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If You Don’t Read The Chronicle . You Dtln’t Get the News i - The Chronicle Stri'es To Be A Clean News paper. Complete. Newsy and Reliable Volume LVMI Clinton, S. C, Thursday; March 1, 1957 Number 10 Robert M. Vance Is New Chairman College Board PC to Give Three Honorary Degrees Presbyterian College trustees elected new officers.- oh^se three honorary degree recipients and voted an increase in faculty sal aries as the highlights of their annual board meeting here Tues day. Robert M. Vance, Clinton banker, was elevated from vice- chairman to chairman of the PC board of trustees to succeed the Rev. Harry K. Holland, of Mari etta, Ga. ROBERT M. VANCE vice-chaurman to replace Vance; and J. Ferdinand Jacobs, Clinton advertising executive, was re elected board secretary The trustee group decided to award two honorary doctor of di vinity degrees and one honorary doctor of laws degree at com mencement exercsies on June 3 Architect's Drawing of Proposed New Academy Street School The Rev. J. Davison Phillips, pastor of the Decatur, Ga., Pres byterian church, was elected school teacher who serves as as sistant supermtendent of the Ful ton County Public Schools. Dr. Marshall W. Brown, presi dent of Presbyterian college, said the trustees authorized salary increases of eight per cent for the faculty. He said this raise will 1 apply to all members who have been on the faculty for two or morte years and will become ef fective next September. Dr. 1 Brown pointed out the board also approved a salary scale which would mean further upward ad justments when ■ resources be come available. Twenty-three trustees, repre senting the two controlling Sy nods of South Carolina and Geor gia and also the PC alumni j group, attended the Tuesday meeting. Vance, the new chairman, has been a member of the Presbyter v ian College board since 1952. A South Carolina Synod-at-large representative, he served the past two years as vice-chadrman. Phil lips, who replaces Vance as vice chairman, is serving his first term on the board, having been elect ed the Atlanta Presbytery repre Here is the proposed new Academy Street elementary school as. shown from a drawing by Clinton architect Roy E. Hitchcork, who designed the building. Contract for the structure was let on Tues day of Jast week to Cecil's, Inc., contractors of Spartanhur;, for ■S255.t7 4c Tttc»4miidinK will be completed in the fall. Construction will be of concrete-block, faced with hri«k, and will include 17 Way Opened for Clinton To Get Mobile Home Unit ; Legislative Resolution Calls for LSpecial Permits to Move Trailers Funeral Services Held On Friday For Charlie Nabors Funeral services for Charlie >»a- I bors, 51, were held Friday after noon at Gray Funeral Home, conducted by Rev. J H. Dnrr, pas- ToT of flu.' Fit-'. BuptiM Church. Burial was in Rosemont cemo- ^Hopewell Methodists To Hove "Family Day" On Sunday, March 17 A “family day” service is plan ned for the membership anti friends of Hopewell Methodist church on Sunday. March 17 Families are urged/to attend the service and sit together as a unit. Every family will receive reoog- nitfon' and the largest family The -way was opened by the set. the maximum width at 10 . feet Later, it was called to the, ' ^ • House’s attention by Representa ' a ,CarC! ' v ' South Carolina General Assem- T Bryant, classrooms, library, music room, auditorium, cafeteria, rcsi rooms and storage rooms The .new site on Fli/aheth street is two blocks i orth of the presept Vcademv street School Massey Resigns Position As Commerce Manager Leaves End of March for Virginia Ginirge Massey, manager of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce it was with regret he leaves the —ci==«5==—^ ------- . - Clinton business scene and ex- present wTTT receive ^cmf^recog-^ > earrtfa* -cvMgued h appeoeiation of the mtion. The program is offered the post effective March 31. sentative in 1954. Secretary Ja-1 blv last week for Clinton to got ^ Milam, Cvel! Woody, George l*ZZ%T cobs is completing his third a new industry, if officials of tne Vl ile, that changing the state law Taylor. Wal er Nuhmons, M T.,^ ^ 11 ^ term as alumni representative to industry in question continue and on trailer width might interfere T z Carter, av. 1. Charle •; ^ ™ " v the board of trustees. County Farmers Join In Program carry through their plans to move the plant to the city. as a family get-togehter and also a service of special emphasis up- All members and invited to attend thi- | special service, and to bring oth- i ers with them’. Chamber support in time and fi- might with the State’s receiving its Norwood. share of federal aid funds al-| Nabors, who operated a _ The ihdus try manufactures located under the mammoth road grocery .store on West Main Street, _ _ mobile homes, some of which are construction program approved died last Wednesday night at Self I QX v-OfTimiSSlOn 10 feet wide, and state laws pro- last year by the Congress. Since J Memorial Hospital in Greenwood j Renresent’Otive Here hibit the movement of trailers certain road and traffic standards after a period of declining health ' ^ i more than eight feet wide over were required to be maintained i He was a native of Laurens I r, the highways of the state. as of last vear, there seemed a Countv, where he sipent his entire; , : < ^y er > re P I ^ s< n ^ lx ' " concurrent chance that the proposed change'life He was a son of the late W,l-! ,h ? ^ uth Carolina Tax Commis The Laurens County Agricul- Last Wednesday a concurrent lure Committee is cooperating resolution passed both houses of niight obstruct South Carolina’s lie T and Sina Duckett Nabors Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bessie Parris Nabors; one son, Charlie Natbors, Jr.; two daugh-. tax returns. He wiU—be at-thc ! Those men chosen to receive the ^ ie committee in pro- t he General Assembly calling, participation in the federal aid doctor of divinity degrees are!; noting this years Farm and U po n the State Highway Depart- project. the Rev. Neil Truesdale, pastor H°me^Development Program, it men t to grant special permission Rep. Marchant asked the House of the Aveleigh Presbyterian "| as been announced by C. B. f or - the movement over state to withhold action on the bill tors. Misses Doris and Carolyn church of Newberry; and the Carmon - county agent. highways during daylight hours temporarily until the matter Nabors, all o'Clinton; four broth-1 M over wl u fc> 0 at the court Rev. Allison Williams, pastor of W. H. Finley, of Mountville, Is and over specified routes of house could be worked out. On Wed- ers, R W and Tommy Nabors, house in Laurens on Friday Atlanta’s Trinity Presbyterian chairman of the county commit- trailers up to 10 feet in width. nesday he asked for and secured both of Clinton: L G Nabors, of March 15. it is stated church. Hie doctor of laws <Je-; 311(1 Mrs - J- W- Tinsley of the Tlle mc> bile homes would not unanimous a p p r o v a 1 for the Greenwood, and Hugh Nabors, of ‘' —1. Massey submitted his resighu- nances given the Chamber by^ tion to the board of directors on the officers, directors, members Ti^esdc-ay, Chamber /President and general public during his James E. Wolfe stated, in order to tenure as manager | accept the position its executive No successor to Massey has ^secretary for the Front Royal and been named. Mr Wolfe .'*atd, and Warren County, Va . Chamber of members of the board of directorfs i Commerce. Front Royal is lo- of the Chamber of Commerce, cated about 80 miles southwest meet mg Tuesday took into con - of Washington, D C.. in the ap- sideration the job of replacement, pie-growing country of \ irginia. j n addition to his work as man- Massey came to Clinton from ager *of the Chamber of Com Beaufort last year where he was meree, Massey was affiliated , , ,, . manager of the Beaufort and with the Clinton Jaycee chapter nesday and Thursday. March 13 | Beaufort County. Chamber of and w-as secretary-treaurer of the and 14. to assist taxpayers in the i CorTOneri! ^ anc | wds pr^viousJy Clinton Community Chest or- preparation of their state income Ilva nager of the Bainbndge, Ga , .. ' _ sion. will be in Clinton on Wed- Bank of Clinton i In his resignation, Massey said degree will'go to Douglas G. Mac- Trinity Ridge community, is co- Rae, also of Atlanta, a Christian leader and television Sunday High School Seniors To Leave March 17 On Annual Tour Clinton high school seniors will tour historical places in Mary land, Virginia and Washington, D. C., Sunday, March 17, through Saturday, March 28. They will tour a cigarette fac tory, old churches, and the Capi tol in Richmond, Va. They will also tour Jamestown and Wil liamsburg. Highlights of the trip will be Funeral Services chairman. The state committee has sug- special vehicles, gested a 10-point program with! The.Mobile Manor Corporation, recommendations including farm i 0 f L enc i r , N..C., has given strong and ome development; field and i n< i 1C atiorfe that it will establish farm and truck crops* grassland a ln Clinton if present state .farming, livestock, dairying, and j irru t s on house trailer width poultry, forestry; pests and di- were expanded. Accordingly, seases; marketing; .family living; lhe ljuret ^ Count . delegation in rural youth; and community de- lho General Assembly gained veopment and, public afia.rs. tentative House approval of a bill The theme of the program is which would amend the law to Farm and Home Development, . . adopted at a meeting January 8 in Columbia. move under their own power, it adoptom of the resoluficn asking Lauren- ; four sisters, Mrs. Janie ! u, D. C- MEET is -dated, but would be loaded on 1116 .Highway Department to Prince, Mrs. John Benjamin, and T The United Daughters of the Q StCWdft grant the special permission, and Mrs. Charlie Fowler and Miss Confederacy will hold the regu-1 the origmai bill in the House was Nora Nabors, all of Clinton; and tar meeting tonight (Thursday) I TL 4 If. tab.ed. The Sedate also approved, a nurn ber of nieces and nephews, at 7:30 with Mrs George Ellis. |fl|$ AffpriinOn the concurrent resolution after . iiilj fAIIWIIIWII AA Areo Meeting At Spartanburg Sunday ! ^linton Students Cn Dean's List At Erskine College Senator Robert C. Wasson ex plained the circumstances .sur rounding it. The original bill in the House, was introduced as a delegation, measure by Representatives W. | Paul Culbertson, William C. Dob bins, and T. David Sloan, Jr | n program Representatives of the Mobile wil! be given'studerjts at Clinton ua! .o tually ha- TB It he h is, Va M inor Corporation were in the High School Monday morning, be- treatment can begin at once. The Mr jStewart, 81; died Tuesday city over the week-end, but left ginning at 9 o’clock, it was state! sooner treatment begins the bet- afternoon at his home near' the early Monday morning without,, yesterday'.by high school officials, ter ho chance for. full recovery. | city on the Laurens road, after a High School Pupils to Take Tuberculin Tests Monday A program Funeral services for Rueben C. ; Stewart will be held this after - j noon at 3:30 at Gray P'uneral i Home, to be conducted l^y Rev George H Hodges, pastor.of Broad • ! Street Methodist Church, and Rev f tuberculin tests be made to find out if an indivict-I Raymond Rodie, Jr,of Norfolk. U?en made to secure a site of sev eral acres on the Seaboard rail road in the southwestern section of town. Several buldmgs are on the property and it is under stood that plans had been made ' Martha Wilson and-Jane Todd. Alcoholics Anonymous will can- 0 f Clinton, students at Erskine vene at Spartanburg on Sun lay College. Due West, are on th _ _ afternoon, March 17, at 3:00 p. m dean’s list, for the first semester, a boat trip up the Chesapeake for Western South Carolina A A released from the college this Bay to Baltimore and a visit to area meeting. This open meeting week. They are among those the Naval Academy at Annapolis, j will be held at Central Group who attained scholastic excel In Washington they will visit clpbrooms, 109 Wall Street (off lence for the period the Tomb of the Unknown Sol-jMorgan Square). A prominent Others on the list from Laurens dier, Mt. Vernon, the Capitol, the speaker will be-heard. All inter- county include Jane Blakely. of ; to connect two of them bv build White House, the . Congressional jested persons are cordially invit- Ora, and Tiat^y Hunter, of Ow- j mg a new structure, the others Library, the United States Treas- ed. Refreshments will be served. ings. I to be list'd for storage. ury Department, the Supreme 1 *3! Court Building, the Washington TWI/'an 11 rYtaarvi- 4.Vwa. I.inrvkln AAxarr'Wvri- IvlVJI llAJ I Id■Vj vlllxT 'XJltrVvrixl IrxYriltvJtt ial, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Smithsonian Institute. A representative from the Sea board Railway Company will ac company the group. Chaperones for the trip are Miss Bpmice Johnson, Mrs. Marie Bannister, R. E. Martin, teachers, and Principal R. P. Wilder The tuberculin test is -also a 1 short illness, detective device For example, if I Pallbeare com act mg Clinton groups and in-; The prograVn is in cooperation dtviduals who have been active with the County Health Depart- detective device For example, if 1 Pallbcarr will be Vernon in efforts to secure the industry ment, the County TB Association, a child has a negative reaction to Trammell, 'Clyde Smith .1 imie for the city. and the school, and the tests are I the test one year and a positive j Hamilton S S Barnett, B i: Tentative arrangements h a d to be administered by public reaction the next year, it’s eleai ! League, and 1 C McCar ey Bur'.r health nurses.' • that he ha - come into close contact will be m Rosemont cometerv Permission s/ips have been sent ^ith an open case of TH, once a] Honorary pallbearers will be [. to parents, and. guardians, for th/ir: °hiUi s cofitacts are relatively few, h Dillard, Dr James L Walker, signatures this week and pupils, health authorities can often track , b. L. Smith, J D Stillwell, Irvin who wish to take the tests are re-| <lown open case This is mi-; (jnwn, Dr Frank Castor, VV \I minded to bring the signed slips portant protection for the health McMillan, Fayte Ramage, Hubert Gift to Thomwett From -Exchange Chib National Exchange Club Gives Thornwell Reference Works Thornwell Orphanage has re ceived a set of Encyclopedia Bri- tannica Junior from the Nation al Exchange club as a part of that organization’s National Crime Prevention Week program during February. Dr. M. A. Mac-j donarld, president of Thornwell, stated that the gift has been add- 'ed to the institution’s library. One hundred youth institutions throughout the country received sets from the National Exchange club, an annual distribution event with the cooperation of Encyclo pedia Britan nica. National President Millard A. Beckum of the National Ex change club in commenting on this phase of the Crime Prevention Week program, said, “Believing that we should work constantly to improve the influences sur rounding- our promisiijg young citizens, the Exchange clubs of the nation appreciate the oppor tunity of providing the best avadlabDe reference material to yout htraining facilities. The pre sentation of these volumes is a part of the Exchange club’s Ser vice to Youth program—assist ing boys and girls through fos tering the improvement of avail able educational and recreational facilities.’* no later than Monday when they the community return t‘o school. ——— --•> A simple skin test is al^ that is involved and it will inconveniepco -health-utficials said, apd parents and guardians. i77e urged prprpnf MllKtrpI to sign the slips granting p.-rmis- T I CJvlll iMlITJitvl Band Boosters To J-Pitts. Ralph W r CoiH-’la.’-ii. aim L W Cooper Mr Stewart was i native ot Laurens County where h ;en- his entire life, and wa> a son o! j the late Hasting Dial and Alie • ' M.'n'tni-Strwiri -Hi- '.wi" i . ' i|ii i siori for the test to be given the;, children. An active case of tuberculosis was discovered in the high school last yea/, it was said, and other children could have been infects ed. A tuberculin test will show whether or not children have bee . infected with the germs that cau> tuberculosis, TB association o'fi- cials said. It does not show win--, er or not they have the disease If the skin test Ls positive, chest X-ray and other tests ca For Uniform Fund Dr. LaMotte Named Vice President Of Consolidated College nil World War I He hid been em ployed at Whitten V ! TgT - r,'„ , number of years ^ — Surviving are his wnfe, Mr *T% Clinton’ Pea‘Tickers,” a ( Janie Bel! Bo<!ie Stewart four minstrel sptjnsored by the Clin step-sons, G, R Bodie, of Norfolk, ton Band Boosters club, will be Va : Ia*c Bodie, of Taylot H n presented Monday evening, C* Bodie, of Phoenix, AH/ona. a- i March 18, at 7:30. p. m. in tl)e James F Bodie, of Pnhei i’ : •, >r- Senior high school auditorium. 1 gon; two‘.■.te-p-daughieis, Mr 11 Directing the minstrel, choruses. B King and .Mrs. V M Grill. ■ and music are Mrs. James Buz- Norfolk, Va.; 11 grand hi Iren and hardt and Mr- James Von Hoi u -reat-gra ;dehil lre> . >ne. >- lefi The show, participated m by «. r< Watts K Stewart; • / Laurens 145 local citizens, will feature w ho Survives, tig. f iler with a nu.n- black faoeS, vocal solos and chor b ,, r of U! ,| nephew^ uses. Students from Providence, Academy, Florida, Junior ’ and Senior high schools Will partici pate, as well as the Junior high school band. John H Hunter will be interlocutor . . , • Proceeds "will go to. help pur* chaSe uniforms for ‘the Chilton high band. gam/ation, btung instrumental in the staging of the most succe»?ful campaign in the organization's history last fall . • In the pre-Christmas period, Massey spearheaded a three- month Pratle Days event spon sored by the Merchants Assocxa tion that was regarded as the highlight of the fall season Besides hi - normal Chamber of Commerce activities, Massey wfas in the forefront af all cooperative community endeavors and Cham ber President Wolfe spoke in high 'df'n.; nf \15sm-v s WOTk ance comnui R) Clinton and ^ex pressed the regret of the organi zation upon Many’s resignation. Baptist Young ^People To Meet In Laurens 30 at opies orj Baptist Friday is A vent ns ThL- Yovr [luuzation Assoc i a - n ght a-t c Baptis’ is to be tSf-Propic- iskod to Friends here of Dr. Louis C _ LaMotte, president of Presbyter- Sponsor Supper ian‘ Junior College, Ma’xtop, N Thornwell Orphanage, of this city, was recent’v the recipient of a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica Junior reference hooka, the gift of The National Exchange Club.’ Shown here is Paul W. McAlister, (right), president of the Laurens Exchange Club, who made the presentaU^ on behalf of the na tional organization. At the left la B S. Pinson, principal of the Thornwell School, and Dr. M. A.'Mac donald. president of the Presbyterian institution, is in the center. —Photo by Nichols C., will be interested to know he has been named a vice-president of the consolidated Presbyterian College to be established at Lau- rinburg, N. C. Colleges participating in the merger are Presbyterian Junior, Peace College at Raleigh, and Flora McDonald at Red Springs. Also appointed by the trustees of the consolidated college, as yet unnamed, were Dr Marshall S. Woodson, president of Flora Mc Donald, and Dr. William C. Press- ly, president of Peace, to serve as vice-presidents. Dr. Woodson has accepted the appointment as acting president of th enew college which will be built at Laurinburg. w* Both Ehr. La Motte and th - Woodson are alumni of Presby terian college of this city. I 9 For Manse Fund Farmers of County to Get Money for More Acreage * • 0 A ^ Cotton Reserve Funds Are Increased Members of the Little Dominick Presbyterian are sponsoring a barbecue chick \ A \ V , en and barbecue hash supper on btt ,. Wednesday, March 11 Proceeds will go toward a fund to build a manse for the church Supper will be served from 5 00 until 8;0(j p. m. The public is invited to attend H A Ropp, man.i River- bounty Agricultufil church Corporation office yesterday- that gef of the ’!> Sabilization ln i Laurens, money has made ‘i v..i;'fm farmers who Abdicated those on then dot ton acreage, reserve agreements' farme: th.at tney desired to place an icre- acre-. age of cotton in excess of tije , •, initial lirnitalon of ‘he larger o: : money 10 acres or 30 per cent of the al- mean lot merit i s.> * ■ >i’<>r. auoitnem acres ’ cotton acreage reserve I'.gran .; so,, bank These ■ irmer-s a ;ve nayments es timated i 1 $270,2 :7 aO, ■ ir in aver age of $57 89 per tore ,.t he »boVe, 107 884 6 additional cottoh . allotment 1 u.-tion provided ale This would Jr W. C. T. U. Pie And Coke Sale , - ♦ • age offered in the original agree- The Woman's Chml^n .Tem nient. ptrance Union will sponsor a At the time the sign-up period cake and pie sale Saturday morn- ’ riftded at 5 p m*. Friday, 758 Laur- ing from 9 to .12 noon at Belk’s ens countiy farmers had. signed additional 7T ay ment to the csttotj a*icage Ihc” ■ - 77 >3',986.40, Mr. serve. The amount of acreage that Rdpp stud It , is fpr these farmers the agreement may be increased ^ that additiona money has. been cannot exceed tide additional acre- ; provided to take all allotment acre age offered in their’ agreements. Each of diese farmers will be given 10 days in which to -conie" tb the ASC yyrffce To: sign- a modl- T Department store. I contracts - to place 4.669 1 acresio! fied eohtra<ft to include the addi- •:c::a‘. acreage -f’cad.