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J V J If You Don't Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News Volume LVII ®1ie (Eliul / The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean New% paper. Complete, Newsy , and Reliable . Ointon, S. C., Thuriday, August 9, 1956 Number 32 Build $1 9 150,000 Water Lydia Employees at Barbecue Saturday Trustee Election Be Held Tuesday Notable Career Ends at 79 Lydia Mill Officials Honor Employees For Efforts in Contest Offers Prizes For First Bale of Cotton Safety Record The employees of iLydia Mills were honored Saturday by the of ficials of the mill for attaining a record of more than 1,000,000 man hours •worked without a lost time accident. 'Employees, their families and special guests—about 2,000 per sons — attended an all-day cele bration on the grounds of Provi dence school at Lydia. In a brief program, a safety plaque was pre sented to D .H. Roberts, sufier- intendent of the mill, by Roy Wicks of New York,' representa- Tive of Robert F. Coleman 4nc. Mr. Roberts then. presented the engraved bronze plaque to R. B. Fennell, representative of the employees of Lydia Mill. The plaque is engraved as follows: ' “National Sofety Council Tro phy for the best safety record. Awarded by Robert F. Coleman, Inc., to Lydia Mill.” P. S. Bailey, president of Clin ton and Lydia Cotton Mills, made a brief talk of welcome and appre ciation. He said the occasion was not in honor of the record, but in honor of those whose efforts made it possible to achieve such a rec ord. Mr ^Bailey beseeched his em ployees to try for a goal of 2,000,- 000 man hours without an acci- *dent and said safety should pre sent no problem. Mr. Bailey was introduced by J A first bale of cotton ginned contest will be sponsored by the Clinton Chamber of Commerce as a result of action at that trade board’s meeting Tuesday in the forum room of the Bank of Clin ton. Chamber of Commerce direc tor, Reese Young, is chairman of the chamber's agriculture com mittee which will supervise the contest. The project is under taken by the Clinton chamber to show interest in the promotion of agriculture in Laurens ivunty and particularly in the Clinton area, Mr. Young said in explain- i:'g the rules ol the conte^* The rules include: (1) The cot ton must be gathereq fiorn the 1956 crop, ii it must b^ raised Mr. and Mrs. Smith Manage Hotel Clinton Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Smith, for merly of Sandersville. Ga., have assumed management of Hotel Clinton. They have one daughter, Judith, a member of the ninth grade. Mr and Mrs Smith formerly owned and operated a hotel at Bryson City, N. C., near Cherokee, and have been associated with B. Templeton, vice-president of hotels in Macon and Augusta, Ga., Clinton and Lydia Mills, who said the president has devoted his time, energy and ability to pro viding for his employees. Mr. Wicks, in making the pres-! entation of the plaque to Mr. Rob erts, called it one of the •high lights of his career. He said he never before had appeared before a group of workers who had just finished one million hours without an accident. The record of the plant now stands at 1,200,000 hours. Curley Milligan and his Dixie * Rebels of WFBC-TV, Greenville, presented a program prior to the formal ceremony and entertained during the barbecue lunch. The barbecue was prepayed by Walter Lynch, of Mountville. The Rev. Stanley Hardee, pastor of Lydia Baptist church, gave the invoca tion. A number of athletic contests and events were held and in the afternoon there was a .softball Jacksonville and Green Cove Springs, Fla. The hotel here is operated un der lease to A. W Hartley, of Un ion, with Mr. and Mrs. Smith as managers. £ game between the Lydia “Fats'’ j and the Lydia- ‘"Leans.” Winners of the events were: Egg race—Mrs. Betty Harris and Bud Fuller; bubble gum con test—Richard Corley; peanut race —‘Donald Bowling; apple race— Billy Pace; cracker eating—Ron ald Bowling; greasy pole climb— Donald Fuller; 35 yard dash— boys) Harvey Shumate, (girls) I Peggy Grady; 25 yard dash—Steve Grady; 50 yard dash—Tonila Har vey; 75 yard dash—(boys iWayne Fuller, (girls) Gayle White; 100 yard dash—(men) Claude Grady, (women) Mrs. Bejty Harris, and come to mama race for two to three year olds—Marion Hinson. in I aurens county; and (3i It must be g n eH by a Clinton gin- or. Th an- culut.e cmr.nut- b— oi the Chamber of Commerce will serve as judges for the con test and their decision will be final. ' The first bale will be ginned free of charge, the bale will be sold for 40 cents a pound and bought by the Clinton Chamber of Commerce. This will assure the owner of live first bale a bon us price prize provided by the Clinton Chamber of Commerce. Other prizes offered in the con test include: Texaco Company, 25 gallons of gasoline; Sunshine Cleaners, a free cleaning for a suit or dress; Broadway Theatre, free theatre passes; T E. Jones and Sons Furniture 1 Company, an inner-spring mattress; Colon ial Stores, bag of groceries; How ard’s Pharmacy, thermos bottle. Members of the chamber’s ag riculture committee with Mr Young include Henderson Pitts, J. J Cornwall, D B Smith, James Copeland and Gus Ram- age. The scheduled election for nam ing trustees in School Districts 55 | and 56 will be held Tuesday. Au- | gust 14. All members of the present board of trustees vn District 56 (Clinton area) are candidates j in the election A new attendance area has been created in the dis trict, Lydia Mills, for which a representative will be named, and there are two candidates from the r Mountville area for the one posi- ! tion. Other candidates in District 56 have no opposition. i Clinton has two representa tives on the board for which i places there are only two candi dates, J J Cornwall and George *■’** M. Huguley; one from Joanna, James T. Addison; one from Cross • Hill, Jake Rasor; the two candi- W* “' dates from the Mountville area, i John B. Cooley and S. C. Black mon, one of which will be elect- : ed; and D. H. Roberts from the new Lydia area A seventh member will be ap pointed by the County Board of Education, who i will serve as chairman. Cornwall, Huguley, Rasor, Ad dison and Cooley constitute the present board in District 56 District 55 (Laurens) A like procedure will be follow ed in School District 55 (Laurens area). There are 12 candidates for the six elective posts in the district. They are: -j-' Luarens attendance area (en titled to two 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): James B. Wasson and James W. Culbertson. A seventh merrfcer wit! Sc appointed by the County Board of Education for this district, to serve as chairman Voting places in all areas will be the regular primary voting places in the county. Clinton vot ing sites will be the old high school building on Hampton ave nue, the city hall, and at Clinton Mills. Council Makes Plans for 3 Million Gallons Daily City council on Monday night directed that ^teps lie initi ated to build a new $1,150,000 water plant for the City of | Clmton. \ The city will issue revenue lx>nds to pay for the plant, to mature serially for 30 years. Plans provide for a pumping station on'Knoree river, a 16- inch water line to the city, and a :l,000.000-trallon daily filter ing plant with reserve raw water basin near the present plant in town. Action was taken following a meeting ten days ago of the City Bond Commission and the utili ties iiwnmittee of city council w^fh Huger Smkler, bond attor ney, of Charleston They review ed the financial status of the cit.y and heard plans being made to provide the necessary revenue The members of tl)e Bond Com mission endorsed thV proposal Hevcnut will lx* received from a 56 per cent increase in water meeting Mondav night ind en dorsed the resolution to build thg plant Police Dept. Fines $1,845.70 for July THORNWEIX JACOBS Thornwell Jacobs In Atlanta; Buried Clinton Dies Here Was Educator, Author IN CHICAGO Mrs. Joe E Land is attending a city recreation council meeting and taking a two weeks refresher course for teachers at Sherwood School of Music in Chicago. 111. Schools in District 56 To Open Term August 29 Laurens County School Dis- hteir regular buildings at 8:30 a trict No. 56 will begin its 1956-57 grades will be dismissed at 11:00 session on Wednesday, August 29. i m During this first week first On this date general faculty meetings, departmental and grade meetings will be held. All first grade pupils will re- port to Their respective buiId- ings on Wednesday. August 29, at 8:30 a. m. On Thursday, August 30, all pupils in the elemorttary schools and junior hi^h school will report to their respective buildings at b >0 a. m. The ninth and tenth grades will report to the new high school building at the,.same time, August 3Q.- On Friday, August 31, all pupils will report to their respective build ings and at which time the elev enth apd twelfth grades will re port to the new high school. The a m., second grades at 11:30 a. m., and all other grades at 12:00 Th.s schedule *li! be. of course, for the wees. September 3-7 Bvgilining Monday morning, Sept 10. at 8:30 a m., will be the regular schedul namely, 8:30 a m. to 2:30 p m. All the cafeterias will begin serving lunches on Sept. 10. This schedule is for both white and colored schools. The new Bell Street high school will be in operation and the old Bell Street bujlding'/wiH be 'used tor the grammar school only, in cluding grades 1-7 with 8-12 at the new Bell Street high school. The general faculty meeting for the white teachers will be ninth and tenth grades will not held at the n£w white high school repofl on this date. On Monday, September 3, all pupils report to Cooper Buys Timmerman Building and the general faculty meeting for the colored teaphers will be held at the new Bell Street high school. The special class for the white children will be at the jun ior high school and the special (continued on page five) Funeral services for Dr Thorn- well Jacobs, a native of Clinton who recorded a brilliant career as educator and author, were held in the First Presbyterian church here on Tuesday afternoon. Th* former president-founder of Oglettnfrp^ 4nlvWsfl.v and author of such popular books as “Red Lanterns of St Michaels,” “When for the Truth" and “Drums of Doomsday” died at 10:45 p m. Saturday in his Atlanta apartment. Death came at 79i ^.fter an illness of two months. The funeral services were con ducted by the Kevj W Redd Turn er, aster of the Cljnton First Pres byterian church; the. Rev Malcolm A Macdonald, president of Thorn- well orphanage; and the Rev. D. J Woods, pastor emeritus of the lius't church. I Interment was m the church cemetery, with these men serv ing as pallbearers: Hugh Jacobs, | j. P Jacobs, Jr., Robert Black, I William M. Shields Reese Young. (Brooks Owens, J «J Cornwell and | Robert AI Vance. Dr Jacobs had been in semi- retirement since 1943, when he lefl the presidency of Oglethorpe, which he founded and built from obscurity into one that became known nationally and interna tionally. He founded the famed Crypt of Civiliation at that School, a sealed storehouse of mementoes of recent civilization laid away for discovery of later generations. —Thorn we 11 J acoo-^-W-a*-4hc only surviving child of the Rev. Wil liam Plamer Jacobs, founder of both Thornwell orjuhanage and Presbyterian college and pastor of the Clinton First Presbyterian church for many years. His moth er was Mary Jane Dillard Jacobs. H^ .was born in Clin£py on. Feb. l5,~iS77, -anti after being graduat ed from Presbyterian college in 1894, he went on to receive his bachelor of divinity degree from Princeton Theological seminary in 1899 He was ordained a Presby terian minister that same year. After serving three years as a pastor in'Morganton, N. C , he be- in terned after Oxford university England. During his presidency there, he conferred honorary degrees on such outstanding Americans as Frank lin D Roosevelt, Bernard M. Ba ruch. Thomas H. Watson, David Sarnoff, Joseph P. Kennedy, Ame lia Earhart, Wilfred J Funk, Wal i rates and a monthly charge of $1 00 from each residciuo unit for ! sewer service The city has here-, •tofore fur»i-;hoit free -ewer ser- | vice to residents. In addition to increased service charges, revenue from the utilities department of the city will be pledged to secure the payment o/ bonds arid interest is they mature from year to year' It has not yet been determined whether the sale of bonds will tie negotiated or bids invited Council at a later date will im plement its resolution to go ahead with the construction of the water plant with the necessary legisla- tion Preliminary plans and specifi cations for the new water plant were made by Harwood Beebe and company, engineers of Spar tanburg, after a survey of the city's needs and available sources of water -The < lice ieparhnent .'ollceted $ 1,845 70 in fines during-July, it was shown in the department’! monthly re<{x>rt to city council Monday night The report showed 108 arrests for the month and 675 days given on the [Wiblir works ip addition to the fines. Leading the list in payments to the city treasury were 15 arrested for driving under the influence of intoxicants who were assessed $812 and 60 days. Drunkenness charges were put against 24 offenders who paid $168 and 185 days. One was re leased Nine were taken in for fitfhtiog, one was released, ‘■and the others assessed fHW and 185 days. Violation of the liquor law was charged to four who paid $138. Speeding and reckless driving charges were laid against 11, who paid. 137 Seventeen disorderly conduct It is expected to pro- 1 offenders paid $99 30 and 173 ceed with detailed plans in the i days. One was released next few dyas. Other charges included Gamb- The resolution to proceed with img. 6, $72; operating auto with- construction of the plant followed out drawer’s license 7, $72 and many months of planning by May- . 15 days; carrying concealed wea- >r Hugh Eicvhelberger, city eoun-jpons, 1, $27. violating the pros titute law, 6, $31.10, and 90 days; ter Lippman, Dr Harlow Shapley. John Oliver LaGorce, Frank Gan-* .j] citizens advisory commit nett, William Randolph Hearst tees. Meetings have been held by i damaging private or public prop- and Dorothy DiX .. j t^. various groups with the en- erty, 1, $12; other offenses, 6. $113 Shortly before Roosevelt was gineers over the past ten or twelve | and 30 days, petty larceny, 1, Mi nominated for President jn 1932, : ,months. he delivered the Oglethorpe com- Incoming Mayor Joe P Terry mencement address at Dr Jacobs’ ind one ommoiLman, Woodrow invitation and there outlined for Wilson, who will take office Sopt. (continued on page four) 1, were present at the council- days. Nine were taken m tor in vestigation or on suspicion and re leased Violators of parking laws rmm- bered KtT. and they paid $59 50., State Champion Conway Legion Team Here is the state championship American Legion Junior baseball team from Conway that won four straight games from the Clinton legionnaire Juniors last week to take the title. The first two games were played at Conway Monday.^aiid Tuesday, and the last .two Thursdav and Friday at the Clinton . team’s home park at Joanna. , * Front row, left to right: "Stonry’ 1 llarrelson, manager, liny TavloCt? Lamar l-dge. Tommy sawyer. Dick Smith. Tommy Daniels, Wayne Taylor,’Sonny Hunter.-bat bo> Back row; Harold >lc<’own, coach, Billy Barnhill. Jim Tyson, Jennings Gore. Charles Floyd. Jen nings Owens, Teak Fdgeworth. Bob Kopp. Dick Singleton, coach —Photo by Dan Yarborough came vice president of Thornwell college for Orphans, founded by The A mere m Legion Juniors his father He established West- from Conway Won four straight 1 minster Magazine m 1911 and in ganfes from Clinton to take the the first issue suggested the plan championship of South Carolina, for a Presbyterian Jubilee which The first two games were pla.Ved later met in Atlanta in May, 1913 at Conway Monday and Tuesday : According to Dr Jacobs, With- and the last two at the Clinton out invitation save from within team home park at Joanna ♦ 'and without authorization~5ffVe The Conway Juniors WTtr bo! - The Rev. J Leland Rhinehart! from above, on Sept. 13, 1909, we South Carolina’s representatives was among thsoe receiving degrees 1 came to Atlanta to refound Ogle- tn regmnal competition at Green- Conway Wins State Baseball Crown — . . • • Rev. J. Leland Rinehart Gets Newberry Degree Downs Clinton in 4 Straight Games here b\ scores of 10 to 5 -in i 9 to Lynn W. Cooper last week bought the above Timmerman Motor company buHding on East Carolina avenue, it has been announced. Mr. Coogter, who Is the Dodge-Plymouth automobile dealer in Clin ton, has made no announeement of his plans to use the -building. -‘“'Photo by Dan Yarborough at graduation exercises Friday at Newberry college Mr. Rinehart is pastor of Hope- well Methodist church, near here. HOSPITAL PATIENT Friends of A3c Cecil Wayne Quinton, son of Mrs. L. H Quin ton of this city, will regret to learn he is a patient at the base hospital suffering severe lacera tions of an arm received in an i accident. thorpe university.” His grand father, Prof. Ferdinand J'acobs, had taught at old Oglethorpe in Milledgeville, Ga., before that in stitution died during "the^ ^Civil war. —— — Stinting witih his own contri bution of $1,000, Dr. Jacobs estab lished Oglethorpe university in At lanta and built it to the point that when he retired f£om the presi dency in 1943 he left a $2,000,000 layout of granite buildings pat- in idle beginning Monday, August 13 Their first opponent' will be the Alabama state champions Clinton and Conway entered the foihr-out-of-^j.'Veri championship -series by wtnnmg the titles hi tip per and lower state competition Conway won the first two games in their home park by scores of 8 to 3 and 3 to 4 Moving to the Joanna park on Thursday ^fter a lay-off W’ednes- day, Conway took the two games The- oatstnnTtmg .Tea‘tire of the • Contvay team's ;>crformariec tn the iel es a is file hjuihg They ham mered out 12 hits in each of three games and six in the other, for a total of 42 hits. Clinton produced a total of 28 hits for the four games Their best hitting- performance was in the game at Joanna Thursday when they got 11 hits ' However, they couid put across oinly five run-., leaving many batters strand ed on the bases. Thursday's Game Conway went to work in a hur ry with four big runs in the first :lining Taylor : walked arid Smith and Gore singled to load 'em up. Owens fanned before Gore’s sui- gle scored Taylor ind Smith Gore raced home on an infield <»ut ind ' tim'd crossed on an error In the 7th Conway struck for -four out of Clinton's reach. Gore sm- Damd's single moi e - of Clinton's gled, Owens walked ami 'ingle scored Gore. Floyd's scut Owens .Tome, and Barnhill crossed on a double steal Edge’s hit pushed Floyd' in with the fourth marker Clinton looked rke ;t might eaten fire in the 7th Smith s-uig- led and Raines walked after Sam ples had .gone 'Ut Bill Sease smashed a lon„ double, scoring Smith, and Ra.ues. Mike Cooley’s double- sent Sease scampering (continued on page tour> Clinton Merchants Invite You for Dollar Days—Thursday, Friday, Saturday