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I V If You Don’t Head The Chronicle You Don’t Got the Newt ®hr QUintott (Ehrmtirlr The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News- iper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVI Clinton, S. G, Thursday, September 29,1955 Number 38 C. of C. Doubles Its Roll In Membership Campaign Drive Continues To Add Others The Clinton Chamber of Com merce doubled its membership in its drive last Thursday, said J. W. Curtis, manager of the cham ber. Solicitations are continu ing and efforts being made to se cure a total of 320 memberships before the campaign is complet ed. The success of the drive is at tributed to L. N. Warren, chair man, and his committee on mem bership, composed of James E. Wolfe, C. W. Underwood, and D. A. Yarborough, Curtis said Pinas for the campaign began in July when the board of direc tors secured Curtis to act as the manager of the Clinton chamber. Several meetings of the board of directors were held and dur ing these meetings, committees were appointed. Curtis worked with chambers in other dties which had already gone through such a drive, and materials were secured from the national cham ber office. The first step in the campaign was to present a definite pro gram of wofk for the chamber. This was made in a seven point program covering: 1. Agricultur al Expansion; 2. Civic Affairs; 3. Education; 4. Industrial Develop ment; 5. Real Estate Service; 8- Recreation; and 7. Shop'Clinton vising a means for dues struc- First. Next came the Job of de- ture. The tax book for city busi ness was used and a fair share plan was adopted on the amount of business license paid to the city of Clinton this year. This was a voluntary basis and each prospect was asked to rate his own business. Coming to the close of the planning stage brought Lions District Governor Here The Clinton liens elnb had as ite guest Friday evening the dis- rner, T. J. (Jack) Reames, of Abbeville, who addreswd the gathering on bis annual visitation to clnbs of the district. Shown hero are, loft to right, R. S. Trnlnek, secretary of the local dab; Mr. Robert P. Hamer, president, and Dr. B. O. Whitten, vice Byrnes To Speak At PC Convocation Oct 15 College Celebrates Diamond Jubilee The Honorable James F. Byrnes, distinguished South Carolinian and former national leader, will come to Presbyterian College on October 15 to join in the Diamond Jubilee Convoca tion, President Marshall W. mor ^ Brown announced today. meetings of the directors and the 1 The fom ~ r Secretory of State workers. Monday night, Sept 19, found all the workers at the Mary Lou Ranch for simaer to work out the final details of. the drive. At this time names! of the pnopects and members | were distributde to the teams. Thursday morning the entire group met at the Hotel Mary Musgrove for a kick-off break fast, at which Jack Miles, execu tive president of the Greenville chamber was the featured speak er. Mr. Miles brought an en thusiastic message to the group. During the day the results were posted on the football goal post that Mrs. P. M. Pitts, sec retary in the chamber office, prepared. It was placed out on the sidewalk for the public to see the results of the drive. By nightfall the goalpost wps show ing some 275 memberships for $6,875.00. At present J. J. Cornwall, pres ident of the chamber, is leading a group in clean-up operations. It is hoped that this will result in a total of at least 320 member ships, for this is the amount needed for a base of operations, according to Curtis. This would put the chamber on a sound fi nancial footing and its growth could start from there, he said. One new phase is in operation now and that is to have member ships assigned. For example, when a business invested $100.00 in the chamber, it was asked for four names to be assigned mem berships. In the future, more conuntittee work is anticipated than in the past and it is felt that these men and women will add much to the program of work in the chamber. Tlie greatest vote of thanks, Curtis said, goes to the workers who actually hit the streets for the day, and to the public for the fine acceptance of the cham ber and its activities. Without their financial and physioal back- (Continued on page four) anniversary celebration of the founding o f Presbyterian C b 1- lege. First Issue Of High School Sentinel For Year Off Press Appearing for the first time this school year, The Sentinel, Clinton high school newspaper, was distributed to readers Mon day. 1 The paper is edited by Jane Todd, and Jesse Johnston is bus- j iness manager. I Other members of the staff [are: sports editor, Neil Dailey; feature editor, Charlotte DeVin- ney; feature assistant, Marie Watts; junior editor, Florence Winn; Copy editor, Sara Pitts; news editor, Betty Jane Hamer; [reporters, Tom Cooper, Frances Cunningham, Mary Ann Neigh bors, Jean Nelson, Leanna Young, Marcy Bryson, Dawn Campbell, Shirley Dunaway, Margie McGraw, Edna Martin, Toni Ray, Martha Joan Reeder, Jackie Cooper; typists, Judy Chaney, Peggy Dunaway, Gen- nelj|5_ Carley, Nannette Loftis, Joan CAnnon, Bessie Mae Phil lips, Nancy Cole, Merron Smith. Business staff: associate busi ness manager, Willette Asbill; advertising manager, Jane Pitts; associate, Vinton Smith; circula tion managers, Becky Finley, Irene White, Georgia Young; as sistants, Alberto Tumblin, Peggy Ann Edwins, Wiley Davis. World Communion Sunday At Broad St. Broad Sit. Methodist cfourch will Supply Of Vaccine Is Available Dr. J. Claude Sease, director of the Laurens county health de partment, announces that there is a small funount of polio vaccine for children who did not com plete their second shot this spring. . The vaccine is provided by the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis and will be avail able October 28. The vaccine wlil be given at the county health department each week day from 9:00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. and on Saturday from 8:30 a. m. to 12 noon; and at th“ Clinton health center on N. Woodrow street on each Tuesday from 10:00 a. m. to 12 noon, and on Thursday from 2:00 p. m. to 4:30 p. m. The vaccine is for second doses only to those first and second grade children who received one dose earlier this year but for varying reasons did not get the second dose. S. C. Fox Hunters End Session Today South Carolina Bench Champ The three-day Convocation isl) 0 * 11 ottiers *n/observing scheduled to begin on October 14! World Conrvnurnon Sunday, Oefco- and Supreme Court justice heads a group of outstanding speakers take part in this 75th PC Junior Varsity To Meet Gordon Military Here Tonight ♦ The Presbyterian college jun ior-varsity football team will open its season against Gordon Military college here (Thursday) tonight. Game time is 8:00 p. m. under the lights of Johnson Field. Clinton fans, on this occasion, will have their first opportunity to see PC players in home ac tion. Both varsity games to date have been played on the road. Coach Bill Crutchfield has an nounced a storting lineup com posed of freshmen who have been running on the third and fourth strings with the varsity squad. The line will be big, av eraging 210 pounds from end to end. Bill Aycock has been top ped to quarterback the team. The storting lineup fro PC: LE—Ted Leahy; LT—Joe Neg- ley; LG—A1 Stephenson; C— Marion Parrish; RG—Harold Lo max; RT—James Kline; RE— John Sirby; QB—Aycock; LH— Ed Messer; RH—John Lucas; FB —Richard Hall. Revival Services At Hurricone Church Dr. J. B. Caston of Columbia, will be the guest minister for re vival services which will begin at Hurricane Baptist church Monday evening, October 3, and continue each evening at 7:30 through Friday. The pastor. Rev. J. H. Darr, has issued an invitation to the pub lic to attend the special services. and extend through October 16. Byrnes will deliver his address on "The Renaissance of Peace and Prosperity” on Saturday af ternoon, October 15. President Brown has announc ed the general theme of the Con- aissance”, a program designed to point ahead to the great era of promise which the future holds. Those prominent men who al ready have indicated they will participate in the program are: Dr. Russell J. Humbert, inter nationally prominent religious leader and president of DePauw University; Dr. Bernard H. Boyd, chairman of the department of religion at the University of North Carolina, and popular tele vision figure; and Dr. Henry Hill, president of George Peabody College for Teachers. Byrnes will bring to his sub ject on peace and prosperity the experience of a distinguished past known to almost every American. He served as U. S. Senator for two terms, from which position he was appointed to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1941 by President Roosevelt. Byrnes gave up this lifetime post at Roosevelt’s request to serve as war mobilization director during World War II. He held down the important job of Secretory of State for two years- under Presi dent Truman, 1945-47, and re cently culminated his career as a political statesman with a term as governor of South Carolina. *ber 2. Sacrament of tihe Lord’s Supper wall be served at both morning and evening services so that those who miss one may have the op portunity of partaking at the oth er. The pastor, Rev. J. E. Merchant, ~ dt be vi:e. Council Farm Women To Meet Today At Lanford The fail meeting of the Lau rens County Council of Farm Women will held today (Thurs day) Sept. 29, at the Lanford Community Budding, it is an- ounced by Miss Myrtioe Taylor, county home demonstration agent, Refreshments will be served by the host club at 3 p. m. The pro gram will start at 3:30 p. m. All home demonstration chib members were asked to attend. Mrs. J. W. Tinsley, county coun cil president, will preside and Mrs. James Wasson will serve as secretary. Dr. C. R. Thayer, director of vocational guidance at Presbyter ian College, will be speaker. Awards will be presented by the three district directors to the clubs having the best reports in Here is the 1955 Sooth Carolina Bench Champion who won her laurels here Menday aight at the bench show ef the S. C. Fox Hunt ers Association. She is Daisy Mae. owned by Charles E. Barrage, of Concord. N. C., who Is shown with her. ton are Mrs. Toy Patton,. Mrs. Gray Hipp and Mrs. J. H. Power. Sheely Retires After Long Seaboard Service On Job4<rYears Final Mystery Farm Was Mat Davis Flace The Mistery farm photo week was the home place of Mat Davis on Bt 2. Jack Cunrhng- hatn called the Chcronocle to cor rectly identify the home as that — --h—r-- of Mr. Davis. This was the lost in a aeries of trial photos which have been run ning in the Chronicle for the past year. Much interest has been shown by readers in identifying the form places 'located in the tow er part of the county. Olin H. Sheely will retire Fri day from service with the Sea board Railroad after a period be ginning December 26. 1906—48 years and nine months. A dinner will be given in his honor at Hotel Mary Musgrove Friday evening by Seaboard of ficials at which relatives and friends of Mr. Sheely will be guests. Mr. Sheely was born and rear ed on a farm near Pomaria, and after three months training with the CN&L railroad at Little Mountain, he came to Clinton and was employed by W. H. Shands of the Seaboard, as night telegraph operator. In 1914 he was appointed chief clerk, and in 1941, upon the retirement of Mr. Shands, was named agent here. Mr. Shands and Mr. Sheely are the only agents the Seaboard has had in Clinton. Mr. Shands was ' named as agent when the Sea board was built in the 1890’s and his and Mr. Sheely’s tenure of service total more than 100 years. Mr. Sheely has served under a dozen different division su- merce for 15 years and is a past master of the local Masonic lodge. Upon his retirement Friday, Mr. Sheely said he expects to Thurmond Blasts ADA In Address In County. II ■ I ■'ll-. Speaks To Combined Service Chibs Speaking before an assembly, Democratic members of the sen- New Presbyterian Building Assured Members of the First Presbyte rian church have raised in ex cess of $180,000 in cash and pledges in their campaign for funds to build .a new church school building, it was stated yesterday by Carlisle Neely, chairman of the drive for funds. The building project is expect ed to cost $175,000, but does not include furnishings. The new structure will contain about 15 rooms including assembly rooms and auditorium, and will be sit uated on the west side of the lot on East Carolina avenue. It will be connected to the present building, being of granite to match it. T. E. Addison, chairman of the building committee, said the Contract is expected to be let early in January. The architects ere now making detailed plans and specificationa. Construction To Begin Early In January ate “I supported the President on ly 36 per cent of the time on mat ters inside our nation—domestic issues. But on foreign policy I backed him 77 per cent of the time. That gave me an average of 60 per cent support of the president’s policies on 52 roll calls. "You might be interested to know that 22 other Democratic senators, including the acting majority leader and Senator Al- ben Barkley, had voting records equaling or exceeding mine in support of the president. There are 49 Democrats in the senate, get-together of Rotary, Lions, so I stood just above the average Kiwanis and Exchange clubs of .“In my own opinion the, people Laurens county. of South Carolina are better The South Carolina Democrat! judges than the ADA of how took pride in being the only, Strom Thurmond voted and how from the ADA.. In his address, well they liked his votes.” Democrat to receive a zero rating * - - ■■ Thurmond reviewed the legisla- Rev. Flay Riddle live accomplishments of the first)— , n k session. He described the session I 0X65 NCW rOStOrOteS as having accomplished "much good " In lashing back at the ADA, the senator said of combined civic clubs at the Laurens county fairgrounds Tuesday night, Senator Strom Thurmond said, "neither the ADA nor any pressure outfit con trols the vote of Strom Thur mond,” in reply to criticism level ed him by the “left wing" organi zation, Americans for Democrat ic Action. The ADA recently scored him with a zero rating for not supporting the liberal posi tion on seven issues selected by the ADA during the first session of the 84th congress. The occasion was the annual Guests of City For Four Days Almost 300 hounds are compet ing fot top honors in the 1955 an nual Field Trials and Bench Show of the South Carolina Fox- hunters Association which is be ing staged in Clinton this week. As sportsmen pointed to the final posting of scores and award- ! ing of trophies to trials cham pions on Thursday at 6 00 p. m., laurels w<'re being bestowed up on bench show winners of last Monday night The winner of ‘best in the show" and designated as 1955 South Carolina Bench Champion was Daisey Mae, owned by Charles Burrage of Concord, N. C. A business meeting of the asso ciation on Tuesday night named these officers for the coming year J E B. Bennett of Greer, president: Dr. C. D. Falla of Woodruff, retiring president, vice-president; and W H. Tis dale of Sumter, re-elected secre tary-treasurer. Other bench show winners in the competition held on PC’s Johnson Field, include: Best Opposite Sex — Daisey Mae, owned by Charles Burrage of Concord, N. C. All-Age Male—Gold Hill Bul let, owned by Ralph Rainey of Rockwell, N. C. All-Age Female — Gold Hill Danger, owned by Rainey. Derby Male—Cavalier, owned by Gene Beaver. Concord, N. C. Derby Female — Daisey Mae, owned by Burrage. Natural Carriage — Big Gene, owned by Beaver. Field trials, which occupy the first five hours of daylight on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs day mornings, are being held in the Enoree river area north of Clinton Opening action on Tues day morning produced these leaders: Derby Day Field — Connie, owned by Dr. J. H. Pierce of Pamplioo. All-Age Dog Field—Pine Ridge Samson, owned by the Pine Ridge Kennels of Salisbury, N. C. (Doctors L. H. Robinson and L. O. Parker, owners.). The Rev. Flay Riddle has ac cepted the call to serve aw pas tor for the Liberty Springs, Las- “On September 12 you might ^ Mountville group of Pres OLIN H. SHEELY catch upon his fishing and hunt ing, and look after his fine flock of laying hens. His wife is the former Miss Juliette Earl Fowler of Clinton. have seen a story in the news papers concerning a survey made hy the political pressure organi zation called Americans for Democratic Action — the ADA The ADA gave its views as to which members of congress had voted as liberals on several is sues selected by the ADA during the past session of congress. “I hope you noted that the ADA gave me a zero, because I am proud to be able to say that neither the ADA nor any pres- byberiarr churches and. will begin his new pastorate Oct. 1. Mr. Rid dle has been pastor- of the Rocky Springs Presbyterian church Chamber Commerce Ladies Night Set For Tuesday, Oct. 25 The Chamber perintendents and about as many 1 ^ ^ave two daughter* and a son. Misses Frances and Vivian trainmasters. At present John White is superintendent and O. T. Hall is trainmaster. Mr. Sheely, who is retiring at the attainment of the age limit, has won two certificates of merit for safety in the Georgia division and one for the entire system. He is highly regarded by Sea board officials all along the line. * Mr. Sheely is a charter mem ber of St. John’s Lutheran church, having served as an of ficer since 1920. He has been a member of the Chamber of Com- Sheely and Olin Sheely, Jr., all of this city. No successor to Mr. Sheely has been announced. • - — r- * ' of Commerce sure outfit controls the vote of will have its annual “ladies Strom Thurmond. I believe the 1 night” Tuesday. Oct. 25, at the people of South Carolina want American Legion Memorial me to represent their wishes in building, it has been announced, the senate and not the wild-eyed The supper wlil be a dutch treat Midget Football Program Begins The tocail Midget footbaU pro gram got off to a good start last week with the following teams winning: Whitmire defeated Thomwell, Joanna defeated Flor ida, and Academy defeated Laur ens. Presbyterian college students are assisting by officiating at the games. VISITS PARENTS Ben Hay Hanunet visited his parents. Dr. and Mrs. B. J. Ham- met, in Allendale during the week-end. Maid Of Cotton Contest Last Night At Mary Musgrove The Maid of Cotton contest for| Laurens county was to have been held last night as The Chronicle went to press The event was to be held at the Hotel Mary Mus grove. Entered as contestants were a number of girls from the county. They were to be interviewed by the judges yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clcok, and the final judg ing was to be completed last night. The Clinton Business and Pro fessional Women’s club- is spon sor of the 'event. Mrs. Sarah DeLoach, of Lau rens. is county chairman for the selection and Claude Crocker, of Clinton, is co-chairman. schemes of any liberal or left- wing crowd “I promised you in 1954 I would vote my conscience, and that’s what I did. I have found that the votes I cast on 52 princi pal issues placed me approxi mately in the middle of all the affair and members are asked to bring their wives. As part of the program, new members will be recognized J W Curtis, manager of the cham ber, states that there will be an outstanding speaker for the oc casion. Boys Baseball Teams To Have Banquet Tuesday The arouial banquet for the ummer baseball teams, conisist- tmg of Small Fry, Little League and Pony league teams from Ly dia, Academy, ThornweM, Florida and Joanna, with their guests, will be held next Tuesday night at the Presbyterian ollege dining hall ait 7 :30. Speaker for the occasion will be Jerry Wompfler, line coach and baseball coach at the college. Russell Cooper, president of the Recreation Comrmssttwi, will pre side. During the evening five tro phies will be presented to FJprida Street Small Fry by D. B. Smith; Joanna little League, by P. S. Bailey. Academy Pony League, by J. C Thomas; Pony League's moot valuable player, Terry Campbell, by Joe Delany. These trophies were bought by the Recreation Commission To the Little League’s most valuable player, the presen tation will be made by Dr. Fred Holcombe, who is ailao the donor of the trophy, which will go to Gordon Timmons, of Thcsn'well. ATTENDS MEDICAL MEET Dr. E. N. Sullivan attended the Scientific Assembly of the South Carolina Academy of General Practitioners held in Columbia on 1 Tuesday Clinton High School Majorettes In Action ' >1*1 1 I .J J v \\ Mi* Led by Head Mojerette Janet Sloan, left. earn are: Mary Je Sloan, Angela Omenta. Carolyn Asbill. Willette AsbilL Betty McDaaM, Bay, Theda Snblett. and Nannette LoMa.