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T I •• V- I . If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don't Get the News Volume LVII ©lie (Slinton The Chronicle Strive* To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable i Clinton, S. €., Thursday, August 2,1956 K Number 31 To Fete Lydia Employees|^ unt Yj e|e ph«; e For Sale Mill Operation CMk Up Over Million Man-Hours Wraioot Disabling Injury to Workers ...J.if•»»'*. . Visits PC Students at Fort Benning fii' Lydia Coiton Mills will honor the employees and members of 4heir immediate families with a day long program of fun, food and festivities on Saturday, Au gust 4. The program in honor of the men and women who made it possible to operate without a dis abling injury for over one mil lion safe man-hours will begin at 9:00 a. m. for those desiring , to i swim. The traditional athletic con tests and games of greasy pole Band Instructor Arrives, Plans Camp, Activities . » | W. A. Cothran, new band di rector for the Clinton public schools, has arrived here to be gin his work with the students prior to the opening of school. Mr. Cothripi and his wife, who is the former Miss Rosemarie An- hole, of Frankfurt, Germany, are residing in an apartment in the nome of Miss Ruth Bailey at 507 North Broad street. Mr. Cothran is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cothran, of Wil- liamston. He was graduated from Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, in 1952 and has spent the past four years serving as a first lieutenant in the Air Force, re cently in Germany and France. A meeting has been called for all band students in the band room of the new high school at 7:30 Thursday evening, August 9. This is a -“get acquainted session and details for the band camp will be worked out. All band members are asked to make plans to attend the camp to be held at Camp Fellowship on Lake Greenwood August 13-18. • \ To Feature Clinton On WSPA-TV Next Tuesday at tO P.M. A program on Clinton will be^ presented next Tuesday night from 10 to 10:30 over television station WSPA in Spartanburg, it has been announced. The program will tell the Clinton story from several an gles. Though yet incomplete. It will also include the appear ance of Mayor Hugh Elchelber- ger and other personneL Residents of the area are in vited to tune in next Tuesday night and see the program. Not Meet Today ^ Announcement has been made by the commander, Wyman Shealy, that the Copeland-David- son American Legion post will not meet this evening because of the Legion baseball game. climbing, egg tossing, and sack, potato and three legged races, etc., will begin at 10:00 a. m. with appropriate prizes going to the winners. Carousels, mechanical ponies, and swings will be on hand for the children. President P. S. Bailey will speak to the 2,500 invited guests at 12:30 p. m. Mr. Bailey’s speech and the safety plaque presenta tion program that follows will be carried by radio station WLBG. At 1:00 p. m. a bafbecue din ner, prepared by Walter F. Lynch, of Mountville, will be served. Curly Mullikin and his “Dixie Rebels” of station WFBC- TV will provide an entertainment program. Gas Rates Raised By Authority The Clinton-Newberry Gas Au thority has announced slight rate increases • effective with Septem ber billings, according to a letter mailed to customers yesterday. The letter, signed by Walter Regnery, chairman of the Au thority, pointed out that even with the increase, Clinton-New berry gas rates will compare fa vorably with those in nearby cit ies where gas is available. A com parative table of rates is enclosed with the letter. The rate for the first 300 cubic feet, which will affect most small users, remains unchanged at $1.50 minimum charge. This will in clude most of the customers who use gas only for cooking and heating water. The rate is based on a sliding scale, and rises according to the amount of gas used. After the first 300 cubic feet for $1.50, the next 3700 cubic~feet is priced at 14c per 100 cubic feet; the next 6,700 cubiq^feet, 11c per 100 cubic feet; next 10,000 cubic feet at 10c, and all over 20,000 cubic feet at 7% cents. The letter states that the Au thority has not raised its rates since it has been in business. However, the letter says, “during this time our supplier of gas, the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Company, has been granted two increases in their rates to us by the government. Up until now, these increases have been absorb ed, but it is no longer possible if the Authority is to remain sol vent.” The letter also stated that the Authority raised the rates to its large commercial users last spring. “The new rates,” the Author ity stated, “will still mean that you are using the most economi cal fuel. During the time that the Authority rates have been con stant, all other fuels have gone up in price.” Co-op Annul Meet Be Held Saturday J. W. Tinsley, chairman of the Piedmont* Rural Telephone Coop., Inc., will preside at the annual meeting Saturday, August 4, which will be held in the auditorium of the 'Agricultural building at 2:00 p. m. All members are requested to attend. Five members of the board of directors whose te$fis Ex pire are to be elected. Board members whose terms expire are: James D. Wasson, E. J. (Poole, W. £. Bell, J. ft. Coker and J. M. Babb. The nominatirg committee will present the same names along with the names of Clyde Crocker, L N. Cook, Sam Compton, W. M. Nash, Jr., and Lowell Watkins, from which five directors will be elected. The treasurer’s and man ager’s report swill be given. The cooperative, a non-profit organization; has 1,733 miles of wire, 24.6 miles of cable and 1,- 210 subscribers in Laurens, Ab beville, Spartanburg and Newberry counties. Door prizes will be given to the holder of the lucky numbers. Jerry Stoddard is manager of the cooperative. Other directors serving with those whose terms expire are: J. W(. Tinsley, Furman Thomason, Roy DeShields and Tommie Blake ly. Conway Takes Second Game of legion Series Teams Begin Three-Game Stretch At Joanna Field Tonight at 8:00 Conway has a two-game lead over 'Clinton as "the teams come to the up-country in their battle for state supremacy in the Ameri can Legion Junior baseball se ries. The lowcountrymen took both games played at Conway. Mon day night the score was 8 to 3 and Tuesday's score was 8-4. Tonight (Thursday) they start a three-game stand at Clinton’s home park at Joanna, continuing Friday and Saturday nights. The teams were idle Wednes day night. If the games are nec essary, they will return to Con way for the final two contests in the four-out-of-seven series. First Gam* Clinton opened the series by worth, Taylor. 3b—-Gore. SO*— By Edgeworth 9, Archie 4. BB— By Edgeworth 4, Arshie 3. Sease 1. LP—Archie. Second Gam* June Raines ran out of gas after pitching six superb innings and Conwaj jumped on him for five runs in the seventh and went on to an 8-4 victory. Raines had Conway’s hitters completely baffled for the first six innings as he gave up only one hit and held them scoreless. But Jennings Gore. Conway’s great hitter, powdered a home run over the right field fence to start the seventh and Raines be came unsettled. He walked three in a row, and fanned one for the first out of getting three runs in its half of the first inning, but Conwav j U* e inning. Then he walked* three came right back and scored four niore t° push in three runs Fin- Vice-Pres. Nixon To Be At Montreat Sunday, 1 ■■ " ♦ Clinton Presbyterians who will be in Montreat Sunday will have the opportunity to see and hear Vice-President Richard Nixon. Nixon is scheduled to be the speaker at the Sunday morning church service. Jaycees to Sponsor Arthur Smith Show Here August fOth -• —ifti— When Arthur Smith and his fa tuous Crackerjacks come here Fri day night, August 10, at 0:15 o’clock for a big two-hour family gbpw at Clinton Mill ball {kirk, they’ll bring the only weatherman in the Carolinas who can get a smile.- No matter how he predicts it, the folks just don’t get mad at Clyde (Cloudy) McLean, the man Laurens County Farmers In Better Shape Than Most (Special to The Chronicle) To what extent have the farm ers of Laurens County been af fected by the drop in agricultural prices? What were their receipts for last year? How did they com pare? An overall view of the local situation is given in the current issue of Standard Rate and Data Service, in a report covering ev ery county of the United States. Laurens county farmers, con fronted with the same squeeze of poorer prices and higher costs as farmers in most other parts of the country, pulled out of the situa tion comparatively well. They were bruised but not broken. They ended up the year with a gross farm income of $7,659,000, the report shows. Nabors Reunion Held Sunday 7T I The family of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Nabors, of Joanna, gathered for a reunion on Sunday, .July 29, at Mineral Springs near Lau rens. A picnic dinner and swimming was enjoyed by about fifty who attended. Out of town visitors here for the event included Mrs. T. D Davis and daughter, Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Grover Davis ' and daughter and Mrs. Mann o{ Mc Cormick; Mrs. M. B. Summerville and daughters, of Miami, Fla. Dr. M. W. Brown, president of Presbyterian college (center), meets with three of his students at the 1956 general military science Reserve Officers Training corps summer camp at Fort Benning. Students are, left to right: Cadets James H. Hancock, Jack O. Dyers, Dr. Brown. Samuel W. Mays, and Lt Col F. V. Smith, professor of military science and tactics at Presbyterian college. Entire Slate of Trustees Qualify For Election In School District 56 Opposition Develops in Mountville - • - i3 - *"•' s *- % w 1 . -- , 5 All members of the present their attendance areas, are: board of trustees of School Dis trict No. 56 (the Clinton area) are announced as candidates to suc ceed themselves in the election to be held on Tuesday, August 14.- The required petitions signed by at least 12 persons were placed on file at the office of J. Leroy Bums, county superintendent of education. The time In which candidates could file their petitions ended Tuesday. In addition to members of the present board, a petition was filed on behalf of S. C. Blackmon in the Mountville attendance area as a candidate from that area. Others who are candidates, and CLYDE McLEAN This was a drop of 11.5 per cent from the previous year’s returns, $8,650,000. It was a much smaller decline, however, than was felt in some other parts of the coun try, where it ran as high as 30 per cent. The gross farm receipts locally were made up principally of livestock income, totalling $2,- 5»27,000, and income from crops, $4,086,000. Also included were government payments and the value of products grown and used on the farm. What appears at first glance to be an inconsistency is the fact that, despite hard times, the value of farm land has been in creasing. The explanation given is that fanners know that they have to increase their production efficiency if they want to make more money. That means mod ern machinery, which, in turn, call for bigger acreage to justify it. So, farmers are in the market for more land. They are outbid ding each other and thus drviing prices up. Added to this is the rising de mand for land for such non-farm uses as highways, factories and housing. Farmers are going into debt to acquire both land and equipment. Their general position is strong, however, according to the Chica go Federal Reserve Bank, which points out that farm debt amounts to only 11 per cent of farm assets. Back in 1940 it was 18 per cent. you see scratching the lines on the WBTV weather map in Charlotte. He’s a friendly, clever TV person ality known by thousand^ in the Carolinas. And it’s Clyde’s pleasant task to conduct the Arthur Smith Original TV Talent Hunt here. The TV Talent Hunt will bring the 10 best acts in the whole area to town and two winners will be selected. A competent judge will pick the individual or act best suited to start in television work now and to appear with the Crac- kerjacks on the TV show. And there’ll be a popularity winner the audience will select. Both winners will get fine priz es for their performances both here and with the Smiths. The winner selected to appear with Arthur Smith’s gang will compete against another weekly winner for the $500 quarterfinal grand prize. 'Local, sponsors, the Jaycees, should be contacted if you are in terested in participating. Jim Von Hollen is in charge of securing tal ent for the show. Anyone interest ed should contact him. Several Arthur Smith have gone on to fame Joanna Leads By Four Gdmes In Carolina Textile Joanna now holds a four-game lead in the Western Carolina Textile league despite its loss X16 to 4) to Mathews Sautrday night. , Whitmire, nearest contender, also lost Saturday, being knock ed off by Greenwood, 8 to 5. Ninety-Six improved its stand ing during the week by taking two games from Calhoun Falls, 3 to 1 and 8 to 1, Saturday night, one being a makeup game. Friday night’s games were washed out by rains. They will be made up later. Clinton: J. J. Cornwall and George Huguley. Joanna: James T. Addison. Mountville: Col. John B. Cool ey. Lydia Mills: D. H. Roberts. Cross Hill: Jake Rasor. Mr. Roberts from the Lydia area, is not a member of the pres ent board, since the as** is newly created for representation on the board. Tbe Clinton attendance area is entitled to two representatives on the board; Joanna, Mountville, Lydia, and Cross Hill areas, one each. A seventh member of the board will be appointed by the County Board of Education and will serve as chairman. District 55 A like procedure was followed in School District 55 (Laurens .area), and there are 12 candi dates for the six elective posts in that district. They are: Laurens attendance area (en titled to 2 members): Robert B. Roper and P. W. McAlister. Ford (one member): Frank C. McDaniel, J. Henry Cook, W. Ed win Bobo. Raymond E. Robert son. Gray Court-Owings (one mem ber): Horace Martin and Fred Stoddard. Garlington (one member): Ralph Waldrep and Fred S. Boyd. Jr. Hickory Tavern (one member): Jame.3 B. Wasson and James W. Culbertson. A seventh member will also be appointed by the ‘County Board of Education for this district, to Fiv^ games remain to be play ed on the regular season’s sched- serve as chairman ule. I Heretofore all members of both This Week's Schedule ' boards have been appointed by Half Million Meals Served County Pupils During 1955-56 Term Laurens, July 26—A total of over half a million meals with milk- were served school children of Laurens county of School Dis tricts 55 and 56 during the 1955-56 "school year, accordlng td the an nual report of Mrs. E. B. Morse, supervisor of the county school lunch program. The actual num ber was 509,337 meals, of which 37,946 were served at no charge to children, the rpeort showed. Total’ lunches served showed an increase of three per cent to white children and two per cent to Negro children. The report showed $20,941.59 received from the federal gov ernment for food and $210.23 for the special milk program. in its opening frame at bat. That turned out to be all they needed to sew up the game, but- four more runs were added in later in nings. Edgeworth. Conway pitcher, went all the way, while Sease re lieved Clinton’s Archie in the seventh. Clinton got its three'*runs after Smith beat out a bunt, Raines walked and Sease singled in the first. Smith stopped at third base on Sease’s hit, but when the catcher tried to pick Raines off second, he came on in to score. Elvin Floyd’s roller to shortstop was erred and the final two runs got home for Clinton. Clinton Pearson, ss P. Smith, 2b Samples, If Raines, c Sease, cf-p „ Cooley, lb Floyd, 3b Johnson, rf AB 3 3 4 3 4 3 4 4 * Archie, p-2b 4 R 0 h 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 H 0 1 0 1 1 l 0 0 1 ally. Gore, up for the second time in the inning, singled to bring in the fifth run and give Conway a 5-1 edge. / Conway scored three more in the eighth to take an 8-1 lead into the last frame. Clinton made one last bid as Floyd walked and Patterson and Archie singled to load the bases. Pearson beat out a hit and Smith walked to score two runs. Samples was out as Archie scored the final run of the game and Raines rolled out to end the contest. Clinton Pearson, ss 5 0 10 Smith, c 4 10 0 Samples, If 5 0 0 0 Raines, p-cf 5 0 10 Sease, cf-p 4 0 2 0 Cooley, lb 4 0 0 0 Floyd. 3b .. .3100 Johnson, rf . .. 2 O'* 0 0 Patterson, p 1110 Archie, 2b 4 12 0 Tbtefcr —~ Conway Taylor, ss D. Smith, lb Gore, If Owens. 3b Daniels, 2b Barnhill, rf Sawyer, cf Edge, c Edgeworth, p AB 3 3 5 4 2 3 5 5 4 R 1 1 2 1 l 1 0 0 1 H 1 0 2 1 2" 2 1 t 2 Friday— Whitmire at Mathews. Greenwood at Ninety-Six. the County Board of Education, but in an election on June 12, electors of the county voted to 14 Killed In Traffic ‘ Accidents During Week * Fourteen persons met death on South Carolina highways during the week of July 15 through July 21, while 124 others were injured in 390 traffic accidents, accord ing to a state highway depart ment report. This brings the 1956 death toll to 361—an increase of 17 over the same period of 1955. Aiken, Barnwell, Greenwood, Jasper, Lancaster, Lee, Richland. Williamsburg and York counties had one death during the week. Saluda county’s death toll reach ed five. Totals Clinton Conway 2b — 35 8 300 000 410 012 Owens, Barnhill, 12 2 000—3 OOx—8 Edge- MiSS Wihette Asbih Selected "Miss North" Miss Willette Asbill was select ed as “Miss North” for the North- South All-Star state basketball high school championship- game Tuseday evening at the Univer sity of South Carolina, Columbia. lit the beauty contest which took place before the game and at half time Miss Asbill was chos en Miss North and Miss Carolyn Willis, champion baton twirler from Chesterfield, was named “Miss South.” Miss Asbill is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brunson Asbill of this city. v Totals 37 4 Conway Taylor, ss 3 0 Smith, lb 4 0 iimi-ir j 4 - -4- 0 0 1 0 Owena, 3b-p 3 Daniels, 2b 2, Barnhill, rf Sawyer, cf Edge, c Hardee, p Edgeworth. If 3 4 3 2 0 2 2 2 0 0 r a‘ 1 o 2 o o i 0 I 0 0 0 1 0 0 Totals Clinton Conway 6 3 003—4 53x—8 Calhoun Falls at Joanna. (This elect the trustees. game was re-scheduled for Tues day night in order to avoid a con flict with the Clinton-Conway American Legion series., Joanna won, 8 to 7). Saturday— Mathews at Whitmire. Ninety-Six at Greenwood Joanna at Calhoun Falls. The Standing Rules and qualifications for W L Pet. voting will be the same as those Joanna 18 8 .720 prevailing for primaries and gen- Whitmire 14 11 .560 eral elections, except no write-in Mathews 13 11 .542 votes will be allowed. Presenta- Ninetv-Six 14 12 538 tion of registration certificates Greenwood 12 12 .500 will be required. Clahoun Falls ; 5 21 192 Revival Services At Beaverdam Baptist Announcement of revival ser*t j vices August 6 through 10th at Beaverdam Baptist church near here has been made by W. L. With the Craokerjaoks here is President of the Brother- winners little Wayne Haas who was a TV Talent Hunt winner. And on Arthur’s WBTV Wee TV program from Charlotte you will see pretty Carol Honeycutt, an other Talent Hunt winner. Tickets for the good, clean two- hour family show, including an hour Talent Hunt, are on sale now and may be secured from any Jaycee 'member. 1 hood The Rev. Lloyd Hellams, of Columbia, will conduct the ser vices. Rev. Rembert Truluck, Jr., of this city, who has been pastor of the church for the past three years, has resigned and will enter the Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Ky , in September. The church is now without a pas ter. Election of members of each board will be on a district-wide basis; that is, electors will vote for members of the board for each attendance area in addition to their own area. District 55 voters, however, will not vote for any of the^ candidates in Dis trict 56, and vice versa. Year's Costs Up $113,000 For Motorists in County Shows Surplus Laurens, July 26 — Cash re ceipts for tjie City of Laurens for the ye§r eWttmg June 30 were $300,220 49, including $39,888.45 brought over from last year, ac cording to the annual audit of city books filed by R. B. Roper, CPW. , Cash expenditures, * including $58,312.93 for permanent im provements and equipment, were $268,380.93, leaving a cash bal ance in the bank of $13,839.56. Included in the improvements was $32,000 paid the South Caro lina highway department for street paving that had not been done as of the accounting date. (Special to The Chronicle) Passenger car owners in Laur ens County have begun to pay their share of the $50 billion road building program recently set in motion. By next July, when the fiscal year ends, they will have paid $113,000 in increased taxes. The figure is based on an estimate by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. It is the product of the number of cars in operation in Laurens coun ty and the average tax rise per car. Motorists will pay an addition al $8.60 a year, on the average, finds the Chamber of Commerce. The bulk of this will come from the added federal tax of one per cent per gallon of gas. Other lev ies, such as the 60 per cent in crease in tire taxes, will make up the rest. The auto owner’s burden may be enlarged still further at a la ter time as state and local govern ments get into the pet. They will have-added costs, too,'due to the highway development, which will be passed on to the motorists. Truckers will also help pay for the new roads. In addition to the gas levy, they will be paying more for equipment, including tires, as well as a new tax on trucks weighing over 06,000 pounds. The car owners of Laurens coun ty had been spending a total of $11,600,000 a year, prior to the in creases, in maintenance and op eration charges, on the basis of a study made by the American Au tomobile Association. Of this sum, $2,560,000 went to the local gas stations. There is, however, a much brighter side to the picture. The huge road program wilj ultimate ly give the driver some relied: from traffic jams around cities and on highways. Farm-to-market roads will boost business. Driving time will be reduced considerably. There will be less of the exasper ating stop-start creeping, with a resultant saving in operating costs. In dollars and cents this should mean a saving of one c J ent a mile, according to toe Bureau of Pub lic Roads. Wim drivers averaging 9,400 miles a year, this would be a cut of $84 per car. LOSES BROTHER Friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Thomason will sympathize with them in the death of the latter’s brother, Furman DeWitt Thoma son, which occurred at the Vet erans hospital, Columbia, on Sunday. > Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon from Fork ’ Shoals Baptist church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. 28 8 100 000 „ r „ 000 000 2b—Raim|s, Owens. HR—Gore (7th, none on). SO—Raines 9, Hardee 4. BB—Raines 7. Har dee 3, Sease 1. Winner—Har dee. Loser—Raines. Joanna Supplies Bus Citizens of Joanna chipped in and got an air conditioned Grey hound bus to take the Clinton Le gion team to Conway Monday af ternoon and return them to Clia- ton Wednesday. The team’s home games have been played at the Joanna park all season, whch has been placed at their disposal free of charge by the Joanna Founda tion Games On Radio The two opening games at Con way were broadcast over the Greenwood FM station, WCRS. The broadcasts were paid for by a collection taken among Clinton business houses and individuals in order that the many interested fans of this area might follow the team in the crucial games for the state championship. If it is nec essary to return to Conway for the last two games of the series, it is expected that they, too, will be on the air. |-Clinton has never before enter ed *the playoffs for the state championship. The nearest they got was last year when Greer beat them out for the up-state series. Greer went on to loae tQ North Charleston for the state title ’ ' • Up-State Champions Clinton got into the state championship series by defeating Greer for the up-state champion- shp. three games to one. . , Clinton had previously won from Greenwood for the League Six title, and from North Augus ta in league elimination. They took the first two of the Greer series, 3-1 and 51, lost the third to Greer. 4-3, and came back to win the fourth encounter, 9-'2. Clinton went into the state titl^* series with a team batting aver age of 323^ with two pitchers leading the parade. Pitcher- catcher June Raines had a nifty .455 to head (jie list, \#hile Pitch- er-Centerfielde/ Bill Sease was close behind with a healthy .425. Four others had chalked up averages of better than .300. They were Peanut Smith, with .369; Freddie Samples, 355; Mike Cooley. .307; and Efvin Floyd. .303. They were followed by Wallace Patterson. .273; William Archie^ 254; William Jonhson, 243; Duck Pearson, .212.