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Volume LVII Clinton, S. G, Thursdov July 5,1956 The Chronicle gtrive8 To Be A Clea* New*- paper. Complete. Neway and ReKable Number 27 Families In Laurens County Have Net • Incomes of $4,497 V\ » Significant business gains were made in Laurens county in the past year as its residents, enjoy ing good incomes and a high rate of employment, expressed their strength in large-scale buying in the local retail shops. This is brought out in a copy righted study of business in the nation’s cities and counties, re leased in Sales Management’s M new buying power .survey. The high tempo of activity in Laurens county is seen in the amount of retail business record ed. It added up to a $25,556,000 year for the local merchants. What was the direction of the bigger spending? The extra mon- Jy ey available was used to buy the ped themselves with more of the standard of living. People equip- things that make for a better modem devices that add to com fort and convenience. Electric refrigerators, washing machines, — better homes, fancier cars and the many other items that were once pure luxury have become musts for more people. The ability to spend more is made possible by better earnings. The data shows that, despite cer tain soft spots in the ■local econo my, the net disposable income among families in Laurens coun- | ty came to $52,616,000 last year. ^ Divided by the number of local 'families, it amounted arithme tically to $4,497 per family. 11118 was more than most fam ilies in the state of South Caro lina had after taxes. The average was $4,135. The ratio of how much is ac tually being spent in each com munity, as compared with its full capacity, is shown in the survey, by a “buying power index.” Tliis weighted figure is based on such factors as income, sales and popu lation. It lists Laurens county as able to produce .0198 per cent of the nation's retail business. Since a smaller amount was done last year, .0138 per cent, it is evident that considerable sales potential is still available. v* Robert G. Wrenn, Jr., Completes Pre-Flight Training at Pensacola Robert G. Wrenn, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Wrenn, of Rt. 1 Clinton, was recently graduated from the naval pre- Future Citizens of Clinton ROBERT O. WRENN flight school at Pensacola, Fla. He attended Clemson college before entering the naval avia tion cadet program through the Marine air corps station, Cherry int, N. C. Wrenn has been assigned to the Whiting Field Naval Auxiliary station at Milton, Fla., for pri mary flight training. NEW SUBSCRIBERS $ Welcome and thanks to our new subscribers who have joined our large family of readers. ARZO IVESTER, REV. L. ALLEN WERTZ, JR., LEWIS S. HAY, MRS. BILL ELLEDGE, LEROY DUNAWAY, City MISS JANET CARBONE, Marlboro, Mass. JAMES R. ELLISON, Fort Jackson JERALD D. SATTERFIELD, Corpus Christi, Texas MRS. MAXIE LAMBERT, El Paso, Texas MBS MAXINE CANNON, West Columbia S. C. FOSTER, Wilmington, N. C. Traffic Death Toll Rises 14 Above 1955 South Carolina’s 1956 traffic death toll rose to 288 during the WOSk ending June 16, as 12 per sons were killed and 149 injured id 486 traffic accidents, accord ing to a slate highway dtapirt- sent report This brings the year’s toll to'14 more than for the same period last year. The seventeenth in The Chronicle's series of photos of Clinton children appears today. Top row, left to right: Nancy, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom my Hollis; Jerome. 2Vm, and Jo Ann. 19 months, children of Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Bundrick. Bottom Row: Binky. son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Wingard: Jenny, 7 months, and Hugh IVi. children of Mr and Mrs. Dan Yarborough. Jr. Delegation Recommends Rebuilding, Relocating . Clinton-Laurens Highway Move Has County-Wide Endorsement PC Development Drive Pledges At $600,000 11 of 24 Areas Complete Campaigns Miss Clinton Pool - Miss Lydia Pool At a meeting in Laurens Mon day morning, the county delega tion in the general assembly agreed to recommend to the state highway department the rebuild ing and relocating of the Clinton- Laurerjs highway. _____ A request that the delegation make the move was submitted by the Crambers of Commerce of Clinton and Laurens. A resolution that the project be undertaken was initiated some months ago by Mayor Hugh Eichelberger of Clinton and sub mitted to dan endorsed by the city councils of both Clinton and Laurens; the Chambers of Com merce of both cities, and civic and service clubs in both towns. Attending the meeting with the delegation in Laurens Monday were Morton Brightwell and George Phinney of the Laurens Chamber of Commerce, Manager George Massey and Jim Von Hol- len of the Clinton Chamber, May or Eichelberger and Councilmen James P. Sloan and Harry C. Layton of Clinton. Also agreed to by the delega tion was the payment from a $25,- 000 fund allotted to the county by the state highway department of certain expenses of widening Wasson To Be Host At Crow Dinner? Prior to a meeting in Lau rent Monday morning of the county delegation in the gen eral assembly with a group of citizens. Representative King Dixon announced that prepara tions for a crow dinner were being made, with Senator- 1 Nomina to Robert C. Wasson as boat. The dinner. Dixon said, would be held at Hickory Tavern (Wasson's home). The crows, he further stated, would be procured by Super visor Bennie Blakely and his work gang. Liquid refreshments, Dixon informed his hearers, would bo supplied by a couple of new in dustries to bo eetahlfahed in the Hickory Tavern section. Th« sheriff, it was stated, had agreed to stay out of the area. Invited guests would be the losing candidates in the recent elections — Including Mayor {Hugh Eichelberger of Clinton (who was meeting with thb delegation). Joanna In Lead By Game And Ha|f In a week of play shortened by the closing of mills for the July 4 week holiday, Joanna, defending champions, ended up with a game and a half lead over Whitmire, second (place contender. Joanna has a game with Green wood to make up, which will be played sometime next week. Joanna defeated Greenwood Fri day night, 4-3. In other games Friday night, Mathews smothered Calhoun Falls 16-1, and Whitmire beat Ninety Six 5-3. l la the only game played Satur day night, Mathews again met Calhoun Falls. No games are scheduled In the Carolina Textile league for this Broad street at W. Carolina ave nue in Clinton. The expenses were incurred by the Seaboard railroad, $643.83, and the CN&L railroad, $1,298.49. The work in volved moving of tracks and switches at the points invoiced. The streets ar e part of the state highway system. X W I i New Telephone Directory Issued; Listings Increase Indicative of the growth of Clin ton and surrounding communities is the large increase in the num ber of telephone directories now being distributed to local tele phone subscribers. Approximately 3,200 new direc tories are being delivered to homes and businesses, according to f I. A. Edwards, manager for Southern Bell Telephone Co., compared with 2,800 when the last directory was delivered. The new telephone directory contains many new and changed listings and other helpful tele phone information and is easily distinguishable from the old green- covered telephone book by its grey- cover. A sufficient quantity of the new directories has been printed to supply every telephone sub scriber and to allow for future jpdephone expansion. The classified section—yellow pages—contains listings for busi ness telephone subscribers under headings alphabetized according to their businesses or professions. The variety of classifications de scribing products, services, pro fessions and businesses provides a convenient ready reference guide when you want to locate a firm or individual, Mr. Edwards pointed out. * He requests that the old direc tory be discarded and that the new directory be referred to when tele phone numbers are desired. Look ing up the desired numbers helps to avoid the possibility of getting wrong numbers and saves time for both the calling and called par ties. “Infonnation” should be called only when the number you are seeking is not listed in the di rectory. Just short of $600,000 has been subscribed to the Presbyterian College Diamond Jubilee Devel opment program thus far, Presi dent Marshall W. Brown announc ed today. The total now stands at $596,- 260.90 from 3,575 subscriptions for an average of $167 per subscrip tion. , ■. Presbyterians of the Synods of Georgia and South Carolina which control PC and its alumni every where are being asked to support this program which seeks $750,- 000 for Presbyterian college dur ing 1956 and $2,000,000 over a longer period. Eleven of the 24 regions within the two states had completed spe cial campaigns for PC by July 1. The program will be resumed in the fall, with a campaign schedule to cover the remainder of the re gions. South Carolina Presbyterians, friends and alumni have subscrib ed $388,358.80 to date toward the program. The Georgia totAl stands at $204,302.10, and $23,000 has been subscribed from outside these two states. A roll call of the regions cam- padgned to date and their amounts reads: Synod of South Carolina: Region 1 (Laurens and Newberry counties) and students—$156,692; Region 3 (Greenville county) $72,- 454.30; Region 4 (Spartanburg, Rev. Allan Wertz, Native of Tennessee, New Lutheran Pastor The Rev. Allan Wertz, who re cently assumed the pastorate of St. Johnls Lutheran church 6f this city, is a native ot Greene- 'ville, Tenn. Mr. Wertz was graduated from Newberry’ Next week will aee the Friday and Saturday ni#it games, and several postponed contests are expected to be played. Junior Commerce Chapter Publishes Monthly News Letter The Clinton chapter Junior Chamber of Commerce has start ed publication of a monthly news bulletin to be circulated among its members. V Named “The Periscope,” Vol ume I, No. 1, appeared as the June issue and is edited by Ferd Jacobs. The four-page mimeographed bulletin carried names of officers, board of directors, committees, and special assignment groups to work on particular projects. The constitution and by-laws were included, ea was news of activities of the Junion Chamber. REV. L. ALLAN WERTZ. JR. gree in 1953, and from the Luth eran Theological seminary in Co lumbia in May of this year with a BD degree. He began his work here on June 20. Mr. Wertz, whose wife is the former Miss Phyllis Lindawood, of Mt. Jackson, Va., is the son of a minister, the Rev. Lester A. Wertz. His parents recently moved to West Columbia where his father is pastor of St. David’s Lutheran church. They formerly served in New Market, Va. Mr. Wertz succeeds Rev. J. Marion Rhoden, who burlier in the year went to Greenville to establish a church in a new field. Beauty And Talent Contests Jo Feature Farm Bureau Meet The monthly meeting of the Laurens County Farm Bureau July 9 will be featured by two contests, one for talent and one to select a “Queen,” Mrs. T. J. Copeland, contest chairman, an nounced. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p. m. The talent contest will be open to anyone who is a member of a Farm Bureau family. The queen contest is open to young women from 16 to 20 years ybo are from Farm (Bureau families and have not attended college. Applications may be made on or before July 6 at the Fami Bureau office or to Mrs. Copeland. City Council To Meat Monday 1916 regularly scheduled meet ing of city council, set for tonight at 4he city ball, has been post poned to Monday night at 7:30 Union and Cherokee counties) $58,000; Region 5 (Aiken, Edge- field and Saluda counties) $21,- 0.54; Region 8 (Chesterfield, Dar lington and Marlboro counties) $31,272; Region 1QA (Florence county) $8,637; and Region. 10B (Dillon, Horry and Marion coun- taest $15,504.50. Synod of Georgia: (Atlanta and vicinity) $110,028; Region 17 (Rome and ricinity) $31,836; Re gion 18 (LaGrange and vicinity) $18,650; and Region 21 (Augusta and vicinity) $22,733. College Cadets At Fort Benning For Summer Training Twenty-nine Presbyterian col lege cadets are attending the 1956 ROTC summer camp at Fort Ben ning, Ga., the college military de partment anounced today. Lt. Col. Francis V. Smith and Capt. Richard Craig, PC military department officers, serve on the summer camp staff at Beqning. The annual six-week encamp ment opened last week with ap proximately 1,600 college cadets from seven southeastern states, Maine and Peurto Rico enrolled. They represent some 36 colleges and universities. General military science cours es are being taught to those ca dets who receive reserve com missions in one of several branch es of service upon final comple tion of their ROTC training. The summer camp normally follows after the junior year, the first year of advanced ROTC. These Presbyterian college stu dents are currently attending summer camp at Fort Benning: Eddie Brockenb rough, Dave Collins and Thom well Guthery, all of Charlotte; Noble Collins, Charles Dukes and Char ft** sey, all of Atlanta; Richard John son and Warren Mays, of Thom- asville, Ga.; Perry Hogue and Al bert Johnson, both of York; Bill Hart and Tommy Holbrook, both of Anderson. Dillard Neighbors, of Clinton; Gene Butler, of Conway; Jack Byers, of Greenville; Glen Crof- ton, of Maxton, N. C.; Cecil Ged- dings, of Paxville; Sheldon Gir ardeau, of Barnwell; Jimmy Han cock, of Rock Hill; Luther Hin son, of Spartanburg; Ray A. Howe, of Gastonia, N. C.; Frank Kurtz, of Mt. Airy, N. C.; Archie Reed, of Winnsboro; Tommy Reeves, of Denmark; Don Rick- ett, of Hapeville, Ga.; Sibbett Sapp, of Columbia; John Thames, of Manning; Bruce Thompson, of Plymouth, Ind.; Dave Thompson, of Frankfort, Ind. Young Building On Musgrove St. Is Rented By Sears Sears, Roebuck and Co. has rented the Young building on Musgrove street formerly occu pied by Birdsey Feed Store. The building jvill be air-con ditioned, floor tile installed, and other innovations made. A Sears order office will be maintained, it was stated. The building is owned by Mrs. J. Lee Young, of this city, and Mrs. J. M. Dick, of Raleigh. N. C., formerly of Clinton $184,000 Set For Farm-tO‘Market Roads In County Laurens county is scheduled to receive $184,000 for famn-to-mar- ket roads out of a total state al location of $8,000,000 for the 1956- 57 fiscal year . The apportionment was ap proved June 21 by the state high-, way department in its adoption of a $47,630,000 budget for the year beginning July 1. A total of $31.- 720,000 was earmarked for con struction during the year. -The amounts allocated to indi vidual counties are determined by a formula embracing the area, population, and rural road mile age of the various counties. The apportionments for coun ties in the Piedmont region fol- 'low: Abbeville, $119,200; Anderson, $289,600; Cherokee, $129,600; Chester, $136,000; Edgefield, $104,800; Yairfidld, $132,000; Greenwood, $196,000* Greenville, $393,600; Laurens, $184,00; Mc Cormick, $80,000; Newberry, $147,200; Oconee, $180,000; Pick ens, $146400; Saluda, $106,000; Union, $1JO,800; and York, $223,- 200. MISS SHIRLEY HEDSPETH MISS JAN HARVEY At the pre-Fourth of July celebrations at Clinton and Lydia Mills Saturday morning, selected ot reign over water events at each of the community swimming pools. Miss Hedspeth was chosen at the Clinton pool sINile Miss Harvey was named at Lydia.—Photos by Fred Galloway. Number Candidates iiiF°r Trustee Positions Not Limited-Burns In a news article appearing in The Chronicle last week explain ing the provisions of the law per taining to the election of school trustees, it was stated that the nunrrber of candidates was limited. J. Leroy Burns, county super intendent of education, who was quoted in the explanation, states that there is no Limitation on the number of candidates. "I think what was intended,” he said, "was Clinton, Lydia Employees Celebrate Fourtli Week Annual Observance Is Held Early The annual July 4th celebrations 21 yean of age who are daugh- at Clinton and Lydia Mills were employees, heki Saturday, and were well at-; J an Harvey, daughter of tended by youngsters and adults alike. The observance was held on Saturday in order that those with planned vacations for this week (hat the number of trustees isjtm-[could attend and participate. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Harvey of Lydia, was named "Lydia Pool Queen of 1956’ wnh Miss Bar bara Roberts, daughter of Mr and Mrs. D H. Rooerts, being named as runner-up. At the Chnton Milt pool, Miu — •• : - *'■* Ued. For instance, one from Lydia ! The traditional athletic events Shirley Hedspeth. daughter of Mr*. Mill, one from Cross Hill, two from the Clinton area, etc County Democratic Party In Good Financial Shape The Laurens County Democratic party is in good financial condi^lwere held tion after paying expenses incur red in holding two iprimaries, ac cording to a report released Mon day by Miss LeEl’.en Williams, sec retary-treasurer. A cash balance of $1,258.34 is shown as of June 30. Following is the financial state ment of the secretary-treasurer: Balance in bank, March 15. 1056 $ 581.53 Receipts: March, 1956—County candidates fees; 3.940 00 June, 1956 — from Co. Board of Education (election suuphes) 4.27 and contests got underway at 9 a. m. and lasted until noon. Appropriate prizes were award ed in the following events foot, sack, and three-legged races, egg tossing contest, cake walks, pie j eating, rolling pin throws, greasy pole climbing, etc. After the field events attention was focused on the swimming pools where diving, underwater and sprint swimming contests A greased waetrmelon in the water w'as substituted for the greased pig chase. Highlighting the activities was the selection and crowning of pool queens These contests were open to all single girls between 14 and Merchants Away, Rev. McEachern Speaks The Rev. and Mrs J E. Mer* f chant left yesterday to attend the Southeastern Jurisdictional con ference of Methodist Ministers at Lake Junaluska. N C. Rev. "Buddy” McEachern. .of John Hedspeth. was named pool queen with Miss Melissa Burdette, niece of Mrs J. W. Smith, named as runner-up. Miss Judy Cole, duaghter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cole, won third place. Clinton Section Has Quiet Fourth The Clinton area had a qidet Fourth of July yesterday No special observance was scheduled and no athletic events were planned Most industrial plants in the community are closed this week for vacations, re-opening Mon day, the 9th i The Joanna Mills baseball team wound up its pre-vacation sched ule Friday night and no games are scheduled this week Other than the industrial plants, Clinton business houses closed on ly one day for the Fourth. Banks, stores, offices the post office and Total $4,525.80 Expeaditares Box managers, 1st primary Box managers, 2nd primary Printing ballots, notices of election Paid notices of Board of Registration Preparing ballot boxes Secretarial duties . Postage, stationery, envelopes Mimeographing instruct ions for primaries Material and labor for erecting booths (Laur ens and Clinton) Cost of Executive Com mittee meeting, 4-21-56 Coat of Executive Com mittee meeting 8-14-56 Cost of Executive Com mittee meeting 6-28-56 Bank service charge $1,155.60 1,163.10 283.74 10.40 ^ 75.00 125.00 19.44, ^00 30 18 180.03 Columbia, secretary of youth'°tker business concerns closed work. South Carolina conference, i Wednesday. wil be the guest speaker on Sun- [ C! nton people went to the day morning at Broad Street beaches, attended barbecues, and church. \\ pent the day quietly at home 180.00 30.00 10.00 Total expenditures $3^67.46 Balance in Palmetto Bank, Laufens. S. C., of June 30, 1956 $1,258.34 Who Threw the Shoe In the Chicken Stew? ,r Is New Clinton Ballad The situation pictured in the oid Irish sbng. "Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?” had its modem counterpart here Saturday night, with slight variations. Clinton song writers can now turn their talents to composing a ballqf entitled. “Who Threw the Shoe in the Chicken Stew?” For that's exactly what happened Saturday night whan about 75 or 100 Clinton man gathered at the Yarborough Mill tike an En- oree river, about eight mile* from town, to enjoy a big pat of chicken stow with all the trimmings. The pot with its gallons of the delicious concoction, all ingred ients added, had boiled briskly over an open lire on the river 1 tor the required timet the crowd waited impatiantiy for an with growing appetite*—when, suddenly, a shoe sailed through air, and kiflMd aquarety in the middle of the pot. The Irifbipfe tn the crowd probably recalled that history * While others just sorrowfully \