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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, May 23, 1957
College to Award Degrees
Presbyterian College will award three honorary degrees at its 76th comencement exercises on June
3, two honorary doctor of divinity degrees and one doctor of laws degree. The recipients are pictured
above, left to right: the Rev. Allison Williams, pastor of Atlanta's Tridity Presbyterian Church, and the
Rev. Neill Truesdale, pastor of Aveleigh Presbyterian Church, of Newberry both doctor of divinity;
and Douglas G. McRae, also of Atlanta, a Christian leader and television Sunday school teacher who
serves as assistant superintendent of the Fulton County Public Schools, the honorary doctor of laws.
Jury Awards $5,000 In
3-Vehide Collision Case
2 Girts Killed in 1955 Near Laurens
Laurens, May 18—A jury in
Laurens County court of common
pleas Friday afternoon returned a
verdict awarding damages total-1
ing $5,000 to Mrs. Oneida C.
Gross as a result of a highway;
accident June 3. 1955, in which j
her daughter. Edna Roberta Cal-!
lahan, was 'krlldd.
Mrs. Gross, administratrix of.
the estate of her daughter, j
brought suit against H. Clifton
Nelson, Charles "A. Senn and the
Fountam Inn Milling Company.,
Young Nelson and Senn were
drivers of automobiles loaded i
with “feen-age'mirat—weie
volved in a collisfon with the
milling company truck on 1 the
Greenville highway about four
miles from Laurens. The Cal
lahan girl was riding in the Nel
son car.
The jury assessed damages
-against the three defendants as
follows:
Fountain Inn Milling Company.
$1,000 actual. $3,000 punitive;
Senn, $100 actual. $400 punitive;
Nelson. $100 actual. $400 punitive.
The jury returned to the court
room with a verdict earlier in the
day in which it awarded only
punitive damages against the de
fendants. However, presiding
there could be no punitive dam
ages unless there was also actual
damages, and ordered the jury to
reconsider the verdict. The first
verdict also totaled $5,000 in dam
ages.
Judge Griffith denied motions
for a new trial by attorneys for
Senn and the milling company.
Trial of the case consumed
more than two days and witness
es told conflicting stories as to
whether the truck driver gave a
signal that he was about to turn
left. Senn’s car struck the truck
first, and seconds later, the Nel
son car crashed inlo it. Several
winesses. including passengers in
the cars, testified the cars were
racing and were being driven kt
J excessive rates of speed,
j The accident occurred as the
’‘teen-agers were returning from a
ninth grade picnic at Curry’s
Lake near Gray Court.
Another girl, Patricia Ann
Landford, also died in the wreck.
The trial, postponed from sev
eral-terms of court, opened Wed
nesday. (
Wednesday morning
come to rest, and that the blinker
light was burning.
A truck driver, Arthur Owens,
said he was headed toward
Greenville when he saw the
Fountain Inn milling truck mak
ing cl turn into the side road with
its blinker light on^ 3
Another witness, Wister' Chap
man, an insurance agent, said he
arrived at the scene of the acci
dent just as the first ambulance
was leaving. He told the court
that he saw the signal lights
burning on the truck.
Jackie Pearson, driver of the
milling company truck, took the
stand to say that he turned on
the blinker light before attempt
ing to make the left turn and that
he looked back and‘did not sec
any cars behind him. He said the
first he was aware of the two
cars was when they struck his
vehicle. He said he was traveling
about 40 miles an hour until he
started slowing down to make the
turn.
Donald Franks, a passenger in
Nelson’s car, said he noticed the
truck ahead of them but did not
pay much attention to it. He said
he did not notice that the blinker
light was on.
Arguments by the lawyers con
sumed most of the session Thurs
day afternoon.
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were Mrs. Gross, mother of the
dead girl; Highway Patrolman B.
A. Blume, who investigated the
wreck and Ray Summerell and
Mrs. Fred Burns, both who testi
fied the cars involved.^ a 1950
Ford and a 1951 Dodge * were be
ing driven toward Laurens about
mid-afternoon at excessive rates
j of speed about four miles north
! of Laurens on the Greenville
highway.
Young Senn testified Wednes
day afternoon. He is now 17 years
old and was 15 at the time of the
accident. He denied he and the
driver of the Dodge were racing,
but estimated his speed at about
65 or 70 miles an hour when he
pulled to the left to pass the mill
ing company truck just as the
truck was about to make a deft
turn into.a side road.
Senn’s car and that of Nelson,
which was following, both crash
ed into the truck and the two
girls, both of whom were riding
in Nelson’s car, were killed. Senn j
denied his car was weaving back
and forth.to keep the Dodge from
passing.
Qain Thomason and Nickie
Zupp, passeigers in the Senn car,
I b o t h answered affirmatively
! when asked if the two cars were
I racing.
Testimony Thursday mainly
concerned the dsputed point as to
whether the directional blinker
light was being used by the truck
as it attempted to make a left
turn. Several witnesses Wednes
day .including passengers in the
Senn car, first to strike the truck,
said they saw no indication the
i truck driver was about to make
a ieft turn.
Thursday Frank C. Brooks, op
erator of a grocery store where
'the crash occurred, testified that
he was putting gas in a car when
he heard the squeal of skidding
tires. He said when he looked up
both cars were on the left hand
side of the road. He said the truck
was making a left hand turn and
he did not notice that its blinker
light was burning.
J Herman Power, operator of a
farm machinery place about 150
feet from the scene of the crash,
testified that he saw two cars go
by 'fast” and then he heard the
collisions. He said he did not see
the actual carsh. He further testi
fied, that he saw the truck behind
the grocery store where it had
TED DAVENPORT
Ted Davenport, of Kinards, was
awarded the superior cadet rib
bon at military honors day obser
vance at Clemson College on May
16 - '
The ribbon is awarded annual
ly by the Department of the
Arpiy to the ROTC cadet adjudg
ed the most outstanding student
in the freshman class.
Ted is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. J. Davenport and is a graduate
of Clinton High School, where, in
addition to other academic work,
he was active in agricultural
eourses and projects. He was
president of the South Carolina
Future Farmers Association in his
senior year.
Broad Street Bible
School Begins Monday
Beginning Monday, May 27,
through Friday, the 31st, a five
day vacation Bible school session
will be held at Broad Street
Methodist Church. Hours are 9
to 11 a.m. with all children, 4
through 11 years of age, invited
to attend.
Mrs. Allen Simmons will act as
superintendent with the fallowing
teachers: Mrs. W. R. Pitts, Jr.,
Mrs. Lewis Pitts, Mrs. Dillard
Boland. Mrs. Julian *Bell, Mrs.
George Reid, Mrs. Forrest Adair,
Mrs. Roy Gasque, Mrs. Wilmot
Shealy, and Mrs. Eugene Sim
mons, with a number of high
school girls assisting.
Clinton-Lydia Mills
Honor Graduates
Honoring sons and daughters
of Glinton-Lydia employees who
will graduate this year from-High
School and college, Clinton aijd
Lydia Mills entertained at lunch
eon on Friday in the ball
the Mary Musgrove Hotel
Those graduating from college
are: L. R Campbell and Jot Aber
crombie, son and son-in-law, re
spectively, of Mrs. Hallie Camp
bell, will be 1957 class graduates
of Presbyterian College. '
’ Richard Jacks, son of Mr. and
Mrs. F. H. Jacks, of Clinton, is a
candidate for graduation at Car-
son-Newman College, Jefferson
City, Tenn.
Graduates of Clinton High
School will include: Clinton: Bet
ty Alexander, ■ Linda Braswell,
Dawn Campbell, Linda Dunaway,
Shirley A. Dunaway, Frances
Graham, Shirley Ivester, Lois
Lever,' Martha J. Reeder, Dessie
Roberts, Barbara A. Simmons.
Mildred Suttles, Charlene Turner,
Tommy Butler, Bobby Ginn, Jerry
Joye, Freddie Samples, Alan
Trammel, Henry Haupfear. •
Lydia: Pat Fuller, Floy Dean
Hamilton,’Barbara J. Moore, Bet
ty Parrish. Ralph Cauble, Robert
Fuller, Raymond Kuykendall,
James Russell Trammell, AI Wil
liams.
Emily Bailey, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. P. S. Bailey will gradu
ate from high school at St. Cath
erine’s Sehool, Richmond, Va., in
June.
Adorning the tables wei* long
low bowls of yellow snapdragons
and miniature chrysanthemums to
carry out a yellow and green color
theme used on the occasion.
Adding to the decorative theme
were displays of the mill products,
mill insignias and photos of the
charter members of the Old Tim
ers Club. Luncheon music added
to the festive occasion.
Presiding as toastmaster was J.
B. Templeton. Others who were
on the luncheon program were
the Rev. J. W. SpiWere who gave
the invocation; Robert M. Vance
welcomed the guests. The Rev.
Johnathan Abercrombie replied
to the address of welcome.
Mr. Templeton introduced Dr.
John W. Stevenson, English pro
fessor at Presbyterian College,
who gave a timely and inspiring
address losing the subject, “You
Life.”
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P. S. Bailey, president of the
mills, made congratulatory re
marks. Mrs. C. M. Bailey pre
sented scholarship awards for
college. These awards which are
being-presented for the first time
this year include: Missis Martha
Joan Reeder and Shirley ^nn
Dunaway.
Rev. J. P. Roquemore .pro
nounced the benediction.
Favors were aereo pictures of
the mill for the guests’ scrap
books.
In addition to the graduates,
guests were Miss Frances Shealy,
R. P. Wilder, Miss Bernice John
son, Rawlinson E, Martin, G. N.
Foy, Mrs. W. L. Marshall, Jr., W.
C. Neely, J. D. Hairston, D. H.
Roberts and George M. Huguley.
John
L.
Mimnaugh
Oh cohstruction jobs, what
happens when a pedestrian
stumbles into wet cement,
falls into an excavaton, or
steps on a nail in a board?
Sometimes serious injury
and big lawsuits follow. Do
contractors carry Liability
insurance?
Wm. J. Bailey
Ins. Agency
M. S. Bailey & Son Bankers Bldg.
Phone 1246
Second Polio Shots
At Bethel Church
A clinic to give the second in a
series of polio shots for colored
children of the area will be held
at New Bethel Colored Church
Monday morning, May 27, begin
ning, at 9:30. The church is lo
cated just behind the John T.
Young Store.
About fifty received the first
shots several weeks ago at the
clinic held by the Laurens County
Health Department. These should
come for the second shots and
anyone" who has not had the first
shot may begin now, to receive
the series.
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Graduates From
Stetson Law School
Friends here of Mr. and Mrs.
James Paul Hahn will be inter
ested to know that the former
will graduate on Saturday from
Stetson University Law School,
St. Petersburg, Fla. Mrs. Hahn
is the former Miss Ruby Jo Darr,
daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. J.
H. Darr of this city.
Mr. Hahn- is a member of the
honor court, vice-president of the
senior class, member of the moot
court team, president of Phi Delta
Phi legal fraternity and was
chosen as the “Outstanding Sen
ior” and was selected for “Who's
Who in American Colleges and
Universities.”
The Rev. and Mrs. Darr leave
today to attend the graduation
and for a few days visit with their
daughter and son-in-law. They
plan to go to_Chicago the coming
week to attend the Southern Bap
tist Convention there.
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Gospel Singing
Sunday, Sacred Acres
The regular Fourth Sunday
Gospel Singing will be conducted
at Sacred Acres on the Ware
Shoals-Waterloo highway Sun
day. May 26. at 2:30 in the after
noon.
Special features for the after
noon will be the Gambrell Trio,
of Waterloo, the Banks family,
of Cross Hill, the Knight family,
of Greenwood. There will also be
congregational singing, solos, du
ets, -trios, quartets, etc. All mu
sicians and singers have a special
invitation. The public is invited.
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