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f Thursday, April 4, 1957 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pace Nina CLINTON, SOUTH CAROUNA > Remarks at Senator Robert C. Wasson before the Senate upon the passage at Bill H. 1444 changing the name o»f the Town of Clinton to the City of Clanton in Laurens County. ive tape. * Later when an exten-] Abtually the Bible Dollar | More and more religion and ' ered for the treatment of the sick, many of their patients They areily do the' work for which he is sive plaster cast was put around j which was a symbol of her faith | science walk and work together t We’ve never had better trained fearful, frustrated, and tense especially trained and in which her body, the Bible Dollar was, in Crod became a part of her in the treatment of disease. Each land more devotd medical doctors The doctor is faced with the job h#? h * s P artlCUlar Prior to the building of the railroad between Laurer^ and Newberry, there was '■ at a dis tance of nine miles from Laurens, an intersection of five roads konwn as Five Forks. The rail road crossed this point and here a station was built. As early as 1809, before the existence of Five Forks, there was a settlement m u n a t y’s only merchandising place, and as far back as 1830 was likewise the community post office. It was about 1850 that the rail road was established at Five Forks. This meeting of roads for years had been the gathering place for the sportsmen of the surrounding community. Here a race track was maintained, horse racing, chicken fighting, drink ing, etc., were freely engaged in. When the station was erected it was seen that a town would spring up around this nucleus of race track, barroom and railroad markable status. Its principal in dustries are Clinton Cotton Mills, Lydia Cotton Mills, Hallmark Manufacturing Company, Gwen- Evan Mills, Standard Plywoods, Inc., Dapper Hosiery Mills, Inc., Clinton Paper Box Company, C. W. Anderson Hosiery Co., Cincin nati Floor Manufacturing Co., and Textile Bobbin Works, Inc. These industries afford a large about a mile east known as Hol land’s Store. It was the „ omm- source of income through their The doc thinking and very being. She had needs the other. Prayer, a strong than we have today. But they of reducing the tension twmi^^ence^vd^reSk- a’ remarkable recovery as a result faith, a desire to live, a. willing-, are | tremeridously overworked steadying! the emotions. The mm-together dition, the operators would say, of her faith, many prayers, to- hess to cooperate with the doc- and are greatly handicapped in. ister can help to build up a strong — “Here comes that woman with'gether with good surgery and tors and nurses make the best doing their best work because of, religious faith in the patient so _ OFFICE SUPPLIES the dollar in her stomach.” ! medical care. combination yet found or discoy-jpoor emotional condition of so that the physician can-more eas- CHRONiCLE PUB. CO. taped o mtop. Whenever x-rays were taken to determine her con- heavy payrolls with a combined total of approximately 3,000 em ployees. ' . The Joanna Cotton Mills, of Jo anna, really a suburb (and a most attractive one) of Clinton, is one of the state's fastest growing mills in recent years with a total of approximately 1,500 employ ees. The city’s fire protection totals fifteen miles. It has two modern fire trucks, one three-stream, triple combination pump engine with firemen on duty day and, night. * The city’s health record is ex depot. 'The first buildings were cellent with seven physicians in erected between Holland’s Store 1 the city and Hays hospital and and Five Forks. About 1853 lead-1 Blalock clinic in the city proper ing citizens began to realize that wtih a total of 34 beds. Written the new settlement was neither [ Village, orphanage and college Five Forks or Holland’s, so there have hteir own infirmaries to arose the important question of care for their population selecting a name. Many wanted) Besides its industries, the city to retain the title Five Forks, 1 has about 100 business firms, two while some suggested Round cotton gins, threep rinting plants, Jacket in honor of some promi-1 one fertilizer plant, one weekly nent citizen of the community newspaper, one monthly religious who wore a waistcoat or vest magazine, three college publica- oalled in those days a round jack- tions, one ice plant, local bank et. , • ^ ! deposits of approximately seven A small group of farseeing cvti- million dollars, numerous pth zens realized the need of some er successful enterprises, includ- concerted action. The village in t5 the new modern Mary Mus- Hgeded not only a name but a grove Hotel, which with other general layout as to streets and hotels and motels, have available buildings. The interested men U 2 rooms. sought the help and advice of Clinton is proud of its church their legal adviser and friend ^ with 14 white and 3 Negro from Laurens Court House who churches, the following denomi- aoted as chainnan of the commit- nations represented; Baptist, Lu- tee that laid off the first streets, the ran, Methodist, Presbyterian, A study of the old plats shows Episcopal, Holiness, and others, that the principal streets follow- The people are reasonably- con ed closely from five roads radiat- servative, yet progressive. The ing from a common center; the gradi+al but continued growth of one toward the east leading to the town is a good indication not Newberry; west, to Laurens; merely'of the advantages of resi- south, to the Belfast section and dents in Clinton but also of the the two to the north to Mus- enterprise and indomitable pluck grove Mill and Langston church. of her people. . HENRY CLINTON YOUNG, Clinton is very thoroughly or- Laurens attorney, a native of Ira- ganized. Not only, are there scores del County, N. C., served as of societies, circles, etc., in the chairman of the committee that churches, and many others in the laid off the town. To honor him institutions, but the town at large for'his valuable services, the lo- >s quite extensively organized in cal committee named the newly lh e matter of fraternal, patriotic, created and then unattractive vii- ar, d civic organizations. Among lage, Clinton. > the latter the Chamber qf Com- From this meager beginning merce has made a commendable Clinton has steadily developed record during the past fdrty-one and has never lost ground in y ears - H is supported by the population from one decade to Merchants Retail Association, bv another. It has grown into a sym- K* wan is. Exchange, Lion clubs, metrical little city, ranking four- ^md by the Women’s clubs engag- teenth in Size in the state today 01:1 in civic work. Clinton has and has all the essential require- much to boast of, but hothing . ments for comfort, convenience, quite equal to its women who are and contentment of the home 1 active, Onyrgetic, self-sacrificing maker. Its early population was supporters* of every good thing. 465; in 1880 it hdd risen to 1,201; From the standpoint of social life, in 1900 to 1,860; in 1910 to 3,272; the city’s organizations contrib- in 1920 to 3,742; in 1930 to 5.643; ute in a very large measure to in 1940 to 5,704; and in 1950 to making Clinton an active and ^ 7,168. The town is something cultured community. % ever 81 years old. i Clinton’s people are ambitious. For many reasons, Clinton is public-spirited, intelligent, indus- widely and favorably known. It trious, resourceful, frugal, home- is attractive from many view- loving, neighborly, and morally points. It has an elevation of 800 substantial. feet above sea level, and is the From an insignificant begin- highest point on the Seaboard rung Five Fprks' or Holland’s Air Line Railroad in the state. Store has grown into "Wide It location on the top of a broad Awake Clinton” — a delightful ri ge gives excellent drainage, place in which to live. New citi- n amp e water supply and com- zens new enterprises, new capi- to J^ erafi e Sy T f na ^ le uu tal art> cordially invited to in- t^maintain an excellent health ves tigate Clinton, her advantages In educational development it an ^ po.sMbilities. boasts of a splendid gra^d and tofonnation in regard high school system with an en- 1 t °^ n t by f those , seekm S rollment, botlr white and. colored, a locaL T { ? r f ‘ lome of approximately 2,500. New irK, ^ r y ^ ha d by writ- high School buildings fyave been ! ng 10 to 0 Secretary of the Cham- erected for both white and color- , of Commerce or Laurens ed pupils of Clinton and recently Cc>unt 'y Planning and Develop- a contract has been awarded for mem B<xird ^ a new grammar school to be * * *. known as Academy Street Ele.- Senator Wasson wishes to ac- mehtary School! Clinton offers knowledge the information com- educational opportunities of un- P^ed by the late W. W. Harris, usual breadth. It is posible fora fo rmer Editor of The Clinton resident of the community to be- Chronicle and also acknowledges • gin his or her studies in the first information received from the grade, continue them through the State Development Board, grammar and high school' and (Anyone ‘ dfesiring a printed then through Presbyterian Col- cbpy of Senator Wilson’s address lege—all of this without a change ma y ca H at the Chronicle office, of residence. It is the home of the Chamber of Commerce of- Presbyterian College under the lice, or contact Senator Wasson). control of the Synods of South — Carolina and Georgia, one of the leading educational institutions in the state for men and women. . Recently, a very successful devel opment program for Presbyterian College has been carried on in the Synods of South Carolina and Georgia and over a million dol- ER^ DAY COUNSELOR lars has been pledged for the im- We’ve all heard the expression, provement of this Institution. It “money talks." NOW Magazine is the home of* Thomwell Or- reports a new and interesting phanage, the pride of Clinton and wa y in money talks. As a one of the largest Presbyterian ^-year-old bride was wheeled orphanages in America. This in- toto the operating room at St. stitution, now in its 82nd year of Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma service, is oaring for orphan boys City toe day following her wed- and girls, is owned by the Pres- d * n g/ in each hand she clutched a byterians comprising the Synods silver dollar Smilingly, she said, of South Carolina, Georgia and Em going to hold these until, Florida. Clinton is likewise th£ toey fall from my hands, be- home of Whitten Village, a fast oauSi ‘ °f what it says on each one, growing institution doing noble ‘In God We Trust’.’’ work for the state’s unfortunate. H er faith was honored and the From a railroad standpoint it operation was successful. This boasts the main line of the Sea- st °ry reminds me of a similar board Air Line from Birmingham happening which occurred in my to New York, and an important own ministry. Again a young cross state route of the Atlantic woman was wheeled into an ope EVERYDAY COUNSELOR By Dr. Herbert Spaugh Coast Line from Greenville to Charleston. From a highway standpoint, it has the great Piedmont highway from Charleston to the mountains at North Carolina and the Cal houn highway to Raleigh and At lanta. It is connected with sev eral highways under state main tenance. From a manufacturing stand rating room, critically injured as a result of an automobile acci dent. In her hand she clutched a "Bible Dollar,” an aluminum disc about the size of a silver dollar which carries the Lord’s Prayer on one side and John 3:16 on the other. 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