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/ 4 If You Don't Read The Chronicle You Don’t Got the Newg The Chronicle 8trites To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, January 26, 1956 Number 4 46% of Families In County Have $4,000-Plus Income 19.6% Earn - Above $6,000 'Superlatives At College Economic dreams of 20 years ago have become a reality in Lau rens county. Families that were once in the $2,500 income class have graduated to the $4,8j0p or over bracket. Those that once had $4,000 a year are in the plus $6,- 000 category. Relatively few, on the other hand, remain in the low income groups, thanks to the general good business conditions which have produced a high employ ment ratio and better wage scales. Details of the advances in earn ings are carried in the 1955 Con sumer Markets annual. Included is data for every part of the coun try. ' It shows that in Luarens coun ty 46.6 per cent of the consumer units had spendable incomes last year, after pyament of takes, of over $4,000 or more. This compares favorably with the situation elsewhere in the South Atlantic states, where 41.1 per cent of the consumer units are in that income class. In the State of South Carolina 36.9 per cent are so listed. The term consumer unit is used to designate families or individ uals maintaining their own estab lishments. There are 4,450 of them locally in the over $4,000 category. In the group with incomes above $6,000, there / are now 1,- 870 units or 19.6 per cent in Lau rens county. The impressive growth of the- middle income and middle rich classes has had the effect of in creasing markets, changing buy ing habits and raising the stand ard of living. The typical family locally has more money to spend at present and is in the mood ot spend it. ,Of interest is the manner in which the bigger earnings are be ing used. According to a Federal Reserve Board study those with incomes above $4,000 are 60 per cent more likely than others to buv major household equipment jg^ffumiture. They buy four -times as many new automobiles per 100 families as those with incomes below $4,- 000. They also buy better homes, more electrical gadgets, eat bet ter and do more traveling. I* < f* i I * * H - fr L i \ < 1 • % 4 Seven senior class members al Presbyterian college are posed above as they were selected for senior superlative positions by their classmates. Front row (L to r.): Ed Hay. "Beet All-Around." and Bobby Vast, "Most Popular" and "Most Handsome." Back row: Robert Harrington. "Best Athlete"; Ray Lord. "Moat Intellectual"; Mike Edwards. "Best Dressed"; Bill Danizler. "Most Friendly"; Bill Taylor. "Wittiest". 43 County Auto Drivers Lose Permits in December Drank Driving Chief Cause of Action Forty-three Laurens.county res idents had ' their driver’s licenses suspended during ‘ December, ac cording to a state highway depart ment monthly report. Of that number, 34 were for driving drunk, seven for failure to prove financial responsibility, one for accumulation of 12 demerit Student Body Contributes $2,696 To Fund Drive ——— Presbyterian college students have contributed $2,696 thus far to the Diamond Jubilee Develop ment program, the latest report showed today. Ninety-three students have giv en this amount to the campaign which seeks $750,000 for PC in the two controlling Synods of Geor gia and South Carolina during the first year. I PC Basketbaffers The student drive, which will p Ki AW «. continue after the second semes-1 rlOy WCXi ter begins, finds the freshman Wednesday, Thursday class leading with 34 contribu- David Sloan, Jr. Announces Fof House David Sloan, Jr., young attor ney of Laurens, has announced that he will be a candidate in this sumemr’s primary for ope of the three seats in the House of Representatives allotted to Lau rens county. Mr. Sloan said that he was not ready to announce his platform but would make a full statement later. The House candidate, a native of Fountain Ipn, was graduated from Furman University in 1949 and was awarded his law degree in 1952 at the University of South Carolina. He spent a year in legal practice in Greenville after which he served as a first lieutenant in the Air Force in Texas. Since his discharge he has been practicing law in Laurens. • On Dec. 24, 1955, he wqs mar ried to Miss Lois Abercrombie of Laurens. They are now residing on South Harper street. points, and one for reckless driv ing. Driving under the influence of intoxicants was the biggest single cause for driver license suspension in South Carolina during Decem ber. • During that month 1,028 per sons lost their driving privileges lor driving while intoxicated, which was just about one half of the '2,091 total number of suspen sions during the month. Failure to prove financial re sponsibility Under the safety re sponsibility law cost 670 motorists their drivers licenses. The third greatest number of suspensions in December was for reckless driv ing, accounting for 135 withdraw als. The accumulation of 12 “de merit” points under the point sys tem law was responsible for 56 drivers losing their licenses. tions totalling $982. The senior class shows 23 having given $669; juniors 20, having given $565; and the sophomores 16, having given .$480. * • > Among the organizations, West minster Fellowship sets the pace with 19 eontrbiutions, followed Two important Little Four bat tles with arch rivals Wofford and Newberry face Presbyterian col lege’s high - scoring basketball team next Tuesday and Wednes day nights. , Both games are in enemy terri tory and the initial encounters of by Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, th e se ason against this important and Pi Kappa Alpha with 12 each fraternity Eb Schembechler, Ex-PC Assistant, At Norrtiwestem - > Evanston. 111., Jan. 20 — Ed Schembechler, who ' coached at Presbyterian "college at Clinton, S. C., for one year, has been named freshman coach at Northwestern. Schemlbechler, at Bowling Green * of Ohio last fall where he was line # coach, and Alex Agase were named to the Northwestern staff yester day by Ara Parseghian. They com pleted his staff. Schembechler went To the South .'Carolina school as an assistant •Bill Crutchfield. to College Students Taking Examinations Examinations, erul m i n a t i n g work of the first semester, occu pied students at Presbytreian col lege this week. The testing period, which began last Monday, will extend through Saturday. A four-day. "break” is scheduled to follow the close of the first semester, with regis- • tration for the second semester set for Mart Thursday at 9:00 a. m., in the college library building. County Positions Filled By Board At the annual meeting "of the County Board of Commissioners several employes were re-appoint ed, it has been announced by Su pervisor Bennie Blakely. Col. Phil D. Huff was ^e-elected county attorney. Dr. C. P. Vincent f Tuck,er an d Tromas. Robertson. Cross Anchor High School In Temporary ^ Quarters After Fire Temporary quarters for the Cross Anchor high school stu dents, whose building was de stroyed by fire last Wednesday night, have been arranged by C. P Dill, chairman of the board of v trustees for the Woodruff District Four schools, S. C. Brissie, super intendent of the Woodruff dis trict schools and M. C. Poole, principal lot the Cross Anchor School. The school opened Monday af ter a two-day vacation at the grammar school in Cross Anchor and at Cross Anchor Methodist church, which is just across the road from the school property. Mr. Dill called a meeting of the board of trustees Friday at the Cross Anchor grammar school ! when discussion was held relative to the replacement of the build ing and other matters concerning the loss. Both Baptist and Methodist churches have been liberal in of fering their facilities for the high school emergency housing. Gor don May, superintendent of the Union area schools, has offered two rooms in the Cross Keys school- building which are not in use at present for u«e by the school officials, Mr. Brissie said. County 4-H Clubbers Receive Seedlings For Pine Planting Laurens, Jan. 21—Twenty-six thousand pine seedlings were de livered to 23 4-H club members by West Virginia Pulp and Paper company, Charleston, whose wood- yard is located at Brands Station east of Laurens,-Jan. 18 and 19. The company donated the seed lings free in the interest of future development of timber, A few years ago the State Com mission of Forestry gave tree seedlings free, using taxpayers money to defray th/ expenses, blit r giving any is was a good some of the free seedlings were never set out after received. * ; . Club members who have been recommended by the county agents’ office for tree seedlings given by the West Virginia Pulp and Paper company are as ^fol- lows by tlubs: Camak Junior 4-H club: Bennie Ridge way. Charles Wood, John Atbrams, Bryon Wood, Jirrnny Campbell, Gerald Knight, Gerald Chapman, Wayne Mason, David Kernells, Jerry Watson. Long Branch 4-H club, Bruce Kuykendall. Cross Hill 4-H club: John Fen nell, Benny Smith, David Crow, and Jimmy Austin. Mountville 4-H Hub: Bill Teague, Rowland Milam, James Blackwell and William Woody. Gray Court-Owings 4-H clubL Henry May, Hugh Abbott, Gerald Duckworth, Roy Latty, Hugh 'Mothers March' To Close March of Dimes Campaign Tuesday Night Production Credit Association To Meet Here Saturday The twenty-second annual meet ing of the stockholders of the Clin ton Production Credit association will be held Saturday at 10:30 at the Clinton high school audito rium. « The association is 22 years old and completely farmer-owned. All members and interested fanners are invited to attend the meeting at which time a complete finan cial report will be made. Members attending who sign and return the cards mailed to them will receive a silver dollar. Also five prizes of $5.00. each will be drawn for. County Treasurer Reports Collection Of Taxes Better County Treasurer Sam M. Lea- man said yesterday that collec tions of county and school dis trict taxes to January 1 were about five per cent better than to the same date l^st year. Collec tions this year Were 85 per cent of the total and last year about 80 per cent of the total. Beginning with January 1, he said, the first penalty of 2 per cent went into effect, to be in creased in later months until Ap ril *15, the final date before un paid taxes go into execution. Collections through Dec. ■31 this year were $477,933.80 on a total to be collected of $565,872.24, leaving a balance of $87,933.44 yet to be collected with penal ties added. W*'*’ Too\iO •••_*. to ** „,e ' tb°** . ‘’" C poV*® ‘ i. b* to«* rO«*P GW« Too «•••' . 0W*‘' was re-named county physician' and Dr. J. L. Walker, of Clinton, assistant county physician. « Albert Stribling, who has been serving as superintendent of the County Home since the death,* of his father, Ollie Stribling, Was continued in the job until further notice, at least for six or twelve months, the supervisor said.. Miss Venie Blakely, the practical nurse at the home, was also re-named. - Thornwell Wickham. Orphanage, Pete IN COLUMBIA FOR CHURCH CONVOCATION William and Hugh Jacobs were in Columbia, for the Minister-El- der-D^acon convocation at the First Presbyterian church held Friday and Saturday. About 700 men from through out the state attended the ses sions. I Ayrshire Breeders Call State Meeting At Laurens Feb. 7 Arthur Baumberger, Laurens, Rt. 3, commercial dairyman and president of the State Aryshire association, has called a meeting for Eebruary 7 at 1:00 p. m., in the agricultural building in Laurens. All dairymqn interested in the Aryshire 'breed of cattle are in vited to attend. Roger Denny, extension field representative of the southeast ■district of the United States, will be present and take part, on the program. Other officers of the State Ary shire Breeders association are: Alex Simpson, Cross Hill, vice- president; and Wayne McGee, Starr, secretary-treasurer. Members of the board of direc tors are: K. W. McKitttrick, Lau rens. Rt. 1; Charles Poore, Ander son: Frank E. Robins, Clinton; H. L. Simmons, Ware Shoals; W. B. Smithy Marshville, N C.; Posey W. Copeland. Clinton; and Carl Thompson, ^Rt. 3, Laurens. Lau- Delegation Introduces Bill To Elect Trustees Now Appointed By County Board , — — The Laurens county delegation. respective I^aurens county poll- introduced a bill in the general assembly Tuesday to require the popular _ election of school trus tees in the county. / The measure, introduced by the delegation as a whole, calls for a trustees election on the second Tuesday in May. The county, since its school consolidation program in 1951 has operated with school trustees ap pointed by the County Board .of Education *■ Under provisions of the bill, trustees would be elected for fixed terms in the two school districts. 55 and 56. , In District 56, the electors would name 2 trustees from the Laur ens Attendahce area, one from Ford, one from Gray Court-Ow- ings and one ‘from Hickory Tav ern area. . » - In District 56,. t\£o would be elected from the Clinton Atten dance area, one from Joanna, one from Mountville and one from the Cross itill area and one from the Lydia Mills community. Rep. Charles L. Milam, of Mountville, safd he felt it would be more satisfactorily to have the people elect trustees so they would have some “redress.” , Should the measure be passed ing places The election would be held un der the direction of the county board of education, election in the Democratic pn- Blasts of Siren To Signal Drive If you hear a fire siren at 6:30 Tuesday evening. Jan 31, don’t black out your home Light it wtfh a porch light burning. For the fire srien will 4ginal the artfiual Mother's March On Polio, a house-to-house campaign as the grand finale to receive donations ! to the March pf Dimes. Mothers will be identified by i red and white armbands Members ot the American Le- | gion Auxiliary with Mrs Charles Burnett, as chairman, have volun teered the;r serviced for the pe riod to round up all last minute contributions to Vie polio fight. All over the nation 3,000,000 Wiothers will march forth to solic it contributions for the Founda tion of Infantile Paralysis. The town has been divided into areas with a capta;n named in each sec tion to direct the drive If your home does not have a porch light place your contribution on the front steps not to be overlooked by the ladies In the whirlwind drive a large number of ladies will participate. All funds collected during the evening will go to the March of Dimds- to be used exclusviely in polio prevention and trtatment. - Captains who will serve with / Mrs. Burnett in the drive Tuesday night are: Mrs. Perry Moore, Mrs. Joe McGee, Mrs W C Baldwin, Mrs. Austin Chandler, Mrs. Wil liam Davis, Mrs. Pinky Reddeck, Mrs. William King, Jr., Mrs* B. F. Wingard, Mrs. Kathryn Marshall, Mrs. Braxton Dutton, Mrs Burl Allen. Mrs. Edgar Taylor. Mrs. Fred Bragg, Mrs Wyman Shealy, Jr. 0 Mrs. Burnett requests that area epatams turn in their donations at the Legion Memorial building when htey complete their work. All workers in the drive Tuesday night are invited to the Legion building for refreshments spon sored and served by the Yellow Jasmine Garden club, headed by Mrs. Wilmot Shealy. Mrs. Burnett requests resident! to call 9266 if donations are not called for by 8:00 p. m. The National* Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the agency which administers March - of Dimes funds, reports that about $65,000,000 is needed this year in the United States to continue the various polio programs unimped ed . . • ' . Pepper Growers To Sign Today For Tear's Acreage growers of pimiento P^PP^s | f* r0 Jji D ||r0 ;»„ in the county will meet today in'' ,r '^^'* •JUIvOll To Start Operation Here February 1 rens county has the largest num-1 in - * the House and Senate this ses- ber of Aryshire dairy cattle ofjsion, the first popular elections any county in the state. (will take place'on May 8 at the 40 Presbyterian Graduates At Columbia Seminary opposition. With the Wofford game in Spartanburg Tuesday evening, the Blue Hose will resume action after a ten-day layoff for exami nations. The Newberry Has, is set for down there the following night. Presbyterian, away this year on a, point-production spree which has averaged almost 90 points- per-game in 13 encounters, boasts a record of nine victories and only four defeats. 'One of these losses, however, came in the lone Little Four game to date against the strong Erskine outfit which remains undefeated in the confer ence. So if PC is to remain in the running for the title, victories ever Wofford and Newberry are considered highly essential.’ The Blue Hose will be led by their ace scoring combination of forward, Dave Thompson, and center, Bruce Thompson, whose combined efforts to date are av eraging more than 50 points-per- game. Laurens County Wildlife Federation To Meet Presbyterian college stands out by a wide margin as the main j source of supply for Columbia Theological Seminary, with 40 alumni currently studying there as candidates for the ministry. This total represents almost one-fourth of the entire seminary enrollment It is a service to the church and to the controlling Synods of Geor gia and South Carolina which has prompted Columbia President J. McDowell Richards* to say: . “For .three-quarters of a cen tury Presbyterian College has rendered a service of rare dis tinction and of tremendous im portance to our church and na tion. The list of its distinguished The S. C. Wildlife Federation of Laurens county will meet Tues day, January 91, iftM, at the Mary Lou ranch. Supper will be served at 7:30. Polio Vaccine Available Now Announcement has been made that polio vaccine is available free of charge for children from 6 months to fifteen years of age at foe Clinic Health Center at the regular hours on Tuesday and Thursdays. In February the third shot will be givWn school children who re ceived the 2nd shots last spring while 7 In • the first and second grades. % , graduates, when considered in proportion to the size of its stu dent bodies, is both amazing an*! ^Charleston, W.'Va.; David Lee inonl-in#, >< * >* XUllll. T_ : i _ venson, Jr., of Abbeville; George Brown Telford, Jr., of South inspiring.” ~ f The seminary student roster shows seven Presbyterian College alumni listed as seniors; 18 as members of the middle class! 13 as juniors; and two as special students. These future ministers include: Senior Class — John Richard Bass of Lyons, Ga.; John David Campbell, Jr., of Shelby, N. C.; Curtis Fennell Crowther, of Co lumbia; Lawton Daugherty, of Atlanta; Robert F. Hunt,, of Greenville; David Brainard Max well, of Clinton; and Henry Lew- ^s Smith, of Moultrie, Ga. Middle Class — Robert Burdet Allman, of Clinton; John Gordon Bradford of College Park, Gal; James Coard, Jr., of Woodville, Ga.; Paul William Crouch of La- Grange, Ga.; Joseph Watts Con yers, of Gainesville, Fla.; Lucius Beddinger DuBose, of Birming ham, Ala.; Raymond Foster Ed wards, of Elberton, Ga.; James William Flanagan, Jr., of Sum merville, Ga.; Charles Oliver Ga- hagan, of Miami, Fla.; Dennis Ketchem, of Dalton, Ga.; Fred Wilson McDiniel, Jr., of Wil- liamston, N. C.; William Paul McKinnon, of Clinton; Marcus Prince HI, of Charlotte, N. C.; Robert Lewis Smith, of Rocking ham, N. C.; James Thomas Ste- Williamson, Jr., df Gaiania Goias. Brazil; and Charles David Young, of Clinton. - Junior Class John I. Allman, Of Macon, Ga.; Herbert Bailey, of Lithonia, Ga.; William D. Blan ton, of Albany, Ga.;* James Robert Boozer, of Greer; Edwin Oscar Byrd of Norwood, N. C.; Ladson Brearley, of Myrtle Beach; Jhmes Patterson Fleming, of Charlotte; Church; Henry Smith—Dahlone- ga. Ga., Church. Robert Allman—Salem Church of Atlanta Presbytery; Gordon Bradford—Nixburg, Ala., Church; James Coad —^ Carnesville, Ga., Church; William Flanagan—Fel lowship Church of Jackson, Ga ; William McKinnon — Edisto Is land, S. C., Church; Herbert Bai ley -y- Todd Memorial Church of Laurens, S. C.; and Edsel Huff- stetler—Calvary Church of Elber ton, Ga. today Laurens i.t lae agricultural bulid j ing at 9 00 a. m. to sign contracts lor the year. A representative of a canning company from Griffin ,6a., wh^-h buys the county's pepper produc tion, will be at the meeting to sign up growers. The county has b<?cn allot 200 acres in peppers for this ytar, it was stated by C. B. Cailhon, county agent: This'is an increase of 50 acres over the acreage an nounced several weeks ago. The per ton based on grade delivered guaranteed price, .for L956 is $80 at one ceqtral -fbadj/ig point in the county. * / Ralph McCaskill, of Gretna, Fla.; • William Alexander ^ c ^ utc ^ en >! Polio Car6 ExpCHSCS Exceed Contributions Jr., of Birmingham, Ala.; Mills Junius Peebles, o‘f Bishopville; Glenn B. Robinson, of Gastonia, N. C.; Neil Segrest. Jr., of Tus- kegee, Ala.; and Thomas Aurelius Stallworth, of Atlanta. Special* Students—Edsel Huf^’ stetler of North Belmont, N. C.; and Robert M. Lfcmly, of Decatur,- Ga. Of this 40-man, group, 13 are serving, pulpits in four states as student supply pastors in addition to their seminary studies. These young pastors and their churches are: ^ John David Campbell, Jr.— Clarksville, Ga., Church; Curtis C r o-W't her — Dadeville, Ala., Church; fiawton Daugherty — Providence Church of Lowndes- vill,e S. C.; Robert F. Hunt—Sum merville, S. C., Church; David Maxwell — Haynesville, N. C-. TIje-'CTInton Credit Bureau will n its doors for business Wed nesday, February 1. 1956 This has long been a desire of the business houses in Clinton who are doing credit business. The Clinton Chamber of Com- hnerce has made a survey of the need and aided .i^4he formation of the bureau. * The local members of the bu reau will have no limit set on the number of calls that they make for their base fee Most units make a separate charge for each call received, blit this will not be the case in the .Clinton organiza tion. Any merchant w^jfo is interest ed in becoming a member should call 15T4 for more information. Mrs R. W. Johnson will serve as mfinager of the organization. Breeding Association Meeting February 14 The annual meeting of the Laurens Cooperative Breeding as sociation will be held at 7:30 p m., February 14, in the^ Agricul tural biulding at Laurens, with Hance Finley, commercial dairy man of Mountville. president, pre siding. ' ,Dr. Victor Hurst, associate daily' rugh Wan. '30. at the Laurens ar- March Of Dimes Dance At Laurens Set For Monday A benefit dance for the March of Dimes will be held Mondav Miss Rebecca Speake, co-chair man of the March of Dimes fund husbandman, Clemson college dairy department, will be guest speaker, using as his subject. ‘Suggestions for Reducing Breed ing Troubles in Dairy Cows.” He will use colored slides in eonnpe- mory. from 9 to 12. Admission is $1 00 per person Luke 'Chaney’s orchestra , will play ' Milton Angelakcjs » chair man $t arrangements tion with his talk. The minting is open to those in terested in dairying whether a drive now in progress, reported I mem b er association or not . Financial report of the operation that during the past year more had been ^pent in the area for the care of polio patients than the to tal of contributions for 1955. The additional amount being supple mented by the National Founda tion. i The expenditures were increas ed because of the number of calls for patient care and it hoped, she stated, that contributions this year will go substantially over last year which were $1,938.00 for Clinton and 1,051.97 for Joanna, maikng a total for the Clinton aree of $2,449.97. Open House Sunday At Calvary Parsonage r Open house will be held Sun- of the association will be made j av afternoon from foree^ until 5 Also the election of three direc- i o’clock at the' Baptist ohurcto par- tors whose terms expire and any sonage on Sloan street other business of interest will be Rev Jl W Spiller? li church discussed. ' pastor and everyone is invited to E. B. Copeland, Clinton, is vice- attend. ' president and J. W Tinsley, Ldu- * ren$, Rt. 3, secretary nad tresu.- urer, w?Fh C. B. Capnon county DIXON PROMOTED - * The promotion of Joe Dixon to agent, recording secretary. Other superintendent of the Clinton Pa- members of the board of direc tors are: A. J. Finley and Floyd Corbett. Mountville; Rufus Lang ston and J. T. Manley, Rt 2, Gray Fred Irwin, Rt. 2 Laurens; and Court; Roy Owens, Fountain Inn; W. E. Adair, Clinton. per Box company has been an nounced by company officials. Mr. Dixon has been employed by the company for the past five years and has been foreman of the fol- lowmg box department for the last year