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\ V 1 Pace Eivht k { THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, March 28, 19.>7 Sings Priises Of PiedmontSection At Lions Meeting The Riedmont section of South Carolina .and North Carolina has no big city, but his plenty of peo ple. plenty of' water, and is in an area destined for further in dustrial development, said C. S. Reed. Duke Power Company vice-president and raU> engineer. Friday night in addressing thf Lions Club at a dinner-meeting at Hotel Mary Musgrove. " t'oupTing some of his original humorous jpot-thy with statistics which he rattled off so swiftly that e\ i n a New York Tunes re porter would have had .a tough time .:: nputing a third:'of them, he painted a glowing picture of the section and its economy. The region cover- an area of 24.00i' square miles, he said! and has a population density of fixvm 45 to 90 t j>‘ople p< i square mile. The section, he' said, romprises 2.8 |H*r cent of the -area of the South, but has seven per cent of s, wh Thh he A' ich is s. he tlanta the volume «f business 14.8 billion annually said, exceeds that of the or Birmingham areas. y Per capita income is greater in the Piedmont section than other areas of the South, excepting the Dal las-Fort Worth section in Tex as, he saii, but the per capita income of *the Charlotte area is greater than that in the Texas cities. / The Piedmont region. Mr. Reed ‘saTid, is no Monger a one-industry area, but cited furniture and to bacco manufacturing and a host of t other golxts produced, with textiles furnishing about 30 per cent of the income of the people. There are ten furniture plants in North Carolina, he said, that produce more furniture than all of Grand Rapids i There has been no migration of population from the section to other parts of the country, as had Ix'en, true of other areas, he said, as-he told of the Piedmont being a busy, high-producing region Mr. Reed, a native of Pit burgh, said he enjoyed -going back to his home city, hr New York and Philadelphia, and tell ing hisjriends of the funeral ora lion made' by Georgia's Henrv Religious Emphasis To Begin Sunday Grady years ago, during which Grady lamented that the depart- ( ed brother was buried in a suit||»| ■ « . —■ .aa that was made in New York, a Vt66K At IhOmWCll shirt made in Boston, underwear | made in Rhode Island, shoes made in St. Louis, and ~a—coffin made in Illinois. All that the _ South furnished was the corpse! . , 7- • ~ ^ . and the hole in the ground. Now.! A rm we< * * re,1 £ l 9 us em ^asis he tells his friends, all that the at Thornwell Orphanage will get North supplies is the EXamvankee, . un< ^ erw ’ a F ^ un( ^ a ^ a * rr ' ornin K who has moved South and liked l' wor&hi P hour and continues it so well he refused to Rave. Riddle Resigns Jks . Pastor Of Cross Hill Presbyferion Church The Rev. R. Flay Riddle, pas tor of Liberty Springs Presbyter ian church for the past year and a half, has resigned his pastor ate effective April 1 to accept a call to the Robinson Presbyterian Church, Charlotte, N. C. His resignation has been ac cepted by the Session of the phuroh and was formally ratified at a congregational meeting Sun- Mr. Riddle* came to the Cross Hill church from Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church near Lau rens where he served as student pastor beginning in June, 1953. He received his degree from Co lumbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Ga., in February, 1954. He was bom an<Jf reared at Paw Creek, near Charlotte. He is mar ried to the former June Rankin, of Charlotte, and they have two frhikiren, Linda, 10, and Roy, 2. Subscribe To THE CHRONICLE College Orientation Program At Joanna Baptist On April 9 through Friday. Services will be held each evening at 7:30 with a different speaker for each of the services, which tf.ill be held in Thornwell Memorial Presbyter-1 ian Church. " About 25 students from Colum-1 bia Theological Seipinary in De- j eatur. Ga.. will be guests at J Thornwell over the week-end! ♦- j and two of them will speak ah Final plans are being made for morning and evening services] the college' orientation program ’ Sunday to begirt the week of re-i for Reedv River Baptist Associa- lithous observance. These young turn, which will be held' at the mim-terial students ae in ter-I Joanna Baptist thuixT^TirTuS^'^ in l ' h:ld caro .work and will] April 9, at 7 30 -r Telephone Talk by - IKf-: EDWARDS- , \our Telephone Manager day evening, o'clock. I ' The program will be m the forth* of a - panel discusion. Those on the program are T.* K. Kpting. professor, _ Newberry . c o 11 e g e; ! Charles Homer,- state Baptist | Student Union secretary; Thomas 1 Westmoreland, state music di- | rector; W .W. Whelan, of the Newberry Observer staff,;- and Miss -Betty Thomas, church sec retary. Following the panel, a felloyw. ship hour will be held in the rec reation room. High school students, church' youth leaders/ parents, pastors and other interested persons are invited to attend. HI RE IN Ol R CITY ,md all over Southern Bell’s nine- state territory, we have a constant, far-reaching safety training program that pays oil. The lineman on the pole, • cable splicers under the streets, drivers of telephone cars or trucks — all are trained to work safely and to protect vowf safety. 1 might mention that for five years Southern Boll has won the highest hw^ird of the National Safety Council for s.detc in industry. It’s a record we re right proud of and we’re going to keep at it. Eleazer Addresses Mountville Grange observe Then awcll. the children, ai\d the program carried on at the institution. Following is the program, with speakers, for the week: Sunday, 11:00 A. M.—“Buster” S h a rp, Columbia i Theological Seminary. Sunday, 7:30 P. M Fred Mur : phy, Columbia Theological Semi nary. ’ Monday—Dr. Wm* Redd Tur ner. pastor First Presbyterian Churclv Clinton.——— Tuesday—Dr. J M Gettys, professor, Presbytendn College. Wednesday—Dr. M A Mac- 1 dona Id. pastor, Thornwell Mem orial Presbyterian Church. Thursday—Rev. Chalmers Mc- Cutchert, pastor. Firjst Presbyter ian Church. Laurens. Friday—Rev. Herman Dillard, pastor, 1st Presbyterian Church, : Abbeville. FINAL WEEK! SHOP NOW AND SAVE! CELEBRATING BELK'S 09- ANNIVERSARY \ . IAI. I'IRCHASE! FAMOUS NAME * BLOUSES MR. ROBERT X ANT E. President of M. S. Bailey A S'm.-L Bankers, ca.lled me the i>ther day inquiring. ' Ike. my telephones at the Bank seem in use quite a bit. Bo you suppose I am missing any calls?” The same question may have occurred to other Clinton business men. I was happy to be able to recommend fo Mr. Vance that we jnake a- busy study on His equipment and then find out for sure! Now,* prob ably, some of you folks didn’t know that your Tele- p hone/'Company could do such .a thing — but we can. So our Chief Operator, Mrs. Josie McCaslan.’had the lines checked for a period of time, ajid, as Mr. YancC had suspected, he'was missing falls — and probably inqiortant ones.-So we installed other lines —and now almost anytime folks call they seldom en- rounter busy line conditions. Business men. please call me if you think you are missing calls ' ★ ★ J M Eleazer, information spec*-1 uilist of the Clem son College Ex tension service, wks the speaker last Thursday evening at a moot ing of the Mountville Grange.] Mr Eleazer/spoke on "The Con stancy of Change," and told of] the progress made in agriculture in recent years. Miss Barbara Wolfe, accompan ied by Mrs Ola Forbes, sang a solo. The unusually large number | that attended the program enjoy ed a picnic supper before the pro- j gram. Among visitors at the meeting, i in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Ele- ] azer. were County Agent C B ' Cannon. J. H. Eason, assistant [ county agent, Mr. and Mrs. Grady i C h a n d 1 e r. of Clinton. Avery*! Smith,- agriculture teacher at 1 Clinton high school, and Mrs. I Smith, Mrs. Dwight Smith, of Jo-1 anna, and Quinton Chapman, of Charleston. Sheriff Officers Take Underground Still In County HAVE YOl SEEN the pretty new color telephones? I hey re on display cn our Business Office and votf’re welcome to drop in any time. These smart, modern phones can really brighten up a home* And the Lady of the House can choose ‘colors to blend, contrast or r harmonize with her fur nishings Why not stop in and let us show you how easy it is to have a well- telephoned home — with ” the right pholies, in the right colors, in the right places to save steps and time all through tire house. We ll be happy to see you. laiurens. March 21—A 50-gal lon underground moonshine still, the most complete and efficient. Sheriff C- W. Wier said he has ever seen, was raided and de stroyed by county officers last Saturday a/fternoon near Rabun Creek in the Ekom section. The still was underneath a ;ihed within about 50 feet of the home of Henry Thurmond, 32- year-old Negro, who was appre hended in the woods in front of his. house. Sheriff Wier said that judging from the elaborateness of the outfit ,w*hk*h he said must have cost around a couple of thousand dollars, he would also be looking for somebody higher up but did not know whether he would look in vain or not. The room housing the still had apparently been dug. out with a bulldozer, the sheriff said. He quoted . neighbors as saying that they had seen a bulldozer pass- the Central Elementary school in'-! n £ way a couple of years Laurens. J Leroy Burns, county a ^ 0 ’ the sheriff said, | superintendent of education,-was ^ avt ‘ °f having been oper-, in charge, assisted by Mrs. T. B. a a o r more. ’ . Sumerel., of the Clinton junior Besides the mechanical oulfit ] high school faculty. , and the ingredients a distiller d . * - i would use, the still room had Representatives from the sixth, 1 , . . . . , . . . , .l j ^ electric lights, two electric fans, seventh and eighth grades in . . . * , ’ _ . . ’ Thornwell Girl Wins County Spelling Contest The Laurens County Spelling contest was held on Saturdav. at eighth grades schools in the ’county participat ed. First placje went to Jeroline Stewart, of Thomw*ell; second to Bill Bramlett. of Laurens. Lar ry McCall, of Garlington Street school, was third. Others partici pating were Elaine Austin, Cross Hill; Louise Owe ns by, Gray Court; Bill Forbes, Mountville: Billie Marie Arnold, Hickory) Tavern; John Carlisle O'Shields, Joanna; David Roper, Laurens; hot and cold water, a hot plate t for cooking, and a TV set for' viewing while the operator wait ed on the liquor to drip out. The set was wired to an antenna on Thurmond’s house, he said, and; a pipeline carried the smoke from the still to Thurmond’s house and out through his chimney. Captured and destroyed, the sheriff said, were two copper condensers, three vats, two well pumps, four water buckets, one school; Johnny Rutledge, Rollen Revis, Providence school, Clinton: and Linda Ficklin, Clin ton. • i < > O < > ♦ o o ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ < > I I < I ♦ ♦ : ♦ ♦ SPECIALS i t r (Slightly Irregular) . > T * " —* ——- Joanna Materials Finished Products—Limited Amounts Unda Greene. Academy ^ .ease of lisht bulte. one thnmper, ’ a 150-gallon cooker, a 100-gallon cooker, a 100-gallon fuel tank and other case^ of half-gallon glass jars. The sheriff said that Thurmond was released on $1,800 bond, $600 for each 6f three charges. One warrant was for manufacturing illegal, whiskey, one for storing and possession and one for un lawful weapons at the site of a still. Also captured were two shot guns taken out of the still and two hogs from pens behipd the still. The sheriff figured that the A r DRAPERY SI.98 Value—Sale 59 c BROAD CLOTH r 69c Value—Sale 35V Orion & Cotton SI.19 Yard—Sale 59V Unfinished Sheets 99 c ^ < > | ■ C o Local Agents Win Award, Trip 1 Orion +++++++++++* >n and Cotton Blend . . . . . . 49c yd. I Joanna Stores Cloth Shop [Joanna Phone 3811 two hogs were there., asi, a, ruse to fool passersby. Taking part in the investiga tion and raid besides the sheriff were Deputies W. D. Brown, Wal lace Abercrombie, Wesley Fowler and Furman Bragg. Pilot Life Insurange Agents B. H. Allen, C. R. Meadors of this city, L. R. Thompson of Joanna, W. M. Nash, lU, H. W. Burdette of Laurens and their superintendent, O. F. Furr of Clinton, accompan ied by their wives departed from Greenville yesterday with the Greenville district by two charter ed buses for a two-day stay at the home oiffice in Greensboro, N. C. This is an award to the agents for their most recent achievement in qualifying for one of the company’s highest .awards: the Four State District Office Designation. A bronze-wall plaque has been pre sented to the district in recogni tion of its achievement. Thornwell Girl On Dean's List At Flora Macdonald Com Frances Allen, of Thorn well, rising junior at flora Mac donald College, Red Springs, N. C., is a member of the dean’s list for the first semester. 9N blouses st v led by of the most famous blouse manufacturers. Ivy League, dress-up and every day styles. Drip dry! Sizes 30-38. Men’s -V Linen-Look 3-Piece «■ / ENSEMBLE ./ • • • 2969 - Regular 39.95 Value Twice the wear when you gel two pants to your suit. Crease-resistant! * Tans,* greys, blues. Reg- * ulars, shorts, longs. 33^ 48. SAVE NOW! NYLON BltiEFS Reg, $1! Toiloreds, lace inser tions and ruffled details! Gen erous cut! White. Sizes 5 to 7. 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