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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, December 8,1955
Number 49
Council Lets Contract To Rebuild
City's Electric System for $88,771
W/ns First Place In Christmas Parade
Anderson Firm
To Do the Work
City council in session Tues
day night let the contract for re
building the city’s electric sys
tem to Anderson Electric Co., of
Anderson for $88,771.78.
The contract was divided $6.-
720 for inside work at the plant
and $82,051.78 for the transmis
sion lines. The latter figur*e ritay
be increased or decreased sa the
work gets underway, since the
bid was based on unit price for
each pole and necessary equip
ment. The city has the option of
making necessary changes as
« onditions warrant.
In addition to rebuilding the
lines, facilities and equipment at
the power plant will be entirely
rebulit, including installation of
regulators, switching equipment,
imd other controls, which the
city hasn’t had in a number of
years. Power from the Duke
Power Co. lines has been fed di
rectly into the city lines with no
intermediate controls.
Regulators to control the flow
of power from Duke to the city
wete bought and installed to
connect with the present lines
several months ago.
Work will get underway, ac
cording to the contract, not later
than January 2, to be completed
in 90 days. The compleion date,
therefore, will be in early April.
The project is being financed
by a $200,000 bond issue voted
several months ago.
Engineers for the program are
McCall and Thomas of Orange
burg, who made the surveys and
detailed drawings and specifica
tions. They will also act as the
city’s agents in approving the
carrying out of the contract.
Plans call for increasing volt
age in the city lines from 2300 to
4160.
A number of firms submitted
bids, and the next lowest was
*■ about $13,000 above the low bid
der. The highest for the work
was $117,000.
PC Basketeers
Meet Pheiffer
Tomorrow Nigh!
Presbyterian College’s high-
scoring basketball team will try
to bounce back into the victory
column against 'Pheiffer College
here Friday night.
The game will be held in Le-
Roy Springs Gymnasium, start
ing at 8:00 p. m.
Clinton fans saw one of the
biggest point totals ever amassed
on the home court when the
Hosemen entertained strong Bel
mont Abbey to open the local
seasonlast Tuesday night. When
the fireworks had ended, the vis
itors held the heavy end of the
score, 108 to 100.
Another point-happy game is
expected Friday night as PC goes
after its fifth victory of the year
against only two defeats.
Presbyterian will be led by
three players who rate among
the finest cage performers in
this section. Forward Dave
Thompson, a junior returning af
ter a year of inactivity, has
jumped quickly to a place among
the national scoring leaders with
1T9 points in six games for an
impressive 29.9 points-per-game
average. Center Bruce Thomp
son, another junior who is relat
ed to Dave only in basketball
ability, is away to his best year,
and Guard Bill Toole, senior cap
tain and team spark plug, has
added a more deadly shooting
eye to his other all-round court
prowess.
Rounding out the starting,link
up Friday nigh^ will be Charles
Sloan at die Other guard post
and Arnold Stone at the other
: forward position.
Dr. Grube Graduates;
Intern In Charlotte
Friends of Dr. Robert Grube will
*/be interested to know he graduat
ed from the Med krai College of
Charleston last week.
Mrs. Grube is the former Miss
Fay Pitts and they will spend the
holidays hast with bar mother,
Mrs. W. Roy Pitts, before moving
January 1 to Charlotte, N. C.,
where iDr. Grube will begin his in
ternship at Memorial hospital.
Musical Program
At Acodmy School
The annual Musical program at
Academy Street school will be
given Thursday evening, Decem
ber M, at I’M. The public is invit
ed to attend.
Champion of Chicago Event ! November Receipts
Of Police Dept. -
Total $1,612.38
Driving under the influence of
intoxicants by 13 offenders con
tributed $644 to the city treasury
during November, according to a
report to city council by the police
department chief, B. B. Ballard.
The cases came before City Re
corder Henry M. Young. Two cases
were dismissed.
The next highest amount was
assessed against 26 offenders for
drunkenness, who were given 90
days and paid $298.88. Two were
dismissed.
Disorderly conduct charges were
lodged against 12, who paid
$141.50, and 60 days given.
Speeding and reckless driving
brought $164 from 13 offenders.
Two were dismissed.
Operating auto without driver’s
license by seven brought in >82;
three arrested for gambling paid
$36; five taken in for fighting paid
$55 and 60 days; three paid $33.50
for petty larceny. Nine were book
ed for investigation or suspicion to
round out 94 arrests for the month,
with three other offenses totaling
$9Q
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CREEKLAND LANCER
Clinton-Bred Shorthorn
Wins At National Show
Creekland Farm Bull In First Place
A Clinton-bred polled Short
horn bull was named grand
champion of the breed at the
International Livestock Exposi
tion at Chicago last Thursday.
Creekland Lancer, a summer
yearling (May 17, 1954), bred by
Creekland Farm near here, won
the honor at the Chicago cattle
show in competition with ani
mals entered from all parts of
the couatry.
Creekland Farm is owned by
P. S. Bailey of this city, and
managed by L. L. Norton.
Lancer was sold last April in
a spring sale by Creekland to
Oakwood Stock Farm, Ashville,
Ohio, for $2,050.
The dam was CF Cinderella,
and the sirq was Louada Devel
oper, both still owned by Creek
land. The sire was imported
from Scotland and is the leading
herd sire.
Creekland Farm is located
five miles from Clinton on the
Exchange Club Sets
Ladies Night Friday
The local Exchange club will
have their ladies night celebra
tion Friday night at 8:00 o’clock
at the Presbyterian college din
ng hall, officials state.
In Shrine Bowl
County Farmers
Allotted 17,312 Acres
For Cotton In 1956
ED PITTS
Spartanburg highway, and is
recognized as one of .the leading
Shorthorn breeding farms in the
nation. The farm has been de
veloped in recent years on an
extensive acreage of former cot
ton land and woodland.
Mr. Norton is invited to serve
from time to time as a judge in
cattle shows in this*and other
states.
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Large County Farm
Being Developed
For Cattle Breeding
White Plains Farm near Cross
Hill is being developed into one
of the most extensive cattle
farms in South Carolina, accord
ing to observers.
Formerly owned by the With
erspoon family, the 1300 acre>
tract was bought in recent years!
by C. D. Bevis of Philadelphia.
E. H. Bradshaw is manager.
The farm is developing a herd
of registered Shorthorn cattle
and at present has 50 head of
breeding stock. Thirty cows,
calves and a bull were purchased
from Creekland Farm, Clinton,
and 16 heifers and a bull came
from an Illinois herd. The bull
was imported from Scotland.
In addition to the Shorthorn
herd, White Plains has a herd of
150 for commercial purposes
(Shorthorn and Hereford), and
is now feeding out 250 steers
and heifers for the market.
Upon purchasing the tract
from the Witherspoons, Messrs
Bevis and Bradshaw entered into
extensive clearing and grass
planting which is still continu
ing from year to year.
Ground Observer
Corps Alerted
The Clinton Ground Observer
poet was alerted Monday night and
spotters were on duty from 7
o’clock until 6 a. m. Tuesday
morning. The poet is sponsored by
the Clinton Business and Profes
sional Women’s club of which Mrs.
Leila N. Johnson is chairman, and
Mrs. Dan Yarborough, chief ob
server. Two planes were spotted
during the above mentioned
hours.
Laurens county cotton farmers
will receive 17,317 acres for 1956
cotton allotment, according to C.
B Cannon, county agent. 'Hi is
compares to 18,685.8 arres allot
ted for 1955, or a reduction of
373.8 acres to be planted in this
county in 1956. ,, '
The ACP payments for 1956 will
be $93,901 for Laurens county,
provided Congress appropriates
the money.
Notices of the 1956 cotton acre
age 'allotments have been mailed
to farmers having cotton history
by the county ASC committee, of
which Hugh B. Workman is chair
man.
Allotments tor new farmers will
be mailed in the early part of next
year. A new farm is considered to
be one that has not grown any
cotton for the past three or more
years.
Farmers who have not planted
any cotton in the last two years,
and who turned their cotton acre
age back to the county ASC com
mittee in accordance with regu
lations, and received credit as
, planted acres will have to plant
brought, cotton next year to save the cotton
history as an old farm. In other
words, cotton must be planted at
least one year out of three years.
Also, farmers who have not
planted cotton in three or more
years are termed as new farmers,
and will receive their cotton acre
age allotment from acres set aside
for such use. Applications for new
farmers should be filed with the
ASC county office the first of Jan
uary, 1956. No person having an
interest in any farm with old cot
ton acreage allotment for 1956,
will be permitted to receive a new
farm, allotment.
Mr. Cannon said regulations in
regard to combination of fantm
are changed for 1956. and farm-
< ft
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PEACE AMONG
in $65.50 from 131 persons
m
Wheeler Speaks To
Kiwanians Tonight
A. C. Young, Jr, Kiwanis club
program chairman, has announc
ed that W. Evan Wheeler, dis
trict Sales manager for Capital
Airlines, Inc., covering Charlotte
This is the float that won tint place in Clinton's Christmas parade last Thursday. It was enter
ed by Broad Street Methodist church. Thornwell Orphange won second place, and School District
No. 56 third place.
Christmas Pageant
Be Given Tuesday
At Local High School
“His Star,” a Christmas pageant,
featuring both a musical and a
speech choir, will be given for the
Florida Street P. T A. in the
Clinton high school auditorium at 1
8:00 p. m. The public is invited to
attend with no admission being
charged.
Directed by Mrs James Von
Hollen, this performance will be
narrated by Neil Dailey, with Bar
bara Wolfe and Theda Sublett as
soloists and Ethel Mae Rowe as
accompanist. Taking the parts of
the pinging choir and the speech
choir will be the Clinton high
. , ., ... school Glee club and Speech class,
ers having cmobmations should r^pectively
| The Parent-Teacher Association
of Florida Street school is present-
be sure to look after this matter
at once.
W. E. WHEELER
Pitts Plays Good
Game For S. C. Team
In Shrine Bowl Tilt
Ed Pills. Clinton high school
taoklo. ter—d In — outstand
ing performance Saturday at
Charlotte as a momhor of tha
South Carolina squad la tha
annual Shrteo Bowl gama. Tha
Korth Carolina team won Il
ls.
A nuxnbor of Clinton paopls
in Charlotte for tho affair
te—d in
ter tte
and the two Carolinas, will ad
dress the Kiwanis club at - the
regular meeting tonight (Thurs
day) at Hotel Mary Musgrove
The subject of his address will
be “Progress Airborne.” (
Mr. Wheeler, a graduate of
Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.,
served fuor years with the Navy
in World War II, and is a lieu
tenant commander in the naval
reserve.
He has held his present posi
tion since 1951, and is well
known as a speaker before civic
clubs in this section.
Presbyterian Choir To
Present New Cantata
Sunday Evening, Dec. 11
“The Song of the Angels," a new
Christmas cantata by Van Den
man Thompson, will be presented
by the choir at the First Presby
terian church on Sunday evening
at 730.
Mrs. J. Ferdinand Jacobs, church
organist and choir director, is in
charge at arrangements for the
ing this program
purpose
best stated in the introduction to
the play: There is a growing con
cern among"many r thoughtful peo
ple over the way in which Christ
mas is celebrated today. They feel
that Christ should be put back in
to Christmas. Here is a true Christ
mas worship service. It points out
what Christmas should mean to
all of us.”
CAKE SALE
The Woman's Auxiliary of the
Pentecostal Holiness church will
conduct a home-made cake sale
Saturday, beginning at 10:00 a
cantata and Mrs. B. O. Whitten is' m., in front of Belk’s, it has been
chairman df decorations. 1 announced.
Retires After 37 Years
Home Area Pledges Hit
$121,764 In PC Drive
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Report on Progress Heard Tuesday
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A total of $121,764 has been uled for the dining hall next Mon-
raised to date in Region One for day night at < 30 p m.
Presbyterian College's Diamond The latest tabulations showed
Jubilee Development program. ^ rt h *'‘*
* * brought in >60.882 which, in turn.
The third report meeting held in been matched , JUnllar
»he PC dining hall Tuesday night; amoum from the aQaBycnaus glft
indicated that 405 persons have; {und ^ r5 ^ ^ means
subscribed to the campaign in the JM ia8 reniain6 in uus fund to be
home area of Laurens and New- claUT1€<1 ^ a matching basis by
berry counties. i solicitations.
A final report meeting m the
form of a victory dinner is sched-
Mrs. J. W. Milam Dies
After Long Period
Of Declining Heatth
Of the teOAOS raised other than
the matching fund, Clinton has
provided $42,344 from 246 donors.
Laurens has subscribed $7,674 with
88 persons giving. Thirty-five
Whitmire residents have contrib
uted $5,488; five from Joanna have
j given I1A45. five from Cross Hill,
$1,725; 34 from Newberry, $1,361;
1 and 17 from Mountvtlle $436.
Tom Ptaxico, of Clinton, rang
the victory bek at the third report
meeting as captain oi the team
turning in the largest amount. His
group reported $925 from four sub-
Shealy Named To
Head Exchange Club
NEW SUBSCRIBERS
— the
of PHts. who played Me
greater part at the feme.
Ite Is the a— M Mrs.
H. Mate of this tUy. ai
ef tha
LARRY MASTERS,
ECONOMY AUTO STORE,
REV. HAROLD HANTY,
City
E. L. PEASE,
Catonsville, Md.
MRS. W. H. JENNINGS,
Bennetts ville
MRS. HOWARD ROACH.
Seneca
AC JULIAN FOWLER,
APO, San Francisco
PVT. JIMMY WOOTEN.
Detroit, Mich.
C. M. CALDWELL,
APO New York
C. H. WELLS.
Owing!, S. C.
A2c WM. E. YOUNG.
c-o PM, New York
RICHARD WALLENZINE,
North Augusta
SFC WILLIE M. CANNON,
c-o PM ,New York
BOBBY Gj PEARSON,
Chicago, TU.
License Ordinance
To Be Studied
City council Tuesday night past-
poned passage of the business li
cense ordinance to the January
meeting to allow time for further
study of various provisions. Ordi
narily, the ordinance is approved at
the December meeting.
The finance committee and the
city attorney will submit their
findings at the January meeting
on Thursday, the 5th
Council also directed the police
committee to arrange for several
loading and unloading zones in the
business area. Members of the
committee will work with the chief
of police in the matter
The report of the city clerk
showed receipts of >39,168.35 and
disbursements of >86,240.52. The
amount included payment of $4,-
397.70 to the City Bond commis
sion as revenue bom the 30 mills
levied tor paying bond maturities
and Interest in the 1955 tax ardi-
nance.
B. R. Austin, superintendent of
the city’s utilities department, re
ported 12 new electric connections
and seven for water during the
month. He stated that both figures
were tower than usual and refect
ed the usual slow winter home-
building program.
A budget operations report by
the city clerk showed that all de
partments of the cilgr have operat
ed well within their budgetary al
lowances during the first quarter
/of the new year beginning Septem-
(ber 1.
Mrs. Mary Young Milam. 77,
wife of the late J. Will Milam,
died last Wednesday afternoon
it the home of her daughter.! S cnptions.
Mrs B B. Ballard, after several'
years of declining health
She was a native of Laurens
county where she spent her en- i
tire life. She was a daughter of|
the late James I. and O t h e 11 a
Copeland Young She was a New officers have been elected
member of Broad Street Metho- to head the Clinton Exchange did*
dist church for 19< *- by Wytnan 54
„ r Shealy as present
Surviving are two daughters
and one son, Miss Kate Milam
and Mrs. Ballard, both teachers:
in the public schools of Clinton,
and J. W. Milam. Jr , of New _
York City: tWo sisters. Mrs. E . . . . n *.
J. Nunnarnak^r of Columbia, and AfTICNCOn LcgiOfl rOSt
Mrs. S. A Lindsey of Clinton NomeS Slate Of OfflCCrS
three brothers. S. C Young and
G.E Young of Whitmire, and J-! Copeland . Dawson post 56.
L \oung of Gadsden, A a. American Legion, has named its
Funeral services were con | neA . of ,,^ rs for the vear ancl W y-
commander.
Others named were
Gary Holcombe, vice president.
OMn Johnson, treasurer
Earl Rice, secretary
services
ducted Thursday afternoon at; man M shealy,
j Broad Street Methodist church j dir<vt act i % , ties
i by the pastor. Rev J E Mer
chant, and Dr William Redd
; Turner, pastor of the First Pres
j byterian church. Burial was m
| Rosemont cemetery.
I Mrs Milam, a resident of Clm-
i ton since early womanhood, de
lve loped and maintained interest man er
.n her neighbors, friends and rw ^
church affairs, and was an at
tendant at its services as long
as her health permitted
Others officials are
Dr Fred Hok*ombe, first vice
president
Milford Smith, second vice com
mander
V. S. Harwell, shird vice cum-
Dr. Frank Caston, adjutant.
James Von Hollen, finance offi
cer
Eugene Johnson, ebapiain
A Series Of Local Children's Pictures To Be
Taken Free For Publication In The Chronicle
James A. Poole, the oldest fed
eral' income tax officer in years
of servkw in North Carolina, re
tired December 1 after 37 years
service. He was head of the Dunn
and Fayetteville offices.
High officials of tha U. S. In
ternal Revenue service joined in
honoring him upon his retire
ment and presented him several
prised mementos and testimon
ials.
Mr. Poole is a native of Clin
ton, the son of the late William
Augustus Poole and Mary Duvall
Poole. His wife is the former
Miss Dora Mae Hodges of Ben
son, N. C
Mr. Poole ,a certified public
accountant, will become associ
ated with a Raleigh and Wins
ton-Salem accounting firm His
home has been at Dunn.
Mr. Poole is a member of a
large family of brothers and sis-
ters, among those still living in
the community are: Mack. Jos
eph. Marvin, Elbe and Allen
Poole, and Mrs. W. R. Brown.
Those elsewhere include Boyce
Poole and Mrs. Earl Alexander
of Laurens; Mason Poole, of
Spartanburg; Walter Poole, of
Elberton, Ga.; John Henry Poole,
of Cross Anchor. Two have died,
William M. Poole, formerly of
Woodruff, and Sara Nell Poole,
formerly of Clinton.
December 10 is the big day for
the picture of your youngsters:
taken of all children who are
The Chronicle is having pictures
brought by their parents or other
guardian to Hotel CUnton be
tween 10:00 a. m. and T:00 p m..
absolutely free of charge The
Woltz Studios of Des Moines,
Iowa, a nationally known por
trait studio, will be in charge of
the photography The Chron
icle wants a picture of your child
to print in its forthcoming fea-
tuer, "Citizens of Tomorrow.” a
series of photographic studies of
local children. Tha more we get
the better the feature whl be. so
the cooperation of the mothers
and fathers is urged.
It often seems to parents that
children are bttle one minute and
are grown up the next, so fast
does a child's growing stage pass.
Here is a splendid opportunity
to catch a likeness of your child
or children at the present stage
for the pleasure you will get out
of if in future years and for the
pleasure you will enjoy in. seeing
it in print You will want to clip
iti from this, your home town
newspaper, and preserve it for
the .’youngster when he or she
grows up. j[
There is absolutely no charge
or obligation for taking the pic
tures. Parents don’t even have
to be a subscriber to The Chnte-
icle, nor even a reader. You do
not have to purchase pseturea.
either, though you may obtain
additional prints by
direct with the Studio
tative if you want them,
is entirely up to you!