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The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable *' (Ehronirb ’ ' 1 If Yoo Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LV Clinton, S. C, Thursday, May 6, 1954 Number 18 Annual State Track Meet Here Saturday To Be Staged At Presbyterian College With ' Six Teams Competing For Top Honors; Freshmen Meet Revived After Two-Year Lapse - ■ ■ ■ ^ i Some 125 trackmen from six i in these events will be sent for- oolleiges will match cinder prowess ward into Saturday's finals, so in the 27th: annual South Caro-1 the qualifying round will have an Una IntercoUegiate Track and Field meet which opens at Pres byterian col eg e Friday afternoon. The revived freshman meet and varsity trials are set for the open ing day, 'beginning at 1:30 p. m. on Johnson field. Varsity finals will be held Saturday afternoon. Seeking to snatch the title away from the University of South Car olina this year will be entries from Pretbsyterian college, Olemson, Furman, The Citadel and Wofford. The meet is billed as a parade of champions, with the 11 defend- ing titlests forming the largest group of past winners ever to re turn. Dr. Walter A. Johnson, PC ath letic director and meet chairman, said track interest throughout the state this season appears to be at its highest peak since before World War n, and he predicted an even larger crowd than the one which saw the thrilling photo-finish spectacle of 1953. The freshman meet is being re vived after a two-year lapse, and South Carolina, Clemson, Citadel and Furman are expected to enter it. They cannot use freshmen in varsity competition because of conference rulings which became effective this year. PC and Wof ford are permitted to use fresh men in the varsity meet and will limit their action to the big show. Varsity trials, staged in conjunc tion with the freshmen meet Fri day afternoon, will be held in 10 of the 15 events. Only the top men Registration Books Open For Only Three Days - 'Laurens ^ County Registration books will be open at the court house today, Friday and Saturday to issue new voting certificates or duplicates of lost ones. Certificates are necessary to par-* ticipate in the primary on June 8. These closing days will be the last opportunity voters will be given to important bearing on team strengths for the championship battle. Varsity trials will be held in all events except the one and' two-mile runs, the relay', pole vault and high jump. Once more, Carolina and Pres byterian appear set to go down the line neck-and-neck for the varsity championship. They are tied for the sta^e lead in regular- season competition with identical records of 5 wins and 1 toss. The Gamecocks line up as favorites, however, on the basis of having defeated PC in a dual engagement and of having last year’s cham pionship sQuart intact, plus addi tional strength. At least two records are m dan ger of falling to men who have bettered the existing marks. Pres byterian’s Bdbby Vass leaped be yond the broad jump record in the 1953 meet, but it could not be recognized because the pit was slightly lower than the takeoff board. And Gam McBride of Car olina has run under the two-mile record on at least two occasions this season. Fans also are interested in see ing a re-match on the 100 and 220-yard dashes between fresh man Delane Johnson ot Presby terian and Carolina’s Tommy Woodlee. Woodlee . raced away with both events and tied the cen tury record at 9.7 seconds before going into service in 1950. Back on the cinder path this season to defend those titles Jre was edged out in both dashes by Johnson in an early season dual meet. The 1954 championship could ride on these two races this week-end. In addition to Woodlee, Caro lina will be paced by these de fending champions: Sonny Wilch- er, 440; Freddie Roberts, record- holding 880 man; and Joe Silas, diacus. ’ , Presbyterian returning cham pions are: Vass; John Feeperman, two-mile; and Bob Falls, low hurd les. Clemsons strong entry of field men wil be led by: Austin Mitch ell, defending high jump cham pion; and weightman Cecil Kirby. Furman is paced by Gene Reed, ' two-time shot put champion, and Yarborough New • '54 President Of Chamber Commerce <4 . . -I — April Meeting Held Giving Review Of Activities Of Past Year; Membeship Drive To Be Made comptty with the law. Anyone holding a certificete 1 defending miler Jim Mettos. The dated January 1, 1948, or later Citadel has no past champion but does not need to obtain a new one unless he has moved to another voting precinct. will enter strong contenders in the persons of weightman H. J. Thay er and jumper R. F. Lester. CAST OF SEN IOR PUT Ho Be Staged Friday Night By High School Class fjj«j-. j .tv 4 •• 1 .• n 1 1 11 1 The senior class of Clinton high school wil present "Broth er Goose,” a three-act comedy by William Davidson, on Friday evening, May 7, at 8:15 in the school auditorium. In the cast are: Peggy Winkle Finley; Hy — Nancy Simmons; —Toin Nelson; Jeff — Robert Wes—R. C. Wilkie; Lenore—Ada Ann Furr; Eve—Trotti Pruitt; Sara — Deb Dixon; the truck dirver—Johnnie Roy Webb; Hel en — Peggy Mclnvaille; Mrs. Trimmer—Rivanna Hill; Carol— Myrtle Murphy. Jeff Adams is an architect by night and a general cleaner-up per for his orphaned brothers and sisters in the evening. Into this hectic home comes Peggy Winkle^ a delightfully vague girl who is suppose^ to sell hosiery, Bids Sought On Laurens Bv-Pass The state highway department has called for bids on May 18 for the construction of five bridge projects, four urban road proj ects, approximately 93 miles of grading and surface work. , Included in the call for bids is a 120-foot reinforced concrete bridge to be built over Little riv er at Laurens on a by-pass. The by-pass is for 3.038 miles. but Really brings order, comedy and romance. There are sparkling lines, a grand array of parts, and amus ing situations — plenty of gor geous Davidson fun that mounts up to hilarious climaxes and a memorable evening. The public is cordially invit ed, with popular admision of 75c for adults and 50c for stu dents. Chronicle Advs Are All-lmportont To You The advertising columns of THE CHRONICLE each week carry important and helpful advertising “news” from local business firms. They tell you of latest prices and values in groceries, meats, clothing, dry goods,' automobiles and all Ikies of merchandise. They help you in supplying the daily needs of your family and home. Shop in THE CHRONICLE first. Newspaper advertising is all important to the buying public. It does not hang on the air .... it is not brief headlines here or there with a momentary interest A d v a have an important local value to you. They help you buy well and save. Don’t over look them. The April dinner-meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held Thursday evening at Hotel Mary Musgrove with Robert E. Wysor, III, the retiring presi dent, presiding. Dan A. Yarborough, newly elected president for the ensuing year, was presented to the club and in his remarks thanked the club for the honor, and pledged to do all within his power to pro mote the work of the organiza tion. “We have organized a def inite program,’’ he stated, “and in working for a realization of these objectives I ask the hearty cooperation and help of the en tire membership.” The report showed that the term of five directors had ex pired. C. W. Anderson, D. B. Smith. Geo. H. Cornclson, Rob ert M. Vance, and Mr Yarbor ough. Ballots were recently mailed the members to elect new members to the board to fill the vacancies. It was announced that T. E. Addison, C. W. Under wood, J. A. Orr, L. N. Waren 1 and Reese H Young had been elected. Holdover members for one and two years are R. P. Hamer, W. C. Baldwin, John A. Addison, J. Leland Young, T. F. Hollis, J- B Arnold, J. B. Jordan, R. E. Fer guson, A A Ramage, Jr, and James E. Wolfe. Mrs. Esther H. Pitts has been re-elected secretary, Gary H. Holcombe, treasurer, and Mr. Wysor becomes vice-president ,A printed annual report list ing the activities of the past year was put in the hands of all mem bers present. It was reported that nine delegates from the or ganization went to Charlotte in February to attend a local lead ers workshop for volunteer workers of the two Carolina*, and Virginia. Out of this con ference the president reported, a program of work was agreed upon to be offered the member ship for the year. Some of the plans listed of this program are: sis. 1. Conduct a Trade Area Analy- 2. Form a Real Estate-Con struction Advisory Council. 3. Promote a Feeder Cattle Sale in Clinton in the spring of 1955. 4. Promote a closer coopera tion between the institutions and businesses of the city. It was reported that several advertisers made it possible to have 4500 city maps printed, of which the Chamber of Com merce received 1000 at no cost, with M. S. Bailey & Son, Bank ers, contributing an additional 750, C-W-S Guano company 200, and Hotel Clinton 200. It was announced by President Wysor that a campaign is to be made at once among all business and professional men of the city to increase the membership and triple its income. Mr. Wysor, speaking for the board* of direc tors as chairman of the member ship drive committee, used an il lustrated chart and talk in ans wering 4he question, “Why Build A Better Conrununity in to Live?" He pointed many reasons and advantages as an aid to the directors who are soon to make the membership canvass on a multiple member ship basis. In the submitted report in come for the year was listed as $3,110.10, disbursements $2,411- 80. CLOSING PROGRAM AT ORPHANAGE WEEK MAY 21-24 CITY COUNCIL HEARS PROTEST BY EICHELBERGER; NAMES TENCH OWENS ATTORNEY AT MONDAY NIGHT SESSION Huie, Wilson Named For Baccalaureate And Graduating Gas* Addresses Commenrement exercises for the Thornwell orphanage schools have been announced for the pe riod of May 21-24. to which the public is cordially invited. The exercises wm get under way on Friday evening. May 21, with a piano recital program by Richard Sheffer in Hie school auditorium. On Saturday evening at the; same place the annual senior play will be presented. On Sunday morning, the 23rd, the baccalaureate sermon before the graduating class wjll be de livered by Dr Wade Huie, pas tor of Vineville Presbyterian church, Macon, Ga. The graduating exercises proper will follow Monday eve ning at which time diplomas will be presented and prize awards announced for the year. The ad dress will be delivered by Dr Eugene Wilson, pastor of Peach tree Road Presbyterian church, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Wilson is a graduate of Presbyterian col lege and is pleasantly remember ed here by a number of friends and acquaintances in the city. $40,670.24. and disbursements of $54,383 70. Included in disburse ments was the amount of $6,000 in maturing bonds plus $527.49 interest Ataq paid out was the , monthly amount of $1,000 to the credit of the sinking fund. Also included in disburse ments was $9,791.92 to ^\e Chn- ton-Newberry Gas Authority, which was the March collections of gas accounts by the city, which does the meter reading, billing and collecting for the Au thority The city receives $1160 monthly for this service State Tennis Champ Local Leaders Attend State Training School Moose Installs OHicers; Barker, Governor The Clinton Loyal Order of Moose No. 739, at a recent meet ing held installation services for the following officers: Governor, Marcel Barker; Past Governor, Fred Shelton; Past Governor, P. S. Bailey; Junior Governor, Truman Ow ens; Prelate, W. D Terry; Ser geant at Arms, C C. Berkshire; Secretary, C. H. Thomason: Treasurer, C E. Leopard, Three Year Trustee, G. F. Downs; Two Year Trustee, Robert M. Vance, One Year Trustee, Joe P. Terry; leader of 4-H and YMW Club pro grams, Extension Service, U.S.D.A., Washnrgton, D C„ spoke on the Four local leaders from Laurens county attended the annual State Training Conference held at Camp Long, Aiken, April 3Q-May 2. They were Mrs J. B. Hill, Cross Hill; Mrs. Beatrice Sloan, Whitten Vil- Senior lage; Mrs. T. B. Sumerel, Long Branch, and Mrs. Fred Woods, Gceenpond. The assistant home agent accompanied the group to camp. There were 107 leaders, agents and visitors from 25 coun ties in the statfe present. A very interesting program was planned for the group E W. Aiton, Inner Guard. L. O. Tmsley; Out er Guard, T. O. Williams. Since its installation on Octo- i program in the past and out- ber 18, 1953, the local lodge has look tor future m grown from 146 charter mem- ^ Bennie WLwins and Fred bers to a membership of 214 McLaughlin, International Farm The Loyal Order of Moose ,s a E * c ** n «« delegates to Eng land and Wales -and Switzerland and Italy, gave reports of their trips and showed slides they had made during their stay in these countries. Reports were made on the 1963 civic organization dedicated to aid all phases of civic endeavor and designed to improve the communities in which they have lodges Officers of the local lodge have expressed a desire to -cooperate with other clubs in all civic or charitable projects. *n Which oujt the U. D. C. Chapter In Series Broadcast The Stephen D. Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will be held this morning (Thursday) at 10:30 over WLBG in the series of “What the Ladies of Clinton are Doing.” Mrs. J. Hamp Stone, registrar for the chapter, will be the speaker. Clinton Little League Season Opens With Double Header National Club Congress by D. L. Ward, president of the Leaders Organization, Miss Curtis Balen- tine, District Home Demonstra- Johnston Club Top In League, Clinton Rates Third Unbeaten Johnston and once defeated Ma*hews and Clinton are setting the pace in the Caro lina Textile league after three weeks of play. Johnston swept to its fourth victory in as many starts Saturday night by»nipping the Joanna Hornets 5-2. Mathews took its first loss Sat urday «nd Calhoun Falls picked t"Vp lb ftfUt win whan the Clip pers downed the Wildcats, 3-2, at Calhoun Falls. Clinton was extended to eleven frames but finally downed Ware Shoals, 2-1. Both pitchers went the full mute. lu the other game, Ninety-Six completely upset all previous trends by routing Greenwood Mill, 12-2 Friday night Green wood romped over the Indians, 19-1. For the first time since the season opened the pitchers seem ed to have the upper hand. Man ager Voilselle of Ninety-Six gave up only six hits. Johnston’s My- er gave up only six singles and Cooper of Clinton allowed Ware Shoals but five safeties in 11 inning* ' This Week's Schedule Friday— Greenwood at Ware Shoals Ninety^Six at Calhoun Falls. Johnston at CLINTON. JOANNA at Mathews. Saturday:— Ware Shoals at Greenwood. Calhoun Falls at Ninety-Six. CLINTON at Johnston Mathews at JOANNA. The 1949 city administration, city council, city attorney, and bond attorney who assisted the city in selling $350,000 in general obligation bonds came in for a scoring by Councilman H. L. Eiohelberger at a meeting of city council Monday night. Eichel- berger expressed his disapprov al of a provision in the trans cript which pledged revenues of the electric light department of the city for retirement of the bonds in addition to the neces sary tax levy* "I disapprove of the revenues from the electric light depart ment being pledged to secure general obligation bonds, and hold the mayor, council and city attorney responsible for the method used in issuing these bonds," Eichelberger said After the meeting City Clerk and Treasurer Wm. Brooks Ow ens, in an interview with a re porter from The Chronicle, stat ed that the reason for including revenue from the light depart ment as additional security in is suing the bonds was that at that time Clinton bonds were rated as sub-standard by bond-rating agencies and additional secur ity was necessary in order to get a low rate of interest when the bonds were offered for saie, and at the same time tltmina'.e the ‘■■tub standard” rating in order to qualify the bonds for pur chase by banks and insurance companies. ' The statement by Eichelberger was prompted while council was discussing the method of financ ing the proposed rebuilding of the city’s electric light and pow er system. The meeting Monday night was presided over by Mayor J. P. Terry, and attended by all councilmen: Hugh C. Ray, ward one; L S. Redeck, ward two; W M. McMillan, ward three; H. L. Eichelberger, ward four; Woodrow Wilson, ward five; and. . James Craine, ward six. ~ A feature of the meeting was the election of a city attorney when the question was posed by some members at council as to whether or not the city actually had an attorney. The move grew out of the question raised wheth er Robert S. Owens or the firm of Owens and Owens had been city attorney. Members of coun cil reported that Tench P. Owens made the statement that he was not the city attorney. (Robert S. Owens and his son, Tench P. Owens, are partners in a local law firm) The elder Mr. Owens is incapacitated at present bv illness. It was to resolve the matter that the formal nomina tion and election of Tench P. Owens was accomplished. Council passed a resolution to provide an agenda for meetings of council, upon the ftvntjrm dfithe state championship tourna- Councilman Eichelberger Mai jPresbyterian inaugurated an ters pertaining to business to I invitational tournament for play- College Wins 14th Tennis Championship •Presbyterian collate closed its 1964 tennis season by winning its 14th consecutive South Carolina championship on the PC courts last week-end. Allen Morris won the state sing les championship by defeating teammate Dick Macatee In the fi nals. Morris then* paired with Jdhn Brown low to whip the com bination of Macatee and Jerry Hunt for the doubles title. The Blue Stockings thus closed one of their most successful ten nis seasons in history, one in which the team won 11 matches— including some of the best squads in the nation—and lost 4. Last week, in conjunction with X tion Agent, and Russell Mellette, Teams W L Pet. GB vice president of the Stale 4-H Johnston 4 0 1 000 — Council. Each told of the things Mathews 5 1 .833 — that impressed them most on this Clinton :. 5 l 833 — trip to Chicago. Rev. R. B. Foster, Ware Shoals 3 3 500 2 of Lancaster, was in ohirge of Joanna 2 3 400 2.5 worship services on Sunday morn- Ninety-Six 1 4 200 2.3 ing. Calhoun Falls . 1 *5 .107 4 Officers elected to serve during Greenwood —- .. 1 5 • 187 4 Pitts Announces From Word Two announces his oan- for alderman from S. A. Pitts didaey today ward two. Mr. Pitts Is a former of city council and his friends will be interested in the announcement at his intention to otter as a can didate in the approaching city primary. PROMOTED TO CORPORAL Friends of Bill Haselden, who is aerving with the Anny in Ko rea, will be interested to know he has been promoted to cor poral 1 Clinton Little League season opened in fine style Tuesday aft ernoon with a double header. In tile first game Lydia defeated Thornwell 8-4 and Joanna won 4-1 over Florida street in the sec ond game. All four teams looked good for the opening games. This is an m- dication the people in Clinton should be in store for some fine Little League games this summer. The Recreation commission wants to thank the volunteer um piring stadf that is operating this season the in Learie under the leadership of Dr. Fred Hol combe. Parents don’t forget if you want your boy to play Little League or Pony ball this season you must turn in a birth certificate before he can play in any league game. Abo all boys planning to play Small Fry should get a statement from your teacher or better still get your birth certificate stating your name and age to give to your coach when you start practice around May 17. Starting in next week’s paper will be the leading Mtteri, strike outs and percentage of games won and lost. Florida street end Lydia will not meet Friday due to May Day at Lydia but these teems will meet Monday at 3:30 in the first game of a dodble header. the coming year are as follows: President, Mrs. A. D. Eidson, Lan caster; vice president, L. R. Arm strong, Greenwood; secretary, Mrs. Violet Beheler, Spartanburg, treasurer, E. B. Davis, Darlington. The group decided to continue working on the same goals again this year to acquaint the citizens of South Carolina with their state. come before the meetings should be presented to the city clerk in writing by Thursday be fore the council meetings which ers of all the state colleges except PC. Furman captured this team title, mostly on the work of Grub by Maddox who won the singles League Standing are held the first Monday night crown - The University of South in. each month. The clerk will Carolina finished second. There then furnish council members was 00 doub1 ^ competition in the with copies of the agenda jiPtdtatioaal meet. later than Friday. It was felt * that this advance knowledge of II TkamAmv proposed business will give U« l/t V* VllCiPlGr councilmen time to study the r ^ prrf l ^ Sponsors Flag Sale Council discussed correspond- ♦ ence with tree surgeons relative »The Stephen D. Lee chapter, to oak trees in the city being in- 1 United Daughters of the Coqfed- fected with scale. The tree men wady are making plans for the indicated that there is danger of annual Conference Flag Sale Sat- Memorial Exercises To Be Held Monday On Monday, May 10, at 10 a. m. Memorial Day exercises will be held at the cemetery at the F'irst Presbyterian churoh. School chil dren will decorate the graves of the men who proudly wore the grey in the War Between the States. The program will be concluded by a firing squad from Presby terian college and taps by the bug ler. Mrs.. J. Hamp Stone is chair man for Memorial Day plans. Alderman Wilson For Re-Election '-’i Woodrow Wilson, aldermfn from ward five for the past sever al years, announces his candidacy for re-election in today's paper in the approaching city primary. Brooks Copeland Promoted To Captain Friends of Capt. Brooks Cope land will learn with interest of his promotion to that rank. Cap tain Copeland is stationed with the 2nd Marine Division at Camp LeJeune, N C, where he and his family reside on the base. Capt. Copeland served two years with the Marines during World War II. As a Marine re serve he was recalled to active service three years ago. He is the son of Mrs. R. J. Copeland, and the late Mr. Cope land of this city. losing many of the tre^i due to the disease: It was pointed out however, that a proposed pro gram of spraying would prub- urday. May 8. The girls of Flori da Street school will help with this sale. The proceeds from these sales have contributed in a large FOOD...' Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Gro cery and Market News in THE CHRONICLE every weak from leading flood stores in the city Read th« advertisements reg ularly— they tell you about changing prices each weak and where you can supply needs and buy to ably be largely ineffective due-tol nw * sure of th ® chapters’ quota the practically full growth of leaves at this time It was agreed that the proper tone for spraying would be when the leaves were in the bud stage. Other moves made by council included the assistance hy the city in'running a water line to the site of the proposed building of the Pitts-Gray American Le gion post in the Gideon Hill sec tion, purchase of a new mowing machine for the street depart ment, and the purchase of $1300 in supplies for the city utilities department. D. A- Yarborough, president, and J. B. Arnold, representatives of the local Chamber of Com merce, were present as observ er* Mr. Yarborough told coun cil of the membership drive of the organization now underway, spoke of the recently adopted objectives, and- asked council for the cooperation of the city ad ministration in their activities. Mayor Terry welcomed the Chamber of Commerce represen tatives and pledged the whole hearted assistance of the city m their undertakings. _ The city clerk and treasurer read the financial report for Ap- for the Memorial Building to the Women of the Confederacy to be erected in Richmond, Va- If all chapters and divisions meet their quota this year and the total amount ($320,000) is raised, the ground (or this Mem orial Builduig will be broken on January 19, 1955 and the corner stone will be laid on June 3. The building will house the offices and all records of the U. D. C.. officers state. Members have expressed appre ciation (or the help of the Boy Scouts Troop 111 on the local pro ject, the sanding and repainting of the iron- crosses, in Presbyterian cemetery; and also for the help and support given to make Flag Day sales a success. Layton Offers For Council, Ward Three Harry C. Layton today announc es his candidacy for a city coun cil seat (ram ward three. Mr. Layton was a candidate two years ago and it will be recalled he was defeated by only one vote. His friends will be interested to learn that he will be a candidate ril, which showed receipts of [in the city primary June 8. > ?