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• I, / Pa** Two County Life Termer Tronsferred To Pen THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Music Club Plans Bridge Benefit March Ninth At Legion Home James M. Anderson, serving life sentence in Laurens county | Table arrangements for the for murder, was transferred to Clinton Music club’s forthcoming the state penitentiary Friday. j bridge benefit will be taken be- The Negro was sentenced in' ginning today and lasting through June 1949, for the slaying, and, Thursday,. March 8, the day L«-- had been a trusty at the Laurens j f° re benefit county jail for the past two years Reservations may be made by He was transferred, an officer said, for misconduct. calling Mrs. James L. Walker at 525. Each table of four players must be reserved separately, and tickets will be sold at the Legion Home door the afternoon of the benefit. Playing hours are from 3 until 5, and ten prizes will be awarded ot holders of top bridge and canasta scores. Players are asked to bring only cards and a scoreboard. The following committee chair men have been named to handle the event: Mrs. Robert W. An derson, tables; Mrs. Bryan Coates, refreshments; Mrs. James Von Hollen, cokes; Mrs. Richard Craig and Mrs..Frank Fowler, decora tions; Mrs. William Hogan, prizes; Mrs. Ed Sadler, tallies. Mrs. James L. Walker is general chairman. Proceeds from the event will go to the club’s scholarship fund which is to be used to send a young Clinton musician to the Transylvania Musip Camp, Bre vard, N. C., for a sesaon. Laurens Boys # Girts Take District 2 Titles Laurens high school boys and girls walked off with Class A championships in District 2 in a tournament ending »at Laurens ^Saturday night. They will represent the district ip the up-state tournament being played in Clinton at the Presby terian college gym this week. Laurens boys defeated Union high, 53-36. The^. ,Laurens girls downed Clinton’s girls, 44-34. District Music Festival Be Held At Inman March 5-6-7 The Western District High School Music FesJMval. one of South Carolina’s four such events. will be held March 5, 6 and 7, at Chapman high school at Inman. Vocal events will be held March program. ‘Hiey include; The Rev. Marc Weersing, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of. Spartanburg; the Rev. Henry P. Mobley, palter of Rock Hill’s Oakland AvyeiinePrsebyterian church; the 'Rev. cHfifence R. Thayer, director of Presbyterian college’s Guidance Cwiter; the Rev. George A. Anderson, profes sor of Bible and student dean at Prsebyterian clolege ;and Dr. R. Wright Speers, president of Co-.;“ lumbia college. presidents, Precinct Clubs Scheduled For Saturday Meets Thursday, February 23, 1956 The planning committee which 5. Bands and orchestras will per- }j as )^ eri working out the details Discharged Veterans May Select New Post Army veterans who desire to enlist within 90 days of discharge and select an assignment of their own choice may contact Sergeant Morris at the post office in Clin ton. form on March 6. March 7 will be given to piano events and instru mental solos and ensembles. Many hundreds of high school musicians and their teachers are expected to participate in the three-day affair, presenting their talents for judging by adjudica tors who are experienced and widely known in their fields. Counties of the Western district are Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Edgefield, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick. Newberry, Oconee, Pickens, Saluda and Spar tanburg. Harrison Elliott' band director at Inman, is Western district chairman. The festival is sponsor ed by the S. C. Music Educators association. Synod YouHi Roily Convenes On College Campus Saturday A number of outstanding churchmen will participate in the 1956 Young Adult Rally of the Synod fo South Carolina to be held on the Presbyterian college campus next Saturday, Feb. 25. ' Young Adult Chaimman Thom as B. Perrin of Lake City, today announced the group of leaders who will head up the one-day of this eseventh annual Adult Rally is composed of Leon ard L. Hutchinson of Florence, Dick Herring of Charleston, James B. Rodgers of Spartanburg, the Rev. John R. McKinnon of Cheraw, and Perrin. * j And the Presbytery chairmen include: Bethel — Mr. and Mrs. James Howye, of Lancaster; Charleston—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wilson, of North Chahleston; Con- garee—Gray Olive of Columbia; Enroee—Jack Bessent, of Spar tanburg; Harmony—Conyers Hor ton, of Kingstree; Pee Dee—Bob Bennett, of Cheraw; Piedmont— Mrs. Walter Freeman of Belton; and Suoth Carolina—Henry Davis tor—the Rev. W. Ted Jones of Co- of Ware Shoals. Regional direc- lumbia; and assistant director— Miss Jessie Hodges of Columbia. William M. Shields To Present Program At Winston-Salem ■ ■ William M. Shields. Clinton photograpjher, has been invited by the North Carolina Photographers association to present a lecture Democfatic precinct clubs of the county will meet Saturday after noon at 3 o’clock for the purpose of reorganizing. To be elected at that time are a president, one or more vice- a eecretary-treasurer, and a county executive commit teeman from e^ch club. Delegates Vnnno 1 to county convention to be - Un * held at Laurens on Monday, March 5, at 11 a.m., will also be named. Each club is entitled to one del egate for each 25 votes and major ity fraction polled in the first pri mary in 1954. The Clinton City precinct will hold its meeting at the high school building on Hampton avenue. 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FORD REED SHORT F riday-Sa tur day Feb. 24-25 With Richard Denning and Lori Nelsor FrL—3:00, 5:45, 8:30 Sat.—1:13, 4:06, 6:59, 9:52 WUT MU TK IKK RATHE IAI SPAWNED M TK KEAN FLOOR? Phantom From 10,000 Leagues Kent Taylor, Kathy Downs Fri.—-4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat—2:33, 5:26, 8:19 Monday-Tuesday Feb. 27-28 THE LIEUTENANT • WORE I SKIRTS i - COUMlfHUM - 1 HI QnbmaScoPET ■piK •o-n RITA MORENO 1 k*(ml*NN»nM» . 1 ' smrMMc SOUND m Wed.-Thurs. Feb. 29-Mar. 1 « cm nnoR kb * miab raw * iivmono wuim • a i - rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtj. How to make them mm ■Takt then aithiU HASSSf Two Clinton Students Have High Averages Three Laurens county students are among the Furman University students making more than a B scholastic average during the semester just ended at the uni versity. They are Terry Thomas and Jacqueline Truluck of Clin ton, and George Clark of Water loo.' WILLIAM M. SHIELDS and demonstration. ‘Portraits of Children,” at the annual conven tion in Winston-Salem March 19 through 21. In addition to points of lighting and posing, the Totsday program, in use for some time at the Wil liam M. Shields studio in Clinton, will be emphasized. These Tots^ days, (days sets aside every week for photographing “Tots” exclu sively), have becomd synonymous with outstanding and unusual por traits of children. Giant replicas of $he famed “Braggin’ Book” are being made to order and furnished Mr. Shields for his lecture. Portraits, as well as complete Totsday sittings, of many children from Clinton and vicinity will be exhibited during the convention in connection with Mr. Shield’s dem onstration, ' , 1 ■ Furman €. Thomason Out For Commissioner Furman E. Thomason announc es his candidacy for County Com missioner today in The Chronicle. Mr. Thomason, a farmer and livestock producer, lives on the Princeton highway, four miles from Laurens in the Trinity Ridge community. This is his first venture into politics. Two Registrants Report Far Induction, Two For Examination Two registrants reported Mon day to Laurens County Board 30 fpr induction into the armed ser vices. They were sent to Colum bia, J. B. Lewis, chairman of the board, said. They were Furman Ira Golding, Jr., of Waterloo, and John Herman Robinson, of Lau rens, Rt. 2. Reporting for physical exami nations and also sent to Columbia were Curtis Henry Young of Clin ton, and Richard Horace Chil dress, Rt. 1, Clinton. POUTICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS COUNTY COMMISSIONER I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Commis sioner of Laurens county and pledge to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic pri mary. J. WARREN CRAINE I hereby announce myself as a candidate for County Commis sioner of Laurens county, and pledge to abide by the rules and regulations of the Democratic pri mary. FURMAN E. 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