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4 The Chronicle BtriTM To Be A Clean New* paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVI —rrv^rc^ t tiu The Chronide You Don’t Get tke News Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 10, 1955 NumberS Merchants Announce, Dollar Days Thursday, Friday and Saturday Special Three Day Buying Event To Be Partici pated In By Number Of Merchants In City Three more big Dollar Days— today, Friday and Saturday—are in prospect for residents of this entire community for this week end Big crowds are expected in the city to take advantage of the many bargains offered by the number of participating mer chants in the event as will be seen from today’s paper. The merchants Association which is sponsoring the event, announced today for the first time, has extended a welcome to shoppers to come for the three days and take advantage of the values galore to be offered. The American dollar will be king with enlarged power and all roads lead to Clinton—an ex cellent shopping center for the money-saving $$$ days. Your attention is directed to the interesting Dollar Days ad vertisements in today’s paper. (/) WASSON SAYS WILL VOTE AGAINST RAISING 20-MILL SCHOOL-TAX-LEVY In a statement in Laurens last week, Rep. Robert C. Wasson in dicated that he would vote against any increase in last year’s 20 mill property tax levy for Lau- in case no additional funds are received frpm the state level, he replied, “the trustees will have to cut expenses. They will know the amount of money to be ex- rens county schools, except to' pected from state and county take care of any contractual obli gallons remaining at the end of the present school year. Last week Sen. R. T. Wilson is sued a statement in which he warned the taxpayers that the school levy might have to be raised this year. “In my platform last summer,” Mr. Wasson said, “I told the peo ple that if they elected me to rep resent them in the legislature I would be opposed to any in crease in the county property tax. My position remains the same now. If any more money is need ed for the schools it must come from the state level.” “The people accepted the sales tax in good faith, expecting that it would take care of the schools,” he said. “I shall use my efforts in the legislature to see if we cannot get enough money from state sources to run the schools,” he said. “Probably,” he added, “some state money can be chan neled from other sources. Asked what he proposed to do fttv. EoH- Barroft To Speak Sunday Night At ARP Church sources and will have to fit their budget to the expected income.” Mr. Wasson clarified his state; ment by saying that he was re ferring to legislation affecting appropriations for expenditures to be authorized for the period of his administration. He is begin ning a new term after an absence of several years from the legis lature. Reminded that there is talk of an expected deficit in local school money for this year, he said that he would feel obligated to vote for any contractual obli gations brought over from the previous administration. DOLLAR DAYS Per the next three days— Thursday Friday Saturday Yj»nr Dollar packs powerful pay-off pouch —Shop DOLLAR DAY Specials in Clinton. Never before have yen seen such buys for a buck. Joanna Boy Is Killed When Thrown From Car Mothers’ March Here Raises $1,125.00 A lO-year-old Joanna youth was killed late Monday night when an oncoming motoriat, swerving to avoid hitting another person flung from the wrecked automo bile, ran over him. Deputy Shentf Floyd Pitts said. Four other teen agers were injured Dead is William (' Billy”) W. Flow, 16. j C j ty m the annu ai “Mothers' Deputy PvtU identified the in- March On PoUa’’ The city was jured, taken to Joanna Memorial divided into areas with captains hospital, as Gail Ohappell, driver an d workers as announced in ad- of the wrecked car; Wayne pmn, t vance> and they did a magnifi- Joyce Bodie and Dallas Tucker, cen t jo5 City-Wide Canvaxs By American legion Auxiliary Mem bers For Fight Against Polio. Cordial Reception And Generous Response Reported By Workers With the sound of the fire siren Mrs Robert S Powell was last Friday evening at 6:30 mem- chairman of the drive which was She .stated bers v of the American Legion Auxiliary made a one-hour tour v ell planned. She .stated yes terday that everyone was so co- all of Joanna. Their injuries were apparently not serious Deputy Pitts said the teen-agers’ of the residential section of the, operative and she desire* to ex press her appreciation to every one who helped in the drive, and to the many contributors who added their gifts to aid in the worthy cause Previous to the drive W. W. Harris, local committeeman had Following the close of the whirlwind drive the workers as-1 received $42.00 in contributions sembled at The Chronicle office' from five ladies of the city and 1938 Chevrolet was south-bound for a tabulation of what was added to the city drive on Highway 66 at the Joanna out- raised, each group bringing its | ty the mothers. starts. Tire tracks indicated it swerved on the right shoulder, ran back on the road, swerved to the right shoulder again and over contributions in small fruit jars. Abo yesU>rday ^ a Coffee and cookies were served cbM . k (or moo> ^t inc luded m th l* rou * > , #t i the above figures from the local The tabulation showed $1.- American Post No. 56. tunned twice, landing upright and' 125 53 had been donated by in-, . . from the throwing out all the passengers, terested families where porch amount rece.vea trom me The automobile was diagonally! lights were burning and the situated on the road about 30 feel ! workers cordially received. The from .the Bush river bridge when) record far surpassed the amount Jerry Cleveland South, of Lydia, raised last year, the Legion Aux- approached. South said he saw a girl’s form ad his right and swerv ed to avoid hitting her and the| March of Dimes damce sponsored here recently. Joanna Gladly Givaa The Joanna community is iliary members volunteering' headed each year by W. K. their services to conduct the j Waits as general chairman He drive. It was estimated that' reported contributions on Mon- wrecked vehicle and ran over the! more than three million mothers 1 day amounting to $1,028 10. Flow youth, whom he did not see. I were making similar canvasses divided from their Community The accident occurred at about! week raising several million j Chest $850 00, churches oj Jbe Methodist Training School Begins Here Sunday Afternoon Claude Kernels Farm Shown In Series Last Week Mrs. Claude Dunbar Passes In Spartanburg; Formerly Taught Here The farm home place shown last week was that of Claude Kernels on the Whitmire high- g- way beyond Lee Willard’s and Tb® Clin ton-Laurens Training ( Tip Top Upon identification the School lot Christian Workers will owner was presented a mounted i*giA here ad Broad Street Meth- photo of the plare odist church, Sunday., February Joanna Man Dies While On Bulldozer ....The Rev. Earl P. Barron, pas tor of the Sherwood . Forest Asso ciate Reformed Presbyterian church, Columbia, will preach at the local Associate Reformed Presbyterian church this coming Sunday night, February 13, at 7:30. The public is cordially in vited to bear him. Mr. Barron returned last Sep tember from Glasgow, Scotland, where he spent a year in post graduate ministerial study. He is married to the former Miss Mona Blakely of this city. They have one daughter, Mar garet, and she will be baptized at the service Sunday night. The Lukstats Move To Clifton, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Henry M. Luk- stat, residents of this city for the past several years, left Tuesday for Clifton, N .J., where they will make their future home. Their son, Richard, will continue his studies at The Citadel. 1$, at 3:00 p. m., and wall continue Monday through Tbursday at 7:30 p. m. The courses and instructors will be as follows: 1. “Christian Beliefs’’, by Dr. J. H. Raves of Falls Church, Va. This course is recommended for for all adults who are not taking one of the other courses. It is a course on how to better under stand what we believe as Chris tians. 2. “Foaing the Alcohol Prob lem,” by Rev. McKay Brabham of Aiken. This course is primarily for the youth but is offered to all who have an interest in how to meet this problem. 3. “The Home and Church Working Together With Children”, by Mrs. S. D. Newell of Sumter. This course is primarily for par ents and teachers of children. Enrollment Cor the school is in <the hands of the various pastors as also are the books for the courses. Much interest is being manifested and it is thought that this will he one of the best attend ed schools held recently in these j churches, the Local pastor stated. Only one correct guess was turned in at the office by Mrs John Bell. Another in the series of undes- ignated farm appears today. As previously stated, the photos were taken from the air by spe cialty photographers, this news paper not nowing where the “shots” were made until we re ceive the photos which will ap pear • regularly during the year. The feature is proving quite po pular with our readers and is published in recognition of farm ing as the big business that it is today—big in investment in land, machinery, livestock and build ings. News was received here Mon day of the death of Mrs. Josie Pressly Dunbar, wife of Claude R. Dunbar, SparUnburg attorney, stonewall Edmonds, 40, of Jo- who died early Monday morning anna died last Thursday at noon at Genferal hospital of that cit>r, after he or was thrown 0 ff a Mr$. Dunbars death followed bulldozer m Columbia wh a e the birth of her fourth child, born working in ^ vicinity of Con- Cox Home And Auto In New Location Cox Home and Auto Store is Sunday. Funeral services were conduct ed Tuesday afternoon from the First Baptist church of that city, with the pastor. Dr. John L. Slaughter, and Rev. Francis T. White officiating. Mrs. Dunbar, before her mar riage, was a member of .the high school faculty here during the superintendency of J. H. Wither spoon. She was an outstanding teacher and a young woman of many admirable traits of cha racter by which she endeared herself here to njany friends who received the announcement of her sad passing with genuine re gret. She was born at Wrens, Ga., a daughter of Mrs. Bonner Grier garee river off Huger street, ac cording to Coroner Cecil Wiles of Richland county. At the time of the accident Mr. Edmonds was working in the vi cinity of a garbage fill near the I river, the coroner said. Mr. Ed monds was dead upon arrival at the Columbia hospital. Funeral services were conduct ed Saturday afternoon at Mt. | Olive Baptist church near Ware, Shoals by the Rev. J. L. Baggott, and the Rev. James B. Mitchell, with burial follow.ng in thei church cemetery Pallbearers were Lester Hair, i Louis Oakley, Charlie Cole, J. L. j Stronger, V. L Holley and Lee fhofnas. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Martha Edmonds; one; 11:30 p. m. Young Flow died about three hours later. Investigating officers were Dep uty Pius and State Highway Pa trol Opt. J. C. Pace. Coroner Joe Smith impaneled a jury to view the body and set an inquest for 10 o'clock this morn ing. Sheriff W. A. Lowery said he is studying the case and has no* de cided whether to make any charg es. Young Flow spent all his life at Joanna and was a son of B. C. and Willie Mae Motes Flow. He was a member of the ninth grade art Clinton high school and of the Joanna Epworth Methodist church. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his maternal grand mother, Mrs. Anna Motes, of Newberry county. Funeral services were conduct ed yesterday afternoon from Ep worth Methodist church art Joanna by the Rev. Perry Turner, the Rev M. K. Medlock, the Rev. T. B. Altman and the Rev. James B. Mitchell. Bunal followed at Roee- mont cemetery «*t Clinton. dollars for the Foundation of In-J lommunity, $95 00; Moose Lodg- fantile Paralysis. The amount■ an ^ business district, raised in this county goes to the $33 10 chapter treasurer to be used in I Total Thus Far aiding polio victims in the coun-1 Reports still incomplete yester- ty as calls for help are received day totaled $2,203.63 from the during the year ; Clinton Joanna area. Drop In Construction In City During Year More Than $1,000,000 Decline In Boilding And Expansion Projects. Residential Building Heads List Over Previous Year Figure A drop in industrial building I An auditorium-training room- Annual Class T' Tournament Here February 15-19 r brought a decline in Clinton's construction accomplishments during 1954, but even ao, the year found almost $1,000,000 in building and expansion projects throughout the city. That's the conclusion of a survey made of new construction and major improvements during the past year The 1954 figure of approxi taught school here several years and in the Spartanburg schools. ... i • Surviving besides her mother ^w c^euPying their oew location and husband are three daugh Pressly and the late Rev. Mr Pressly She was graduated from | Brenda Ann Edmonds; Erskine college at Due West and ^ LS nnother, Mrs. L. D. Edmonds of Joanna; six sisters. Miss Dora Edmonds and Miss Brenda Ed monds, both of Joanna; Mrs. B. The Lukstats have made many | f ^ ^ Lau " friends during their residence re ?, s ’ ls : D ^ an „ of ^ soh<X)1 ’ here who will regret to learn they have moved elsewhere. GARDEN CLUB CAKE SALE T he Carolina Wren Garden club 'will'sponsor a cake sale on Fkd- day afternoon, February 11 at Young’s Pharmacy beginning at 3 o’clock. TELL IT TO THE WORLD IN 1955 The first rule of salesman ship is that if you have any thing to sell, don’t keep it a secret. Tell it to the world! That, in Clinton’s trade area, means to advertise in THE CHRONICLE. Every week this paper goes into the homes of the residents of Clinto.:, West Clinton, Lydia Mills, Jo anna, and the rural sections of this entire . community where your prospective customers reside. The more people you tell, the more you will sell! What your old and new cus tomers READ AND SEE, makes the most lasting im pression. The most successful C1 i n- ton firms in 1955 will be those who through effective adver tising, tell the buying public each v/eek of changing prices, what they have to sell, the values they have to offer, the services they are prepared to give. Advertising in TH*! CHRONICLE brings custom ers to your store. The buy er’s market is here In full flower. Rev. J. E. Merchant, host pastor has announced that Dr. Rives will be the guest minister at Broad street Sunday morning and the Rev. Mr. Brabham, Sunday eve ning. For the sake of those who may desire the young people of Broad street church will have cookies and coffee for saie during the in termission Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Foul League Now With Seneca Paper Paul League, a native of this city, has become part owner, edi tor and publisher of the Seneca Journal and Tribune of Seneca, according to an announcement i from that place. He will be edi tor and publisher of the paper, with J. A. Galimore of Seneca, as president of the firm. Mr. Legaue has been commer cial manager of a radio station at Kings Mountain, N. C., and hasf- been connected with several newspapers the past several years. He is a graduate of the Uni versity of South Carolina and is the aoti of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. League of this city. He and Mrs. League have three children. New Manager Belk's Shoe Dept. Donald Rogers, son of Rev. and Mrs. C. B. Rogers of Cross Hill, is the new manager of the shoe department at Belk's. Mr. Rogers succeeds James Walker who was transferred to the BeUuHudeon store in Or angeburg. at 205 North Broad street, next door to the Broadway theatre The building which was for merly occupied by Blakely-Burton Hardware has been remodeled and redecorated with a number of ad ditions and fixtures installed es pecially suitable for home and auto supply equipment. In addi- ■tion to more space, Mr. Cox stat ed that a service entrance in the rear is an added corrvenionce for customers. j rens county was elected to the A formal opening event is being ; executive committee of the South planned soon, he started, with a Carolina Sheriffs Association at H. Johnson of Aiken; Mrs. Le- ters, Josie Pressly, Mary. Chris-! Roy Pace and Mrs. J. H Ballew, tine and Jean Elliott Dunbar, and| both of Clinton; and Mrs L S. an infant son, Claude Rhodes Martin of Waterloo. Dunbar, Jr., and two^sisters. Mrs. T. B. McBride of Anderson, and Mrs. Rachel Pressly of Atlanta A number of Clinton friends attended the rites in Spartan burg Tuesday afternoon. SHERIFF ON COMMITTEE * Sheriff W A. Lowery of Lau- District Masonic Meeting Here 11th —« The Thirteenth Masonic district will hold an instructional meeting here on February 11 at 7:30 p. m. in the Masonic Temple. R.W. Bro. WAV. Hudgens, D.D.G M. and R.W.Bro. Thomas The Class “C” basketball tour nament for boys and girls will be held in the Hartness gymnasium starting Tuesday, Feb. 15, and going through Saturday night, Feb. 19 with 3 games on Tues day night. The first game at 6:45 p. m., will be between Bush River and Silverstreet girls; the second game at 8:00 p. m., will between Thomwell boys and Hickory Tavern, and the la^t game of the evening will be be tween Thornwejl and Grav Court-Owings girls starting at >:15 p m. Wednesday at 6:45 p m. finds Silverstreet meeting the Pomaria therapy building totaling $119,- 000 was the only reported con struction during the year at Whitten Village. West Carolina Avenue was paved for some $50,000, thus opening up a new thoroughfare and relieving pari of the buai ness section of the intense traf fic on the Columbia-Greenvilie !! - .highway. mately $819,000 compares'To al- Presbyterian College spent ap- most $3,000,000 , expended for' proximately $22,000 renovating these purposes m 1953. This de- Laurens dormitory, and the As- ^Ime is accounted for in three sociate Reformed Presbyterian big fields: The Clmton-Lydia, Church added a Sabbath school Cotton Mills, after a $1,000,000 wing to its relatively new church expansion of physical plants in building for a cost of $11,000. 1953, concentrated during the : A new service station, new of- past yea r upon machinery fices for H. D v Payne Co and changes and developments; the remodeling at Gwen Evans Mills city put $900,000 into natural ga* Mill all fitted into the 1954 installations in 1953; and a com-1 building pattern of Clinton, add- plete report was not available j mg an estimated total of an on 1954 building at Whitten other $50,000 to complete the Village ! building activity. Residential building headed; Even as the year closed with .lit list of 1954 construction and a lower figure than in 1953, ^! soared above its previous year's however, a flurry of construction 60 figure An estimated $400,000 activity got underway to indi went into homo construction last cate that the coming year should return to a high peak year, compared to $335,000 in 1953 when, this category' ranked' third behind the mills and the natural gas installation. Thomwell Orphanage came; next to home in the 1954 build-' H Pope, Senior Grand Warden number of prizes to be awarded the annual meeting of the asso- 1 will be in charge. All master ma- by drawings ciatioti held in Columbia. 1 ^ons are asked to attend. Psychologists, Educators Meet At Whitten Village . . , , , ■,* picture with approximately f0 ' P'Ogrcm Today and Little Mountain g.rL tangle) $175 qqo S p«>nt on construction * , . . . and the last garm* of the evening | and mripro^ements. This amount ourt. ' at 9:15 p m . Wednesday finds u d; , ldl<l nto $T5 000 for the psychologists and educator, is being held today at Whitten Vil- WHOSE FARM 15 THIS? Hmt* it our Mystery Farm of iho wook. Whoso Is U? Roodors are invited to gusss iho nam# of iho ownor of iho farm shown hare. Call your guaas in at iha office, brine thorn in. or mall tham in. Idaniliy must be made by iha owner and ha will receive frea of charga iha original mounted picture from which iho above reproduction was made. Thera are no prises offered for iho correct guaas. Join iha fun. Bush River and Gray Court-Ow- ings boys playing. The semi-finals will be Thurs day and Friday night starting at T :30 each evening. The finals on Saturday night j will start at 7:30 with the girls'; game. Between the girls’ and I boys’ final games a free-throw contest will be held for boys and girls, one from each team -' The winners will each receive a nice plaque. The winning girls' and boys' teams will receive trophies and also the runner-up teams wull re- | eeive a trophy Six all-star girls and five all- star boys will receive a silver basketball to be awarded imme diately after the final boys' game Referees for the tournament will be Willie Wilbanks of Ware Shoals and Frank Kohlbecker of Newberry. Farmer Group Opposes Increase In School Taxes The board of directors of the' Laurens County Farm Bureau at a meeting this week went on record as opposing any increase m the county property tax Also as favoring a more equitable bas is of property assessments in the county. The unanimous action came following a recent statement by Senator R T. Wilson that an in creased tax levy for school pur poses is a probability this year. The school levy for both ' dis tricts of the county the past year was 20 nulls. Hartness dormitory for girls. >31,000 for Safay Cottage, $22.- o«0 for an apariment building and $20,000 for an office annex. Saturday Night Win Will Cinch little Four' Title lage Dr George Soloyams, Director Community Service. Carolina Mental Health Commission, is in charge. ,l ^l In addition to John Zuidema. State Director of Special Educa tion, Columbia, there will lie par ticipants from the public schools. Mental Hygiene Clinics, colleges from various parts of the state, as well as Wh.tten V’illage. After the lunch hour, the group A return match \Mth Wofford will visit the two schools at at Spartanburg and Presbyterian Whitten Village, college's final home basketball The campus school will enter game of the season highlight the tain with music and dancing, and Blue Hose cage schedule for the this will be followed by the con- coming week fere nee The high-souring PC quintet tjix-s to Spartanburg on SxWurduy night to meet Wofford in an im portant baskettjaJ! date Then the Host-men will play host to New-, berry here nexrt Wednesday in a game whieh nnjat down the eur- Uun on play to LeRoy Springs gymnasium. The time on this tine is 8 p m. Presbyterian currently boosts an unbeaten record of nine con-, secutive wins against South Car-; otina opposition and has an. over- j ail season mark of 15 victories and only four defeats. To maintain, this pace, the Hosemen have been clipping the baskets for an of fensive mark of mure than 90 points-per-game The Blue Hose racked up Wof-j ford by an impressive 96-74 count here In Clinton two weeks ago. They also have run over Erskine twice and Newberry once, so a win Sartunday night will cinch the Little Four title and insure at least a tie for the starte champion ship. Revival Services Pentecostal Church A revival service will begin Wednesday, February 16. at Ly dia Pentecostal Holiness church, with services at 7 15 each rung. The Bui eve- ton. rmer pastor. Rev E vill be the speaker. FOOD... Is An Important Item With Housewives You will find helpful Grocery md Market News m THE CHRONICLE every week from leading food stores in the city. Read the advertisements reg ularly — they tell you about changing prices each weak and where you can supply your needs and buy to advantage.