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t If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LVII The Chronicle .Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable 4-H Club Rally Held Saturday At Whitten Village Some 41(0 4-H club members of Laurens county assembled here Saturday for the annual spring r»lly. The boys and girls came as rep resentatives of the 15 county clubs to Whitten Village for thus meeting which was developed around the theme, “Improving Family and Community Living.” Five new officers were elected to serve for the coming year. Joe Hill of Cross Hill, became the new president succeeding Mary Mar- # tha Bryson of Mountville. The othpr 1056 leaders include: Kay Martin of Camak, vice-president; Gene Marler of Greenpond, secre • tary; Dolly Crouch, of Mount ville, treasurer; and Don Willis, of Greenpond, reporter. A special feature of the pro gram was an. address by Curtis Wallace of Gray Court, the 1955 delegate to Israel under the In ternational Farm Youth Exchange program. County Agent C. B. Cannon of Laurens, introduced him. Miss Myrtice Taylor, county home agent, made the following presentation of awards to out- 4 standing 4-H club members: Four-Year Diplomas: Bethany Club — Mary Frances Leopard and Carolyn Redd; Ca mak Junior Club—Sybil Fortner and Sybil Lothridge; County- Wide Club—Elizabeth Lothridge, Nan Nabors and Martha Tnsley; Mountville Sepior Club—Beth Bishop,,Mary Ann Jones, Martha Milam and Jerry Wilson; Mount ville Junior—Annette Lark; Gar- Lington Street of Laurens—Mar tha Hamby and Patricia Marler; Gray Court - Owings — Betty Campbell and Virginia Duck worth; Hickory Tavern—Dorothy Armstrong, Gail Hall, Mary John son; and Whitten Village—Jua nita Lovett and Jeanette Welch, •son, Geraldine Ridge, Sylvia Was- * Doris Thackston and' Marjean Seals Awards: lathaiy •— SUriey Leopard, Thackston; Camak Senior—Judy Bryant; Camak Junior—Patricia Cothran and Hazel Lothridge; County-Wide— Dorothy Culbert- —ton, Jo Ann Gibbs—and Loretta Johnson; Gray. Cdurt-Owingi— Jula Ann Ifiller and June Wilkie; Hickory Tavern—Joan Hilley and Janet Madden; Mountville Senior —Mary Martha Bjyson, Jane Watts and Carolyn Wilson ; Whit ten Village—ICarcelle Cleveland, Dorothy Haynes, Dorothy How ell, Roberta Howell, Evelyn Rev- ; els, Clara Mae Thornhill and Mst- tip Lee Wylie. In addition to those clubs nam ed above, these roganizations were rapreaented at the rally: •Cross Hill Junior, Cross Hill Sen- ' ior, Long Branch, Shady Grove, and Thom well. Miss Bryson, the retiring presi dent, reviewed the accomplish ments for 1966 in emphaszing Na tional 4-H Week and cooperating with the International Farm Youth Exchange Progranr" by sending Wallace on a six-months stay to Israel. ’ After a picnic lunch under the oaks of the Whtten Village cam pus, the rally closed with an ex- v tended period of recreation. Bi-County JHA Chapter To Meet ( Here Saturday The Clinton Junior Homemak ers Association will be host chap ter to the Laurens-Greenwood bi county • organization Saturday, April 28. T}ie following chapters will be present: Laurens, (Green wood, Hickory Tavern, Gray Court, Ninety-Six, and Ware Shoals,with approximately three hundred expected. “Symphony in Color” is the theme for the fashion review to be presented by the Clinton high school home economics girls. A picnic lunch of fried chicken, fpotato salad, and sandwiches will oe served at noon. Following lunch slides will be shown of JHA camps. Future Citizens of Clinton Clinton ,S. C, Thursday, April 26, 1956 Number 17 MELANE CHARLOTTE COLLIE LEWIS MARGARET The seventh in The Chronicle's series of photos of Clinton chil dren is shown today.. Readers are urged to clip and paste the pic tures of their friends in their scrapbooks. Top row, left to right: Melane, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Snelgrove; Charlotte. 5 months, end Collie. 6 years, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Lehn. Bottom row: Lewk^U, and Margaret. 3, children of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pitts; Jean, onetyear. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Wolfe. Kirkley Is President of County Teachers Assn. Superintendent At Gray Court { Campaign Tour Arranged For County's Candidates First Meeting May 28 at Gray Court Little Boys League To Get Underway Monday At 5:00 i — The Clinton Little Boys league (formerly Litle League) will open tyondav afternoon at 5:00 p. m. in the Little Boys park on the Presbyterian College campus. All Little Boys teams have been working hard to determine which boys^would be selected to repre sent their teams and also get to wear one of the new uniforms each team will be wearing this year. Managers are screening their squads thoroughly before se lecting the final fifteen boys to rperesent their teams. > The Recreation Commission ex presses their thanks to the civic clubs for sponsoring the new Uni forms for the Little Boys teams. Florida Street, Lions club; Acad emy Street, Moose lodge; Lydia, 1 Exchange club; Thomwell, Ki- wanis club. The opening game will be be tween the Lions (Fla. St.) and the Moose (Academy St.) -On Tuesday Joanna will play the Kiwanians (Thomwell) and Wednesday the Exchange (Lydia) will meet the Lions (Fla. St.) Ten speaking dates have been arranged for county candidates seeking nomination in the Demo- cratci primary June 12. ’the campaign opens on Mon-t day night, May 28, at the Gray Court-Owlngs school when the 38 candidates will publicly present their claiihs for votes of the peo ple. The dates were arranged by the county executive committee. Dr. Allen To Speak At Broad St. Church Sunday Dr. Rap- Allen, professor of re ligion at Wofford college, will be the guest speaker at Broad Street Methodist church for the Sunday morning worship servlet: Dr. Allen received an AB degree from Southwestern university, Memphis, Term., BD and Ph D. degrees from Duke university. . At the evening service Rev. J. James E. Wolfe has been named as president pf the Chamber of Commerce for the coming year, it was announced Tuesday night at dhe annual meeting of the Cham ber of Commence. The meeting, attended by about 125 members and guests, was held Cooper Budding Garage Structure C. W. Cooper has under con- ' struction a building to house his garage business, located on East Carolina avenue near Florida S.t school. Containing more than 8,000 square feet, the building will be of concrete blocks. Mr. Cooper stated he expects to (move Into Use building early in June. W. G. King and Sons, of this j city, is the contractor. Leland Riuahart, pastor of Hope* well and Sharon Methodist church* es, will be the guest speaker. The Rev. Mr. Rinehart is well known here, having served several churches in the area. meeting in Laurens Saturday morning. Time for all meetings will be 7:45 p. m. The second meeting will be at Joanna on Tuesday, May 29, at the club house, to be followed by other meetings meetings in order: Thursday, May 31 — Poplar Springs Baptist church yard. Friday, June 1—-Woodville, at Wham’s Store. Monday, June 4 — Cross Hill high school. Tuesday, June 5—Center Point school. Wednesday, June 6 — Youngs community center. Thursday, June 7—Clinton, at comer of West Pitts and Bailey streets. Friday, June 8—Hickory Tev- Monday, June 11 — Wattrville em school. bell park. • The executive committee noted the addition of several names of committeemen reported since the meeting of the county convention. They were: Clinton Mills pre cinct, Sam Williams; Lydia Mills, E. C. Huffstetler; and Baileys, Thomas J. Copeland. Wolfe Heads Chamber of Commerce for Next Year V i, . Hart Speaker at Annual Meeting Officer!, of Clinton's New Jaycee FFA Federation Banquet To Be Held Here Tuesday Night The annual Father-Son banquet of the Green wood-La ureas F. F. A. Federation will be held in the din ing hall at Presbyterian college on Tuesday night, Myy 1. Hartwell (Perch) Cromer, Clinton high school senior and federation pres ident, will preside. Highlights on the program will be an after-dinner speaker and a beauty contest. The winner of the F. F. A. Sweetheart contest will represent tills federation in the state F. F. A. sweetheart contest at Cleroson college In June.' More than one hundred F. F. A members and guests are expected to attend the banquet. . Seoboofd Agent Receives go Certificate Of Merit A certificate of merit was pre sented on April 19 to J. M. Bell, Seaboard agent and employees un der his supervision in the operat ing department for the attain ment of a perfect record in per sonal injury prevention for the year 1956. The award, which was given for a total of 15,767 man hours during the year without a personal injury, was signed by C. H. Sauls, vice president, operation^; R. M. Stone, general superintendent; John White, superintendent Geor gia division. In addition to Mr. Bell, the agent, the personnel consists of J. M. Roseboro, T. R. McElveen, R. O. Johnson and J. E. Sterling, operators. Also the following sta tion hands: Theodore Blakely, John Garrett and Tom Hall. Laurens, April 22—J. B. Kirk ley, superintendent of Gray Court-Owings area of School Dis trict 55, was elected president of the Luarens County Education association at the annual business meeting of the association at Ford school. He succeeds Mrs. Ayftffe Jacobs of Clinton who has served the past year. Buren A. Lown, principal of Clniton junior high school, was elected vice-president, and J. Leroy Bums, secretary since 1934, was’ reelected secretary. Miss Mary Johnson, teacher in Provi dence school, Cinton, was reelect ed assistant secretary. P. M. Coble, executive secretary of the South Carolina Education association, reviewed schol legis lation in the 1956 session of the legislature from the state level. G. Miller McCuen, chairman of the board of trustees of School District 55, reviewed the legisla tion from the county level. The association adopted a pre amble and a three-point set of recommendations made by the Laurens Classroom Teacher asso ciation which said, among other things, that present emphasis in Laurens county is being placed “on the minimum cost of operat ing the schools rather than on the actual needs.” Signing the report was the resolutions committee composed of John W. Coker, chairman, Edith Hellams, Sara Pitts. Ruth Rddie. and Laura B. Zmmerman. More Candidates' Hals In Ring For City Council Posts Five candidates for alderman are announced in today’s paper. Two were announced last week, bringing the total to date to sev en. — ' Making known their intention to seek algermanic posts today are Frank M. Boland. Jr., S. A. Fhtts, George W. Bagwell, James P. Sloan and Harry C. Lyaton. Of in the Presbyterian College din ing hall. Other officers are: James Von Hollen, first vice-president; J. J. Cornwall, second vice-presiden*.; Gary Holcombe, treasurer. Directors, including hold-overs, are: J. A. Orr, L. N. Warren, T. E. Addison, Reese H. Young, Wil liam P. Jacobs, J. Robert Cox, John Mimnaugh, C T. Thomason, Van Jones, Rufus - Sadler, Dil lard Milam, Jr., Harry McSween. Howard Smith, Leland Young, D. B. Smith. Cornwall, retiring president, presided over the meeting and in troduced the new officers and directors. He also reviewed the progress of the oommerce body during the past year. Speaker for the evening was W. > Reese Hart of the South Carolina Planning and Development board, of Columbia. He enumerated a number of advantages to be ob tained by manufacturers estab lishing plants in the state, includ ing less expense' required for buildings, reduced heating costs, excellent water resources, good transportation facilities, and the best asset of all—the people them selves. They are almost wholly native born/ homogenous, con servative, with no radical, left- wing element having outlook and beliefs not American. They work well together and produce mqre for their employers, he said. kart pointed out that although we are maknig rapid strides in the industrial development of the state, we are still losing three out of , five college graduates each year. South Carolina, Hart stat ed. has had the highest rate of growth during the past ten years, paving seen 2466 new industries settle in our state providing jobs for 150,000 people. In covering our resources, be reminded us that our people and what they stand for is our most valuable resource. He further pointed out that to sell our com- munities today we must create the proper atmosphere for the in coming industry, to use the posi tive approach rather than the negative. Hart pointed out that with all the northern groups tell ing our troubles daily on a na- certainly need to ;te and begin to ; de of our com- uced by I. A ; tional scale, get into th sell the be munity anc Hart was Edwards. • Wolfe, upon assuming the pres idency of th* chamber; promised his best efforts in the work and sought the cooperation of all members. Officer* of the newly organized Jaycee chapter in the city are shown here. Front row. left to right: Lynn Cooper, Jr.. Charles Pitts, and James Von Hollen. directors; back row: Ken McCrary, secretary; Bryan Coates, first vice-president; Lewis Bagwell. Jr., second vice-president; I. E. Edwards, presi dent; R. E. Martin, treasurer. —Photo by Dan Yarborough. inembers All are prese council, ... James C. Craine, the sixth member, came out for reelection last week. Woodrow Wilson, a former councilman, is also a can didate. —— » GODFREY t6 KANSAS Brig. Gen. Ansel B. Godfrey leaves tomorrow to attend tbe Na tional Guard General Staff and Refresher course at Fort Leaven worth Kansas the coming week. Clinton To Have Two Delegates at Chicago's Democratic Convention Plaxico Named Wofford Ahernate — -im- Clinton will be wall represented at the national Democratic conventoin in Chicago in August. R. L. Plaxico, of this city, has boon designated by United States Senator Tom Wofford as his alternate to the convention. Senator Wofford is one of the 16 delegatee at large from South Carolina. James P. Sloan, of Clinton, was named as a del agate from the Fourth Congressional district to the convention at the state Demo cratic convention in Columbia several weeks ago. Plaxico. chairman of the Democratic party in Laurens county, is active and wall known in political circles, and his salection as the iscond Clinton citizen to attond the conventon Is being well receiv ed by his friends and dtiaona jonomlly. Few. if any. towns of Clinton's sis#, it is said, will have th* honor of boing represented by two delegates at the Chicago con vention. Reference is already boing^Wiado to "Clinton's delegation" to th* national Democratic PTA Meets May 1 The final meeting of the Florida Street Parent-Teacher Associa tion for the current school year will be held at the high school auditorium at 7:30 p. m., Tues- dya. May 1. Dr. W. Redd Turner will speak on the subject, “The Church, the School, the Home." Parents of next year’s first grad ers are invited to attend. Re freshments will be served. Joanna Lions To Sell Brooms Med WEEN CONDUCTS SERVICES AT MULLINS Dr. and Mrs. John McSween wore in Mullins last week where the former conducted special ser vices at the Preebyterian church. Comp Fire Girls Have Columbia Trip On Saturday the nine girls of the Tawanka group of Camp Fire group, accompanied by their lead er, Mrs. James Rutledge, and as sistant leader, Mrs. H. L. Eichel- berger, enjoyed an all day trip to’ Columbia. Among places visited were the capitol building, the governor’s mansion. Old Trinity church, Woodrow Wilson’s home, the Uni versity of South Carolina, the World War-Memorial, and a num ber of old homes of historical in terest. . | The group is composed fo the following sixth grade girls who are in second year Camp Fire and completing work toward their Wood Gatherers rank: Corinne Boy^fBartoanrEichelberger, Jean Arnbld, Betsy Finney, Lois Marie Haselden, Sandra Red, Juanita Patterson, Celii Gasque and Shir ley League. Cromer Wins FFA Specking Contest David (Tadpole) Cromer, a member of the Clinton chapter of Future Farmers of Amreica, won first, place in the Greenwood- Luarens FFA federation public speaking contest Tuesday after noon at Ford high school in Lau rens. His topic was ‘Goals of the FFA." He will represent # this FFA federation in the district contest which will be held next month in Anderson. Other participants in the con test were Earl Robertson of the Ford chapter Who placed second, and Jimmy Burns of the Gray- CourtOwnp chapter. County Farm Women In Spring Meet e- Long Brandi Host Commerce Manager To Quit Post Curtis Leaves July 1 J. Winton Curtis yesterday an nounced his resignation as man ager of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, effective June 30. Curtis has accepted the position of executive director of the Bates- burg-Leesville Chamber of Com merce and will assume duties there July 1. Clinton chamber directors have already begun to seek a man to succeed Curtis. They are in touch with several prospects and th* feelings is that the post will b* filled by July 1. fiytig the position about s year. As was pointed out at the an nual meeting Tuesday, graat strides have been made within the organization the past year. Curtis has expressed his thanks to the many friends and business asso ciates <who have made thj« prog ress possible. The spring meeting of the Laur ens County Council of Farm Women was held Thursday at Rocky Springs Presbyterian church with Long Branch Home Demon stration club as hostess More than 100 women attendeji the meeting with 16 of the *21 hofne demon stration clubs represented. Mrs J W. Tinsley, president of the council, presided over the meeting with Mrs. Mi A Wilson serving as secretary. Mrs. Tinsley led the group in repeating the council creed. The Rev. J F. jiarmon, pastor of Rocky Springs Presbyterian church gave the devotional. Mrs. T B. Sumerel extended, greetir^s to the group. Mrs. Tinsley appointed the follow ing committees Courtesy: Mrs. L. | N. Cook, chairman, Mrs. Earl Blakely and Mrs. Roy Adams Nominating; Mrs. M. A. Wilson, chairman,. Mrs. James Wasson, and Mrs. B A. G pod win. Creden tials: \lrs. W R _3rown, chair man, Mrs. Judson Cox and Miss Blanche Cox. Time and Place: Mrs. Fred Irwin, chairman, Mrs. M. P Hunter and Mrs W. P. Ab ercrombie Lodine Elmore and Alice Cunningham served as pag es. Special music for the group was given by Mrs. Charles Hill, coun ty music and recreation chairman, Mrs. T. B. Sumerel, Mrs. W.- R. Brown and Mrs. E. A Curry They sang three numbers. Mrs. Josie McCaslan Named Chief Operator By Southern Bell Mrs. Josie Coleman McCaslan has been appointed chief operator here by ’Southern Bell Telephone company . - Prior to her new assignment, Mrs. McCaslan was evening chief operator in Greenville She join- McC ASLAN ed the telephone company in 1929 as an operator in Greenville, and held a number of positions in the traffic department there before ■Ltft Thine I coming to Chnton. These characters are the "long and short" ends of th* deal, but the people of the Joanna community will see the "in-between" group also when the Joanna Lions club members make a canvass today. Friday and Saturday in a sale of brooms. Wendell Hair, loft, and C. EL Abrams, demonstrate the costumes to be worn by th* salesmen as they make their rounds. The brooms are made by blind men in a which Lions club* of th* state sponsor, and procoods from th* sale will bo naad to footer this work and also th* Joanna club’s own sight con servation work in its community. If consists of supplying treat ment and glasses for needy persons in th* area, which is on* s| th* chief activities of ovary Uons club lb the'state. President BUI Dobbins of the Joanna Uons urges a cordial ro of tho broom aaUsman by residents of Bw community. 4 ■ ' Eyes," "Jacob’s Ladder,” and “Piping Time of Galway.” A spe cial program on Israel was given by Curtis Wallace, 1965 Interna tional Farm Youth Exchangee to Israel. Curtis is a native of Laur ens county, living on Route 1, Gray Court and a former 4-H club member Curtis showed slides made on his trip to Israel and talked of the home and farm life of that country. * Mrs. Tinsley gave her report of council work during tihe past year. Reports of accomplishments of the 12 county departmental chairmen were given. These included alf phases of home demonstration work. During the business session Mrs. George Cleckler, Hickory Tavern club, was elected first vice (continued on pagee 8) A native of Marietta, S. C., Mrs. McCaslan attended high school in GreenvQle and attended Furman University. She is a member of the Greenville Business and Pro fessional Woman's club and the Telephone Pioneers bt -America. She is also a member-of the Cen tral Baptist church in Greenville. Mrs. McCaslan's husband was the late Edward S. McCaslan, an employee of Southern Railway at the time of his death in 1962. HORNES VISIT HERE Major and Mrs. W. S. Horne and son, Billy, of Fort Bragg, Fayette ville, N. C, spent the week-end here with relatives. They were ac companied home by Mrs. Horne's mother, Mrs. P. B. Adair for a several weeks visit. i ■W ■ S ** -\ \ 7