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Volume LVI
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, October 20,1955
Number 41
Miss Dial Dies;
Johnson Critical
Injured In Accident Thursday Night
Miss Mary Frances Dial, 22, of
Laurens, died Tuesday night at^
the Spartanburg General hos
pital from injuries received in
an automobile wreck last Thurs
day night on the Cross Anchor-
Woodruff highway.
Charles Johnson, Clinton mer
chant, who was injured at the
same time, is still a patient at
the Spartanburg hospital and
continues in a serious condition
as The Chronicle went to press
la'St night.
The accident occurred on a
curve in the highway as the
couple was headed toward Greer
after witnessing a football game
here. The car was demolished.
Miss Dial suffered both legs
broken above the knees, head
and face injuries, a broken arm
and internal injuries.
Johnson has a broken jaw,
broken ankle, face cuts, and
chest injuries.
Miss Dial was thrown from the
car when it hit a tree and Mr.
Johnson was pinned in the car
between the motor and the>ceat
Edwin and William Lanford,
ambulance drivers, said the front
wheel of the car was Wrapped
•round the tree and the car
folded up like"an accordion.”
Miss Dial was the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Dial of
Laurens and was a graduate of
Converse college in the class of
1955. She Was teaching in Greer
this semester.
Johnson, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hubert Johnson of this city,
is a member of the firm of John
son and Pitts, clothing mer
chants.
Laurens W. M. U.
To Meet At Popular
Springs On Saturday
The annual W. M.' U. Associa-
tional meeting of the Laurens Bap
tist association wihl be held at
Poplar Springs October 22, at
10:30 a. m. with Miss Alleene
Franks presiding. The theme of
the meeting will be “Thy King
dom Come.” The program will
consist of the election of officers,
presentation of by-laws and mes
sages brought by Mrs. I. N. Pat
terson, missionary to Nigeria, Miss
May Tindal, Mrs. John Earle
Smith. Rev. J. C. Rice and Rev.
Alvin Boone.
Community Chest Begins
Fund Campaign Monday
Annual Budget Placed At $14,000
Religious Census
For City Planned
Sunday Afternoon
On next Sunday afternoon,
October 23, starting at 2:30 a re
ligious census of the city will be
taken as announced in last
week’s issue of The Chronicle.
It is hoped to complete the
canvass in two hours and it is
requested that as far as possible,
the citizens of the community
will remain at home between the
hours of 2:30 and 4:30 to expedite
the taking of the census.
To further expedite the can
vass, cnesus cards will be given
out at the morning worship hour
of the various churches and
those receiving them are asked
to fill them opt before a can
vasser arrives at their home. In
this way it is hoped to cover the
entire city in two hours.
There will be 60 canvassers
working and their names will be
read out at the various worship
hours next Sui)day.
The central committee, having
the census in charge, and com
posed of Dr. C. Bynum Betts,
chairman; the Rev. J. H. Darr,
pastor of the First Baptist
church; Dillard Boland of Broad
Street Methodist church; Gary
Holcombe of the First Baptist
bhurch; Wyman Shealy of St.
John’s Lutheran church; Dr.
Newton Jones of All Saints Efc>is
copal church; and Lowry Wilson
of the Associate Reformed Pres
byterian Church, will meet to
night (Thursday) at 7:30 in the
education building of the First
Baptist church to complete the
plans for the census taking on
next Sunday. All members are
expected to be present.
Clinton Men Participate In Presbyterian College Convocation Program
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In the picture at left, three Clinton men, all gradnstes of Presbyterian College, are
shown talking to Dr. Marshall S, Woodson (left), president of Flors Maedonal^ Col
lege, Red Springs, N. C., also a Presbyterian graduate, who addressed one of the final
audiences of the PC convocation at the First Presbyterian church Sunday morning.
With Dr. Woodson are Tom Plaxico, Hugh L. Eichelberger and Hngh S. Jacobs, mem-
In the center. Dr. Marshall W. Brown, president of the college (right) is shown
with Dr. Russell J. Humbert, president of DePsuw university, one of the convocation
speakers.
In the panel at right, Robert M. Vance, Clinton member of the eoilege board of
trustees, is shown looking over s program of activities with Dr. Harry K. Holland, of
Atlanta, chairman of the board.
The annual drive of the Com
munity Chest of Clinton will get
underway Monday morning, Oct.
24. The directors and the com
mittees in charge of the drive
have been working overtime in
order that the operation will be
a smooth one this year.
J. W. Curtis, secretary of the
Chest, announces that a budget
hw been set by the directors,
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and one that can be met by
the people of Clinton. The total
amount of the budget is $14,079
and is broken down as follows:
Local Youth Work, $3,469.00;
American Red Cross, $2,600.00;
Cancer Society, $1,760.00; Blue
Ridge Council of Boy Scouts, $2,-
000.00; Crippled Children, $!,-
200.00; Clinton Emergency and
Administrative Fund, $1,000.00;
American Heart Society, $750.00;
Caro Unas United, $060.00; Salva
tion Army, $700.00.
Again this year the advance
gifts and the business houses
will be worked separatley. Head
ing the advance gifts committee
is W. L. Corbett, and working
the payroll deduction group will
be Gary Lehn and C. W. Under
wood. The advance gifts group
will work the business houses or
their heads, and the employees
of the businesses will be worked
by Dan Yarborough, Bryan
Coates, and Vernon Trammell.
The schools will be worked in
the same manner as in the past,
with Wilmot Shealy as chair
man, assisted by L. H. Lee, Anne
Bolt, and George Anderson.
The residential sections will
be covered by Mrs. Dan Yarbor
ough, Mrs. Jack Red, and Mrs
County Court
Jurors Named
Tom Baldwin. They iplil haye jurors .to serve during the Court
Laurens, Oct. 13 — Thirty-six
the help of many ladies in the
town.
The materials for the drive
will be distributed by the Boy
Scouts under hte leadership of
Scoutmaster Milford Smith.
.._32)e kjckptl hMRkfwt vdU be
held at Hotel Mary Musgrove
Monday morning at 8:30. This
breakfast will be for the work
ers and the committee heads who
have contributed to the drive.
The highUght of the breakfast
wUl be an address by Dr. W.
Redd Turner, pastor fo the First
Presbyterian church of CUnton.
County Baptists
Name Rev. J. C. Rice
Moderator Of Group
The Rev. J. C. Rice, pastor of
Poplar Springs Baptist church,
was elected moderator of the
Laurens Baptist association
which convened Tuesday and
Wednesday at Lucas Avenue
Baptist church, Laurens.
The Rev. Stanley Hardee, pas
tor of Lydia Baptist church, was
elected vice moderator. H. B.
Monroe was re-elected clerk, and
Garvin B. O’Dell, assistant clerk.
The session heard reports of
its work through emomittees and
leaders.
Local Group Hears Byrnes
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Former Governor James F. Byrnes is caught In a eharmeteristie
led a Clinton audience Saturday afternoon at the
Preebyterlaa eoUege football field.
Urn former Secretary of State and Supreme Court
ho places his hope for world peace “in the people of Ri
the government of Rnmla.”
Byram spoke at Presbyterian college Diamond Jubilee
lee hero Saturday.
la Soviet attitude (to a friendly one is
of their principals,’
“We shoald oonttnno to advocate the rednetleo of
all aattoae,’’ ha mid. “bnt wo rnmot 9—vide for adoooate
al iaopewMsn- to see that all aatUae mat
— 1 — attttade of eoeporallesi la attributable,
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its by
ho mid. to
of Common Pleas to convene
here October 24 were drawn this
week by the jury commission
ers and annuonced as follows:
Youngs: Toy R. Patton and W.
R. Bailey.
Hunter. Lamp BMMmsotJ^i ML
McCrary, Ralph Hughes, Hous
ton May, L. H. Dunaway, B. F.
Osborne, Ansel Johnson, L. R.
Adams, G. P. Copeland, Cleo J.
Lusk, J. P. Nance, M. P. Patter
son, W. L. Thompson, Eugene
Humphries, and L. A. Boyter.
Waterloo: Robert L. McPher
son, Lewi$ Taylor, Harold E.
Mason, R. L Cooper, and Marion
Hollingsworth.
Sullivan: Luther Chasteen,
James P. Lanford, and James W
Bagwell.
Dials: Thomas J. Garretf/'J. R.
Stoddard, George Curry and J.
E. Henderson.
Laurens: Harold E. Pearson,
Jr., Sam Power, Jr., James IJ.
Pitts, and M. J. Strange.
Scuffletown: J. D. Black, Joe
Martin and Glfos Lawson.
Leroy Pace was listed as a
hold-over.
Joe Debny b
Re-Elected Head
Of IB Association
Joe Delany of Joanna, has
been re-elected president of the
Laurens County Tuberculosis
Association. Mrs. J. C. Bolt of
Gray Court, is vice-president.
Miss Beaufort Copeland, secre
tary, and Sam Leaman, treas
urer.
A financial statement as of
March 31 showed a net loss of
$452 for the year.
New directors are Claude A.
Crocker, Henry Faris, Thomas
Babb, Dr. E. H. Reeves. P. W.
McAlister, Miss Juliet McCrory,
and Mesdanves Robert C. Was
son, H. D. Payne, John Whar
ton, James C. Todd, Jr., and R.
V. Watson.
Mr. Delany announced that P.
W. McAlister has consented to
serve as chairman of this year’s
Christmas Seal Sale.
Herbert Owens
Hurt In Accident
Herbert Owens, proprietor of
Royal Cleaners'of this city, con
tinues as a patient in Greenville
General hospital, suffering injur
ies received in an accident last
Thursday afternoon.
Owens was injured when a
horse he was transporting jump
ed from a truck and pulled him
out. Owens struck the pavement
and received head and shoulder
injuries,/It was reported.
The accident occurred near the
Midway Drive-In theatre on the
Clinton-Joanna highway.
Owen was taken to e local
hospital, later being removed to
Greenville.
Joanna Baptist
Revival Services
To Begin Sunday
Revival services will begin at
the Joanna Baptist church on
Sunday, October 23, and contin
ue through the 30th. Services
will be held each morning a^ 10
o’clock and at 7:30 in the eve
ning. Dr. H. Jack Flanders, Jr.,
will be the guest minister for the
evening services. The pastor.
Rev. James B. Mitchell, will con-
i duct the morning services.
! Dr. Flanders is professor of
j religion at Furman university.
He has been on thf Furman fac
ulty since 1950, and is a native of
Little Rock, Ark. He studied* at
Baylor university, receiving the
bachelor of arts degree.
During World War II he was a
fighter-bomber pilot serving
with the air force in Europe. He
had fifty combat missions.
College Diamond Jubilee Program
Is Brilliant Affair; Many Attend
25 Presbyterians
Honored At College
Convocation Sunday
service he went to the Southern
DR. H. JACK FLANDERS
Baptist Theological Seminary
where he received the bachelor
of divinity degree in 1948 and
the doctor of theology in 1950.
Organizations of the church
which will be recognized are as
follows: Sunday, Deacon’s night;
Monday, Sunday school night;
Tuesday, Women’s night; Wed
nesday, Training Union night;
Thursday, Men and Boys’ night;
Friday, Youth night; Saturday,
Friends’ night.
The public is cordially invited
to attend.
Mrs. H. L. Baldwin
Passes Monday
Mrs. Evelyn Tomlinson Bald
win, 48, wife of H. L. Baldwin,
died early Monday morning at
Hays hospital following several
years declining health
Mrs. Baldwin was a native of
Florence county, hut had made
her home in Clinton for 15 years.
She was a daughter of Mrs J. L.
McLendon and the late H R. Tom-
UnsG.i and was a member of Clin
ton First Presbyterian church. A
graduate of Winthrop college, she
had taught in the public schools
of South Carolina for a number of
years.
Surviving besides her husband
and her mother are one daughter,
Betty Mae Baldwin, of CUnton;
one stepson. H. L. Baldwin, Jr.,
of Cokantofta; two sisters, Mrs. J
E. Scott, of Richmond, Va., and
Mrs. Albert Warren, of Savannah,
Ga.; one brother, Julian C. Tom
lineon, of Florence; one half-
brother, Wooster McLendon, of
Oianta.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Ttiesday M 3 p. m. at Gray fu
neral home by Dr. William Redd
Turner. Burial was in the Pres
byterian church
Twenty-five leading Presbyte
rians of South Carolina and
Georgia hold special citations
from Presbyterian -College, re
ceived in the closing exercises
of PC’s Diamond Jubilee Convo
cation.
They were presented during
the Sunday afternoon program
at which Dr. Bernard Boyd, head
of the University of North Caro
lina department of religion, de
livered an address on “The Ren
aissance of Religion and Moral
ity."
With this program. Presbyte
rian College brought to a close
\ the three-day convocation which
began last Friday to mark the
75th anniversary of the founding
of the college.
Citations were presented to
these 25 non-alumni Presbyte
rians in recognition of outstand
ing service rendered to the
church:
From South Carolina—J. C.
Hopkins of Greenville (banking);
Joel S- Morse of Abbeville( in
surance); Mrs. A. M. Copeland
of Clinton (orphan work); Mrs.
John Wells Todd, Jr., of Laurens
(church wrok); W. LeMar Moore
of Gramiing (textiles); Lewis A.
Meiklejohn fo Cheraw (lumber);
J. M. McLaurin, Sr. (cotton pro
duction); J. S. Edmunds of
Clover (turkey marketing); J. G.
Richards, Jr., of Camden (educa
tion); Mrs. W. Rex Josey of Man
ning (church work); Dr. Thomas
S. Fitzgerald of Columbia (edu
cation); and Henry L. Sneed of
Chester (education).
From Georgia—Fred L. Rand
(architecture); Mrs. John J. Egan
(church work); Raymond Turpin
(insurance); J. Robert Neal (in
vestment brokerage); Ha r lee
Branch. Jr. (public utilities);
Charles J. Currie (insurance);
and Roy LaCraw (real estate);
all of Atlanta; Judge Samuel
Hale Sibley of Marietta (juris
prudence); Mrs. S. H. Askew of
Decatur (church work); Mrs. J.
Swanton Ivey of Athens (church
work); G. Lamar Westcott of
Dalton (textile manufacturing);
Henry Knox Burns, Sr., of Ma
con (brick manufacturing); and
Dr. C. R. Wilcox of Rome (edu
cation).
Date Of Catawba
Game Changed
To Sat., Oct. 29
A change in the date of the
Presbyterian - Catawba football
game from October 28 to the
night of October 29 was announc
ed today by Athletic Director
Walter A. Johnson.
Johnson aakl the change had
been made m order not to have a
conflict with high school games
being played in the area that Fri
day night.
Johnson also announced that the
Clinton Lions club has taken over
spensofsh^s of tMr football fan
and is conducting a promotion
drive to encourage greater atten
dance. I. Mac Adair serves
chairman of this project.
Three-Day Celebration Is Staged
An estimated 450 persons at
tended Presbyterian College’s
Diamond Jubilee Cnovocation
during the past week-end to help
the institution celebrate its 75th
birthday and to launch a long- n
range development program.
Alumni and Presbyterians
from throughout .the controlling
Synods of Georgia and South
Carolina joined in the three-day
occasion which got underway
last Friday afternoon and ex
tended through Sunday
They heard inspiring address
es by the Honorable James F.
Byrnes and four other disting
uished speakers, participated in
rarkw festivities including the
annual Homecoming program
and attended the PC-Wofford
football game.
Citations were presented dur-
County Fair Opens To
Good Crowds for '55 Run
t ♦
Three Days Remain on the Schedule
The Laurens county fair is in
full swing this week, opening
Monday for a six-day run.
The fair features the usual
farm produce exhibits, canning
and home-making entries, which
this year are said to be the best
in recent years.
Cattle, swine and poultry en
tries are up to their high stand
ard. Community booths occu
pying prominent places.
The fair opened to good
crowds the first of the week and
visitors are expected to swell the
attendance to the highest mark
ever attained the latter part of
the week K it was^ said, if good
ing the convocation to 25 promi
nent alumni and 25 leading non
alumni Presbyterians of the two
synods
In addition to Byrnes, address-
were delivered by President
Russell J. Humbert of DaPauw
University, President Henry Hill
of George Peabody College.
President Marshall S. Woodson
of Flora McDonald College, and
Dr Bernard Boyd, head of the
University of North Carolina de
partment of religion.
Byrnes, speaking on Saturday
afternoon in Bailey Stadium,
said “the change in Soviet atti
tude is merely change of So
viet tactics and not an abandon
ment of their principles.'' But
he added:
“We should accept every invi
tation to confer with the Soviets.
Pessimistic as I may seem. I am
not without hope I place my
hope in the pepole of Russia.”
Dr Humbert delivered the
opening address of the convoca
tion on Friday night immediate
ly after the dinner for church
and alumni delegates at which
plans for Presbyterian College’s
$2,000,000 development program
were explained.
The DePauw president said
that America faces a new day of
climbing into the creative realm
of ideas and ideals He contin
ued:
“I do not share the pessimism
will be observed Saturday. All
school age children, regardless of
race, will be admitted to the fair
grounds free of charge until 5|
p. m that day. Ail rides will be i of many who feel that since we
reduced to the same price as on j have discovered once again the
school days. A pony, saddle and
bridle will be given away at 5:00
p. m.
The midway amusements are
furnished by O. C. Buck's Expo
sition. It consists of 22 rides, 12
sideshows, and a kiddieland of
8 rides.
P. T. A. Halloween
Carnival Set For
Saturday, October 29
The Halloween
annually by the Parent Teachers
association of Florida Street
school will be held Saturday eve
ning, October 29, at the Cbnton
armory.
Mrs. Lester Norton is genera!
chairman for the carnival and
will be assisted by the grade
mothers.
Features of the event will be a
wide variety of entertainments
popular with old and young alike,
booths and a cake walk. Prizes will
be given for the best costumes.
Those attending are invited to
eat supper at the refreshment
booth, which workers state will
be amply stocked this year so
that food will not give out
Tench P. Owens wee in Orange
burg Friday for a meeting of trus
tees of the South CeroUna State
Collage. „
weather prevails
A striking Laurens high school
brunette, Phyllis O’Dell, won
first place in the beauty contest
which featured the opening night
Monday.
Betty Jean Kennington. 1954
quen, crowned Phyllis "Miss
Laurens County Fair." The 1955
winner was sponsored by the
Laurens Electric Cooperative.
Second place went to Miss
Joan Covington, sponsored by
the Laurens Jaycees. and third
place to Miss Anne Page, spon
sored by the Hickory Tavern
Parent-Teacher Association.
Prizes were $50. $25. and $10,
carnival given ■ respectively.
Eighteen girls were entered in
the contest. The three winners
were selected from seven who
reached the finals. The other
four of the finalists were Miss
Violet Babb, spnosored by the
Barksdale-Narnie Home Demon
stration club; Miss Connie
Brown, sponsored by the Stanley
Springs Home Demonstration
club; Miss Dottie Gray, sponsor
ed by the Triniyt-Ridge Home
Demonstration club; and Miss
Jeanette Madden, sponsored by
the Hickory Tavern Home Dem
onstration club.
Approximately $3,000 in prizes
are offered exhibitors.
Tuesday was White School
Day. Thursday will be Colored
School Day. On Friday an auto
mobile will be given away.
A new feature, “Kiddie’s Day”,
Rev. Lindsay Speaker
Duncan Creek Services
Rev. A M. Lindsay, a native of
Greenville, who is now a mem
ber of the Presbyterian college
faculty, will be the guest speaker
at the annual homecoming of Dun
can Creek Presbyterian church
Sunday, October 23
All members, former members
and those wbo are interested in
the church are invited to attend
the event
means of our mass destruction,
that the end of civilization is im-
! mtnent. Man is ready for the
climb mto the realm of ideas and
ideals, and that's why we have
Christum educational institu
tions like Presbytreian College."
Dr Hill, speaking Saturday
morning, praised the American
system of education on both the
public school and college level
as one making a “unique contri
bution to a classless society and
to>i freedom and tolerance large
ly unknown among countries
with class education systems.”
While conscious of the word
•mediocrity" sometimes applied
to present-day education, he
said:
“We can through formal and
informal education more widely
diffuse the opportunities to par
ticipate and share in art. htera-
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