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t •1 If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News ■ ®hr (Mintmt The Chronicle Striven To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIll (■ , Clinton, S. C. # Thursday, May 16, 1957 Number ^20 Service Emblems Presented at Joanna Saturday Joanna Cotton Mills, of Joanna, honored three groups of long-time employees with a banquet Saturday night whe^i service emblems were presented to 109 persons. Those with 10 years service received lapel emblems, the 15-year group rings, and employees who had 20 years of service received watches. All were presented increased insurance policies. Those in the 20-year group are shown above. They are. left to right, front row: Harley Lyon. Mrs. Bell Willingham. Mrs. Vivian Nabors. Mrs. Myrtle McCumber, Mrs. Mae C. Brannon, Mrs. Nettie Harris. Mrs. Myrtle Moore. Mrs. Ruth Thomas and C. R. Hunni- cutt; back row: U. G. Young. Jr.. R. G. Poore. T. A. Abrams, J. E. Boyce, C. B. Cole. G. L. Farmer, R H. Frasier. H. L. Gardner, and W. P. Wise. Absent when the photo was taken were R. M. Abrams. Mrs. Ruby Holley, Mrs. Lena Lovelace, Mrs. Ruby Montjoy. G. J. Stroud. ,.and Mrs. Viola J. Wise, r I till; ft! X, mm C" ‘ And Lydia Graduates To Be Honored May 27 Nineteen sons and daughters of Clmton-Lydia employees who are candidates for graduation from Clinton High School on May '27'. and three candidates for college diplomas will be honored by Clin- ton-Lydia Mills at a luncheon at the Mary Musgrbve Hotel on ^av 21 ' Candidate^ for school di plomas are: Clinton. Betty Alexander, Lin da Braswell, Dawn Campbell, Linda Dunaway, Shirley A Dun-! away, Frances Graham, Shirley j Ivester, Lois Lever, Martha J Reeder, Dessie Roberts, Barbara ■ A. Simmons, Mildred Suttles Charlene Turner, Tommy Butler, Bobby Ginn, Jerry Joye, Freddie Samples, Alan Trammell. Lydia: Pat Fuller, Floy Dean' Hamilton, Barbara J. Moore, Bet-1 ty Parrish, Ralph Cauble, Robert Fuller, Raymond Kuykertdall. i James Russell Trammell, A1 Wil-! hams. Emily Bailey, daughter of Mr j and Mrs. P. S. Bailey will gradu- i 1 . ate from high school at St Cath- Jonrinn LlOflS Club enne’s School, Richmond. Va , in ^ oa ", na l-'Uns V.IUD June To Conduct Broom L. R Campbell and Jot Aber- j Sole Moy 16 ; 17, 18 cnombie, son and son-in-law, re- 'J spectively, of Mrs. Hallie Camp- ^ bell, will be 1957 class graduates The Joanna Lions Club will <>n- of Presbyterian College duct a sale -of brooms a; Joanna Play In Upstate Class A Finals Here is the Clinton High School baseball team that \esterday afternoon was playing the second same in a best-two-of-thr^e series against Bvmes High of Duncan as The Chronicle went to press The game was played on the Joanna field Front row, left to right. Bill Nease, Cceil Davenport. Hay fuller. Konald Corley, Peanut' smith Troy Whitfield. Ben Crourh. Danny lewis. Middle row, Billv Cranford. Jimmy Chanev Billy Pace Mike Cooley, Bobby Thomas. Flvin Floyd, Charles Warier Bark row Kov Burgess, {iranville Webb Harold Corley, Ma\ie Brown. Melvin Bailev Billy Horne. Jimmy (handler. Ileyyyard Nettles. Ron nie Moore. Jake Rasor. Rji'haiJ J&vlr-a. r.on of Mr and | »i£i.iv (Thursdav 1 thru Mrs J:' H / adts - of Clinton, is a , Frlday and 'S^rd^TKl^ru^ candidate for graduation at Car- ' .1 son-Newman College, Jefferson! ^ oust> canvass he made, sj.vo 1 •City, Tenn. Walter Regnery, vice-president land general manager of Joanna Mills, was one of the group completing 15 years of service with the corporation and he is seen here receiving his ring from P. B. Mitchell, who was superintendent of the mills for many years, and now assistant to Mr. Regnery. In the background are shown a number of those at the head table, including Mrs. W. K. Wails, wife of the assistant superintendent: Mrs. J. H. Hunter; J. H. Hunter, master of ceremonies; Rev. Dr. Kenneth Goodson. pastor of the First Metho dist Church, of Charlotte, N. C.. speaker of the evening; J. L. Delany, superintendent; and Mrs. Delany. Lions Club Names W. R. Anderson As. Citizen Of The Year The Lions club at its meeting Friday evening at Hotel Mary Musgrove selected W. R. Ander son as Clinton’s Citizen of the Year for 1957. Mr. Anderson Is superintend ent of schools in Laurens County District 56, which includes the Clinton area. The club annually names a res ident who has rendered outstand ing service to the community, recognizing his worth as a citizen. Mr. Anderson will be invited to a meeting of the club in the near W. R. ANDERSON Community Chest to Hold|^ nkToExhibit aJ i aa x* r *j iPortraits By Shields Annual Meeting Friday Ikers for 1957’58 to Be Elected Officers and directors of the Community Chest of Greater Clinton will hold their annual meeting Friday evening at 7:30 in the Forum Room of the Bank of Clinton. they represent, whose terms run until 1958, are: John Minxnaugh, Chamber of Commerce; James E. Wolfe, Kiwanis Club; C. A. Coop er, Clinton Mills; James Von Hol- len, American Legion; R. P. Wild- New officers for the fiscal year j er . schools, beginning July 1 will be named I Newly named directors for the to succeed the slate whose terms! 1957-60 term are: Van Jones, Ex will expire on June 30. | change Club; R. S. Truluck, Lions No new directors will have to Club; W. L. Corbett, Merchants be elected this year, it was stat ed, since terms of two groups of five each do not expire until 1958 and 1960. However, it was pointed out that one woman member of the 1960 slate has never been appointed and it is probable that the post will be filled Friday. She is to be named fro mthe city at large, i Officers whose terms expire on June 30 are: A. C. Young, presi dent; W. C. Baldwin, vice-presi dent; George Fiady, second vice- president; Mrs. Esther H. Pitts, secretarytreasurer; Fred H. Hol combe, drive chairman; Ben H. Hammet, assistant drive chair man; I. A. Edwards, payroll de ductions chairman. Directors, and the organizations future and presented a plaque suitable for framing attesting the honor which has come to him. Mr. Anderson is a native of Laurens County, a graduate of Presbyterian college, .and has been superintendent Vf Clinton schools for many years. He first served as principal of the high school. Maintaining acceptable stand ards during the years when the schools were operated with whaj were considered as inadequate plant facilities, Mr. Anderson’s work dn planning the recent, and continuing, enlargement program is regarded as especially note worthy. Dr. Brown Attends Meetings This Week Dr. Marshall W. Brown, presi dent of Presbyterian college, left Monday for Richmond, Va., where he will attend a meeting of the Board of Christian Educa tion of the Presbyterian Church, US. He was accompanied by Mrs. Brown who will later go to Chat tanooga, Tenn., to visit her moth er, Mrs. John Goss. During the week-end Dr. Brown wJU go to Montreal, N. C^ for the South Carolina Synod Men's Conference. Irving Lown, Jr, Of; Whitten Village Staff, To Teach At Winthrop Irving Lown, Jr., principal of the academic school of Whitten Village, Clinton, will be a visit ing professor of education at Winthrop College. Rock Hill, dur ing the summer session .July 12 to August 13. •„ ' Mr. Lown will be one of 11 vis iting professors and 53 faculty members who will comprise the summer school staff at the South Carolina college for women. IS PROMOTED Friertds of Kay F. Mills, of Pageland, formerly of this city, will be intersted to know that he has recently been promoted to chief warrant officer in the Na tional Guard. Association; Mrs. J. B. Temple ton, ladies at large. The mayor of Clinton is a per manent member of the board of directors, and Joe P. Terry is cur rently filling the post. Campfire Girls On Trip To Columbia Twelve members of the Tanda Campfire girls group enjoyed an all-day sightseeing trip to Co lumbia on Saturday. They were accompanied by their leader, Mrs. A. B. Davidson, £|nd Miss Garnell Ruff. « A tour of the capitol building was made and other points of in- trest visited by the following girls: Jane Ellen Fowler, Ame Lpu Black, Shirley Timmons, J4net Johnson, Martha Todd, Barbara Anderson, Joan Vassey, Wanda Webb, Norma Davidson, Peggy Rhodes, Mary Alice Bryson and Sallie Pitts. Among other activities during the year the group attended the Ice Vogues in Spartanburg, a band concert by the Clinton Schools band, and entertained with a wiener roast. Mrs. James Rhodes is assistant leader. City Fines Total $1,712 During April The City of Clinton collected $1,712 in fines levied in recorder's court during April, according to the monthly report submitted to Council by Chief ,B B Ballard of the police department Leading the list in payments to An exhibit o f photographic | portraiture by William M.L Shields, Clinton photographer , ^ Clty treasun >' we re five persons wiU be presented by M. S. Bailey 1 ^ P aid 5500 for &Mm under Si Son, Bankers, on Thursday, lhe in Nuence of intoxicants. An- May 16, through Saturday, May ! other arrested 06 th0t char « e didn,t 25. — J 1 The people of Clinton and sur rounding territory are invited to attend the showing of outstanding portraits, among which will be the Elliott Cup Awards for excel lence in group portr^jture and hpve the money and was given 30 days on the public works by May or J. P. Terry, who presides over the city court. Fifteen were arrested for drunk enness, one was released, one was given 30 days, and the others paid Council Reverses Policy On Out-of-City Fire Calls 1 ——-- ' “ Insurance Riders or $100 Required City council Monday night re- finals yesterlay that no fire calls versed the action taken at its Ap- outside the city limits wi.L be , . , . made, unless the owners of pnop- nl m< > eting in regard to answer- . , .. * erty have effective insurance mg fire call$ beyond the city r;c j er5 on fj; e or have made the limits by the Clinton fire depart- ca.-h dposit. This proedure will mon t insure payment to the city of Monday's legislation p r ov,ded ^ ch / ire # ca11 -^ wai ' sa;d - . ' , , , . In event of a fire call to prop- for the filing with the city clerk erty owned by hav , ng of insurance riders or making" a deposits to their credit, their orig- ,, , .cash deposit of $100 by owners ina [ deposits will be considered Many blind people from <»vcr the of pnjperty the-city lim- ias payment for service rendered state are emplo>ed in the piant a.: rtj in orc j^ r to pay for use of the an d a new deposit must be made Columbia and are enab<ed to earn | C1 ty’s equipment and efforts of The insurance riders, of course, a living for themselves and r heir j f irernt » n in fighting fires_, out of will continue in force unless the families. , ' the city. building is destroyed, and the The oanna club purchases the | At the April meeting, council insurer will pay the city for each brooms from the state association tWreed only that the cash deposit service call. and the profits are used'to finance] fee required for such arvice " it was stated , that the property sight conservation work at Joanna | It was pointed out by . city of- uwner or his insurance agent will — | be responsible for renewals of the to begin each day at 2 30 p m < Housewives, business houses and those contacted afe asked to give the broom salesmen a cor dial reception when they cal!. The brooms are made by the South Carolina Association for the Blind at their workshop in Colum bia. which Lions Clubs of the state Support as “their major activity the other prints that were exhibited $157 by Mr. Shields at the National Thirteen were taken in for dis otographers Association of orderly conduct, two were given America convention. 1956, and the Second Biennial Internation al Exposition held in Washington, D. C., in March. Prior to the opening of his . ... u * persons, and thev were assessed present portrait shop m Clinton, i Shields studied under William Gerdes at New Haven. Conn. In 30 days each, and the other^ paid $148. ; Charges of speeding and reck less driving were levied against 15 |$307 Violating the liquor law's cost one person $100. Three paid in $86 for fighting One was assessed $27 for carrying concealed weap ons, and one was given 30 days on* the same charge. $96 was collect ed from eight persons for gamb- Winona faculty for the advanced portrait course in July. In recognition of achievements in professional photography Shields will receive the degree of master of photography in July, 1958. Two Businesses First To Join In Group Polio Shots M S : Bailey Sc Son. Bankers, and Howard’s Pharmacy were the first to participate in the group polio vaccine plan which was re cently endorsed by the Laurens County Medical Society. Employees of both firms met at the bank Tuesday to receive their polio shots, which were adminis- 1952, he attended Winona School of Photography, a national insti tution under sponsorship of the Photographers Ass o c i a t i o n of America, returning, four years later,, as camera room instruc tor. Mr. Shields will rejoin the foi * r JKMd 561 fqr operating auto without driver’s license, three parted with $81 for damaging pri vate or public property, and two were relieved of $44 for petty lar- (Xher offenses inoluded one per son who was given 15 days, and nine were taken in for investiga tion or on suspicion.^ . Violators of parking law's num bered 169, and they paid $105- - riders upon expiration Maximum limits for fire calls 1 in the recognized protected su burban^ area were stated' as fol lows Old Laurens road. Standard Plywood Co.; Laurens highway. I League’s Dairy; Greenwood high 7 ” way,- Job n T- - Young's Store;-Jo anna highway. Young s Cross Roads; Chapels highway. Young's Cross Roads.. Whitmire highway. “Whitten Village farm; Spartan- schools will ex-1 Mr Anderson said that the h-^h^ a >. ^^J Hemy. Sr. Is at the begin- trustees, in endeavoring to find ].' a 'U^Khway 30H North Broad Junior High Grades To Be Moved to Florida St. Grammar Grades to Occupy Jr. High Street). Beard's Fork Creek Two Clinto? change occur ning of the 1987-58 school term in a solution to.Jhe problem of pro- September ,it was stated yester- viding classroom space for the Monday night s meeting was day by officials of School Dis- ever-growing grammar school presided over by Mayor Joe P tnct 56. grades, had decided to make the ^ r D'- and all counciknen were Florida Street grammar school transfer of pupils in the two present: Frunk M Boland, ward will become the Junior High, and schools. This move, he said, will one S. A Pits, ward two. Har- the present Junior High will be largely meet present needs and rv C" Layton, ward three. James used for the grammar school will serve until the demand for a ^ Sloan, ward four. Woodrow L. grades now going to Florida new grammar school is more Wilson, ward five, and James C Street school. ->—-—*•—[acute. ^ —- - —-Craine. .ward sk— W. R Anderson, superintend- , .Among other action taken at- ent. said 'that the approximately LOSES BROTHER the m«*eting was a motion passed 600 grammar school pupils in Friends of Mr. and Mrs .1 <_ requiring th. »perator >if a filling grades one through six can better Thomas will sympathize with station or. West Main street to be accommodated in the 20-room them in the death of the latter's cease dismantling cars and ope- Jumbr High building brother. Henry J Vaughn, of rating a junk yard at that !oca- Grades seven and eight, which Greenwood Funeral services tion compose the Junior High classes, were held on Friday at Mam St with about 325 pupils, will be Methodist church in Greenwood housed in the smaller 16-room j with bunal in Belton City ceme Florida Street.’ building tery / Children Take'First Train Ride To Hear Thackston Col. A. J. Thackston, adminis trative dean of Presbyterian Col-, ^ b^'Dr" J^s" Walker lege will^be the speaker at the The Medical Society,' local! dn.SSi.ts and the Clinton chap- ter of the National Fouridation! day) of the Men of the Church of the First Presbyterian Church He will speak on "The Panama‘"Ca- nal." Time qf the meeting has been set for 7:00 p. m. Cotton Week Proclaimed Whereas, the production of cotton and cottonseed products is essential to the economy of our nation, our state, and our com munity, and Whereas, cotton, the fiber that has served mankind for over 50 centuries, remains an integral part of our daily lives and pro vides a livelihood for more than 12 million of our. citizens and Whereas, cotton, which supplies over two-thirds of our fiber needs, has superlative qualities of comfort, durability, launder- abitity, and unmatched versatility, and Whereas, the multi-bdllion-doUar American qotton industry has climbed to a posMon of pre-eminence in the world with re spect to fiber production, as well as in terms of machinery, capi tal, and scientific development, now Therefore, I, Joe P. Terry, Mayor of the City of Clinton, do hereby join with communities all over America in proclaiming the week of May 20 through May 25 as National Cotton Week in the City of Clinton and urge every citizen to stimulate further the consumption of cotton through increased purchases of cotton and cottonseed products. * Signed: JOE P. TERRY, Mayor for Infantile Paralysis are work-1 ing in cooperation with groups,] wheih include business organiza tions and clubs, urging every per son up to 50 years of age fo be come immunized against polio. Drug stores will spply the vac cine at cost, it was stated, and physicians will donate their ser- 1 vices in giving the shots when groups are assembled. Those in - 1 terested in the movemnt urge! the formation of such groups, i whether residential or business, •block by block, clubs, etc. For information concerning the group vaccine plan, residents may call Miss Rebecca Speake, secre tary of the County PoJLio Chapter, Hugh S. Jacobs, chairman of the local vaccine program, both of Clinton, or Dr. D. H. McFadden, president of the County Medical Socity. Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Pitts and son, Pa<3c, of Aiken, Thomas and Ed Pitts, students at the Univer sity of South Carolina, Columbia, spent the week-end with their mother, Mrs. P. M. Pitts. A rvsoiutipn was passed stating that street narnvN be placed on the curb or on metal marker^ at point.- that do not now have them „ City Clerk and Treasurer W B. j Owens submitted the monthly statement of operations showing receipt ! bursen d 542 <21 62 ind 540.1 aided u,, sect Apr.! ■ pav-mei 43 for the. irsen iemts $3,309 72 n social $1,767 07; ie u:rector of $2,439 30. n, .sl ot n State Chiropractors Meeting In Charleston Dr R H Daw oimpan ed b> l Charlesto .•■v ■ • j . of this 'City, bv Mi's. Dawson; ts tig ittend "ie spri’ g the South Carolina Chiropractic Association. The two-day meeting got underway yesterday and will close today Dr C 3 Hart, of Laurens, is president of the stau* association and presided over the program The sessions were neid at Fort Sumter Hotel About 100 chiropractors . and [ their wives and guests'attended j the. convention, w hich included activities for the Ladies This group of children from the Pint Baptist Church Kindergarten had their first train ride last Thursday when they boarded Seaboard train No. 5 at Whitmire and returned to Clinton, a dis tance of IS miles. The children were taken to Whitmire by automobile by Mr* Eugene Buffington and Mrs. Joe Edwards. Those taking the trip were, left to right, Celia Jones. Linda Suddeth. Sherry Buffington, Doug Terry, Patricia Bragg, Carol Ann Young (partially hidden). Charlene Young. Jimmy Copeland, Vernon Edwards, and Beth Edwards. With them are Mrs. Jo win — and Mrs. Leroy Sanders, associate, who accompanied the olaas on the train: Joe McDaniel, director. Photoby Yarborough. J. H. A. Have Fashion Show The Junior Homemakers Asso ciation of Clinton High School will {Ncsent the annual spring fashion show on Friday morning. May 17. at 10 15 m the high school auditorium Parents and friends are invited to attend the event Which is given annually by the home economics girls, under the "’direction of Mrs. Roily Ban nister. !