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t If Ton Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News ®hp (Elution (Eljmurlp The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVI Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 30, 1955 Number 26 City's New Reservoir Begins Filling AWt* li afcmra Cltnt—*■ new re—rrotr near Donean creek, few mil— nerih of the city, which k practically riflftrl 8— —othinv np and If —Hint 9t the dam yet r—hic to be dene. Thk waa taken op —ream, wtth the dam ahawa In the distance. The dam k aboat 9H feet tone and the ■ vetr will held approshnaMy ffallens ef water, creating an 11-acre lake. Water will be drained from the lake by (rarity Into Duncan creek, where the city’s pomps will pick It up, to anyment the supply In periods ef drought. The reservoir will depend entirely on rainfall for Its water. $153,000 Goes For Vocation Pay Mis in Area to Close for Week Independence day will be mark ed this year, as has been the cus tom for several years past, by clos ing of industrial plants, firms and other business establishments in the -area. Many will close for a week to give vacations to all their employees. Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills opsn«la&s at S o’clock morning, July 2, and will resume production on Mon day, the Uth, with the 8 a. m. shift. Employees will receive paid vacations in accordance with the company’s vacation pay policy. Joanna Cotton Mills will ob serve the same vacation period with all employees who have been with the mill continuously for s •rood Street MYF Coke Sol lie Fri.-Sot. The Methodist Youth Fellow ship at Broad Street Methodist church will —smeor s cake sale at Balk’s on Friday and Saturday. UPSET m LOCAL PULPIT Rev. Sam I Any. past— of Sytnma an4 little Rivur-Domi- aick Preabytorton churches in Oewberry county, occupied the pulpit at the First Presbyterian Aurcfc limftty in the abeenoe if the pastor. Dr. W. R. Turner. year receiving a week’s pay. Vacation pay at Clinton and Ly dia Mills will amount to 175,000, it was stated by officials, and that at Joanna Mills $76,000. Hallmark Manufacturing Cor poration will close on Friday, July 1. and reopen Monday, the Uth. Mrs. P. M. Pitts Mb P. M. Pitta, secretary of the local Chamber of Conuneroe, is a patient at Blalock cRnic suf fering injuries received to an au tomobile accident late Saturday afternoon enroute home from Chapel Hill, N. C^ where she had been attending an institute for Chamber of Commerce execu tives and'Staff members. Mrs. Pitta waa a passenger in the oar owned and driven by Mrs. Eloise Morris of Winnsboro, whom she had aeoanpaatod to the meeting. Ite accident oc curred near Jefferson about 26 toflti from La neater, and they were carried to the Lane—ter hospital where they were treat «L Xn. Karri*, who auffared a head injury, minor cuts and brakes, returned home. Mrs Pitts suffered a dislocated shoul der and bfukes. Russ Murphy Is New Coach at PC Refieves Normn Sloan in Basketball Clinton and Lydia Mills Stress Safety Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills will combine fun with some off- the-job safety advice by holding a water carnival at each of their pools on Saturday, July 2, from 9 a. m. until noon. Sound water safety instructions will be com bined with competitive swimming, diving,-beauty contest and other forms of entertainment. The plan ned program on the slogan, ‘Safe ly First On Your Fourth,” is follows: Lydia P—I rr—ram Time—Saturday, July 2, 9 a. m -1 jnh n A coach of the professional football team, Baltimore Colts, who also holds an outstanding baakatball coaching record has joined the athletic staff at Pres byterian College. PC Athletic Director Walter A. Johnson today announced the appointment of Run Murphy — assistant coach to succed Nor man L. Sloan, who resigned re cently to become assistant bas ketball coach at Memphis State. Murphy currently serves as defensive coach of the Baltimore Colts of the National Profession al Football League. He will con tinue to amist the Colts in their pre-season practice preparations and will report to Presbyterian College around mid-July. Murphy will serve — head basketball coach and assistant football coach, in charge of the offensive endp and all defenses. He has coached basketball in high school and college, and once had — his assistant the now famous Clair Bee, national bas ketball authority. PC head coach BUI Crutchfield gave this estimate of hk new as sistant: “From tha standpoint of tech nical coaching knowledge in his ^ecklty, I consider Rosa Mur phy to be om of the five toad- tog football ooach— in America.” Murphy's past gridiron exper ience includes 14 years — a top to Ceil Snavely of the— seasons at Cornell and seven at the University of North Carolina. He went to the Balti more Colts from this latter post. Murphy coached Crutchfield at North Carolina, and the two men formed s warm bond of friend ship which was instrumental in bringing Murphy to Presbyterian College. The new PC assistant began his coaching career at Mansfield (Ohio) high school where he was head football and basketball coach. It w— here that Clair Bee served — his assistant, and Murphy’s cage teams won nine district championships and play ed in the state tournament twice. His outstanding football teams shared state honrs with those Merchant, Announce IS noon 1. Opening ceremony. 2. Twirling exhibition — Janet and Mary Jo Sloan. 3. Beauty contest. A. Miss Lydia Mills pool. B. Miss Lydia Baby pool. 4. Competitive swimming. 8-12—Balloon race, boys and girls. 6-12—45 yard free style, boys and girls. 6-12—Diving. 13-14-15—Ping pong ball race, boys and girls. 13-14-15—60 yard free style, baps sod girls. 13-414-15—60 yard backstroke, boys and girls. 13-14-15 — Endurance swim, boys and girls (underwater). 16 and up—Candle race, boys and girls. 16 and up—60 yard free styk, boys and girls. 16 and up—60 yard backstroke, boys and girls. >16 and up — Endurance swim, boys and girls. 16 and up—Diving. 12-45—Greased watermelon. 16 and up—Greased watermel on. 5. Water safety demonstration. A. Life saving techniques. B. Hints on self-preservation. C. Artificial respiration demon stration. D. Canoe demonstration. 6. Comic diving. 7. Graduation of learners. 6. Presentation of all awards. Jackie Franks In Miss Universe State Contest Friday Representing Clinton in the Miss Universe Beauty Contest State Finals in Camden Friday wil be Miss Jackie Franks who was first runner-up in the county contest held in Clinton recently. Also appealing in the contest from the County are Miss Alma Gene Chumley, first place. Miss Laurens county, and Miss Kath leen Smiht, second runner-up, Miss City of Laurens. PC Cadets In Training At Benning Thirty-eight Go To Encampment ’Thirty-eight Presbyterian Col lege ROTC cadets are now at tending the annual six weeks summer encampment at Fort Benning, Gs. They are among some 1,400 ROTC students from seven southeastern states of the Third Army area who are taking part in this program at Benning. Successful completion of the training received at this camp will qualify cadets for commis sions as second lieutenants in the U. S. Army Reserves and in some cases for Regular Army Commis sions. The PC students reported last Saturday and spent the first two days being processed and taking physical examinations. Training officially got underway last Mon day. Here are the Presbyterian Col lege cadets attending the 1955 summer encampment: Kenneth Baker, Jr., Chris Patte, and Frank C. Young, Jr., all o# Clinton; Bobby Simmons and Samuel Workman, both of Laurens; Gene Altman of Mul lins; Mack N. Ballard, Jr., Nel son Charles, Douglas L. Dellin ger, Michael G. Edwards, James Fleming, Arthur Pue IV, and Charles L. Pue, all of Charlotte'; Warren L. Berry and Richard Oliver, both of College Park, Ga.; Robert Burgess of Burlington^ N. C.; Lynwood H. Gaskin, of Orangeburg. Edward L. Hay of Wadmalaw Island; William Herlong, Jr., <* Paxville; Ted Howie, Sam Mc Gregor and William Uathank, Jr, all of Greenville; William O. Johnson of Whitmire; Robert Liles and Latlie H. Patterson, both of Columbia; Ray Lord of Dublin, Ga.; Dick Macs tee of Flushing, N. Y.; Edgar M. Mathe- son and John McNeely, both of Meoresvilto, H. CL; FoweU H. Jr, ef Athens, Ga.; Jr- of Technicalities Hold Up $290,000 County Bonds City to Accept jLions club Joins In Bond Attorney Move for T extile Quotas Refuses Assent Allen Morris at Atlanta; Arnol Stone of Maxton, N. C.; Thomas Turner HI of Macon, Ga.; Vic tor Vieira of Mount pleasant; Er nest F. Wahl, Jr., of Thomas- ville, Ga.; and Robert W. Young, of Norway. Bids on Bonds Next Thursday Bids on $200,000 in general ob ligation bonds of the City at Clinton will be opened at noon Thursday, July 7, it has been an nounced by Mayor Hugh Eichel- berger. The bonds, voted on May 31 in a general election, will be used to finance the rebuilding of the city’s electric plant and trans mission lines. At a recent sale of $100,000 in refunding bonds the city secured an interest rate of 2.31 per cent. The bonds to be sold next week are expected to attract a rate as low or lower than the earlier sale. The sale will be handled by the city’s bond commission com posed of R. P. Hamer, Robert M. Vance, and R. E. Ferguson. ARP Board Meets Here On Monday A special meeting of the Board of Christian Education of the As sociate Reformed Presbyterian church was held at the local church on Monday. Rev. E. P. Barron, of Columbia, is chairman, and other members attending were: Dr. W. W Boyce, Dr. Gordon Parkinson and Rev. Wick Broomall, of Due West; Eh. S. A. Tinkler, Greenwood; Rev. E. P. Love, Charlotte, N. C.; Mrs. F. T. White, Spartanburg, and Dr. C. Bynum Betts, of this city The purpose of the meeting was to appoint a committee to select a director of Sabbath schools, and a director and assistant director of the young people’s work for the A R. P. church. Committee mem bers ere Or. Boyee, chairman; Dr. Tinkler and Dr. Parkinson. — . i , , , ^ Laurens. June 30—The $290.- The Clinton Lions club at its and the recommendation to the . meeting Friday night went on ! President and members of Con- j 000 oount > r 1,00(1 S ' UP or roa(ls record as opposing the recent re- gress was adopted by the club. an<1 other purposes authorized duction in the tariff on imports Officres of the club were also ! by the 1955 legislature cannot of textiles from foreign countries, directed to transmit the resolu- be sold, it was agreed on at a principally Japan. . tion and recommendation, to- j mettmg of the delegation. At the same time the club called upon the President of the United States and South Caro lina members of the House and Senate to vigorously support a plan whereby a quota limiting i imports be established “as soon as possible.” A resolution incorporating the club’s opposition to the tariff | gether with a letter to the Presi dent, in order to coincide with efforts of various organizations and groups in the state toward the same end. The resolution follows: RMolutioa “In view of the fact that Clin ton and the surrounding area de- (Continued on page eight) The Chronicle Has New Dress Clinton Legion Team Wins Hag Playoffs Be Arranged This Week By scoring nine runs in the sixth timing, tbs Clinton American Le- S ion Junior base bell tfacn Mon- ay night walloped Laurens, 15-5, to clinch the League 9 crown with a won-lost record of 0-0 with one game with Greenwood protested. Bill Smith and Wallace Patterson combined forces to limit the Laur ens betters to seven hits. Clinton collected 17 hits while scoring 15 runs. Added Type Faces Change Appearance —— Readers of The Chronicle were no doubt surprised — and, we hope, pleased — with the new larger type seen throughout the paper last week and, as observed, this week. This was made possible by the foresight of the paper's late pub lisher, W. W. Harris. He had made possible this new “dress” by purchasing the equip ment for it about three months before his death. By the irony of fate the equip ment arrived here just three days after his passing. It consists of a “Ludlow” ma chine and a series of type faces in several different styles. 1 machine casts the larger sizes of type in a solid slub of lead, which makes possible new, un broken and unworn type for each issue. Heretofore, the larger type used in the paper had necessi tated picking each individual let ter from a case and spelling out the wards and properly placing them in the type forms for print ing. Then, after the paper was printed, the letters were “dis tributed” in the cases where they came from. Under the new system, the gathering and replacing of the j totters still will be done by hand, but a cast is made in lead of the ! entire line as a solid unit, from | which the printing is done. And gion Juniors mathematically >•«* * is a bright and shin ing new line. The new equipment will fill a Mrs. F. F. Hicks spent the week end with friends and relatives in Monroe, N. C. Club President it was learned yesterday from Sen. Ralph T. Wilson, chairman of the delegation. To face the dilemma, a loan of $150,000 was authorized to meet emergency needs, he said. The meeting was called, the senator said, to consider a letter from Huger G. Sinkler, attorney and bond authority of Charles ton. who has given an opinion that the bond act as finally rati fied, did not meet legal require ments. It is conceded ih legal and financial circles that a bend issue meeting the disapproval of Mr Sinkler cannot be readily sold. • In his opinion, which was mailed to County Attorney Phil D. Huff, the Charleston attorney raised his doubts on a wording of Paragraph 1 in the Act which was inserted by amendment of the House delegation. The bill was originally introduced by Sen. Wilson. The amendment changed the wording of the Wil son bill to provide that the bonds should be sold in two separate parcels, one for $190,000 during the fiscal year 1955 and the oth er for $100,000 in the following year After reviewing several com plications involved in the divis ion of the bonds. Mr. Sinkler said: “It does not seem to that the legislature would * authorize bonds in ooe and take away the authorization in •ootlMr; nevertheless, it to certainly extremely difficult to find what they did intend and if we cannot remove the doubt then it seems to me that ws must resolve against the issuance of bonds, at least under this bslL” At its Saturday metting. the senator said, the delegation adopted two measures of retisf: First, it instructed the county attorney to confer with Mr. Sink- Robert P. Hamer has been in- 1 1„ and draw up a bill to be in stalled as president of the Clin- trdouced next year “to conform coming to the present Act." ROBERT P. Hamer To Lead Club During Year i r, club for the the professional Cleveland! Browns. , From Mansfield Murphy went to Cornell, where in addition to being Snavely’s football assist ant, he was assistant basketball coach under Blair Gullion. A native of Denver, he received his BA degree from Colorado Uni versity, his MA- from Columbia Univsratty.' Atheltic Director Johnson, in making his announcement, said: ‘T have known Russ Murphy for several years. He is a fine man as well as an excellent coach, aityi l consider him e reel addition to our staff in every July FourHi Holiday According to an announcement by W. A. Corbett, president of the Clinton Merchants association, stores will close Monday, July 4, in observance of Independence day. The usual Wednesday afternoon closing will also be observed, he stated. Clinton AB R H E Brown, 3b 5 0 0 1 Lee, ss. ... T 4 0 2 0 Byrd, c 2 1 1 1 Jacks, 2b.-p 4 2 2 0 Barbary, If 3 0 0 0 Gray, rf. 3 1 0 0 Moates, lb. 4 1 2 0 Templeton, p.-2b. 4 0 1 2 Lenhardt, cf 0 0 0 Estes, cf 2 0 0 0 Totals 30 5 7 4 Clinton AB R H E Timmons, rf 5 8 3 0 J. Smith, 2b. 6 1 3 0 Cranford, c 6 1 2 0 Reeves, lb. 5 1 0 0 Jenkins, 3b. 4 0 2 1 Sease, If 4 1 1 0 Pierson, ss .... 3 | 1 0 Reed, cf •. .. 3 2 1 0 B. Smith, p. 2 1 1 0 z-Raines 2 1 1 0 Patterson, p. ....... 1 1 1 0 Totals 40 15 16 3 z—>Batted for B. Smith in 6th. l Laurens 002 302 000— 5 Clinton — 102 009 03x—15 Teams in League 9 are: Green- wood, Laurens, Fountain Inn and Clinton. "Ohoc” Burnett is coach of the clinched the League 9 champion ship with an undefeated record of nine wins and no losses. This 9-0 record does not include a 9-4 de feat by Greenwood last Friday night. This game was protested because of an alleged misinter pretation of the balk rule number 8.05. Therefore it can not be en tered on the official record. Led by June Raines with .424, the Clinton Junior* have compiled a .308 batting average en route to their excellent record of 9-0 in league play. Pushing Raines hard for batting honors is “Dusty” Reaves with a .409 average. Next comes Billy Cranford, Benji Tim mons and Jerald Jenkins with .357, .351, and .345, respectively among the regulars. Rounding out ton Lions year. Other officers, all of which were inducted Friday night in a ceremony at Hotel Mary Musgrove, are: B. O. Whitten—vice-president. Bill Abrams—vice president. William P. Jacobs—vice presi dent. Rembert Truluck^secretary. J. A. Orr—treasurer. H. L. tichetoerger Lion Tam er. k>ng-f*H need in TR« Chrookle’s plant and with it the publishers hope to render s better service in giving advertisers better dis played and printed edverttoe- ments, and presenting to readers a mere interesting and attractive j Adair and Fred Holcombe, newspaper. Tha machine, with its equip ment, (all of which has not yet arrived), represents an invest ment of about $L600. Secondly, it authorized the treasurer and Board of County Commissioners to make a current loan of $150,000 to cover emer gency items which would have been taken care of in the bond i*ue Senator Wilson listed these items as $46,000 tor excess ex penditures for roads and bridges during the fiscal year 1955, here tofore approved by the delega tion; $25,000 for improvements on school tftouads during 1965; Lester Norton and Bryan Coates ( $1T,000 for changing the sheriffs office, re-arrangement and paint- —Tail Twisters. New directors to succeed two tng court house, and $80,000 whose terms are expiring are R. C. blacktop roads already and topeoiled in anticipation of At Friday s meeting, 16 mem- the bond issue bers were awarded special but-' One effect of the failure of the tons for perfect attendance during bond issue will be the temporary the year. They Were: Hubert Boyd, abandonment of the road build- Bryan Coates, H. L Eicheiberger, mg program, the senator said. L. Scott Hart, Fred E. Holcombe, -»■ Eugene Johnson, Marion Lawson, WINS PROMOTION Sgt. B. F. Ross was recently pro-1 Ryan Lawson, Harry C. Layton, moted to the rank of sergeant first Gary Lehn, Carlisle Neely, Goyne class. He and his famdly kre sta- Simpson, R S. Truluck. L N. War- tioned in Bamberg, Germany, and ren. will return to the States in about Retiring President Walter A four months after which he will Johnson was presented a perfect the .300 hitters among the regu- be stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, attendance key by the officers who (Continued on page eight) He is the son of Mrs. Lula Ross. served with him during the year Clinton Legion Team Wins League Crown Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ferguson and son, Jack, spent several days last week on a business trip to North Carolina. Friends at Dick Fergu son will be interested to know he Is attending Camp McCallie at Chattanooga, Tann. Clinton team. By winning the championship Monday, the Clinton boys will be pitted against the winner in League 10, which includes Graniteville, Langley-Bath and North Augusta. Play in that league had not been completed when The Chronicle went to press. Arrangements for the play-offs will be made this week, Burnett said. Clinton’s championship win end ed the long-time Greenwood dom ination of the league. By walloping Laurens American Legion 15-5 Monday ni^it at Jo anna, the Clinton American Le- Peaaat” Smith. P ; BUI Dabbtas. P OP; JermM Jaaklaa, SB “Oboe” Barnett: Gary “Duck 1 wnn the League 9 rhsmplenshig with a 9-4 wen Monday night. Pictured above are: EaiiRai from left to right. Dusty” Reaves. IB; June Raines. 88; BUI Saaltb. P: Wallace LP aad P. Standing tmaa left to right: Billy Craaferd. C; dth. assistant coach; Mike Ceutoy. IF: Baajl Ttaunene. RF; IF; Elvtn Floyd. SB; Mack Sweet. OF: Freddie Sampba, OF: and Kirkland. “Christian Home" — Rev Mri. T. A. Guiton of Ctfo Young People From Pee Dee Section In Conference Here Approximately 125 young peo ple are attending the Pee Deo Presbytery Conference on the Presbyterian College campus this week. They arrived Monday and will continue their five-day meeting through Saturday. The confer ence theme is "One Fellowship In Christ.” The Rev. N. C. Kirkland of Conway, serves as director of the conference, and he is assisted by Miss Ann Pitts of Florence. The program and staff include: Bible—Dr Bernard H Boyd of the University of North Caro lina. Inspirational Speaker — Rev. Alfred Taylor of Greenville Bible Teacher—Dr W G. Fos ter of Florence Senior High Fellowship or ganization and function—Mian Pitts. Comparative Religions — Rev. Edward Craig of Effingham. Church History — Rev. Harry Eekoff of Hamer Vocational Guidance Clnmc— Dr. Clarence Thayer of the Pres byterian College Guidance Gan- tor. “Understanding Myself’ — Mr. and