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If Yon Don’t Read The Chronicle You fkm’t Get the News Volume LVII The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 28, 1956 Number 26 The Vote in Second Primary -nt! r- ) Precincts Senate House of Repres’tives Commissioner i I, c J s c 8 t % 3 24 j i t ' 45 EC S' c 45 00 c 8 £ 3 27 n Q b 17 I -M 45 CL e c I 1 £ Bailey's ! '-22; 22 18 13 33 20! 24 Barksdale-Narnie 46 32 j 39 34| 37 46 13 15 39 ‘ 59 Brewerton 34 78! 71 57!' 42 42 1 85 43 54 Clinton City No. 1 f 262 204 305 176 164 273!| ’ 403j 194 170 152 Clinton City No. 2 236 151 j 279 % 132 267||- 363) 170 109 129 Clinton Mills 256 163 223 263 L 136 202j[ 278 f 255 161 133 Cook’s Store . 4 29; Z 37jf 28 26) 22 56 18] 40p 66 Ji Cross Hill f 58 36|| 68 25L 24 »71 81 32| 34 41 Dials |j 10) 17|! 14 ?! 11 22 3| 8 20 23 Daniels’ Store 22 30 37 211 17 27 17 l 49 17| 21 Ekom 76 22 32 52 j 54 56 22| 87 431 44 Grays 15 8 “21 7! 8 l 10 5| 12 23 6 Gray Court U4 73 79 1. 66| 89 132 50| 70 113) 133 Hickory Tavern “251 20 ’ 121 144 152 124 59 207 591 220 Hopewell 54 12 42 13 36 38 641 8 23 37 Joanna 244 152| | 252 ~lW 145| 198 j 323 161 115 182 Jones’ Store 50 31 23 25| 511 63 32! 40 67 21 Lanford 34 26 38 18| 261 36 40| 11 39 28 Lydia Mills Laurens No. 1 Laurens No. 2 42 133 220 17|| 28 27j 28 33 49| 241 22 83! 'US 148 381 122! | 163! 72 61 173|| 216) 202j 1031 249If 137! 2381 127 56 591 54 69] 32| 79H 341 69 54 23 130 272 . 65 Laurens No. 3 119 155|| 1341 181 78 153 83i 186 122 155 Laurens No. 4 76 72|! 87) 72 36 90 491 741 55 102 Laurens No. 5 | 275 246|| 3541 2071 1221 357 228 255 159 • 390 ! Laurens No. 6 1 85 103 | 125 77| 47| 123 571 112 59 149 M Maddens 55 48 52) 41 47 65 39 73 27 67 i Motintville * 54 20 37) 20 42 49| 63 15 16 54 : Merna 37 3 17 20 23 20 8 27 16 29 j Mount Olive 31 30 14 48 39 21 13 54 28 25 Mt. Pleasant || 24 13 HI 22 17 20 6 34 5 27 Ora 26 f 19 20 19 19 32 1 13 29 15 33 Owings 55 53 12 82 68 50 30 74 56 Pleasant Mound 16 f I® 16 14 12 26 I 17 19 ^ZL8 14 Poplar Springs l ..-.4a 56 46 54 41 6§T 10 91 84 69 Princeton 29f 16 32 9 23 26 15 28 10 > 36 Renno 18| 3 9 !0 11 12 20 4 8 10 Shady Grove 13f 14 7 n) 21 16 251 18 8 3 1 29| 43|| 30 4? 21 48 10 54 22 58 StdWart’s Store j 12f 17 |j 6 \ 25 26 19! 7 27 5 Tip Top || 9| 681 15 41 57 39j| 431 71| 32! 9 Trinity Ridge | 57 40 45 49 34 . 63|| 45| 46| 18 85 Waterloo 36 23 32 31 12 38|| 17 1 44 19 32 1 Watts MHls | 204 119 138 223 i 91 189|| 119 165 168 192 Woodvflle 106 r—^ 57 87 58 90|| 28 57 115 99 Youngs 13 17 23 7| 1 20 "2lil 8 15 31 18 TOTALS f 3698 2684 3470 2975| 2338| 3853 ^3206 3402 2501 3522 Wasson Named State Senator; Culbertson and Sloan to House ^ Thomason, 0 f Dell Are County Commissioners Over 6,000 Vote in Second Primary Nominated for Senate and House ROBERT C. WASSON W. PAUL CULBERTSON T. DAVID SLOAN. JR. Election of School Trastees Explained By County Superintendent Education Plants In Area To Close For July 4 Week Vacation Manufacturing plants in the Clinton area have announced their closing program for the week of July 4. Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills will cease operations. Saturday, June 30, at 8 a. They will re sume work at 8 a. m„ Monday. July 9. Qualified employees will receive a week’s vacation pay in acordance with company policy. The Joanna Cotton Mills will close at 6 a. m., June 30, and re open at 6 a. m., July 9. Qualified employees will receive an aver age week’s pay. Hallmark Mfg. Corp. wil close operations for the week on June 29, reopeping on Monday, July 9. Regular employees will receive -pay for the Week. Gwen Evans Mills will cease operations for a week, closing their plant Thursday night, and resuming operations Monday, the 9th. Employees will be paid for the week. Clinton Paper Box Co. wil v'.ose on Jun e 29 and reopen July 9. Anderson Hosiery Co. and Dap per Hosiery Mill will close the week of the 4th. Clinton and Lydia Mills To Celebrate Saturday The July 4th celebration given 1 ciude: beauty contest, girls 15-21 annually by the Clinton and Ly dia Cotton Mills for their em ployees, will be held this year on Saturday, June 30. Officials stat ed the event was being held ear lier this year so those who are planning vacation trips may have an opportunity to participate. Similar programs, under the supervision of thd Industrial Re lations depts, and recreation-- al workers, will be given at both mills beginning at 9:00 a. m. and continuing until 11 a. m. Field events will take place at the ball park and pool events at the swim ming pools. Field events from 9 until 10 o’clock will include: races for boys, girls and adults: contests for everyone; bubble gum blow ing, pie eating, watermelon eat ing, cracker eating and whiatla; cake walks. Pool events from 10 until 11 in swimming races, boys and girls all ages; diving competition, boys and girls 15 and up; greased wa termelon contest, boys 8 and up. Anyone wishing to enter the beauty contest call 959, 311 or 425- XJ. Prizes of electric irons, lamps, popcorn poppers, credit slips and steak dinners have been donated for the contests by Clinton mer chants. More Committees. Chamber Commerce Are Announced Laurens, June 22—Taking note of an apparent misunderstanding of many people as to the signifK cance of the trustee referendum last Tuesday, Supt. of Education J. Leroy Burns, ex-officio mem- nkr of the County Board of Edu cation, explained what the elec tion was about and what the law provides shall take place. He pointed out, firstly that the referendum was to decide wheth er or not the eleptorate wanted to choose trustees of Districts 55 and 56, comprising most of the county, by ballot, or to allow them to be chosen, as in the im mediate past, by the County Board of Education. With the decesion by the elec torate to elect by ballot, the sec ond question to arise is when and how the election is to take place and other provisions therefor. The election, he pointed out, is to be held August 14, which is less than two months bway Names of candidates shall be filed with the County Superin tendent of Education by 12 o’clock noon, 14 days before the date of election. To become eli gible for placing his name on the ticket, the candidate must have a request signed by 12 or more qualified electors from his at tendance area. In case no candi date qualifies in any given at tendance area, the Board of Edu cation is empowered to appoint * ne. Candidates, limited in number by the act, must reside in the at tendance area they propose t to C resent, Mr. Burns said, but y will be voted on by the elec tors at large of the entire district. Six trustees are to be elected from each of the two districts. One trustee, to be designated chairman, is to be appointed by the County Board of Education for each district. The entire board of each district is to be elected this year. Three of them and the appointive member take office as soon after the election as they qualify and shall serve until April 1, 1960. Elections «h«ll be held every three years thereafter. This being a general election and not a primary,- Mr. Burns ■ainted out, the candidate receiv ing the highest vote In the dis trict lor his attendance area shall . be declared elected. The act, he said, provides for this year is for trustees in N.o 55 elective trustees in the two dis tricts as follows: In District 55, two from Lau rens, one each from Garlington Street area, Ford area, Gray Court-Owings area, and Hickory Tavern area. In District 36, two from Clin ton, one each from Lydia Mill, Joanna, Mountville, and Cross Hill. The first election to be held Dr. Waller Leaves To Return To Canada Dr. D. E. Waller leaves today to return to his home in Winnipeg. Manitoba Canada where he will practice. Dr. Waller has been as sociated for the past live years with Dr. George R. Blalock. He will be accompanied on the trip by David Boland and they will visit other points of interest enroute. Rufus Sadler will also accom pany them as far as New York where he will visit* his sister, Miss Virginia Sadler. from Garlington Street, Watts- ville and Gray Court-0 wings; from No. 56, one each from Clin ton, Lydia Mill and Mountville. To be elected this year but to begin service next year in No. 55 are two from Laurens and one from Hickory Tavern; in No. 56, one each from Clinton, Cross Hill and Joanna. Present trustees not elected and whose successors will not qualify until next year will con tinue to serve, with their consent, until their successors qualify. Members of the present board, the areas they represent and years their terms expire are as follows: Edwin Bobo, Wattsville; Jake Rasor, Cross Hill; J. J. Cornwall, Clinton, all 1956; G M. McCuen, Laurens; Robert B. Ro per, Laurens; J. B. Cooley. Mountville; Thomas Addison, Jo anna; all of 1957. M. B. Hender son, Gray Court-Owings; James D. Wasson, Hickory Tavern; Geo. Huguley, Clinton, all of 1958. The election is to be held un der the direction -of the County Board of Education of which Grover C. Roper is chairman Ted Davenport Presides Ovef State FFA Meet At Clemson Clinton's Future Citizens ' TED DAVENPORT The South Carolina Associa tion of Futura Farmers of America began Un annual con vention Tuesday at Clemson college. Th# sesion will con- tinue-tfpough Friday. ‘Presiding over the meeting is Ted Davenport member of the Clinton high school chap ter. Future Farmers of Ameri ca. who is president of the state chapter. A wel-rounded program of business and entertainment has been arranged. May. Tap raw. Ml In right: Lee, I; Dixie. 7; and WalMTi Paharah, S, gar. 4. daughter sf Mr. *, children sen ef Dr. and Mrs. limes L. 9t Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Weeton; Gta- Mrs. Ctande A. Craeker. Lutherans Have New Pastor The Rev. L. Allan Wertz, *Jr., has assumed the pastorate of Saint John’s Lutheran church of this city, succeeding the dtev. J. Marion Rhoden. Pastor Wertz was recently graduated from the Lutheran Seminary in Columbia and was ordained to the gospel ministry by the Virginia Synod of which he was a mamber. On June ! 3 he was married to Miss Phyllis Lindamood, also of Vir ginia. They are occupying the parsonage on Cleveland street. The public is cordially invited to attend services at Saint John’s on Sunday mornings at 11 o’clock, y Troop No. Ill Not Meet Milford Smith, scoutmaster of Boy Scout troop 111 has announc ed that the troop will be disband ed lor the summer and will re sume meeting again in the fall. D. 6. Smith Heads Merchants Committee Of Commerce Body 1 r-*’ D. B. Smith this week was named chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Merchants commit tee. the committee responsible for chamber activity concerning merchants, including store clos ings. promotions and other spec ial events. Co-chairmen named to work with Smith include C. H. Leon ard, M. C. Pinson and Bill Cor bett. Merchant members of the com mittee include: Charles Johnson, Earl Payne, E. H. Wilkes. Mrs. Jeanette Bonds, Bill Abrams. J. W Moore, Mac Adair, Rufus Sad ler, Ray Pitts, Joe Holland. Dil lard Boland, Dr. David Mixon, R. H. Brown, Robert Johnson. Mac Milam and E. E. Harrsion. George Massey, manager of the chamber, said plans are under way fot a meeting of the Mer chants committee to begin for mulating plans for activity which will be sponsored this year Funeral Services Held Wednesday For William C. Power Funeral services for William C. Power. 78, were held last Wed nesday afternoon at the Pente costal Holiness church. Rev George Hopkins and Rev. E. D. Johnson were in charge. Burial was in Rosemont cemetery. Grandsons served as pallbearers. Mr. Power died early Tuesday morning at his home on Hamp ton avenue after several years of declining health. ^ He was a native of Georgia, but had made his home in Laurens county for 31 years. He was a son of the late Robert and Sallie Patton Power and a member of Calvary Baptist church.-^ He was twice married. His first marriage was to Miss Frances Franklin. . From this manage four daughters survive: Mrs. Fred Haynie, Mrs. Edward Young, and Mrs. Walker Gregory, all ofeClin- ton; Mrs. Perry Chasteen, of An derson; 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. His second marriage was to Mrs. Etta M Power, who sur vive*. 7 Additional committees for the ChamVber of Commerce were an nounced this week by James E Wolfe, president. The units named to carry on the work of the commerce body are; Chairman of the Membership and Finance committee is Gary Holcomb and working with him will be George Huguley, Claude Crocker, J B Templeton, Claude Lawson and Robert Vance. Chamber Director John Mim- naugh was named chairman of the Constitution and By-Laws com mittee with members Van Jones, LeLand Young, Cecil White, J. J. Greene and Tench P. Owens. George Massey, manager of the chamber, said as soon as the membership and leadership of the various committees have been set, a meeting of the chairman of the \arious committees will be held to determine 'the direction of the ef fort of the chamber through its committees in tfie next year. 1 . Robert C. Waggon was nominated as Laurens, county’s new State Senator Tuesday when 6,382 voters went to the polls for the second Democratic primary. Wasson defeated Senator Ralph T. Wilson, veteran of eight years, in his bid for a third term. W. Paul Culbertson and T. David Sloan, Jr., were nomi nated to round out a three-man delepration in the House of Representatives. William C. Dobbins was nominated in the first primary on June 12. In the race for County Commissioner. Furman E. Thom ason and Paul S. O’Dell were named to the two positions. The Vote Wasson won the Senate post by a few more than a thous and majority, the vote being: Wasson, 3,698; Wilson, 2,684. (> * In the House race Sloan led with 3,853; Culbertson. 3,470; Dr. C. J. Hart, 2,975; and Charles L. Milam. 2,338. The vote for commissioner was: Thomason, 3,522; O'Dell, 3,402; Ryan F. Lawson, 3,205; Claude A. Patton, 2,501. Wasson, a farmer and merchant of the Hickory Tavern section, is serving his seventh term in the house of repre sentatives. He, along with nominees to the house, will take the oath of office after the general election in November. Sloan and Culbertson are attroneys, practicing in Laur ens, and they, as well as Dobbins, will be new members of the house. ' i —Thomaaon and O’Dell, the hew county commissioners, are farmers. Thomason lives in the Trinity Ridge section on the Princeton road out of Laurens, and O'Dell lives in the Poplar Springs section in the western part of the county. Defeated in the house race was Charles L. Milam, of Mountville, veteran of 18 years service, who was seeking his tenth term. Also losing in the house contest was Dr. C. J. Hart, Laurens chiropractor. Eliminated in the race for county commissioner were Ryan F. Lawson, farmer of the Hopewell section, and Claude A. Patton, farmer of Youngs township. Winners In The Two Primaries State Senator: Robert C. Wasson. House of Representatives: William C. Dobbins, W. Paul Culbertson, T. David Sloan, Jr. County Commissioners: Paul S. O’Dell, Furman E. Thom ason. Sheriff: Caldwell W. Wier. Coroner: Joe F. Smith. German Farm Youth Exchangee Visits In Laurens County South Carolina’s fir^t exchan gee in the International Farm Youth Exchange program this year is Miss Gudrun Berns of Kapellen, Germany She arriv ed in South Carolina on June 19. and will be in the state for three months visiting farm families. Miss Berns came to Laurens county June 20 and is living ih the home of Jo Ann Gibbs, daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gibbs of the Trinity Ridge com munity. She Will stay with Jo Ann for two weeks and will then spend one week with Mary Mar- sports tha Bryson, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Watt Bryson of Mountville Miss Berns is 20 years old. has Communion Service At Brood Street Church The quarterly Communion Ser vice will be held on Sunday, July 1, at Broad Street Methodist church. Elements will also be ad ministered at the evening worship hour for those who were not pres ent at the morning service. The pastor. Rev. J. E. Merchant, will speak on ‘"Do You Despise the Church” at the morning worship completed four years of primary hour and in the evening on “What school and six years of secondary Should I Do To Be Saved ” ! school. She has also completed Board Of Directors Chamber Of Commerce To Meet Tuesday — i^frn—— The Clinton Chamber of Com merce board of directors will meet Tuesday in the forum room of the Bank of Clinton at 10:00 a. m . James E. Wolfe, chamber president, said ~ three years apprenticeship in rural home economics. She lives with her mother, one brother and one sister on, a 5 4acre farm. The major crops are potatoes, winter wheat, barley, rye. spring barley, oats, sugar beets. The major live stock are cows, oxen, calves, horses and pigs. Her hobbies and recreational interests are reading, photography, crafts and Miss Berns wil go to Oconee county on July 6 after leaving Laurens county She will be in South Carolina until September when she will go to visit farm families in Ohio. New Lions Club Officers Inducted The Lions club Installed officers Friday night for the y Rennert Trnlock, 2nd vice president; J. A. Orr. Jr., traaanre Coates, secretary. 1 ~ ~ i Back raw: Tara Ptaxieo, Uan tamer; Cngene Johnson, director; Len Ledford and Calvin Cooper, tail twisters. flhnnt when the ptetmra was raids ware: WUUara F. Jacobs. Huguley. director.—Photo by Dun Yarborough. hoginning July 1. Sou ted above are: William J. H. F. Blalock. 3rd vice 1st vice \ V