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V <•: w If Yon Don’t Read The Chronicle Yea Don't Get the News Volume LVII The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Ointon, S. C, Thursday, March 22,1956 Number 12 Presbyterians Let $166,475 Contract For Addition to Educational Plant To Break Ground Sunday, April 1 ♦ • A contract for $166,475 for the proposed addition to the First Presbyterian church has been let, and special ground-breaking cere monies are scheduled for Easter mornine. ^ The Rev. W. Redd Turner, pas tor, yeaterday announced that Mrs. George H. Cornelson will break ground on the building site L in the ceremonies to be held im mediately after regular church services on April 1. * C. Y. Thomason Company, of Greenwood, entered the low hid for the building which was ac cepted by the church building committee last Thursday. Five other bids, ranging up to $210,- 000, were submitted to the com mittee. , It is estimated the job will take approximately 250 calendar days or about ten months. Work is scheduled to begin on the Mon day after the ground-breaking. Dr. Turner said the entire con gregation will join in the special ceremonies on Easter. A pro cession will move from the church I to the building site, with the min ister, the building committee, choir, elders and deacons preced ing the congregation to the pro posed location. After a brief ser vice there, the ground-breaking will take place. The proposed structure will provide facilities in addition to f the church sanctuary and its edu cational building. It will include, downstairs, an auditorium cap able of seating 300 persons for a meal, a kitchen, stage, reception room, kindergarten* and nursery and the woman’s classroom. Other classrooms will be upstairs. The addition will be of granite construction in harmony with the exterior of the present church. , Certain areas will be air condit- wLed. P. S. Bailey, chairman of the board of deacons, served as acting chairman of the building commit tee meeting in the absence of chairman Tom Addison. Episcopal Churches Observe Holy Week New Church Structure Two Areas Set Goals For College Development Drive MpvlC Shown here is a sketch of the proposed new educational building for the First Presbyterian church for which the contract was let Thursday. The present plant is in the background. Alaska Woman Convicted Of Killing Clinton Negro Man Stabbed in Bar in December Four Seek Senate Post; Eight In House Race; Three for Sheriff Laurens Co. Paving Contract Announced A 9ontract for the ^fading and bituminous surfacing of 8.013 miles of secondary roads in Lau rens county has been awarded bv the State Highway Department to Theo Brothers of Woodruff. The contract was announced in a letter of award from Chief Highway Commissioner Claude R. j Goals of $100,000 and $60,000 respectively for Presbyterian Col lege's Diamond Jiibilee Develop ment program have been estab lished by the Greenville and Spar tanburg regions. Action in both of these areas came at the organizational steer ing committee meetings held dur ing the past week. Campaigns now getting underway will be conduct ed in these two regions simultan eously. * The Greenville region co-chair men are H. Grice Hunt, top-selling insurance underwriter, and the McMillan March 14.’ It was based j Future Clinton Citizens Anchorage. Alaska, March An attractive brunette woman was convicted of manslaughter here last night for the fatal stabbing of a Negro soldier after he accosted her for a dance in the Alley Cat bar. A federal epurt jury of seven ond degree murder, along with Airman 3-C Charles Hinton. The jury acquitted Hinton. The jury deliberated for more than two days after a 12-day trial. The jury oame back once to hear •gain the testimony of a witness that he had seen the white woman strike Hart once after the Negro Holgr Week will be jointly by the Epiroopal congrega tions of Laurens county. The fol lowing schedule has been an nounced by the Rev. Clyde I. Ire land. priest-in-charge. Maundy Thursday, May 20, will be observed at All Saints church, Clinton at 7A0 p. m. with a choral celebration of the Holy Commu nion commemorating the institu tion of the Lord’s Supper. Good Friday. May 30, will be observed si Epiphany church, Laurens, with a three-hour wor ship service from 12 noon to 3:00 p. m., commemorating the hours that Jesus was on the cross. Medi tations on the seven last words of Jesus spoken from the cross will be presented toy ministers of the other churches erf Laurens. Those attending this service are not expected to remain the whole three hours i The congregation may quietly enter and leave during the singing dt the hymns. Mr. Ireland said that the two Episcopal congregations hope the community will feel welcome to observe Holy Week with them. Wilson Brotliers Injured In Wreck At Laurens Sunday ♦ — Roy and Walter Wilson, broth ers, of Clinton, were injured Sun day morning about 4 o’clock when their 1954 Ford coupe crashed in to a train over a crossing on a by-pass. They were headed toward Clinton when the wreck occurred. The car is practically a total loss. Walter, 26. was driving, officers stated, and is the more seriously hurt. He and Roy, 22, are still at V Hays hospital, and will be there for treataent several more days, it was said. Roy has lacerations on face and hands, while Walter has fractur ed ribs, cuts and bruises on face, neck and knees. -^r-r Ray Surratt Announces MountvHle Magistrate men and five women convicted entem * tlie ^ ar an< * * ra bbed Mrs. Helen Virginia Smith, 30, of her arm - slaying Specialist 3-C Charles A.! The government alleged that Hart, 26, of Clinton, S. C., in the. Hart died of one stab wound in crowded bar last Dec. 3. | the heart and five in the back, 'She had been charged with sec- contending that the woman fol lowed him from the bar and in flicted the additional wounds be gore leaving the establishment. Hart was found dead later in the alley outside, where bar employes said they placed him because they thought he was ill. Versions of the incident varied trfdely, but U. S. Atty. William Plummer told the jury, ‘‘Everyone heard her say, T killed him’.’’ Plummer said Mrs. Smith was quoted as having said she would dance with Hart after he ap proached her, and that she then stabbed him first as she brought her arm around in a dancing poae. The woman and her airman com panion walked out of another An chorage area bar and surrendered to police about two hours later. The court set next Tuesday for sentencing. Rev. Phillips Noble, pastor of the Second, -(Presbyterian church > of Greenville; for Spartanburg re gion, E. Clifton Lancaster, cashier of the Piedmont National bank of Spartanburg, and the Rev. W. T. Manson, pastor of the Limestone Presbyterian church of Gaffney. The Greenville steering commit tee met on Tuesday night to es tablish its goal of $100,000. This amount will be sought from ap proximately 5,000 Presbyterians in 20 churches within six communi ties of Greenville county. A goal of $60,000 for the Spar tanburg region was set at its steer ing committee meeting last Fri day night. This area is composed of 28 Presbyterian churches with total membership of some 6,000 in 16 communities of Spartanburg, Union and Cherokee counties. More than $320,000 toward the 1956 objective of $760,000 for Presbyterian college already has been pledged in the opening months of the campaign, mostly in Laurens county and the Atlanta region. Mrs. T. N. Latimer Passes Yesterday Meeting Scheduled For Thursday On Rush River Watershed A meeting of farmers, dvic lead ers, agricultural workers and oth ers who are interested m the Bush River watershed project will be held at the Bush River high school, Newberry county, Thurs day, March 22, at 7:30 p. m. * The Soil Conservation service watershed planning party- is now preparing a plan on the 89,000 acre watershed. The project begins near Clinton, goes southeast, in cludes the towns of Clinton, Jo anna and Newberry, through New berry county to Lake Murray. At the meeting the prelgninary plans will be reviewed and the peo ple informed as to developments Colored slides will be used by B. M. Latham. Soil Conservation ser vice, in explaining the watershed program. , The meeting is being called by the supervisors of the Laurens and Newberry Soil, Conservation dis tricts, who are co-sponsors of the project. Thousands of gallons of water carrying tons of fine bottom land topsoil were carried away Friday when Bush River overflowed its banks following a series of rains and a two-inch downpour which descended Friday morning. The Soil Conservation service in this section promises that this will not occur when the Bush River water shed is completed. The river has its origin around Clinton. The Bush River watershed which was given approval by Clemson college, the state legislature and Congress will be a boon to hun dreds of farmers and cattle rais ers in upper Newberry county and lower Laurens county when com pleted. In the not too far distant future the -died may be completed and the large amount of water which left the Bush River banks on its route to Saluda river, Lake Murray and the Atlantic ocean, will remain here in the two counties. When word was received that the river was rising many farmers and others connected with the Soil Conservation service made trips up the river and saw with regret the large volume of water rushing out of bounds when it is so badly needed during the summer by farmers with large herds of cat tle and farm crops. on a low bid of - $93,700.14 sub ) mitted when bids for the work were publicly opened in Colum bia February 14. Included in the project are the grading and surfacing of 7 2.348 miles on Road 26 from S. C. Route 66 northeast of Joanna north westerly to Renno; of 4.531 miles on Road 98 from S. C. Route 72 northeast of Clinton northwester ly to Road 57; and of 1.134 miles on Roads 153 through 146 and 158, being streets at the Town of Jo anna. I 38 Candidates Qualify for Posts Mrs. Thomas Newton Latimer passed away suddenly yesterday morning at Hays hospital. Mrs. Latimer made her home in Ware Shoals, but Was here on • visit to her daughter, Mrs. Roy Gasque. Richard W. Kimball. inspection 01 College ROIC Now Underway; Parade Today At 1:30 The annual federal inspection of PreAyterian college’s .ROTC is now underway. This inspec tion, which covers all phases of military training at the college, started yesterday morning when the inspecting team inspected the cadets in rank at drill. The inspection ends today with a ceremonial battalion parade by the cadet corps on PC’s Johnson field. The public is invited to witness this full dress parade, which will be held at 1:30 p. m. The inspecting team is compos ed of Col. James E. Williams, Lt. Col. Luther O. Hinson, and Major The team The second in The Chronicle’s series of photos of Clinton chil dren to be published during the next several months appears today. Top row, left to right: Jimmy, 3. son of Mr. and Mrs. James F_ Wolfe; Susan. 3, and Malcolm. 14 months, children of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Lee. Bottom row: Sara. 10 months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe W. McGee; Virgil. 1 year, and Susan. 3,. children of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Livingston. Calling for Vote On School Changes Revised Has Passed House; Now In Senate Whea she became ill Monday. jwill conduct an inspection of mili- .of the ballots. tknv instnirtinn training aids, ad-* The first hi Laurnes, March 16—A new ver sion of the Laurens County’s House delegation bill to change the operation of the schools of the county was introduced in the House last Tuesday, according to a copy of the bill received here. This bill, given calendar No. H. 2060, is the same as the first bill except for 11 words introduc ed into the title and the same words in the body of the bill, as well as a complete change ih one J. Ray Surratt, of Joanna, will be in the race for magistrate of Hunter towmhip at Mountville. ac cording tq his announcement to day in The Chronicle's candidate column. Surratt has lived in the Joanna community for 25 yean. He works with Ray's Fix-dt Shop on the Jbanna-WhMmire highway. He Is a member of the Baptist church and the Masonic order. Key Gub Members Attend Convention In Greensboro, N. C. Four Key club members from Clinton attended the annual con vention Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Greensboro. Key clubs are a boys organization sponsored by the International association of Kiwanis clubs. Boys from Clinton attending the convention were Robert Hor ton and Joe Dailey of the Clinton high school Key club, and Pete Wickham and Millard Daniels of the Thomwell high school club. R. L. Wickham, member of the Clinton Kiwanis club, and adviser of the Thomwell club, attended the meeting with the four boys. Funeral services will be held this afternoon, Thursday, at three o’clock at the Presbyterian church in Ware Shoals. Graveside ser vices will be held at Greenville Prsebyterian church near Hodges. After nine o’clock this morning the body will be at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. Harold Mar tin, in Ware Shoals. In addition to Mrs. Gasque and Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Latimer is sur vived by another daughter, Mrs. John Hill of Ware Shoals; a son. T. S. Latimer, of Donalds; two sis ters, Mrs. R. S. Clark and Miss Mae Blackwell of Due West; two brothers, Homer S. Blackwell, of Laurens; and D. T. Blackwell, of Columbia. She was a native of Due West and was before marriage Miss Lula Blackwell COLUMBIA COLLEGE ALUMNAE TO MEET Members of the Columbia Col lege Alumnae association of the Greenville area will hold their an nual meeting at the Clemson House at Clemson on Saturday, April 7. Reservations should be made with Mrs. L. D. Chisholm, 3® Bue na Vista St., Greenville. Mrs. Lonnie Hiers of this city, is chairman for Laurens county. tary instruction, training aids, ad ministration. supply, and the ca dets’ drill. Junior and senior classes were inspected yesterday, and fresh man and sophomore classes will be inspected today. The last part of each class is turned over to the inspector, who asks the cadets questions on subjects covered during the year. — Lt. Col. Francis V. Smith, pro fessor of military science and tac- at the college, stated that yterian’s unit has shown up in all previous inspections J year, and that he wanted the cadets to demonstrate their high degree of perfeetion in this final and most thorough inspection of the year T. Dovid Sloan, Jr. Announces For House T. David Sloan, Jr., is announc ed today in The Chronicle as a candidate for the House of Rep resentatives from Laurens coun ty. Sloan, a young lawyer who practices in Laurens, had an ad vertisement in last week’s issue of the paper m which he advocated an election on whether or not peo ple of the county wished to elect school trustees. Baptist Meet Set for Laurens Monday The first bill which passed the House and was sent to the Senate, was withdrawn by the House delegation obviously to makerfhe changes. The original title to the bill read, “A Bill to provide for a vote in Laurens county on the ques tion of whether the schools shall be operated under the present system or under the County Superintendent of Education." As revised, the words ‘‘with the abolition of the office of county superintendent of education" were inserted after the “present system” so as to read "on the question of whether schools shall be operated under the present system with the abolition of the office of County Superintendent of Education or under the County Superintendent of Education." The wording on the alternate <>r second ballot was changed entire ly. The bill as originally intro duced read ‘‘Do you favor the present system • at the operation of the schools irf~tlaurens county by the District Superintnedents of Schools No. 55 and No. 56?” As revised for the second bill, it reads “Do you favor the operation of the schools in Laurens County by the district superintendents thereby abolishing the office of County Superintendent of Edu cation?” The body of the bill, with the 11 word insertion and ballot change reads as follows: A Bill—To Provide for a Vote in Laurens County on the Ques tion of whether Schools shall be Operated under the Present Sys tem with the Abolition of tha^Of fice of County Superintendent of Education or Under the County Superintendent of Education. ‘Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina: Section 1. At the next primray election on the second Tuesday in the schools of Laurens County by the County Superintendent of Education?" / “Yes” “No" “Do you favor the operation of the schools in Laurens. County by the District Superintendents thereby abolishing the office of County Superintendent of Educa tion?” “No” “Yes” “Sec. 2. Those officers in charge of printing ballots for the primary election in Laurens County shall provide ballots at each precinct as required by Section 1 of this act, and votes thereon shall be counted and canvassed the seme as other votes in the election. “Sec. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed , - A total of 38 candidates quali fied for nomination to Laurens county offices to be voted on j the Democratic primary June 12. j The deadline for filing was Monday at noon Several last-minute entries were noted, among them being candidates not heretofore men tioned in connection with the of fices. The largest number of candi dates appears in the race for the House of Representatives, where eight ar£ listed for the three seats. Only on inccmbent is offering for re-election, the other two seeking j the state senate post. Seven are offering for the posi- ! tion of County Commissioner | where two are to be elected. There are four candidates for the staet senate, one being the in cumbent, two incumbent house members, and one former house member In the race for sheriff, there are three who seek the office, includ ing the present occupant. Two candidates qualified for corort^r. with the’eurrent coroner see k 1 ng^re-elect i no In the clerk of court’s race, no opposition appeared for the pres ent clerk who seeks re-nomina tion. Following is the complete list of candidates for the various of fices: ’ State Senate: Justin A. Budges, King Dixon. Robert C. Wasson, Ralph T. Wilson (incumbent). House fo Representatives: Mar shall W Abercrombie, Thomas A Babb. W Paul Culbertson, Wil liam C. Dobbins, C J. Hart, Charles L Milam (incumbent). J. # Herman Power, T. David Sloan. Jr. Sheriff: A. R. Alexander. W. A Lowery (incumbent), Caldwell W. Weir. Clerk of Court: Walter A. Duw- lap Coroner: C. Foung Pinson, Joe F. Smith (incumbent). County Commissiooer: G. Fow ler Brownlee, J. Warren Craine, Ryan F. Lawson. Paul S. O’Dell, Claude A Patton,'Roy L Ramage, Furman E. Thompson. “Sec. 4. This act shall take ef feet upon its approval by Governor." The bill has already passed three readings in the House and been sent over to the Senate. List Of Executive Committee Members Named By Precincts The following is a list of the County Democratic Executive Committee by precincts as listed with Miss Le Ellen Williams, sec retary of the committee: Baileys—Byron Brown Barksdale-Namie — J Herman Power Brewerton—H S. Balentine Clinton—James P. Sloan. Clinton Mill—Joe Terry 'Cook’s Store—Toy R Patton. 'Cross Hill—W. W Watkins. Daniel’s Store—Yancey Martin Dials—W R. Harris. Ekom—S. E. Williams. Gray Court—Dr W T Pace Grays—J. J Mahaffey. Hopewell—J. Roy Crawfrod Joanna—John M Ross. Jones' Store — Raymond A Cook In the ten magistrates’ only three reveal opposition to the the present holders of the offices seeking re-nomination. Lucile Metts Watts, present masgistrate at Laurens, is opposed by J. Dwight Gwinn. R. Eugene Johnson, magistrate of Hunter Township at Mount ville. who is seeking re-nomina tion, is opposed by J. R- Surratt In Sullivan township. J. R. Bux- hardt is opposed by Archie C. Owens. Other magistrates, all of whom, •re unopposed are: - . Hunter Township at Chnton: Sam H McCrary. Jacks Township James M. Copeland. Scuffletown: W P Abercrom bie Cross Hill E P Boazman Waterloo M. N Pressly Youngs J, J Mahaffey Dials: C M Curry Terms Not Expiring O^her terms of county offices, four in number, do not expire this year They run for four years and will be in the I960 elec tion. They are: treasurer, Sam M. Leaman; superintendent of education. J. Leroy Burns; super visor. Bennie B. Blakely; and au ditor. Miss Jennie V. Culbertson Lanford—T J. Kennedy S' • Laurens Ward I—C. L. Mliam. j trt tiliom V*. UODOlHSf Laurens Ward II—J M. Don non. Laurens Ward III—Joe B. Med lock. Ehurens Ward| IV — Fred W Taylor. Laurens Ward V—Raymond C June, 1956, in, Laurens County,'Hill ^ the question of the operation of I Laurens Ward VT JIM SMETHWICK MISS LOUISE BRACKNELL WILLIAM SIMPSON Coker Resigns Position At Laurens John Coker has resigned the position of music director at Lau rens high school, it has been an nounced. Mr. Coker, former Clinton resi dent, graduate of the local high school «nd Davidson college, ex pects to pursue his studies next year at the Cincinnati Conserva- | tory of Music. The Western Regional TrJlning Union convention will be held at the Lucas Avenue Baptist church in Laurens on Monday, March 26 beginning at 3 o’clock In the aft ernoon and adjourning at 8:40 hi the evening. The Junior and Intermediate Sword Drills and Speakers’ Tourn ament will be held in the after noon. Supper will be served at 5:40 p. m. and the evening session will begin at 7 o’clock. Ttoe hymn fes tival will be conducted by Jim Stonithwick and the closing ad dress by William Simpaon. Miss Louise Bracknell and Jim Smithwick of the State Training Union* department, and William Simpson, of Nashville, Term., will direct the various activities. Rev. Ralph McKinney, of John ston, is president of the region with Miss Betty Thomas, of Jo anna, secretary-treasurer; Rev. Paul Roache, of Edgefield, vice president; Rev. J. H. Derr, of Clin ton, pastor advisor; Rev. Joe Walsh, Greenwood, song leader, and Miss Margaret Compton, of Laurens, pianist. The Western region is composed of the following associations: Ab beville, William Alexander, di rector; Edgefield, Mrs. T. Dabney Talbert, director; Laurens, Rev. Alvin Boone, director; Reedy Riv- r, Miss Betty Thomas, director; Ridge, Rev. J. L. Passailaigue, di rector. Over 500 people are expected to attend this meeting. the public schools of Laurens County, and whether or not they shall continue to be operated un der the present system or under the County Superintendent of Education, shall be presented to the qualified electors of the coun ty. At such primary election the question shall be printed on bal lots as follows: a “Do you favor the operation of Dr. Hart In Race For House Representatives j ' Dr. C. J. Hart is announced in today's paper as a candidate for the House of Representatives from Laur*»ns county, a race in which three men are to be nominated. Dr. Hart is a chiropractor of Laurens, where he has been prac ticing his profession for a number of years, and has manifested much interest in public affairs. W H Har ley. Long Branch—Rov Hams Lydia Mill—H W Williams Mema—C. W. Mahon. Mt. Olive—John O. McCoy Mt. Pleasant—A. B. Fuller Mountville—Walter Lynch Ora—Craig Hunter. Jr. Owings—A. F. Cook. Pleasant Mound—J Ben Hunt er. Jr. Poplar Springs—Rev J C. Rice. Jr. Prniceton—W. A. Babb. Renno—J. D. Copeland Shady Grove—R. C Franklin Shiloh—C. E. Wallace. Stewart’s Store—Earl Hughes. Tip Top—T. F. Smith. TrinRy Ridge—J. W. insky. Waterloo—R. Guy Smith. Watts Mill — Horace Waddell Jr. Woodville—Georpe S. Adair. Youngs—C. Wallace Abercrom bie. Of Joanna Community, Announces For House William C. Dobbins, of Joanna, has announced his candidacy for the House of Reprseentatives Mr Dobbins, a farmer with no <rther business interests, was bom j at Joanna on his father’s farm. 1 attended the Joanna elementary school Clinton high school and i Clemson college. ! He is a member of Epworth Methodist church at Joanna, and is president of the newly-organ ized Joanna Lions club Dobbins is married to the for mer Miss Helen Blakely of Liu- rens, and they have three chil dren He said it is his desire, if elect ed. to be a representative of all the people of Laurens county. Clyde Smith To Be Transferred To Ship • / Clyde H. Smith. Jr. seaman ap prentice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde H. Smith, of Route L CUn- ton. Is bow at the navel receiving station, Norfolk. Va . where he is to be transferred to ship, UBS Conway, a destroyer