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1 If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don't Get the News She (Elintmi (tthrmtirlr The Chronicle ^ Stri\e?» To lie A Clean News paper. Complete. Newsy and Reliable Volume LVII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 15, 1956 Number 46 Clinton High Closes Out Season Here Saturday Meets Spartanburg on Johnson Field The Clinton high school Red i ious they will have turned in a Devils will take on the grid squad ; good night’s work, of Spartanburg high school Sat-1 Not ordinarily in action on Sat urday night on Johnson field at • urday nights, the Red Devils had Presbyterian college. Game time, to schedule Spartanburg in order to avoid a conflict with the Presbyterian - Stetson tilt Remodeled Dining Hall and Kitchen at Thornwell Orphanage is 8:00 o’clock « i The Red Devils, fresh from a 14-0 victory over their perennial foe; Laurens, last Friday night at Laurens, and sporting an excel lent 9-2 record for the season, will go all out Saturday night in an effort to maintain the status quo The Spartans, representing a much larger school, frequently come up with one of the better teams in state high school cir cles. This year has not been one of their best seasons; however, they field a good team and if the Clintonians can emerge victor- Chronicle To Publish Early Next Week Th* Chronicle will go the mails on Wednesday morn ing next week, due to the Thanksgiving holiday Thurs day. r - < Advertisers and correspond- which comes tomorrow (Friday) night. Coach Fleming Thornton’s Clinton high squad will be wind ing up the season with the last game on the 1956 schedule Sat urday night. They have racked up one of the best records in re cent years, winning nine and los ing two. The Red Devils have been defeated only by Chester and Greer, while turning back Whitmire, York, Ware Shals, Ab beville, Union, Inman, Honea Path, Newbefry and Laurens. Clinton 14, Laurens 0 With the Fuller brothers, Bob by and Ray, leading the way, the j Clinton Red Devils emerged vie torious Friday night, 14-0, when ' they, went over to their neigh-' boring town and took on Laurens into | w’ith about 2,500 spectators on haqd. The Fuller brothers performed the scoring chores for the night, Bobby crossing the line from four j yards out, and Ray making a 28- yard journey for the other. Both •nts are requested to prepare their material early to meet the ! extra points were made by Smith. Here is shown the recently remodeled Turner building at Thornwell Orphanage which houses the dining hall and kitchen of the institution. The front part of the building was remodel*! to make an entrance at the center, closing two corner entrances formerly used, and a portico and columns added. The original building was constructed in 1888. Later an addition was built to The rebuilt dining hall is showry^in the photo at right. two st the rear. This room occupies what was formerly twd stories, the floor being removed to provide the high-ceiling hall, with a balcony shown at the front of the building. The floor is made of tile, mahogany paneling was used on the walls, and the ceiling is of acoustic panel ing. Forty tables are in the dining hall, providing seating space for 320 children. About 60 pre-school children in two homes do not use the dining hall facilities, since provision in the individual homes is made for them. Kitchen facilities also underwent ^el- vamping some months ago. a view of which is shown elsewhere in The Chronicle today. While the dining hall was being constructed the Thornwell family was served cafeteria style. Dr. M. A. Mac. donald. president of ThornwelL stated the rebuilt dining facility was put into use last week; —Photo by Dan Yarborough stepped-up deadline. Monday at noon is the latest that ad vertisements can be accepted for nex tweek’s paper. The pub lisher will appreciate the coop eration of the paper's patrons. Mrs. Copeland 4)ies In Winston-Salem Mrs. Mary (Mamie) Hunter Copeland, 90, wife of the late J. Rhett Copeland, died at an early hour Tuesday mroning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Bethea, in Winston- Salem, N. C. . ■ The entire Clinton team did yeoman service in this game, the backfield featuring on offense and the line, led by Sease and Marler, on defense. They stopped four Laurens drives with their stellar defense work. Harley and Porter were best for Laurens on offense, while Brown, Patterson, and Mathis stood out defensively. Clinton 0 7 7 Laurens 0 0 0 0^-14 0— 0 Clinton Parents Seek Te Bring Son From Hungary Escapes When Russians Clamp Down CoHege Dining Hall Open For Newberry Gome Howard Smith Is !ew President Of local Kiwanis Club Thanksgiving dinner in the Mrs. Copeland «... , n.«v. of • , d,nin ‘ hal l ♦ Lauren, roomT Hunter town- wm ^ >lun ' n ' *" d ship, and spent most of her life in Clinton. She was a daughter of the late Henry Middleton and Mary Holland Hunter and was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Clinton. For the past • nine years she had made her home with her two daughters, Mrs. Bethea and Mrs. James B. Frazier, of Columbia. Surviving besides her two daughters are eight grandchil dren and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday at 11 a. m. at Gray Funeral Home in Clinton by Dr. William Redd Turner, assisted by Dr. D. J. Woods. Burial was in the Presbyterian cemetery. Grandsons served as pallbear ers. friends planning ot attend the PC-Newberry game that after noon, dining hall manager L. V. Powell, announced today. He said the meal will be served cafeteria, style between the hours of 12 and 2:00 p. m., to enable plent of time before th 2:30 p m kickoff. Prices haye been set at $1.50 per plate for adults and 75 cents for children. Those persons plan ning to be present for the dinner are urged to contact Mr. Powell by next Monday to make reser vations. The dining hall is being opened especially for this occasion since; the college will close for Thanks- givirtg holidays next Wednesday afternoon through the following Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Otto V. Pertik, of out an immigration visa for their Clinton’s Whitten Village, a state 36-year-old son, who has escaped institution where Dr. Pertik is staff besieged Budapest, to Vienna, physician, Tuesday took steps to Austria get their son, who escaped the Dr. Pertik had with him a re- Russiars in Hungary, into this cent newspaper clipping which ex country. ; plained President Eisenhower’s , They have applied for a visa lor willingness to admit Hungarians the son that would enable him to, beysnd tiw normal quota. continue his flight from the Rus- ; He and Mrs. Pertik, Hungarians sians, who apparently have crutfied by birth, have been in this coun- an uprising in Hungary, into the try only six years, and were nat- Howard Smith. Cl^iton drug gist, has been named president of the Kiwanis club for the coming, year. Several new directors were named at the Same time, includ ing John L. Mimnaugh. D. H. Roberts, Ratchford Boland, and TB Seal and Court Resumes Session; United States Dr. and Mrs. Pertik went to Greenville to seek help in filling Wednesday Closing Halts Until After Beginning Of Year uralized in the federal courtroom here Feb. 22 of this year. The couple has not seen the son,, Otto L. Pertik, since 1945, when he was released from a Russian prison camp after having been in the Hungarian army. Dr. Pertik said he feels his son ' was among the rebel forces, since the cablegram received from an] official in Vienna identified him as a Lieutenant-— . —-1 , .... Dr. and Mrs. Pertik escaped The majority of retail business ^ ah<?ad ^ ^ Kusslan oc . houses will begin opening regular cupatlon in m5 hours all day Wednesday starting next Wednesday, which is the Stetson Comes for Game With PC Tomorrow Night Dr Pertik has two brothers still in Hungary, and Mrs. Pertik has three sisters in the native land, Congressman Dorn A wide-open, high-scoring foot ball battle appears in store for fans attending the Presbyterian- Stetson game on Johnson field here this Friday night at 8:00 p. m. Here are the ingredients for ac tion: A powerful Presbyterian run- v ning attack averaging 228 yards- per-game, paced by all-state half back Ken Webb who averages Santa Claus To A ■ I ^ I ■ * On December 6 Old Saint Nicholas will be wel comed to Clniton ih grand style on Thursday, Dec. 6, at 5:00 p. m., when a gala parade will car- *ry him through the streets of downtown Clinton following his ^irrival. ' A theme erf “Religion—Peace On Earth,” will be carried out in the parade to be led by pai rade marshall W. C. Baldwin and to include units from schools, churches, institutions, businesses, and others desiring to enter and compete for the prizes. Cash prizes of $75.00 first place, $50.00 second place, and $25.00 third place, will be given floats judged best in keeping with the theme. Marching bands, and oth er organized units will join the happy throng to add to the oc casion in keeping with the Christ mas spirit. Leaders of organizations plan ning-to enter units in the parade should contact the Clinton Cham ber of Commerce, Phone 108, to express their intent so that ade quate plans for the parade can be made. more than five yards on every carry. A flashy Stetson offense, built around the Southwestern spread made popular by Southern Meth odist, activated by triple-threat quarterback Dick Saltrick, whom PC coach Bill Crutchfield terms “one of the most dangreous run ners and passers I have seen this year.” So the stage is set for a run- pass duel between the Blue Hose and the Hatters. Neither team their games have been spiced has an impressive record, but with colorful play of spectator appeal. An an added attraction the 52-piece Larens high school band, under the direction of Har old Windoff, will perform at halftime. Presbyterian’s Offense, which had demonstrated a marked abil ity to move the ball all year, broke loose for a total of' 4,27 yards (324 of these by ground) in bowling over Appalachian here last Saturday night. Paced by Webb’s three-touch- down performance, the Blue Hose posted a 34-7 victory to achieve thus year. The big PC halfback their third win in eight starts scored on runs of five and two yards and sandwiched in be tween these two a 41-yard pass- reception from quarterback Fel der Cook for| another TD. Other Hose touchdowns were made by halfback Gene Butler on a one- yard plunge which climaxed a 73-yard drvie to break the scor ing ice in the first quarter and by halfback Raymond Johnson on a five-yard off-tackle thrust. Presbyterian completely domi nated the game, except for a brief period in the second quarter when Appalachian fullback Bll Stanley paced his team to its lone touchdown. day before Thanksgiving The fall season opening and.„ , closing schedule for most retail | m stores will include closing Thariksgiviag day, Nov. 22, and closing on Christmas day and one J 0 AddfCSS Joanna day after, Tuesday and Wednes day, Dee. 25 and 26. New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, which comes on Tuesday, will find most businesses closed, but they will remain open the next day, Wed nesday, Jan. 2 all day before be ginning regular Wednesday half holidays again on Jan. 9 Most retail stores will remain open on Thursday, Dec. 6, the day of the Christmas parade until 6:30 p. m., to allow visitors and shoppers to visit the stores fol lowing the welcome of Santa Claus. George Massey, manager of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, said the above schedule is given to allow customers to arrange their fall season shopping, tak ing into consideration the above plans for openings and closings of most of the Clinton retail stores., Bond Sale Underway The annual Christmas Seal and bond sale of the Laurens County Tuberculosis association will start today, it has been announced. Letters containing the well known seals went out in the mail this morning to thousands of resi dents of the county. Recipients are asked to return their contri butions immediately. The seal and bond sale wftl continue .until the end of tie year, it^ was stated. The county quota is $7,000 No personal solicitation for funds will be made in the Clinton area, TB association representa tives said, but the organization requests a liberal support of the work through the mail sale. The TB association is not a participat ing agency in Clinton’s Com munity Chest. - Troy W. Myers, of Laurens. IS 1 president of the County TB Asso- pciation;-W. Pitul Culbertson, of j Laurens, is county seal sale chair man; and I. A. Edwards, manager of the Southern Bell Telephone office, is Clinton chairman Clinton Woman Acquitted Many Guilty Pleas Feature Two Days A session of criminal court at eourtr Floyd Walker, operating a Laurens will take up today where motor vehicle under the influence, it left off Tuesday, for a recess, third offense, three yean or $<2,- Wednesday in order to round up 000, suspended, on service of six defendants that were absent when months and placed on Dve years their cases were called Monday and Tuesday. Solicitor William T. Jones sug- prabation. Also, John Jactoon, possession at illegal liquor, iferee months or gested that the court be halted and,.$300; L. L. Hyder, possession of he has issued bench Warrants for | illegal liquor, three months or a number of absent defendants. Among them are Bruce Shoe, George W Reece, Jr., Lonnie Owens. Earline Burke and Cubbertson Lions Club Tuesday Congres’sman Bryan Dorn, of the Third District, of Greenwood, will be the speaker at a meeting of the Joanna Lions club on Tues-‘ day evening at j 7:3(). The meeting will be held at the Joanna club house on Milton Road "Foreign Policy in the Mid- East War Crisis" will be the sub ject of the Congressman’s ad dress. Members of Lions clubs in Clinton, Laurens, and other near by points are invited to attend the meeting and hear Congress man Dorn However, President Bill Dobbins of the Joanna club, requests that reservations be made with the members' club secretaries in order that prepa rations can be made to serve vis aing Lions. . * HOWARD SMITH D S Templeton, for two-year terms; and J Robert Cox. for a one-year term. Holdover direc tors are A C Young. Jr., and R. E. Fedguson, Jr Julian S. Bolick is the retjring president and he automatically becomes vice-president. A new secretary, James Von Hollen, has Lten named by the board of di rectors Edward G Campbell i- the retiring secretary Two Clinton Mills Present Employees Awards Of Service $300; J C. Guyton, non-support, 12 months or $1,500, suspended and placed on probation and ordered Ray to pay $10 a week for support of , wife and child; James L. Fuller, Judge J Robert Martin, Jr., of possession of illegal liquor, three Greenville, is presiding over the months or $300. session which got under way Mon- John Faucette pleaded guilty to daiy . ,, * ' a charge of possession of illegal A jury freed Doris Mi'ler, 22- liquor and was sentenced to one year-odd Clinton Negro, on a oicinth or a fine <rf $100. charge of murder in the death of Claude Evans, Jr., pleaded guil- AOtireW BarVe last July H £> « ch**Ut of assault and bat- The jury returned its verdict ter y 0 * a ^UJh and aggravated na- less than an hour after it had ture and * was sentenced to 12 heard Judge James Robert Martin, months, suspended upon service of Jr, of Greenville, charge it that it three months or paymen^of a could return one of four verdicts: ^ ne $300, and probation for guilty of murder; guilty of mur- Ibree years. der with a recommendation to Lonnie Owings entered a plea mercy; guilty of manslaughter; guilty to a charge of possessing and not guilty. illogal liquor. He was sentenced Bartee was fatally stabbed at to one month or a fine of $100. the Miller woman's house in Clin- True bills handed down by the ton. He was the lather of the grand jury included: woman’s then-unborn child George W Reece, Jr, and Bruce The defendant based .her oas.; Shue, housebreaking, larceny and on self-defense and on defense of receiving stolen goods. Thomas J. Davenport, operating a motor ve- Service awards, gold watches and jeweled pins were presented the home, to 75 Clinton and Lydia Mills em- j She took the stand and testified hide under the influence, third ployees Tuesday evening at the in her own behalf She stated that offense. Ray Culbertson, disposing first annual service awards ban- Bartee came to her home the might property under lien; Tony Lat- Lt. Potte Graduates From Ordinance School Lt Chris Patte. who was grad uated from the‘Ordnance Oficers School on Nov 9. <pent the week end here with his parents. Dr and Mrs. Edouard Patte. He re turned to the Aberdeen Proving Grounds to become a Company Executive Officer prior to his tran. fer to another ( military tallatiftn. ijuet in the Presbyterian college dining hall. of July 6 and'bog.ni beating her Lmore, rape in the-front yard of the house. She Also, Erne Floyd, operating a P S. Bailey, president and J fled into the house and 4 Bai lee motor vehicle under the influence, treasurer of the mills, made the pursued her she testified. She fled second offense: Floyd Walker, op- Trade Day Grand Prize address of the evening to the long- through the first two rooms >i time employees, all of whom have I the three-room house, al! the more than 25 years continuous while begging Barter to juit mis • service j treating her and for him to leave* President Bailey stated, “We'the promises, she said have made progress and we will! She ran mto the kitchen, she continue, in this I am confident, said, and picked up a long butch- I hope each of you will be present er knife She returned to the ix'd- at our next meeting and for many room, and Bartee reevuved the fa- more Let me say that I am proud tal wound as the two of them of you and thank you again for; struggled * n ' | the years you have given and for i Several other person.' weie ;>re> - your loyalty over ail these years. [ ent in the hou « ..at the ■..no of the I am proud to be counted among' slaying and the t took the star t you.’■’ land gave'substantially the same Mr Bailey’s award presentation testimony as the defendant The- was made to him by Mrs. C M. I included Walter Vance, ‘J W An. Jaiiey Departmental overseers, derson and Connie Young jlant superintendents and Presi-j The so-called teen-age" case. crating a motor vehicle under she influence third oPfen e, John Jackson, violation of the liquor larw, L. L. Hyder. violation of the liquor law; Junior Medlock, viola tion of the liquor law;' Eugene (continued on page 4) Trade Days Award For Week $40 Margaret B Lockett, of 502 E lent Bailey took part in the pre-' in which indictments have beei: j jentation program. returned for the deaths of tw > Florida street, was not present Hubert M Vance, vice president high school students m an acvt-1 Saturday :o claim the $20.00 cash jf the mills, extended the wel-1dent involving three vehicles, -wu-* iward of the Clintori Trade Days come. J B. Templeton, vice presi-. again continued It is nuw. sched- pi (gram when- her name was dent in charge of manufacturing, uled to come up in February drawn making next tSaturdaVs acted as nvastei of cereim/mes Th ■ The court session has been tea- ! cash .award $40.00 invocation was given by the Rev Kenneth E. . Pollock, pastor of the Lydia Presbyterian church, and picas and Marian Coleman. tured" by- many guilty 'entencuig js folluws_ Johnnie Whitmire, possession of the electric blanket given as >n Route 3, - .ff Clinton, Was j!>resent and claimed the dismissal by Rev. J l’ Ro- illegal whiskey, 30 datys or $100. second prize of the day Here U the 1I5U Ford two-door sedan to be given free December IS to a shopper during the Clin ton Trade Days program. Gaorge Massey, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, spearheading the program, is shown at right. —Photo by Dan Yarborough quemore, pastor of Bailey Mom- James P Owens, violation of the ! To claim the $40.00 cash .ward orial Southern Methodist church ‘liquor law, ’uireo months. Of $300; ! .Saturday, the person whose name The Hi Neighbor quartet of Ah- Benjamin ft' Harrison, poss^ssidli * drafwn <>n a qualifying ticket demon, furnished musical enter-' of illegal liquor, 30 days or $100 /must t* present and claim the tainniaot-durinJFtbe eyapinfe. j Also. ‘Jim Rusht,on, possession! ca sh within a specified time A Following dinner Miss' Maude A iHagai liquor, 30 (ays or $100; second prise will be a-wartied Sat- James Elbert Carter, operating a unlay but the winner does not motor vehicle under the influence, have to be present to claim this three years or $2,000, suspended prize. on service.of 12 months, Six months Tickets tor - participation in the to run .concurrently with a pro- trade day program, which has as bationary sentence revoked as a a grand prize to be given on De consequence <rf this offense. j ceniber 15, a new, 1956 Ford Tu- Also, Eugene Gregory, violation dor automobile, are available at of the liquor law, sentence defer- more than 60 participating retail red until the February term of establishments in Clinton. Harvey and Miss Gladys Wilson, the two longest service women employees, joined in cutting a large cake, a replica of the em blem service award pins.* A Thanksgiving motif was ear ned out in the menu arid decora tions for the banquet tables. Upon arrival the ladies were presented corsages to wear. I