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i L r ■ If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the New* The Chronlide Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIII Clinton, S. C., Thursday, May 2, 1957 Number 18 In High School Play Tomorrow Night Members of the cast to present the Clinton Hkh Schorl fenior rlay Friday ni?ht will include, front row, Ann Niver, Jenny Addison. Margaret Ann Bolick, Betty Jane Hamer; middle row. Larry Murohy, Dessie Jean Roberts, Barbara Simmons, Florence Winn. Pat Stinnett, Sara Pitts; back row. Bobby Ginn, Robert Horton, Tommy Blackmon, John Franklin, George Blalock, Walter Ferrene. Clinton High Seniors To Present Play Triday * • • • Cast of 23 Be Seen in 3-Act Comedy “Tattletale,” the senior class complications, puts the> whole play will, be presented Friday at 8 town in an uproar. p. m. in the high school audito- Tod ’ who ls P^ed by George r ^ um ' .''Blalock, and Isabel, Margaret t ;il j Ann Bolick, aid Patty in her es- In this three-act cotnedy, Patty, , J,. ji,. . „ , . • ■ . , , n ** ^ oapades. Florence Winn mter- who is portrayed by Betty Jane £ - characte _ of Pattv - S Hamer, sends to the printer her j*., , R , „ . • diary instead of the novel she has and Robert HorU)n 15 the written. This, along vyith further ta e • Others included in the cast are Larry Murphy, Jenny Addison, John Franklin, Tommy Black mon, Sara Pitts, Pat Stinnett, Walter Ferrene, Dessie Jean Rob erts, Ann Niver, Larry Landreth, Hub Adair, .Bobby Ginn, Barbara Woll, Gail, Morse, Barbara Sim mons, Shirley Dunaway, Toni Ray. and Jim Gasque. Directors of. the play are Miss Eloise Miller and Mrs. Lewis Wallace, of the high school teach ing staff. ‘ - Clyde W. Ehrtiardf Is New Line Coach At Presbyterian • New Presbyterian Coach Frank Jo»es will bring his number one Decatur High assistant with him to the home of the Blue Hose, Ath letic Director Walter A. Johnson announced today. . * This latest addition to the PC coaching staff is Clyde W. Ehr- hardt, a star center on the Orange and Rose Bowl glory teams of the University of Georgia in the early 191fl’s. He will be assistant foot ball coach in charge of the line and also head baseball mentor a* Presbyterian Ehrhardt has served as the right-hand man of Frank Jones for the past three, years at Deca tur High School, during which time they developed some of the best teams-in Georgia prep circles. Jones was signed last week a> head football coach at PC, suc ceeding Bill Crutchfield. The new PC line coach also has under his belt three years of pro fessional fbbtball with the' Wash ington Redskins and two years of service ball at Fort Benning He wag 1 at Benning for part of his three-and-one-half years of Army duty as an infantryman in the Korean War. Ehrhardt also saw action ,as a much-decorated infantry officer during WorJ4 War IT He was> awarded the Distinguished Service I Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star jand Purple^ Heart while serving in Europe yhf> -7fith. nminrtw nf 1 the Third. Army. He was graduated from .. the University of Georgia with a BS ^ degree in 1943 and holds a mas- Mrs. T B Sumerel, Rt. 1, Lau- tor s de » ree fnMT1 Peabody Col Mrs. T. B. Sumerel Named President State 4-H Leaders Mogistrofes Are Appointed For Laurens County Eight appointments for town ship magistrates in Laurens coun ty were made last week by Gov. Timmerman and sent to the Sen ate for confirmation They are: Marshall M Pressley, Waterloo: Sam H. McCrary. Hun ter at Clinton; R Eugene John son, Hunter at Kinards; Lucille Metis Watts, Laurens; W P Ab ercrombie, Scuffletown; C M. Curry, Dials; E P. Boazman,' Cross Hill; and J. J Mahaffey. Youngs. The magistrates were jiominat ed for appointment in last sum mer's Democratic primaries, sub jeet to appointment by the Gov ernor arid approval by the Sen ate. Two other appointments were announced by the Governor sev eral weeks ago. The/ were Archie C. Owmgs in Sullivan Township and William Henry in Jacks Township. Nominees for those townships were J. R. Bushardt in Sullivan arid James M. Copeland, Sr , in Jacks. Mr. Bushardt, who was filling out a term, became sick and resigned. Mr. Copeland's office became vacant when he died . Conference At Lake Greenwood For State Farm Bureau Jaycees Elect New Officers n The Clinton Jaycee Chapter named new nlficers at their meeting last Thursday. They ire. left to right. Jim Walker, second vice president: Fred Jacobs, first vice president: Charles Johnson, treas ure.r: l ewis Bagwell, Jr., president, and B. W Dominick, secretary. In addition to these officers, th cluh elected three new directors: I \ Edwards, the retiring president David T Mixon and George Whitehead, Holdover directors arc Sarnie Pinson and Lynn < ooper. Jr The new officers and directors will be installed at a meeting on May 9.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. Jurors! Drawn For Civil Court Term Scheduled For May 13 rens, was elected president of the lege The son of a Baptist minis- A venire of 36 petit juyrmen was drawn Tuesday to serve foi the first week of a scheduled two- week term of civil court at Laur- lens beginning on Monday, May 13 Judge Steve C. Griffith of Now - | berry will preside over the ses- i sions. - State Track Meet Here On Friday and Saturday 100 College Athletes To Compete in the pole vault .nd a third-place An aH.d^y--n)4S»rir-t—Facm ftir-H reau Conference is scheduled* to ! be held at Camp Fellowship on bake Grenwood Thursday. May -9. E. H. Agnew, South Carolina Loco! Girls In . Erskine Pageant Jane Todd, -of Clinton. Elaine »Crocker, of Joanna, and Mary Ann Jones, of Mountyill^, will appear in a pageant, ^‘Pandora’s Biox,” at Erskine College, Due West, on May 4. ‘ . The pageant wilj be ja part 6f May Day festivities at the college. Arrest ,$jx AAen Tuesday IrvConnection With Thefts State 4-H Local Leaders Organi-. ter an d a Tennessee native, Ehr- zatidn-at a meeting at Camp Bob i hardt ^ married to the former Cooper near Summerton Aprili C a ’ ro *y n Dozier of Leary, Ga , and 26-28. Mrs. Sumerel was vice-1 they have a young son. president of the organization for ^ th shTtrL„ a ,0c, .eadan i„ State Officers Make the 4-H clubs of Laurens county yi ■ ■ It "J for twenty-two years and is also IlirPP LlQUOT K9IGS serving as advisor for the County | ^ ~ 4 -L C ? UnClL , Laurens, April 25—Two under- While attending the meeting aU cover officers of the State Law Camp Cooper, Mrs. Sumerel pre- Enforcement Dlv i s io n (SLED) of, sided at the assembly program on Columbia, on the invitation of Saturday morning. She also as- sheriff Caldwell W. Wier, visited sisted with the music at the as- t he county Saturday and made sembly program and the worship three Liquor raids according to service on Sunday morning. She La holding s. County authorities arel munity in Spartanburg County, six young tnen in the They told investigating officers copnty jail and a seventh arrest'that they sold the'tire for $10 and was expected to'be. made yester-jfour gallons of gas. day • on charges- of grand larceny, housebreaking arid receiving stolen j^oods in connection with two .thefts Sunday and Monday nights in.the Woodruff area. Five' of the mqri were appre hended at 5:20 a. m. Tuesday at a Lahrens 'junkyard by city po licemen. _• > • poputy Sheriff Horace Mitchell listed them as John Lloyd,Wright, Jr.,.^, Paul Wayne Ruppe, ll5, and William Lonnie Hughes, 20, all of Woodruff, and Fred Delano Leop ard, 2-f, of Laurens County. They are charged with grand larceny ’ Ralph Richard Wilson, 23, is charged with receiving, stolen goods. The sixth , man, Jack Jackson, into custody Tuesday afternoon and was^ changed with house breaking and grand larceny. The youths admitted stealing 16 radiators from a Woodruff junk yard, two chain saws, tools and wrenches and a^tfSck tire from a sawmill in the Gray School com- Other,officers vwrking on the case included Sheriff’s Deputies H. R. Jones- and George Black- well ot Laurens County, and Rural Policeman "Red Gaston of Wood ruff. - • ' Post Office Hours Are Announced Window service at the Clinton post office is available from 9:00 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. at the stamp, parcel post and general delivery windows Monday through Friday, and from 8:00 to 12:00 on Satur day, states Postmaster W. D. 18, of Laurons County, was taken'^dair. Money order and postal savings windows are open from 9 to 5 o’clock Monday through Friday and from 9 to 12 on Saturday. Mail delivery servic^ is being maintained as usual, Mr. Adair said, with no curtailment being in effect. wil serve in the capacity, of pres ident of the Leaders Organisation for one year. Other officers elected at the meeting were: vice-president, Grady L. Halfacre, Newberry county; secretary, Mrs. Boyce Bell, Greenwood county; treasur er, J. B. McCrary, Marion county; and reporterXMrs. -R, J. Daniels, Williamsburg. Jxiunty. An interesting program was held for the readers attcnd.ing the meeting. Lloyd L. Rutledge, as sociate leader, 4-H and YM>V programs,- USDA, Washington, D a report made by the sheriff. One was in the vicinity of Gray Court and the other two in the vicinity of Clinton. At all three places, the sheriff reported, SLED ‘Officers Carl B. Stokes and Otis R Hillyer made purchases of whiskey. At the home of John Cape near Gray Court, he said, -the officers bought one quart of unstamped I (white) liquor. At a shack occu pied by R. B. Wilbanks near Clin ton, the officers bought a half pint of stamped whiskey. At a I shae|t of Hugh (Snake) Porter j near Clinton they bought another Following are Ihe jurors E. B Pinson, Jr., Clinton Mill; Oris 'Graham, Clinton Mill; H. W Williams, Lydia Mill. Harold. Law- son. Clinton City; G J *S:rourfi Goldvilie;, A. G.- Smith. Clihton Mill; Bliiford Nabors. Goldvilie, Luther Robortson, Youngs; Jim mie Boiler, Princeton; R W Baughman, Pleasant Mound; John D. Curry, Jones Store; J E. 1»1- lis, Jr., Hickory Tavern; Thamer C Davenport, Mt. Olive, Russell Steen, Lydia Mill; Dick Dickson, Lanford Station; C. H Smith, Clinton Mill; M E. Lida, Lanford Station; J. B. Patterson Mill. More than 124 entries from six scorer with titles South Carolina colleges begin stir- and broad jump ring up the cinders in the 36th an- in the 1110-yard-dash' and javelin mial running of the stjt*' inter- record holder Dick Bartulski. collegiate track and field njeet it Clemson has high-hurdler Steed- .r'.'t Bob Spoori- L'oliege th. Trtrr 'Picsbylenah afternoon. The freshmen meet and qualify ing varsity trials of South Caro lina’s 19.?; Little Olympics scheduled for the first day, begin nmg at 1 30 p. m Y-Tt-uty finals, with all of the pageantry of vic tory ceremonies, will start at 2 p. Saturday nr The University of South Caro lina is defending champion, and will be challenged for varsity dom ination by Clemson, Prosby.en.m, Furman. The Citadel and Wofford Dr. Walter A. Johnson, athletic Clinton director of host Presbyterian Col lege and meet chairman, has pre- k'V and •dioi piit er, and Presbyterian returns with double-winner Delano Johnson who captured both 100 and 220- i ,.,, yard dash events. 1 *! In addition, the Gameox-ks will present an ace hurdler in' Don Gaiodroe who will bid for a new record, Pre.-byterian’» Richard Johnson has soared close to the pole vault mark, Furman features a -wifi freshman sprinter m Mar vin Starr am} The Citadel offers two star freshmen in hurdler Dick King and discus man Joe Davis. Area PC Alumni To Meet Tuesday Also Harry L. Black, Clinton dieted that the 1957 meet will i Mill; Wesley Knight. Youngs; one of the closest in years. He said Henry Benjamin, Laurens City; D. approximately 3,000 spectators are | Clinton area alumni of Pres E. Brown, Bailey , N. D. Coleman, erpected. to watch the top talent [ byterian College will assemble^ Narme;- Wilton Brown* 'Laurens of Palmetto cuider paths muke along with Laurens alumni, for a their bid for team and individual I Joint meeting in the PC dining glory. i on Tuesday at T:45 p. m. Four schools will compete in the They will meet the new head Freshman meet on Friday after- {footb 8 !! coach of the Blue Hose noon. Clemson, which capped their first-year battle last year, leads! ef!e a ‘' tlvltl »*s C*ty; Samuel E Bramlett, Jr., Ow- ings. Joe B. Kirby, Laurens City; H. I. Causby, Laurens City; Ansel C Vaughn, Gray Court; G. E. Wil liams, Cross Hill; Charles W Arm strong, Dials; C. E. Leopard, Clm- and hear various reports on eol- ton Mill; Carl Hudson, Cook's the field wKh 18 entries The Baby C. R. WORKMAN an- £ P0 J i * > on . Lhe half pint of stamped whiskey. ‘4-H Qlub Work Today and To-1 ^ following Sunday mom- morrow. T. W. Thompson, ser-| m g ^ sheriff said, he took out vice director,, National Commit-1 searc ft warrants on all three tee on Boys and Girls Club pi ace s and followed up with W6rk, Chrcago, III.-, led recrea tional training. The worship ser vice was conducted by Dr. J. A. Barry, Jr., president of Coke col lege, Hartsville. A total of .137 attended the meeting, with 21 counties repre sented. City And County Receive Funds From State Liquor Taxes The city of CJinton has re ceived $2,806.06 from the South Carolina Tax Comnyssibn as its share of the quarterly tax collec tions on liquor. - . The city has also received $1,- 182.94 from the quarterly collec tions of the taxes on beer and wine. The beer and wine tax payment to Laurens county amounted to $2,469.71 for the first quarter of the year. ' * Joanna Lions Officers and Lt. Governor Farm Bureau president,; nounced yesterday. C. R. Workman, of Kinards, vice-president of the state or ganization, will preside at the meeting scheduled to begin at 9:00 a-m. and adjourn at 4 30 p. m. vy.ith a noon lunch. Milk breaks are planned during the morning and afternoon sessions Store! Stewart O. Brown, Hope- well, J. B. Williams, Hopeweli; Ludie A Weathers, Woodville; Sam Tollison, Woodville, Frank Jones, outstanding Geor gia high school coach who re- Deile Wilder Elected State JHA Secretary Lt.-Governor E. F. Hollings of South Carolina made an address before the Lions^Club of Joanna Thursday and is shown here with officers of the club. Left to right, they are Wendell Hair, vice presi dent; CUsby Templeton, vieeTpresident; L. A. Crawford, secretary; Lt. Governor Hollings; William C. Dobbins, president; W. K. Waites, viee president; and Clyde Tindall, treasurer. Tracing the development of South Carolina since the 1920’s, the Lieutenant Governor said the government of the state has become big business, with s tremendous sum of money required to finance the services that the people demand. EducaUon is the largest Item in the state’s budget, he said, with increasing appropriations being necessary. State leaders have a terrific responsibility, he said, and they are endeavoring to operate and maintain a responsive, economical, financially stable govern ment. He advocated a 10 per eent raise in teachers’ salaries, saying “Any lime you can give em ployees a 10 per cent Increase In pay without raising taxes yon are doing a good Job.” up searches of the premises. At the Cape place, he said, they found nothing. At the Wilbanks place I they seized 16 half pints of stamped whiskey. At the Por ter place, they said, was found 10 half pints of stamped whiskey and a pistol which the sheriff said was in a box with the whiskey. Cape, he said, was charged in warrants with selling and havirig in his possession unstamped whiskey, second offense. Bond was fixed at $1,500. Wilbanks was charged with selling, storing and having in his possession stamped liquor for il legal purposes and his bond fixed at $1,200. Porter was charged, he said, with selling, storing and having in his possession bonded liquor for illegal purposes and, in addi tion, with violatidn of Act 820, Section 12, of the code which re lates to having any firearms or weapons while violating the li quor laws of the stafe. His bond was fixed at $1,200 on the two liquor charges and $500 On the pistol fcharge. Assisting him in the raids Sun day, the sheriff said, were Depu ties H. R. Jones, W. D. Burns. Wesley Fowler, Wallace Aber crombie and William Alexander. Academy Street Second Graders To Present Program The second grade pupils of Academy Street School, under the direction of their teachers, Mrs. Eloise Ellis, Miss Elizabeth Copeland and Mrs. Melda John son, will present “The Magic Bookcase’’ Saturday night at 8 o’clock iri the school auditorium. Earl Turner, a little boy who does not like books, is carried in his dreams by a lovely fairy, Susan Watts, to a magic book case out of which steps many storyland favorites of children. The cast is composed of 92 chil dren from the three second grades. A -small admission will be charged to help buy needed sup plementary reading material for the second grade rooms. Deile Wilder, rising 'senior _ Clinton High School, was elected Participating dn the program in 1 secretar y tde South Carolina addition to Mr Agnew will b*; Juaior Homemakers Association state staff members E. W Brooks, rect ‘ nt state convention of organization director; Bob Mar-; or t> ani z a tion at Winthrpo Col- tin, information director, and * e ^ e in H<x - k Hill Cason Nichols, state sales direc- 1 Deile is the daughtei of Mr tor. Assisting Mr. Brooks will be ana mrs - r ^ rider, and is the- Miss Jennie Pattisoq, and Mrs. R. P new president Clinton new ■ prcsiucin Of the of the Edgefield, County Farm High JIL\ C nap ter, Bureau, who will discuss plan-L. , ning an active and effective Named AdviSOr nodical meeting of the Associate County Farm Bureau. | Miss Frances Cunningham, Reformed Presbyterian Church. Featured address' on the pro- Clinton student at Winthmp Col- Mrs. Copeland is a delegate gram will be by Dr. George*Star- seth, director of research for the American Farm Bueau, Lafay ette, Indiana Mrs John L. Bennett, State Farm Bureau Women’s chairman, will discuss family participation, Dave Sloan, of Mullins, chairman of the Farm Bureau Sevice Com mittee, will discuss the Service to Member Program,’ and Mr. Agnew will present commodity problems and legislative matters. This is one of three* district conferences planned this year to replace the annual three-day | training school of the Farm Bu reau. The conference at Lake Greenwood will include 16.coun ties in> upper South Carolina from York across to Edgefield. Dr. McSween Is Hospital Patient lege, cAS U dey Hall term. Rock Hill, has been named sophomore advisor in Rod- for the 1957-58 school Tigers are followed by Carolina , . . with 10. Presbyterian with 8 and | ^ washed for the PC po ... . sition, will drive over from Deca- Funnanw.th4 i tur. Ga . for the occasion. He has Ihe number of entries for th. not Uikt . n the full rein * of varsity meet include: Clemsou. 20, hjs ne * pos , t but he vlsrts the Citadel, 20, Carolina, la. Fufman, cam p' U3 a t regular intervals. 15; PC, 13; and Wofford, 1. This Dr Marshall W Brown, presi- * slate wt.l be narrowed consider- d en t. of. PC, will report to the ■‘bit b> the trial rounds, in which groL1 p recent progress o< the only the better .perfornhances. will • college and its development pro gram, and Athletic Director Wal ter A. Johnson will speak on the sports department. Alumni’and friends who wish to attend are asked to contact the PC alumni office by Monday af ternoon to make reservations. The barbecue chicken supper will be served at $1.50 per plate Klan Gathers - About 500 spectators turm*d out Satufday night for a meeting of the Ku Klux Klan on the old Laurens-Clinton hgihway near the airport. Sheriff C. W Wier reported his men kept close watch at the or derly meeting of 60 klansmen, robed and masked. qualify for tne-finaLs. at| Seven individual champions of last year will return ’seeking to re tain their crowns and better theii records. From Carolina, there are. Conway Sru/|>es, the 1956- high - ATTEND SYNODICAL Mrs. George Watts Copeland and Miss Margaret Blakely left Tuesday night for Lexington, Va., where they wijl spend several days attending the Woman s >Sy from the second Presbyterian and Miss Blakely is secretary for the Junior and Intermediate depart i ments of the Presbyterial At Kiwanis Barbecue-Bazaar for Thornwell McSween is rtvup- ; Memorial I j operation Friends of Dr. John wjjl be glad to know he erating at the Charlotte Hospit^ following an there last week. Mrs. McSween is in Charlotte with-him and they ex pect to be able to - return to their home here in the next few datys. Attend Y. iTc U. A. R. P. Conference * __ . A number of young people from the Associate Reformed Presbyte rian Church here attended the district conference of the Young Peoples ChrisTTafi" Union on Sun day aftemooiLat Lower Long Cane Church. The group, composed of Jimmy Sloan, William Wilson, Georgia Young, Joan Todd and Owen Hitt, were accompanigd by Dr. C. B. Betts, George Thompson Copeland, and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Todd Howard F. Smith, president of the Omtoh Kiwanis Cluh. Mrs. J. B Templeton and Mrs. Jim Wolfe, co-chairmen, and Dr. M. A. Macdonald, president of Thornwell Orphanage, are seen here at the annual barbecue-bazaar sponsored uy the Kiwanis Club Tor Thornwell Friday evenint at the Thornwell gymnasium. More than 1.000 persons attended the event, joining the food lines and pa- tronizing the eight booths and entertainment provided for children Friday's effort crossed more than $1,800, and after deducting food and other costs, the net jreturn for Thornwell will be approximately $1,100, Smith said. He praised the 1 women for their work in making the affair "such an outstanding success.” * . —Photo by Dan Yarborouth Hi! / '7 a