca dets received reserve commissions in the Army and two others regular army commissions. They are: Reg ular. Army, Michael B. Sholar and Kenneth R. Thompson. Reserve commissions went to BUly J. Barclift, Bobby G. Barclift, Jdhn R. Bass, Robert L. Blanz, Wade O. Carnlin, IH, Albert M. Campbell, Richard L. Childers, John O. Covin, Jr., Curtis F. Crow- ther, Jr., George W. Dudley, Jr., Emmett A. Fulk, Albert B. Gallo way, Robert T. Gillebeau, John D. Harper, Henry M. Hay, Jr., Herbert W. Hunter, Thomas L. Jordan, Homer M. Kirkman, Jr., Joseph C. Kirven, William T. McFayden, Rob ert F. Peacock, Sammie M. Pinson, Andrew Plexico, Jr., Maurice P. Rankle, Abram J. Richards, James B. Robinson, Jr., Thomas M. Sher highest freshman scolastic average among men, Raymond Lord of Dublin, Ga. the Fred J. Hay Bible Medal to Robert W. Oliver of Waynesboro, Ga.; the Fraser Mem orial Bible Medal for freshmen, went to Lord; the ministerial club award for the best all-round min isterial student, Edsel Huffstetler of North Belmont, N. C. ' Also the Kappa Alpha cup to best senior athlete, E. M. Watt; the gold P for meritorius service, E. M. Watt, Don Anderson, David Collins of Laurens, and Cloud Hicklin of Richburg; the United States Army medal for outstanding cadet, Tom my Jordan of Bishopville; the Wy- sor Sabre to best company com mander, Joe Kirven of Sumter; the Wysor medal to best-drilled fresh man, James Bridges of Enoree; the Junior Military class medal to best- drilled cadet, Tommy Stallworth of Atlanta, Ga.; the Scabbard and Blade medal to squad leader of the best-drilled squad, Aline Morris of Atlanta; the Hudson medal to the highest military scolastic average among seniors, Michael Sholar of Greensboro, N .€.; the Hudson med- Company 'D' To Hold Reunion Here Saturday al to the highest junior military av erage, Andrew Howard of Simp- sonville. The Rev. William Ward of Spar tanburg, vice-president of the col lege board of trustees, presented baccalaureate degrees to the sen iors whose names and address es appeared in The Chronicle last week. Dr. George C. Bellingrath, academic dean, awarded the honors and medals. The benediction was pronounced by Mr. Hodges. Baccalaureate Sermon The baccalaureate service was held Sunday morning in the First Presbyterian church with Dr. Mar shall S. Woodson, president of Flora Macdonald College, Red Springs, N. C., as the guest speaker. Dr. Wood- son is an alumnus of PC and had a son, Charles Osteen Woodson, as a member of the graduating class. He said to the graduates, as you are going out from here God calls you to make Jesus Christ real in your lives. He cited four qualities as es- s e n t i a 1: Goodness, graciousness, generosity, and gladness. You can’t give a demonstration of Jesus Christ in your own strength, he said, you must have Divine help to make yourselves living Epistles. Tucker Held In County Jail On Shooting Charge George Tucker, 29, of the Yarbor ough Mill community near here, was still being held in jail yesterday at Laurens in connection with the shot gun slaying of Kenneth Allen Hanks, 18-year-old Parker high school se nior. It was stated yesterday that an inquest will be held here Friday af ternoon at 4:30 by Coroner Joe F. Smith. Tucker signed a statement before county officers Thursday saying he fired the shot from a 12-gauge shot gun which fatally wounded Hanks, about noon, officers said. The shoot ing occurred in the ward of Tucker’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Tuck er, in the Yarborough Mill commu nity. Tucker in the signed statement said he intended to fire over the car, scaring the boys. He knew none of them, he said. Young Hanks was with Leon Rice, llj, Buel Rice, 13, and a Greenville youth, when they spotted “a man at the comer of the house with a gun.” The shooting followed. The boys were picking plums along the river SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 56 FACULTY ANNOUNCED FOR 1953-54 SESSION The following is a list of teachers for Laurens County School District No. 56 for the year 1953-54, as an nounced yesterday by W. R. Ander son, superintendent, and G. N. Foy, assistant superintendent. A list by grades, subject matter, and addresses will be published lat er in the summer, they stated. Clinton High School R. P. Wilder, principal. C. E. Burnet, assistant principal, director of traneportaion, and base ball coach. F. D. Thornton, coach. Harry Bouknight, band director. E. B. Few agriculture teacher. R. E. Martin, E. C. Yoyng, Mrs. Marie Bannister, Miss Elizabeth Bo land, Mrs. Jean Bouknight, Miss Ed na Coats, Miss Nancy Griffin, Miss Bernice Johnson, Miss Irene Hipp, Miss Eloise Milter, Miss Frances Sheely, Mrs. J. P. Sloan, Miss Betty Mae Skinner, Mrs. Wilton B. Tim mons, Mrs. Arminta Wallace, Mrs. Essie H. Workman. Providence School Miss Margaret Blakely, principal. Burl Allen, assistant principal and coach of “B” teams. 4 Mrs. Helen Ballard, Mrs. R. W. road, they told Deputy Sheriff Rob-. Wade> Miss Lo U Belle Neighbors’ ‘ ertS- Miss Mary Johnson, Miss Cyde Funeral services for young Hank<= Smith, Mrs. R. C. Adair, Mrs. Marian were conducted Sunday afternoon Neighbors, George Fleming, from the Second Baptist church in Florida Street School iff, Charles L. Smith and Dukes W. Williamson. Scheduled to receive reserve commissions after completing sum mer camp requirements are Enoch Harding, Jr., James R. Sloan and E. M. Watt, Jr, The commissions were awarded by Lt Col. Michael Gussie, who is rounding out his duty at the college and will leave soon for summer camp at Fort Benning, Ga., and then to Korea. These awards and medals were presented during the exercises: Outstanding senior, E. M. Watt of Sumter; highest four-year scholas- ticaverage, Don Anderson of Rome, Ga.; the Phi Kappa Phi cup for the Girls Leave On Moaday for Comp Forty Camp Fire and Blue Bird girls with 10 adult supervisors will leave Monday for a three-day stay at Qamp Buckhom, Paris Mountain Stat* Park. Dillard B. Adair Succumbs To Short Hospital Illness Laurens, with burial following ’n Bellview Baptist church cemetery. Rev. J. M. Rhoden New Pastor Lutheran Church ‘U 1 group will leave from the Pint Presbyterian church at 9 a. m., Monday, with each a picnic lunch for noon. They will return at five o’clock Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Haynie G. Prince is camp director and other counsellors will include a number of group and two life guards. RKAD THE CHRONICLE ADVERTISEMEHTSi KEGOLAM.T EACH WEEK It wilt par yen- I?s thrifty lint in ihia newspaper, i the stores as prices __ and new merchandise Is received and displayed. Men In BE WISE— READ THE ADS Dillard Brack Adair, 53, died Sunday afternoon at Hays hospital following a brief two days illness. The funeral services were con ducted Monday afternoon from the residence on North Adair street by the Rev. E. K. Garrison with in terment following in Rosemont cemetery. Pallbearers were Lynn W. Coop er, J. D. Williams, Fred Scott, Tom Z. Carter, Forrest Adair and S. A. Pitts, Sr. The honorary escort consisted of Jack Hudgens, Dr. F. K. Shealy, W. P. Burdette, Louis Horton, J. I. Adair, W. M. McMillan, Charles Hollis, Jr., John Addison, R. P. Chapman, Joe Edwards, Alvin Edge, R. B. Vance, Lonnie Hiers, and Roy Wilson. The rites were attended by a large gathering of friends and rela tives who were shocked and sad dened to learn of his sudden pass ing. Many floral tributes were banked upon the grave as an ex pression of the esteem in which he was held. Mr. Adair was a native of this county and spent his entire life in this community. He was a son of the late T. M. and Lorena O’Dell Adair, and was a member of the BriAd Street Methodist church. Ftor the pest seven years he had been employed as salesman by Cooper Motor Company. By his courteous manner, fair dealings and amiable disposition, he made many friends who prized his friendship and will miss him in many ways, and who join in extending ' sym pathy to the bereaved family. Surviving are two sisters. Miss Ella Adair of this city, and Mrs. M. H. Yount of Hickory, N. C.; two brothers, Joe R- Adair of Laurens, and Clifton C. Adair of this city. A. Wilmot Shealy, principal. Miss Lily Yarborough, Mrs. Willie C. Ray, Miss Ella Little McCrary, Mrs. Randolph Davis, Miss Nancy Owens, Miss Sara Gary, Miss Agnes Davis, Mrs. Elliott C. Law, Mrs. Lon nie Hiers, Mrs. Myrtle Speake, Miss Irene Workman, Mrs. Claude Law- jsQii^MiS--LilUan. Dillards Academy Street School D. S. Templeton, principal. Mrs. John W. Little, Mrs. Raymond Pitts, Mrs. Julian Coleman, Mrs. Eloise Ellis, Miss Elizabeth Copeland, Mrs. ,Nene D. Workman, Mrs. Mollie Donnan, Mrs. Hugh Buford, Miss Odetta Mauney, Miss Rose Lee, Miss Kate Milam, Mrs. Margaret Blakely, Charles Leatherwood. Mrs. Mercer Wise and Mrs. Eu- The Rev. J. Marion Rhoden, Jr., has arrived in the city to enter upon his work as pastor of St Johnls Lutheran church. He will occupy the church parsonage on Cleveland street. / Mr. Rhoden is a native of Johns ton and a recent graduate of the Lutheran Seminary at Columbia. He will hold his first services Sun day with his new congregation. Mr. Rhoden succeeds the Rev. James C. Dicker! who resigned the pastorate several months ago to be! RitCS At" Langston employed by the Mission Board in establishing a new Lutheran church at Augusta. Since leaving the city the church has been without a regular pastor. gene Johnson will teach special Classes in order to relieve principals for supervisory duties. Mountville School Mrs. Sara W. Wharton, principal, 'Mrs. Beatrice Finley, Mrs. Mary B. Watts, Mrs. B. P. Watts. Long Branch School Mrs. Belle B. Sumerel, principal, Mrs. Annie Belle Brown, Mrs. Lois W. Cox. Crow Hill School Mrs. Clara W. Hill, principal, Mrs. Fannie Mae Richardson, Mrs. Eliza beth Fennell, Mrs. Margaret R. Wil liams. Musgrove School Mrs. Eva W. DeShields, principal. Miss Blanche Cox. Joanna School Buren A. Lown, principal, Mrs. Ruth W. McCrackin, Mrs. Jeanette Martin, Miss Katherine Blakely, Miss Mildred Workman, Miss Nettie Johnson, Mrs. Mary Frances Lown, Mrs. Alice Copeland, Miss Etta Ad ams, Mrs. Frances Milam, Miss Ellie, Farr, Mrs. Sara Smith, Mrs. Dalene Monts, Miss Mary Elizabeth Fow ler, Miss Eleanor Blunoberg, Harold Prater. Bell Street School McQuilla Hudson, principal. Ruby J. Smith, Maude Shelle, Bertha Fer guson, Supearley Beasley, Nancy Kate Pitts, Berha Bailey, Mattie Mae Young, Edith Sumter, Mattie B. Hudson, Cynthia Robertson, Ruth B. Alexander, James H. Kilgore, Jesse Watts, Clarence Davenport, Victor A. DeLee. The teachers for the new schools at Joanna and Cross HilLMountville to be assigned later are: Mattie Moon, Esther B. Wilson, jVinnie Moon, Henrietta Woodson, jxme A Tex ah'der,' "Ha rfief Terry, Mary : Ruth Little, Othehma Floyd, Lee Ruth Gilliam, Elizabeth Morable, Evelyn Stoddard, Ethel Lindsay, Lillie Goode, Euna Mae Pitts, Alire Fowler, Mattie Fuller, James Motes. Veteran? of Company D. 11811 Infantry, 30th Division, will hold their annual reunion here Satur day, June 6, at Hotel Mary Mus grove, it has been announced. W. G. King, Sr., of this city, presi dent of the association, has extend ed an invitation to all eligible vet erans to attend. Any veteran ot the company who served before >i during World War I is eligible fdi membership. President King 3Sid Included among the latter, he iaid were men who served on the Mexi can border and probably did not get into the big fight. The veterans will begin assem bling at the hotel about two o’clock and sit down to the annual dinner about five or six o’clock. Co. D grew out of "the “old* Traynham Guards, a National Guard company of Laurens. When it was called into service early in World War I,i t was commanded by Capt. Arthur Lee, now of Green wood, with Joe F. Smith of Lau rens, and the late County Treasurer D. R. Simpson as lieutenants The reunion here will be a happy'- get-together occasion for the many' veterans who attend as they' remi nisce on their experiences while iia combat on the Western Front. CN&L Engineers Strike Ends, Trains Run Again. The several days’ strike by en gineers and firemen of the Colum bia, Newberry and Laurens Rail road ended last Friday when the walk-out employees returned to work and the operation of trains was resumed.-— A newspaper advertisement ad vised the four engineers and four firemen with 157 years of service,, that they would be replaced if they didn’t show up for work Friday The strike ip effect on the C&WXJ Railroad was also settled by a court order that sent the men back to work after a three-day walk-out. Stores To Close On Saturday, July 4 The Merchants asociation luu an nounced through its secretary that Pruitt' rCbriinef** ores anc * business houses of the city will be closed Saturday, July* 4. for a one-day holiday. WINNER WISE ABLE TO BE OUT Friends of C. W. M'lse will be in terested to know he is recuperating from a recent operation illness and is able to be out. Varney Resigns As P. C. Coach Sid Varney, connected with the college the past 2 years as assist ant football and head baseball coach, resigned the position effec tive June 1, and with Mrs. Varney is leaving the city this week. He did not announce his future plans. Mrs. Varney, during their resi dence here, has been a staff mem ber of the County Department of Public Welfare with offices in Lau rens. Dr. Jones, Chiropractor, Opens Office Here * Dr. J. W. Joies, Sr., of York, a Palmer school graduate, has located in tha city for the practice of his stairs offices over Prather-Simpson Furniture company formerly oc cupied by the late Dr. J. Young. last Thursday at Hays hospital fol lowing a week’s critical illness. Funeral services were held Fri day afternoon from Gray Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. Carl Bishop, assisted by the Rev. Jack Lawson and the Rev. Guy Martin. Interment followed in the Langston church cemetery near here, with a large gathering of friends and rela tives attending the last rites, and many floral tributes banked upon the grave attesting the love in which she was held. Pallbearers were Johnny John son, L. N. DeShields, M. C. Creecy, Robert Abercrombie, Joe Poole, El- lie Poole, Edgar M. Atwell and John Adair. The honorary escort consisted of the deacons of Lang ston Baptist church, and Dr. J. W. Davis and Dr. E. N. Sullivan. Mbs. Anderson was a native of this county where she spent her en tire life in this community. She was a daughter of the late John A. and Rebecca Fowler Owens. She was a devoted member of Langston Baptist church. In addition to her husband she is survived by one son, W. R. Ander son, Jr., of Joanna; four daughters, Mrs. C. L. Powell, Mrs. L. K. Hud gens of Spartanburg; *Mrs. Bryan Students of the LaBruce Heist Goodwin of Laurens; and Mrs. Jos- school of dancing will be presented eph L Albarez of Gainesville, Fla.; Citizens Federal To Pay Usual 3 Per Cent Dividend A dividend for the six months period January 1 to June 30, pay able on July 1, on the basis of 3 per cent per annum, was authorized by the board of directors of the ^ Citizens Federal Savings & Loan Mrs. Mallie Anderson, 68, association at their regular month- Anderson, Sr., died jy meeting held Tuesday evening Mrs. W. R. Anderson, Sr.‘ Passes At Hospital, Lee Dance Recital Friday Evening The dividend applies to both class es of stock, investment and savings. -Citizens has been in operation for 44 years, having been organized by the late B. H. Boyd, and is the oldest association in the county, with assets of May 31 totaling $2,- 964,384.18., Since its organization it has made it posible for hundreds of families to become home own ers and has paid several hundred thousand dollars in dividends to its investors. The association is headed by the following officers and directors: B. Hubert Boyd, president; J. P. Pra ther, vice-president; J. Sloan Todd, secretary-treasurer; Mrs. Henry Hunter, assistant secretary-treasur er. Directors: B. Hubert Boyd, J. Sloan Todd, J. P. Prather, W. W. Harris, John W. Finney, Sr., J. B. Hart, T. D. Copeland, R. H. McGee, and T. H. Copeland. Local MusiciaiSV ^ Composition Played Mrs. Harry McSween, of this city, was honored recently when the Mu sical Arts chib of Florence chose one erf her compositions to be played on their program. The program, featuring selections by South Carolina composers, was in a dance recital Friday night, June | also 11 grandchildren, and one sis-! presented at the Florence country 6, at the Clinton high school at 8 ter, Mrs. P. R. Abercrombie of club, and included “Not A Star,” o’clock. j Gray Court. j piano composition by Mrs. McSween. ROBERT T. ASHMORE In the election Tuesday, Circuit Solicitor Robert T. Ashmore of Greenville had a dear victory over State Senator Charles C. Moore of Spartanburg county, for the Four’ll Congressional district seat of the late Representative Joseph .R. Bryson With returns incomplete, Adh- more had 12,112 votes to Moore’s 11,587. Most of the boxes out in the four-county district were in Green ville county and were expected to be heavy for Ashmore. Moore kept his lead over Ashmore early in the eve ning until, as Greenville county votes piled up, Ashmore surged ahead. Relatively heavy voting was re ported m Greenville county due to the Sunday amusement referendum and school trustees election, recog nized as a factor in Ashmore’s vic tory. Wasson Stands Third Robert C. Wasson, of this county, was third in the race with 2,638 votes, while the other three candi dates were out of the running.- Laurens county gave Mr. Wasson a substantial majority, 1607 votes, against Moore 688, Ashmore 201. Easterlin 61, Barry 9, and McEach- ern 7. The county vote, with four boxes missing, appears elsewhere in to day’s paper.