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* v If Yon Don’t Rend The Chronicle You Don’t Get the New* The Chronicle strive* To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVII / ■ •/ Clinton, S. C., Thursday, October 25, 1956 Number 43 Clinton High Homecoming Schedules For Friday < * i p Parade, Football Game and Crowning Treasurer Mails Of Queen Be Features of Celebration Homecoming festivities for Clin ton high school will hold the stage here tomorrow (Friday), to be featured by a football game with Honea Path on Presbyterian college’s Johnson field beginning at 7‘30 p. m. The queen will be crowned during halftime cere- , monies by John Franklin, presi dent of the high-school student body. Candidates for Miss CHS are Jenny Addison, Judy Simmons, and Toni Ray. Selection of the lueen was made Wednesday by student body vote but the win ner will not be announced until her name is called at the halftime exercises at the game. A parade will begin the home coming activities Friday after noon when candidates for Miss CHS, sponsors of senior football players, the Clinton high band, cheerleaders and club floats will be featured. Honea Path, under the leader ship of Coach Ralph Tewards, has won all of its seven games this year, and will be tough oppo sition for the Red Devils under Coach Fleming Thornton. A homecoming canteen will be held at the American Legion ^Memorial building following the game.’ Sonsors for the senior players are: Carolyn Asbill for Larry Presbyterian laymen Occupy Pulpits In Churches on Sunday Laymen’s Sunday was observed in Presbyterian churches in the county Sunday when pulpits were occupied by laymen who spoke in churches other than their own. Clinton laymen who served as sneakers for the day included Tbm Plaxico, of the First Presby terian church, who spoke at Grace Covenant, Laurens; Hugh Jacob?, of the First Presbyterian church, who was at the First Presbyterian church in Laurens; and Eugene Johnson, of the Lydia Presbyte rian church, who spoke at the Thornwell Memorial churcih. Appearing at churches, in this area were: L. W. Gratz, of Lau rens, at Clinton’s First church; Henry Faris, of Laurens, at Joan na"; R T. Smith, of Grace Cove nant, at Lydia; F. P. Thompson, of Laurens, at Mountville; Henry Boyce, Jr., of Cross Hill’s Liberty Springs church, at Shady Grove; David A. Harmon, of Laurens, at Bethany; David Senn, of Smyrna, in Newberry county, at Little River-Dominick. * The day was similarly observed throughout the Southern Presby terian church, and this was the first time that it was observed in South Carolina Presbytery as*a whole, which includes several counties in this part of the state. John Henry Nabors, of Rocky Springs . Presbyterian church, is president of the men’s organiza tion in the presbytery. Landrith; Jean McDaniel for Charles Marler, Elaine Addison for Walter Ferrene; Jackie Pjtts for Bobby Fuller; Jane Ann Davis for Jim Gasque; Brenda O’Dell for James Smith; Dawn Camp bell for Bill Sease; Toni Stroud for Joe Hill; Gail. Morse for Ray Fuller; and Angela Clements for Wilson Muckenfuss. Stribling Is New County Commissioner Albert M. Stribling, former superintendent of the county home, has been notified of his ap pointment by the governor as County Commissioner to fill out the unexpired term of Clyde Jones, resigned. The term runs until January, 1957. Davenport Elected Clemson Class Prexy In the recent student elections at Clemson College, Ted Davenport of Kinards, was elected president of the freshman class.' * Ted is a 1966 graduate of Clin ton High School and is studying mechanical engineering at Clem son. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Davenport. County Tax Notices Laurens, . Octt. 18 — County Treasurer Sam M Leaman said yesterday that he had completed sending out 19.327 notices to Lau rens county taxpayers covering the 1956 county and school dis trict tax bills. The tax bills this year, he said, will be about $50,000 more than last year, caused principally by a five-mill increase in the levy for Schools District No. 55, a two-mill increase in District 56 and ad ditions to property assessments. The total amount to be collect ed, he said, will be $614,314.92 as compared with $565,867.24 to have been collected in 1955. The tax books were opened Oct. 15, he said, and collections have already started. Lutherans Prepare For Evangelistic Program Nov. 11-16 Fair Has Three Days Yet to Run Prepare for Community Chest Campaign Laurens county people have three more days to see , their -county fa»r, which, opened .Mon-- day and will continue through Saturday. ’ Featuring the exhibition are A week-long evangleism mis sion will be held at St. John’s Lutheran church during the week of .November 11-1, it is announced by the Rev. L. Allan Wertz, Jr , pastor. ' The mission will be held in co operation with the evangelism program of the United Lutheran ^ community farm exhibits, an churches. Fourteen churches in animal and poultry entries wht h the Greenville and Asheville area are U P their usual high 4and- will have simultaneous meetings ar< l- > at this time, The fair, seventh in the series, Emphasis will be placed on the j is sponsored by the Laurens Lx- preaching services in each con- change club through the I-aurens gregation, instruction sessions for County Fair association lay workers, and the planning of Monday night was featured by local evangelism programs dur a beauty contest in which Joyce ing the mission. Madden, 19, was named "Miss The Rev. J LeGrande Mayer, L^ ureris County Fair." Winner pastor of St Luke’s Lutheran 0 f second place was Barbara Liv church, Charlotte, N. C.. w'ill lead ingston. 17, and third place went the week^s services at St. John’s to Linda Taylor. 16. All are from church. Mr. Mayer is a former pastor of the Clinton Lutheran church. R. W Boland is serving as Laurens. Tuesday was white school day. when school children were admit ted free of charge. Also on Tues- thairman for the week’s evange- ; d was the judgin of field crop hstic effort at St John’s, and the exhjbits dairy cat ti e show, judg- ATTEND. BOARD MEET INC, Rev. and Mrs. J; H. Darr were in the Columbia several days last week for the former to attend the meeting of the Baptist General Board of which he is a member. He is also secretary of the special committee making plans for the building of the Bethea home for the aged near Darlington: Chamber Commerce and Jaycees to Hear Noyes Ladies Night Banquet on Tuesday “Community of Progress" will be the title of a talk by John H. Noyes, DuPont company repre sentative, at the Chamber of Commerce and Jaycee ladies night banquet next Tuesday eve ning. Tickets for the dinner are avail able from' Chamber of Commerce directors or Jaycee members at John H. Noyes $1.75 each. Reservations, in the form of purchase of a ticket, must be made by noon Monday to enable proper planning for the meal. Citizens of Laurens county and their guests are invited to attend. Blue Hose Determined To Change Defeat Pattern As Season Enters Second Half Presbyterian college will head | into the second half of its 1956 football schedule against Cataw ba at Salisbury, N. C., this Sat urday afternoon, determined to 'change the pattern of defeats which finds the Blue Hose with just one victory in five starts thus far. The route ahead is rugged, but the biggest obstacles on the ten- game slate are a matter of history now. As he takes stock of the first half of the season. Coach Bill Crutchfield searches for the ans wer to the problem of how Pres- «byterian can transform its obvi ously potent offensive ability into touchdowns, Never beofre has a PC tearr^ covered so much ground and yet produced so few scores, for the Hosemen haye emerged on a par with almost every op ponent in the battle of statistics. The PC attack has produced a total of 1.503 running and passing yards in losing to Clemson, Wof ford, Davidson and Tampa and in whipping Elon. That’s an average of just over 300 yards per game. All of this accomplished in 333 plays figures to an average of 4.5 yards on each attempt. Runners have produced 992 yards in 256 rushes from scrim mage to average just under 4 yards per carry. Passers have for 511 yards, an accuracy mark connected on 36 of 7T attempts 0 of 47 per cent and a play average of 6.6 yards. conditioned upon the purchase of a ticket, whether they are active members of the Chamber of Commerce or Jaycees or not. James Wolfe, chamber presi dent, will preside at the dinner. Mr. Noyes, Atlanta, Southern district manager for the DuPont company’s extension division, will discuss the role of industrial research and" business enterprise in strengthening the national economy and improving the American standard of living. following members are committee chairmen: prayer committee. Mrs F. M. Boland; publicity, Charles Burnett; telephone, Mrs. Orin Woodruff; lay visits, Wyman Shealy, Jr.; hospitality, Mr. and Mrs. S. P Bowers; music. Mrs T. M. Sease; finance, J. D Boland PTA Halloween Carnival Set For Wednesday, Oct. 31 The annual Halloyreen carnival and bazaar staged each year by the Parent-Teacher Association of Florida Street School will be held on Wednesday afternoon and even ing at the Armory, beginning at 5:30. Clubs/and other civic groups are participating by sponsoring booths, entertaijiments or assisting with the varied activies. Blue Bird girls have placed attractive posters in windows of business houses to ad vertise the event. In addition to the handwork, re freshment and other booths the Jaycees this year are adding a booth for cotton candy and candy apples. Live ponies will be availa ble for the jchildren to ^cide. Home made cakes baked by members of the Legion Auxiliary will be awarded in the cake walks. Three prizes will be given for costumes: one for the most original, the most More than 10 years in newspa Mr Noyes joined DuPont in 1955 1 appropriate, and the” uglieet per and public relations work, as a member of their public re lations department’s information division, assigned to product in formation on textile fibers. He served as extension division man- Proceeds from the event' will be used for the organization’s work, such as contributions to the Chil dren’s Library, thhe grade mothers: for their work with the children and gifts to the various school ager for the Eastern division be- \ rooms for needed articles. .fore going to Atlanta. A graduate of Wesleyan uni versity, Middleton, Conn., he served in the navy in World War II. He later 4 served as a member of the administrative staff of Wesleyan university. George Massey, chamber man ager, said an entertaining as Mrs. George R. Blalock and Mrs. George M. Huguley, co-chairmen, have stated that the Armory will be open all day Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday eveing from seven until nine so" that the grade mother^* mayt havo ample time to arrange the booths. scheduled when Mr. Noyes will /■'i- f ki;il well as informative meeting is t-lintOll, .100000 Mill Meo oo Progrooi c Safety Coofereoce be expected to give Clinton and MeO 00 PrOgrOOl of Laurens county business, agricul- 1 tural, civic and industrial lead ers qualified information from, one of the country’s leading com panies. Mrs. Crisp Named Community Activities Director At Lydia And all of these efforts thus far have paid off in just seven touchdowns, while the combined opposition have racked up 17 scores. « Individually, the PC rushing department continues to be led by halfback Ken Webb, out of the Tampa game because of injury, who has 250 yards in 48 carries for a 52 average. Five other Blue Hose ball carriers also hav^ now’ rushed past the 100-yard maxk. They are: halfback Gene Butler, 149 yards in 28 tries for a 5.3 average"; fullback Eddie Brockenbrough, 131 yards in 38 tries for 34 average; fullback Robert Nalle, 129 yards'in 30 for 4.3 average; halfback John Lu cas, 105 yards in 23 for 4 6 aver age, and halfback Raymond Johnson, 104 yards in 23 for 4.51 average. Quarterback Felder Cook add ed 90 more yards to his passing total on nine completions in 12 attempts last Saturday to broad en his domination of the aerial department. He now has complet ed 24 of 44 attempted passes for 311 yards and an accuracy mark of 55 per cent. Quarterback Ron Isger follows with 11 complet ions in 29 attempts for 147 yards and two touchdowns. Pass-receiving honors thus far go to end Ted Leahy, who has hauled in seven aerials for 147 yards and one touchdqwn, and halfback Butler with six caught fori43 yards. Mrs Edith “Crisp, formerly of Buffalo, has been named com munity activities director at Ly dia Mills and assumed her duties there October 1. She will direct the Clinton-Lydia kindergarten, the Lydia Community building and other community activities. Mrs. Crisp had several years experience at Buffalo. She taught piano classes and served ds or ganist and choir director of the plaps to continue to teach piano Buffalo Baptist church She to the young people of the Lydia community. Mrs. Crisp was guest of honor at the Lydia Woman’s club com munity-wide drop-in on October 9 from 6 to 9 p. m She is the wife of Thomas Crisp, who is also employed at Lydia. They have a 3*4 year old son. Gene. Calvin Cooper, personnel (firec- tor of Cimton and Lydia Cotton Mills, will speak on "The Game of the Day" before the textile sec tion of the South Carolina Ac cident Prevention conference to be held in Columbia on Thursday and Friday, November 8 and 9 James P Sloan, personnel di rector of Joanna Cotton Mills, along with other representatives from the textile industry, is serv ing on the planning committee of the conference. ing of cooked foods, and the flow er show. Wednesday was merchants day The beef cattle show w’as also held on Wednesday. Today (Thursday) is designated as colored school day. The poul try and rabbit show will be held on Thursday afternoon. At 8:00 p. m on Thursday w’ill be the an nual dog show.' This show is rather unique in that there are no limitations as to the type or breed of entries. Aoy person who has a dog may enter it in this show and persons having an entry will be admitted free to the fair. Friday, has been designated as everybody’? day. At 10:30 p . m. a new’ station wagon will be giv en away. • Saturday will be kiddies day. All school age children will be admitted to the fair free all day long on this day and prices of all -rides.and amusements will be re duced for them. At 5:00 p. m. on Saturday affernoon a pony, bri dle, and saddle will be given away. On the midway this year fur nishing the amusement and en tertainment is Prell’s Broadway shows. Duncan’s Creek " ■ Homecoming Is Set For Sunday, Oct. 28 Annual homecoming services will take place at historic’ Dun-, can’s Creek church on Sunday at 11:30 a. m. A special feature of the occas ion will be the unveibng of a monument at the grave of John and Margaret Blakely Copeland. Dr Edouard Patte, a minister of the Presbyterian.church, and a professor at Presbyterian college, will be the speaker for the oc casion. and a portion of. the col lege choir, directed by Dr Patte. w ill sing The usual picnic on the grounds will see residents of several South Carolina counties gathered for the occasion, to which all inter ested fr/ends are invited One of the oldest Presbyterian churches of the Piedmont section, the church maintains a cemetery in which the oldest marked graves are contemporary with the Declaration of Independence Di rect-lineal descendants of its orig inal members of the Colonial pe riod constitute a major part of the present congregation. A luncheon meeting w*s held at the Mary Musgrore Hotel Wedneeday for the payroll deduction committee of the coming Community Chest drive. * f MU^nbers of the committee or their represent* tires were present and plans were formulated to organize this phase of the campaign. A training film was shown about industrial solicitation. A. C. Young, president, and Fred Holcombe, campaign chairman, discussed this year s budget and led a discussion about the various agencies being supported by the cheat. George Massey, who is in charge of solocitor training, spoke briefly and showed campaign mate rials. I. A. Edwards, chairman, urged those present to adopt payroll deduction plans for thair firms. Donald Clough, of Carolinas United, a professional worker, was present to give the committee guidance- and the benefit of his-experience,—.—- —— . Those in attendance were, as shown in the above picture, left side: Miss Corqelia Harris, of The Chronicle; Mrs. James H. Buzhardt. of Clinton Paper Box company; Paul A. Rundo. of Hallmark Mfg. Corp.; Mrs. Charles Yarborough, of Standard Plywoods; Sam Chapman, of Gwen-Evan Mills; I. A. Edwards, charman of the payroll committee. Right side, beginning front: A. C. Young. Jr- pres ident of Community Chest; Mrs. James Reynefcds and Mrs. Josie McCaslan. of Southern Bell Tele phone company; Donald Clough, of Carolinas United; Fred Holcombe, campaign chairman. —Photo by Dan Yarborough Community Chest Drive To Get Underway Monday Committee Named To File Application For Watershed Area A' five-man committee was ap- First Phase Is Advance Solicitations i Advance gift solicitations for I the 1957 Community Ch£st of |Greater Clinton will begin on Monday to launch the campaign ! to raise $17,987 .for nine partici pating agencies. Robert M Vance serves as pointed at a meeting Thursday j chairman of the advance gifts night of Duncan Creek area resi* j committee which will conduct its dents^to file an application with , drive for larger contributions the State Department of Agricul- j durin 8 the enlire wt ‘ ek More , , ■ . . . - general solicitations start on No-1 ture for a watershed program in* , . I vember 5 the area. Other members of this commit-1 •Appointed on the committee tee working with him are are R. E. Ferguson, Hugh H. Eichel- j berger, Hugh Jacobs, W. C Bald- j and Russell Burns, all owners of win. A D Salter. Gary Holcombe land in the area 1 1 and Eugene Johnson.. Some 35 or 40 farmers, includ- 1 Drive Chairman Fred Holcombe j _ ing three Negro farmers in the ^ as announced that a kickoff 8i area, attended the meeting held at breakfast is scheduled for Nov 5 were. Bryan Goodwin, T. B. Sum- erel, P. S. Bailey, C. W. Anderson, at 8 30-a m to set in motion the organization of voluntary work ers who will canvass for genera! solicitations for six days, through November 10 « The nine participating agencies- Chest Division Heads Long Branch commuhity house, about five miles from Clinton Ryan F LaWson. chairman of the Laurens County Soil Conser vation District, explained the purpose of the meeting He said the proposed watershed district ,‘ or ^57 are Local \outh Work will embrace about 4.000 acres, of American Red Cross. American which l,80b .acres wHTW fWbd Cancer Society. Crippled Chil- j plain or bottom land | lLu» Ridge Council of Bo> Y B O’Deli, technician of the'Scouts. Salvation Army. Amen- soil conservation district, intro- 1 ;iri Heart Association. C arolinai duced Brice M Lathan, of Ander- Lnited Organization, and Emer son, area conservationist for the gency Relief and Administration Soil Conservation Service, w.lio ^ Four of the most important of showed slides of the Twelve Mile Creek Watershed in Pickens county. Mr Lathan emphasized that the watershed would be a community project for the benefit of the whole area and individuals The Duncan Creek area pro posed watershed will be similar to the Twelve Mile Creek project in Pickens countv and the Bush Riyer Watershed Area which contains 78,000 acres in l«iuren.« and Newberry counties Mr Lawson explained that the objectives of the proposed project will include reducing of flood water damage and sediment dam age. erosion control, drainage, ir rigatipn. fish and wuldlife im provement, water supply .md recreation. C. D. Beniamin. Jr. welcomed the group 0 W Tinsley, a mem ber of the Soil Conservation l>is J tnct board, was present at the meeting these agencies are: Local Youth Work, which :s placed in the bud get for $4,600. the Blue Ridge Council of Boy Scouts,' budgeted foY $2 500: Crippled Children. $L- 2t>0. and American Heart, $750 „ Local Youth Work, with the largest quota of any agency, is aimed at providing Clinton young people with adequate facilities, trained leadership and supervised programs to occupy their spare time. Most of the funds go d.rectly to the local groups of Camp Fire girls and Boy Seouts Approxi mately 267 girls are in three Camp Fire girls-units, the city of Clinton group leading with 120, followed by Clinton Mill with ’87 and Lydia Mill with 60 Bov *50001 troops and Cub Scout packs serve a total of 196 boys of the community the Boy Scouts include 90—with 44 in two citv troops. 24 -at Lydia, and 22 at Clinton Mill, the Cub Scputs include 106- -with 50 in the city pack, 29 at Clinton' Mil! and 27 at Lydia Funds for the Blue Ridge Coun cil of BoV Scouts serves. further ito help promote this national youth orgamzaLon a.^. ;t reaches to the local’lev* 1 w ith its pro gram and a paid scout execctive (continued on page 4' Trade Days Tickets Give Owner Chance At $60 Merchants Support Shopping Event Noble Collins Heads Scabbard and Blade Society at College Noble Collins, of Atlanta, is the new commandant of the Society of Scabbard and Blade at Pres- byteriart college. He was named to this position as captain by fellow members of the organization. Chosen to serve with him were: Tommy Warren, of Allendale, first lieutenant; Felder Cook, of Charleston Heights, second lieutenant; and Luther Hinson, of Spartanburg, first sergeant. Here are the Negro dirizion leaderz for the forthcoming Com munity Chezt campaign in Clinton. D. C. Prcitt center, iz chair man. and he iz azzizted by McQuilla Hudson, left' and Benjamin L. Thompson, right. Thoee serving as workers in the drive include; Church workers: Captain. James Sturkey; J. B. H. Ruth. An drew Ferguson. Thomas Rice. Sr.. Theodore Blakely. Mrs. Lula Ir by. Mrs. Othelma Floyd. Henry Price. Jr., Mrs. Lis lie BelL Mrs. Zena Wilson. Mrs. Laura Randolph. Mrs. Cora Hunter. Edward Kennedy. Home-to-Home workers: Captain. Mrs. Maude Sanders; Mrs. Beatrice Taylor. Miss Eva Sanders. Mrs. Eva Young. Mrs. Asalee Williams. Mrs. Zenora Babbs. Mrs. Annette Tate. Mrs. Elsie Rice. Mrs. Amanda Gary. Mrs. Willie Burnside. Mrs. Myrtle Smith. Mrs. Lenora Fleming. Mrs. Alene Nance. Mrs. Sarah Miller. Miss Mary Dendy. Mrs. Sally L. Finley. Mrs. Laura Richardson, Mrs. Sadie Adam*. Mrs. Ida J. Davis. John Copeland. Mrs. Mattie Coggins, Mrs. Elnora Summers. Organisations: Mrs. Laura Thomas. Richard Rice. Business Firms: Mrs. Anna L. Moore. Schools: Principals. Baptist Leadership . Conference Be Held At Joanna Church, Nov. 1-7 The Western Region Leader ship conference for youth work ers in missionary organization' will be held at the Joanna Baptist church on Thursday. November 1. from 7:00 to 8,45 p m Conferences will be led for counselors with Sunbeams, Girls’ Auxiliary. Young Woman’s Aux ijiary, Royal Ambassadors, and chairmen of youth departments | Presidents of Women's Mission ary societies and Circle chairmen are urged to attend > Miss Dorothy Sears, of the state department, w-ill lead the conference for chairmen of youth and young women's Auxitiarv Rev Guilford Daugherty, of the state department will lead the conference for Royal Ambassa dors; Mrs. Jake Rasor, of Cross Hill. Will lead the Sunbeam con- ference; and Mis Evelyn Lever, will lead the Girls’ Auxiliary con ference. Following conference periods, lefreshments will be served dur ing the fellowship period by the Joanna church The Clinton Trade Days cash jackpot award Saturday a ill be $60 and will be awarded the Clinton shopper whose name is drawn if that person is present and claims the. award wi’hin thc time limit A second prize will be pre- >ented Saturday w hen the Broad way Theatre will give a three months’ pass to the person w hose 1 name is on the ticket drawn for the cash award The person whose name is drawn for the pa's does not have to be present to win the -ame • 1 Mist Saturday a large crowd witnessed the drawing when a ticket bearing the name of Mr? Walter S Ramage, 306 S Wood- row street, w draw n Mr' Ham.ige did not identify Verse f as present to dam the cash award, enabling the jackpot* to reach $60 this week George Massey, manager of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, commenting on the attendance at last week's drawing, suggested the use of various parking facili ties about the city on futuf? 1 Sat urdays w hich would enable those in attendance to leave the scene of the draw ing as soon as possible after the drawing Among the available parking facilities are the following located lots l D \*e\t to the Jacobs building on F Carolina avenue; 2) ■ Behind McCrarv Gulf Service Station on South Broad i3> Behind the 1 IONS CLUB MEET 7 V M The meeting of the l ions Club on Friday evening will t*e heUt it the Mary Mlisgrova. Hotel at 7 o’clock. The time ha.' been 'et at the earlier hour to 'give an oppor tunity to those who wish to attend the Clinton High homecoming foot ball game. - • * * » Broad Street Methodist church. <41 Behind Cimton Hotel •Tickets enabling shoppers m Clinton to participate m the drawing- ar* avai!at''e%ro r r more than 60 Clinton retail bus'inesses Commerce Leaders To Meet District Head This Morning James E Mooney. Jr. of At- anta. distr; t muhag er ?or the Chamber of Commerce of the United, Sts' ’ t '>. A . .1. et with members of the Chnto •n C 'hamber of Commerce board \ .’f iireetors this morn in j i at 10 00 . i n ; in the forum room of the Ba n* of Cim- ton . * The meeti ,ng yvith U ye i .-hamber directors wi 11 follow a SC b sHjn be- tween Mr Mooney. . Bo b Cox. chairma-. of the chamber's Na tions Affairs and Legislative Action committee, members of his .v nn tee and Chamber Man ager George Massey Points of consideration w.L be tne Cimton chamber > program of work the !oca! chamber ' activ ity in national and legislative af- tairs arid the relationship -if the local chamber to the activity of the ’lationa! chamber Mr Mooney before joining the staff of the national chamber, yy .i> publicity and research man ager for- the W,as*.on-Salem. N C . Chamber df Commerce A Florida Mr Mooney was asso ciated with Sears, Roebuck and Company m their executive training program before entering the Chamber of* Commerce field