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! . ^ If You Don't Read The Chronicle Yon Don't Got tfc* News The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, February 23,1956 Number 8 County Delegation Refuses To Approve School District Budgets ServiceAwards To Be Presented At Budget For 1956-1957 Laurens County School District No. 56 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES General Control: Administrative Salaries 13,230.00 Bookkeeper and Secretary 3,600.00 850.00 800.00 1,000.00 150.00 200.00 Accounting Service Extra Office Help Office Supplies Legal Services Professional Dues (Southern Assn.) etc. Travel 1,200.00 Surety Bond Premiums Telephone and Telegraph Service P. O. Box Rent Conference Expense Contingencies .{ Inatruotion: /* ^ “ Salaries, Teachers and Principals $425,000.00 (Driver Education Car Instructional Supplies ..... School Libraries a Agriculture Travel Home Economic Travel .*. 2 Mentos Ask For Referendum Budgets for operating the pub lic schools in Laurens county dis- rticts 55 and 56 for next year fail ed to get the approval of the county delegation in the general assembly at a conference at the court house in Laurens Mnoday morning. After discussion of the budget of Laurens County District 5& at length by the delegation and trustees, Representative Robert C. Wasson moved that the submitted oudgets for both districts be adopted. There was no second to the motion and the question could not be put to a vote. / Senator Ralph T. Wilson^ who presided over the session, stated that had the question been put to a vote he would have voted for it Representatives King Dixon and Charles L. Milam were op posed to both budgets since they called for levying additional tax es, being somewhat larger than previous years’ budgets. Dixon and Milam stated they favored calling a referendum and letting the people vote on wheth er or not they favored levying ad ditional taxes for support of the schools. Both said they would fa vor the additional taxes if the people voted favorably. Discussion never got around to ^he budget for District 56 (Clin ton, Joanna, Mountville, Cross Hill). But in the course of the meeting Dixon- said that objec tors to the Laurens District 55 budget could be applied to Dis trict 56. Dixon made a motion to ap prove an appropriation for the Laurens district which was the same as last year, but no second was made and the motion was not put to d vote. The budget for Laurens District 55 calls for expenditures of $662,- $33.19. This yeen’ budget is Qroximately $639,000. The budget for District (Clinton, Joanna, r Mountville, ^(National Forest Fund Allocation 4 175.00 1,500.00 86.00 400.00 200.00 M $ 23,391.00 450.00 4.500.00 3,000.00 700.00 200.00 School Levies For Counties Near Laurens $433,850.00 '» Operation: Janitors’ Salaries ' $ 19,260.00 Janitors’ Supplies 5,000.00 Fuel * 8.500.00 Water and Lights 5,500.00 Truck Expense 300.00 Maintenance: Auxiliary Agencies: Bus Transportation Special Classes .. Medical Service Fixed Charges: Capital Outlay: * Furniture and 'Equipment Surveying and Engineering Fees Additions and Alterations $ 2 $00.00 7,500.00 .-..$ 1,000.00 4,000.00 750.00 375.00 $ 11,000.00 5,000.00 300.00 — 500.00 J $ 38,550.00 $ 10,100.00 $ 6,125.00 $ 11,000.00 5,800.00 H , Total Estimated Expenditures - $528,816.00 ESTIMATED INCOME From Sources Other Than Local Taxes: State Aid for Teachero’ Salaries $300,000.00 State Aid for Supervision 20,000.00 "State Aid for Maintenance —.......i........ 20.000.00 Vocational Aid: Agriculture 5,500.00 Home Ec 3,750.00 Other ft. 160.00 $349,850.00 Cross Hill) includes expenditures of $538,816. This year’s budget is $502,950. A levy of 35 mills would be re quired to raise the funds for ope ration of Laurens District 55 schools next year. This year’s levy is 25 mills. $504,354.75 would be secured from state aid and other sources, and $188,578.44 would be the amount to be raised by local taxation. A levy of 30 mails for opera tion of Clinton District 56 schools would be required for next year. The district has a levy of three mills for bonds. The levy for thsi year is 22 mills for operation plus the three mills' for bonds. $354,- 061.49 would be secured from state aid and other sources, leav ing $174,754.49 to be raised by lo cal taxation. The Clinton district will open a new white high school next Sep tember, the trustees pointed out, that will require additional funds for operation and additional teachers. The normal, fixed in crease in teachers’ salaries and salaries for the additional teach ers make up about half of the $25,000 increase in proposed ex penditures for the Clinton dis trict, budget estimates show. Next largest dneteases are approxi mately $5,500 for operational ex pense (janitors, janitors’ supplies, fule, w*ter and lights), and *bou‘ $3,000 for maintenance A lengthy discussion was had at the Laurens meeting before the budgets failed to get approval of the delegation. Representative Dixon said, “we must cut the cloth to fit the pat tern-^ we haven’t got the mon ey, how are we going to pay it?’ He suggested cuts totaling $51, 500 in the budget of Laurens Dis trict 55 in categories other than teachers’ salaries., One item of $13,000 for the office of district superintendent he would cut out entirely. Other rdeuctions he sug gested were $15,000 for area su perintendents, supervisors and prinicpals, which would cut the budget amount in half, more than half off clinical salaries, more half off telephone and tele ministration, $6,000 off janitors’ graph and othe rexpenses of ad- wages in a total of $23,000, one- third off janitors’ supplies, $5,000 off the $8,500 appropriated for maintenance of plant and equip ment. Senator Wilson said, “It i» our duty to raise the necessary money for the operation of our schools. Music Fees, Joanna School Fees, Rents, Refunds, etc. 3,211.49 550,00 450.00 $ 4,211.49 $354,061.49 Total Estimated Income Other Than Local Ta Balance to be Provided from Local Levy ??^> v $174,754.51 It is estimated that the assessed valuation of La-urens- County School District No. 56 for the year 1966, from which taxes will accrue for the 1966-57 school session, will be about $5/150,000.00. To obtain $174,754$! by levying on an assessed valuation of $5,- 850,000.00 will require a special school levy of 30 mills Joanna Lions To Receive Charter At Fete Tonight Greenville 9 42 Greenwood 33 Wage Shoals .: 36 Ninety Six 33 Newberry Spartanburg: 27 I«Mnan 44 • Bolling Springs 44 Cowpens 45 Woodruff 45 A Lyman 44 Roebuck 37 Spartanburg City . 46 Union 34 Aiken 53 Orangeburg 54 York 57 Vi Rock HU1 57 Marion No. 3 ... 56 Marlon No. 1 53 Marlon No. 3 50 Marion No. 4 44 Laurens No. 53 25 Laurens No. 56 22 Committees Recommend City Build Water Plant Average for all districts listed above 44Vfc. Laurens District Ne. 56 with 22 mills for operating expenses Is the lowest ef any district in this section of the state. The Ware Shoals section of Laurens county attached to Greenwood has 36 mills and that part at tached to Greenville county has 42 mills. Funenl Services Held Friday For John H. Wharton Funeral services for John H. Wharton. 68, of Waterloo, who died last Wednesday in an Augus-' ta, Ga., hospital, after a long ill ness, were held Frdiay afternoon at Waterloo Methodist church. Rev. A. E. Beckwell, Rev. M. T. Wharton, and Revi C. F. DuBose officiated. Burial was in the Waterloo cemetery. Pallbearers were Furman Gold ing, W. V. McNeill, Albert Britt, David Walker, Herbert Powell, Bennie B. Blakely, Niles Clark and Fred Smjth. Honorary 1 escort was composed /btficriils of Waterloo Methodist church, officials of Laurens coun ty and Rex Lanford, E. V. Gold ing, I. P. Moore, H. C. Sims, Mur ray Garber, Guy Smith, and Dr. W. N. Price. Mr. Wharton was ca farmer of the Waterloo community. He was the son of the late W Henry Wharton and Mrs. Ida Hams Wharton. A member of the Board of C o,u n t y Commissioners, Mr. Wharton had a wide acquaintance over the copnty. - Surviving are his wife, Mrs Annie Pearl Wallace Wharton; a daughter, Mrs., Joe Neil of Water loo ;a son, John H. Wharton, Jr., of Laurens; a sister, Mrs. J. H, Shealy of Cross Hill; a brother, Joe P. Wharton of Greenwood; and three grandchildren. Atlanta Region Reports $34,429 In Initial Phase BILL DOBBINS. President . ALEX CRAWFORD. Secretary I am willing to provide the ad ditional money. Other districts in the state have 45 or 55 mills. I am not going to do anything that will endanger the operation- of Representative our schools or lower standards: If the bill that comes to the ate from the house of tives does not appropriate suffic ient funds to operate the schools as requestde by the boards of trustees, I will amend tne bill to include them.’’ -e-.* . Representatvie Wasson said he would vote for the budgets as presented. Representatives Dixon and Mi lam indicated they would oppose any amendments by Senator Wil son, which would force the bill into free conference. That could result in no enact ment at all of a school appropria tion bill for the county, it was pointed out. G. Miller McCuen, a member of the Laurens board of trustees, said the district could not operate its schools on the $635,000 sug gested by Dixon and said he would resign if the trustees were forced to attempt it. Operating deficits in both dis tricts will be taken care of by a vote of the delegation at a pre vious meeting. Senator Wilson and Representatives Dixon and Wasson voted for the move and Milam voted against it The deficits were $37,- 000 and $35,000, respectively, for Dsitrtcts 55 and 56. 250 Expected To Participate The newly organized Lions club of Joanna will hold its Charter Night tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 p. m. at the Joanna club house with R ladies night supper high lighting the occasion. Many outstanding leaders in Lionism in the state will attend and take part on r the program. District Governor T. J. Reames of Abbeville, will make the princi pal address and present the char ter. He will be introduced by K. R. Helton, Lions State .Secretary, of Clemson. Deputy District Go- emor Jim D. Adams, of Spartan burg, will install the offeiers of the hew club, and Grover B. Eak er, international counselor, of Spartanburg, will present the cer tificates of charter membership A representative from Lions In ternational office in Chicago is expected to be present Rambert S. Truluck, zone chair man who helped to get the club organised will serve as toastmas ter, and R. P. Hamer, president of (continued on page t) Atlanta region Presbyterians have raised $34,429 for Presbyte rian College in the first four days of the institution’s develpoment campaign, the first report meeting indicated Tuesday. A total of . 154 persons contrib uted this amount in the opening phase of a program which seeks $300,000 from that area within the next few weeks. Three other re port meetings are scheduled. The largest gift was recorded from the Central Presbyterian church which pledged $10,000 from its bucket. Three-' ’SftftAfi feend^nit churches outside of Atlanta, how- [the stoo ever, topped the first report meet ing in proportionate giving. The McDonough, Porterdale, and Tim- beriridge churches all exceeded the goal of averaging $10 for each communicant. McDonough, with 145 commun icants, brought in $1,523 given by 42 donors; Porterdale, with 171 'communicants, reported $2,450 from 10 donors; and Timberridge, with 11 communicants, reported $1,156 form 26 donors. TTiese three churches will receive special cer tificates for having met their quo ta. Among other leading church es reporting were: Druid Hills — $5,675; Rock Springs—$3,000; Marietta—$2,410; Peachtree Road — $1,600; Atlanta First—$1,050; Georgia Avenue— Midway—$600. Ninety-three Joanna Cotton Mills Company employees will be honored Saturday night in recog nition of service with the com pany varying in length from 10 years to 20 years. Dr. R. C. Grier, president of Erskine college for thirty-three years and now pastor of the Greenville A. R. P. church, will be the speaker fonjhe banquet occasion honoring the^iong-aer- vice groups and their wives or husbands, the event to be held at Joanna club house at 7:00 p. m. Nineteen employees with 20 years of service will receive $100 watches and insurance riders in creasing their free life insurance from $1500 to $2000. Nineteen employees completing 15 years of service will receive gold rings and insurance riders increasing their free life insurance from $1000 to $1500. Fifty-five 10- year Joannians will be presented gold pins, with their insurance stepped up from $500 to $i000. Walter Regnery, vice-president and general manager, will be as sisted in the presentation by J. L. Delany, plant superintendent, W. K. Waits, assistant superintend ent, and P. B. Mitchell, assistant to the vice-president. Those to be recognized in 'the 20-year group are: Helen Bozard, Vadie Campbell, Louise Cole, Helen Evans, Leona Evans, Willie Mae Flow, J. N. Floyd, V. W. Garner, R. E. Greene, W- O. Hueble, Clara Jenkins, L. E. Jenkins, Dora Lewis, J. H. Mal- pass, L. H. Murphy, B. E. Norris, E. E. Norris, B. W. Taylor, and Margaret Taylor, In the 15-year group are: , J. H. Bishop, Jr., Sabry Boyd, W. E. Boyd, H. N. Copeland, J. H. Evans, C. L. Farmer, J. E. Floyd, Annie Hall, H. H. Hunter, T. P. Johnson, F. D. Kinard, H. E. Morris, M. H. Morris, Jettie Mor ris, J. C. Owens, Louise Salters, W. T. Werts, Sybil Whittle, and Luther Wright The 55 employees entering the 10-year group are: R. L. Altig, Eva Axvdreson, J. J Anderson, B. A. Baker, G. E. Bed- enbaugh, Eudean Bishop, H. D. Bridges, F.C. Brooks, Mary Bur bage, Evelyn Campbell, Leroy Couch, O. A. Crawford, W. P. Crawford, W. W. Crouch, W. M. Crowder, H. R. Darnell, R. L. Dar nell, A. L. Doolittle, Louise Dove, F. L. Ellis, C. H. Etters, Ella Mae Etters, C. E. Franklin, Mil dred Gause, Maedelle Graddick, Clara Green, Lila Green, Lila Gresham, Vinnie Gresham, R. M. Hawkins, Bertha Hoibert Clyde Holt, Ovalene Humphries, S. A. League, H. P. Lindsay, Virginia Lindsay, J. C. Loilis, J. H. Lott Harriet Nabors, J. T. Parrott, Mil dred Rice, J. C. Ruff, Marie Ruff, Houston May, Dorothy MUnick, Smith, Mattie Stroud, H. L. thorn- Gladys Senn, C. C. Shealy, Gladys as, A. J. Tinsley, C. R. Tompkins, E. T. Wallace, and J. E. Willing ham. The service awards banquet scheduled for Saturday night is a part of Joanna's program of recognizing long and faithful ser vice, which program i\now in its tenth year. The Old Timers ban quet, honoring all employees with 25 or more years of service and particularly initiating the new 25- year group, has been scheduled for March 10. An event recogniz ing colored, employees wiht long service will be set at an early date. Ruling Requires , Clinton Mills To Pay Out Dividends An order by Circuit Judge James M. Brailsford, of Orangeburg, wes filed Tuesday in the clerk of court’s office sustaining a referee’s report in the case of Frances Wil liams Arthur, Rose Williams Wil kinson. 'aud P. Bailey Williams against P. S. Bailey and other offi cers and directors of the Clinton Cotton Mills and the Clinton Cot ton Mills. The referee was Thos. H. Pope, of Newberry. The suit was to require the de to pay a cash dividend on stock and to make an indepen dent audit. The referee’s report recommend ed a cash dividend “forthwith’’ of $253,260.00, or at the rate of $126 per share to shareholders of rec ord on August 19, 1954. The inde pendent audit was denied. Since the suit was begun in 1954 the corporation has made a 10 to 1 distribution of the outstanding stock. Clinton Minister is Suspended By Church Of God A Clinton Church of God rp.m- ister was driven out of his church last Wednesday night but he took most of his members with him. Three representatives of Stlde Overseer H. B. Ramsey, ^if Green ville, appeared at the Church of God on Elizabeth Street Wednes day night and, acting on orders of Ramsey, defrocked Rev. E. D. Johnson and took Over the church of which he was pastor. He was charged with disloyalty and insubordination. Johnson held services in the open air . Sunday morning on Milling avenue and had a con gregation larger than the mem bership of his former church, he said, which included most of the members of the church. Sunday night he held services in a former residence at the cor ner of North Owens and Florida streets, and the congregation there was about equal to that at hte morning service, he said. Johnson said he will continue to live in Clinton and the Owens- Florida street building, which he has bought, will be the site of the "Clinton Revival Center,” which he termed an independent inter denominational church, "seeking fellowship with all believers in Christ." Last Tuesday, Johnson said, he received a letter suspending him. The three-man committee that took over the church Wednseday was,composed of Rev. J. M. Dean, of Laurens, Rev. A. F. Newport, of Greenwood, and Rev. J. T. Shealy, of Greenville. A trial, Johnson said, was held Thursday at state headquarters of the Church of God. 2 Woodland Way, Greenville. Johnson said he was not allowed to present any witnesses at the trial. Johnson said that church build ings of the Church of God are not owned by local congregations, even though built and paid for by them. Headquarters of the church is at Cleveland, Tenn. Chorles Dukes Named Editor Of The Rlue Stacking Charles Dukes, a junior from At lanta, is the new editor of Presby terian college’s 'nationally ranked student newspaper. He was named editor of The Blu4 Stocking. All-American col lege weekly, in a recent student election. Dukes succeeds Richard Oliver, of College Park, Ga., in this position. Blair Baldwin, of Blair, was cho sen business manager to replace Dee Parker, of Laurens. ^ l On Honor List Fellowship Night At Broad Street Sunday evening will be observ ed as family night at Broad St. Methodist church. Families will bring covered dishes and gather in the dining room of the church* at six o’clock. The Sara Gl^nn circle is in charge of arrangements and beverages for the occasion. At seven o’clock following the hour and a .hqjf for supper and fellowship th£ Regu lar Sunday evening worship ser- yice will be held. Daniel Talk Early April Charles E. Daniel, of Green ville, will be the speaker at a county-wi*fe meeting of service clubs, cipic officials and other .nvited guests in Laurens on Ap ril 2. The Laurens Lions club will be host for the meeting, which will be held at the new high school. \ Other invited guests will in- CHARLES Eloise Marshall, of Clinton, is named on the honor list at Sweet Briar College, Va., for the first semester. She is a freshman at the qajlege. elude Governor Timmerman, for mer Governor Byrnes, Senators Thurmond and Johnston, Con gressmen Ashmore and Dorn, Robert M. Cooper of the Statq De velopment and Planning Board, and other prominent figures. Mr. Daniel is expected to speak on “What Luarens County Can and Must Do to Become a Part of the Industrial Development of South Carolina.” Daniel, widely known South Carolina builder, has played a leading part in the post-war in dustrial development of the state. The Lauren%^iions club has re cently taken the lead in a concert ed move to draw industry to the county. The club is seeking the cooperatkyi of individuals, city and county governments, service clubs and other agencies. 4 Study Made In Recent Months The utilities committees council and the citizens ac committee will recommend to council that the city build a ter line to Enoree river as source for its water supply. ' This move was embodied in a resolution adopted at a meeting / of the two groups Friday night. Included in the resolution were provisions for a pumping station at the river, a 16-inch line from the river to the city’s present pumping station on Duncan creek, a 14-inch line to parallel the pres ent 10-inch line^ from the creek, ** and construction of a 3,000,000- gallon capacity filtering plant near the present water plant in the city: The resolution was the result of several meetings held in recent weeks to make a study »of the city’s water situation. Members of city council’s utili ties committee are Mayor' Hugh Eichelberger, Councilmen James P. Sloan. S. A. Pitts, and Harry C. Layton. The citizens advisory committee includes Tom Plaxico, B. Hubert Boyd, D B. Smith, B. O. Whitten, R. P. Hamer. J W. Curtis, and J. B. H*rt. Technical assistance and advice was given the group by Harwood Beebe Co , engineers, of Spartan burg. The Beebe firm recently made a survey of the city’s water needs and submitted recommendations and sketches that include practi cally the same features called for in the committee’s resommenda- tions. The engineers will submit a revised report at an early date, it was stated. It is expected that after coun cil has received the resolution and complete information and recommendations, including costs, from the engineers, council will circulate petitions calling for an election to approve or disapprove the issuance of bonds to finance the contemplated expansion of water facilities of the city. During recent years the city’s water plant has provde inade quate for the community’s grow ing needs, city officials state, both as to source and atplity to meet demands made upon it. Last year the city had to resort to building a dam to impound rain water for emergency use if needed, but officials state this lake, which is now full, cannot be regarded as a permanent water source. Court Session Underway At Laurens This Week * A term of general sessions court,. timxed at the request of his attor- with Judge J. Henry Johnson, of ney. Allendale, presiding, opened in | Alphonso Cook pleaded guilty to Laurens Monday. The court was occupied the first Miss Harris Named On Woman's Press Group Miss Cornelia Harris, of Hhe Chroncile, was named secretary of the woman’s division of the South Carolina Press associa tion at its mid-winter meeting in Columbia last Friday and Satur day. day with organization matters, re- receiving guilty pleas and sentenc ing, and. returning of true bill* by the grand jury. The session also heard a dis course by the presiding judge. R. U Plaxico, of Clinton, was appointed by Judge, Johnson as foreman of the grand Jury. About 25 true bills were re turned ‘by the grand jury on Mon day and 11 on Tueeday The court received eight guilty pleas Monday and eight on Tues day. One jury trial was complet ed Tuesday and court recessed for the day while in the midst of an other, that of three , defendants charged with larceny and receiving stolen goods. Judge Johnson committed Jesse Shelton, Chnton Negro charged with two murders, to the State hospital for observation. Judge Johnson revoked the pro bation of Ralph B. Sawyer, who had been convicted previously of destroying furniture belonging to his wife and ordered to pay her $277. The sum bad not been paid, probation officer J. B. Merchant reported and Judge Johnson gave Sawyer until May 20 to pay or to serve three months imprisonment. The case of Eugene McGowan, charged with murder, was con- forging his aunt’s name to 72 checks totaling around $2,300. He was sentenced to serve seven years and to pay a nominal fine of $1, with this suspended on service of four years and probation of five years. A white youth, Clarence Ma lone, pleading guilty to house breaking with ^intent to steal, was sentenced to 18 months imprison ment, suspended on service of 10 months and placed cm probation for two,years. — Four defendants pleaded gu,ilty to operating motor vehicles under the influence of intoxicants, sec ond offense, and received identi cal sentences; one year or $1,000 suspended on service of four months and payment of $300, and placed on probation for tWo years. Four defendants pleaded guilty to operating motor vehicles under the influence of intoxicants, sec ond offense, and received identica . sentences: on^ year or $1,000 sus pended on -service of four months and payment of $300, and placed on probation for five years. They were , Willie McDaniel, Thomas Luther Smith, James Elbert Gar ter and James A. Milwood. Roosevelt Wilson pleaded guilty to disposing of property under lien and was sentenced to sedve one year. Dial Chappell, charged with (continued on page 4) High School Teams In Tournament Here This Week Some 300 young basketball players from throughout the up per part of South Carolina are in_ Clinton this week participating in the upper-state high school bas- tetball tournament for Classes A and B. Play in Presbyterian College’s LeRoy Springs gymnasium began Tuesday afternoon and will ex tend through this Saturday. The ’Inals in Class B are scheduled or Friday night; in Class A, for Saturday night. Twenty-eight boys and girla teams, the champions of seven districts, are competing in this meet for the right to represent upper South Carolina in Colum bia next week. Walter jA. Johnson. PC athletic director, serves as tournament chairman for the meet which is being held for the ninth straight year on the Presbyterian court. To Permit County To Issue Bonds To Pay Indebtedness A bill to authorize and empow er the Laurens County board of commissioners to issue general obligation bonds not to exceed $290,000 to pay off present indebt edness and to improve county roads has been introduced in the Senate by Sen. Ralph T. Wilson. The measure proposes that up to $150,000 of tl>e issue shall be applied to the payment of prin cipal and interest -due on two notes of Laurens cuonty Prin cipal and interest on the notes total $150,000. The bill explains that proceeds for repairs to the court house, from the notes now due was used to provide a sheriffs office and to construct and improve cototy roads and bridges, and school grounds. Also provided for in the pro posed bond issue is the financing of the construction and improving county roods and bridges and the I purchase of road madunery. S.i f