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■;** If You Don’t Read The Chronicle ' * n | • You Don’t Get the News The Chronicle •strives To Fte .A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIII Clinton, S. C, Thursday, August 1, 1957 Number 31 Winners of Tournament Trophies Here are the winners of trophies in the pistrict Two Little Boys League championship playoffs held in Clinton last week. Left to ri(ht, they are Ronald Weathers, of Union, who took home the trophy for belnr the leading hitter In the tourney; Jo* Wix, of Union, is holding the trophy for the runner- up team in the series; Coach H. B. Barnett, of Laurens, is holding the trophy presented the winning team; and Frank Barksdale, of Laurens, got his emblem for being the most valuable player in the tournament —Photo by Dan Yarborough Issuing Warrant! For Non-Payment of Taxes Six Served Last Week, Mere Coming The Laurens County delinquent tax collector’s office is resorting to last ditch efforts in collecting delinquent taxes due the county, according to Sam M. Leaman, county treas urer, whose office has jurisdiction over the delinquent tax collector. Miss Vivian Blakely is the collector, having been recently appointed by Mr. Leaman. Three persons were jailed on Monday, July 22, on arrest war rants charging them with failure to pay poll taxes, according to records at the sheriffs’ office. One of them was released on bond Monday afternoon and the other two Tuesday morning. The three were arrested on a batch of six warrants signed by Miss Vivian Blakely, county tax collector, before Magistrate Lu- cile Metis Watts. One of the six paid the amount named in .the warrant when deputy sheriffs approached him, and the other two had not been located, officers stated. All of the warrants were for sums of around $30. Som^ of taxes ir, ai j£f back as 10 years. Added costs had run the figures up from the base $1.00 yearly tax. Mr. Leaman said early this week that another group of about ten warrants would be issued, probably on Tuesday, and turned over to the sheriff for service. At hear office in the court house Miss Blakely said that all of the delinquents had been notified of the amounts they owed and had been asked to come in and make settlement. The warrants were is sued, she said, when they failed to make any reply. The same pat tern will be followed with other President Jacobs Announces Lions Gub Committees President William P. Jacobs an nounced appointments of m e tri be rs to committees of the Lions club at a meeting of the club Fri day night at Hotel Mary Mus- grove. The committees will func tion during the club year which- began July 1. Committee memberships, with awF'fimt 1 waiving uiiaff Agriculture: T. Hearth Copeland, B. H. Boyd, Ryan Lawson. Guy Tumblin. * Boys and Girls Work: Calvin Cooper, L. S. Reddeck, Hugh S. Jacobs, D. O. Rhame. Citizenship: James P. Sloan, Darvid Mixon, Bill Trowbridge, H. L. Eichelberger. Civic Improvement: Harry C. Layton, C. W. Anderson, W. C. Neely, P. S. Bailey. Community Betterment: I. A. Edwards, W. R. Pitts, Jr.', H. M. Young, Jr., George Huguley. Education: Arthur Greenwood, delinquents, she said, taking them H. L. Eichelberger, Eugene John- as they come on the books. son, T. E. JdqMullan. ■ -Health_aiid-Welfa»;-Geeeae-»4 rrrws taken pm Strwg-OTIS Blakely Blalock, Lynn Cooper, Jr., B. R. was named tax collector under Austin Th^ton cites, an act of the recent legislature 0 . , . r _ .... which abolished the former tax „ Safety. L. W. Cooper, Allison collector’s office and consolidated 9 r °i ri t r, _^ ames ^ r ' a ^ cer > Walter it with that of the county treas- NEW RESIDENTS Among newcomers to Clinton are Lt. Col. and Mrs. J. F. Harps and son, Joe Pat, who are making their home in a recently complet ed residence on Fifth Avenue. They formerly lived in Falls Church, v?. Xt. Col.- Harps, native of Penn- aylvgcte;—will attend* the“tJniver- sirty of Chicago to work towards a master’s degree in business man- agement while his family con- urer. Where delinquents fail to co operate by paying up or making arrangements to pay up on a par tial payment plan, she will be forced to take legal action, ahe said. Personal property can be at tached and real property adver tised for sale, she said. “We are going to be as easy as we can on the taxpayers,” she said, ‘but we shall have to insist on oayment within a. reasonable time.” Beaverdam Church Jo Have Revival Services Next Week A week of revival service? will begin Sunday night art Beaverdam Baiptiart Church, it is announced by the pastor, Rev. George J. Mitchell. The special services will close the following Sunday. Rev. W. Lloyd Heltams, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, of Co lumbia, will be the preacher for the week. Singing for the services will be led by 'Mrs. Sarah Teague, of the church community. The hour for the service each evening will be 7:00 o’clock, and the public is invited. B aver dam Church may be reached from Clinton by turning right off the Greenwood highway! to Robert M. Stewart, of North just beyond Little River. I Terrytown, N. Y. A. Johnson. Sight Conservation and Blind: Claude A. Crocker, H. F. Blalock, J. B. Arnold. R. P. Hamer. United Nations: A. B. Godfrey, I. Mac Adair, R. C. Adair, W. G. King, Jr. « Greeter: R. S. Truluck, L. N. Warren, G.L .Simpson, Fred Hol combe,. Food and Special Arrange ments: W. S. Horne. Marion Law- son. Attend nee: J. William Abrams, Bill Hogan, Sarnie Pinson, T. L. Selzer. Constitution and By-Laws: Grry Lehn, Tom Ptaxico, W. B. C ens, B. O. Whitten. Convention: W. Bryan Coates, R. S. Truluck, Wm. P. Jacobs. Finance: Harry McSween, J. A. Orr, Earle Pitts, J. B. Hart Lions Information: Marion Lawson, E. N. Sullivan, Harry Baldwin, Jasper Rowland. Program and Entertainment: Thomas F. Hollis, Bryan Coates, William P. Jacobs, Len Ledford. Publicity: Bill Hogan, Harry C. Layton, Hugh S. Jacobs, with Jacobs also bulletin editor. Bulletin: Hugh S. Jacobs, Gary Lehn. R., S. Truluck. T. R. Davis Sells Purebred Angus Cows T. Randolph Davis, cattleman of near Clinton, recently sold 17 purebred Aberdeen - Angus cows Work Progresses On Prisoner Camp Work got underway last week on the $20,000 county prisoner camp being built on property ad joining the county home, Super visor Bennie B Blakely stated. Foundations were laid last week and work continued on the walls this week. Cement floors are expected to be poured at an early date. The contract for the building was let 'to R. E. Poole, of Clinton, who will use some prisoner labor in the construction. The contract price was $14,305.97. Additional expense will be in curred for woven wire fencing, and other items not included in the contract, it was said. Parks Adair, Clinton, Is Field Man For Tax Collector's Office V. Parks Adair, of Clinton, has been named as field man for the delinquent tax collector’s office for the Clinton area, it was an nounced early this week. J Serving as field man for the Laurens area is J. Walter Moore, Jr. , College Receives $25,000 * As Tribute To Mrs. Wyatt A $25,000 gift to Che Presbyte rian College development pro gram, establishing an annuity as a tribute to Mrs May H. Wyatt, of Chiekamauga, Ga., was an nounced today by President Mar shall W. Brown. He said two PC alumni - -Knox Wyatt, of Rome, Ga , and Hender son Wyatt, of Dalton, Ga.—and their sisters, Mrs. R. P. Hardeman, of Ware Shoals. S. C., and Mrs. William McMahan, of Chicka- mauga. set up the fund in honor of their mother.- — - Mrs. Wyatt also has contributed to this fund whkh assures her a monthly income at the rate of 3 per cent annually on the amount paid into it. More than one-half of the $25,- OfH) gift already has been present ed to Pre: aytecian College The principal, thus, becomes the prop erty of the college to be admin istered it desires and with the arrangement to provide Mrs. Wyatt with a monthly income throughout her lifetime. President Brown, in expressing appreciation for the gift, pointed" out that all members of the Wyatt family had given generous support to the development program ear lier during campaigns in their re spective areas. Knox Wyatt served as chairman of the .Rome region campaign in the spring of 1956. Both Knox and Henderson •Wyatt were-graduated from Pres^ byterian College in. the class of 1931. Knox now serves Georgia as state manager of the Franklin Late Insurance Company, and Hender son is a general agent for this or ganization in Dalton. Timmons, Corley Selected As Most Valuable Players Gordon Timmons, of Thomwell, has been named as the most val uable player in the Pony League, and Ricky Corley of Lydia, the moat valuable In the tittle Boys ■League during the 1957 season. Timmons (was named to the same post last year, and he is the first player in the history of boys baseball in Clinton to be so hon ored. Timmons received 21 votes, fol lowed by Barry Whitman of the Academy Street team, with 15, to lead the voting in the Pony League. Others receiving votes were Mike Pace, of Florijda Street, and Tony Bedenbaugh, ©f Joanna. In the Little Boys League, Cor ley got 18 votes for, the honor, irunner Laurens) Team Wins Little Boys Tournament Herr If the Laurens Little Boys League team that won the Hist i< t Two rhamtionship here Thursday night after a week of tourna ment play. The team is now representing the district in playoffs fnr the state title being held in Columbia. They lost. «-5. to Conway in their lirst game Monday, but beat North Augusta 5-3, Tuesday. The name of the team is the Laurens \meriran, and they defeated Union, 2-1, in the final game of the tournament here which saw eight teams in hot rorrv>etition for the honor of representing the dis trict in Columbia. Teams in the tourney here were Clinton, Lanras er. I nion, Rock Hill Kastern, Rock Hill Western. Winnsboro. Laurens American,’ Laurens National. Kneeling, left to right, are: David Wasson. Bobby Holland O! * Madden. Dick Barksdale. Lanny Tumhlin. Bill Ladd. Carmichael Hunter, and Johnny Max Swofford. Standing: Henry Barnett. Jr., ssistant coach. Bobby Stonhens, Terry Morton, Dale Adair Stanley Rushton. Larry Dunn. Charles Hall. Frank Barksdale, and Coach H B. Barnett. —Photo by Dan Yarborough 1 Clinton's Pony Team Plays In Tournament Held At Winnsboro To Report op Jacobs Tests ’Not Later Than Thursday' Clinton And Lydia Employees To Get Service Awards Clintons' Pony League baseball team losrt Monday. 6-5, to a com-! bination squad from Abbeville, Greenwood and Wfire Shoals i n their first game in a Pony League tournament being played in Winnsboro. , Eleven teams are entered in the playoffs in the Western South ’ Carolina District, and the winner Three Hundred and fifteen em- will go with two other winners Payees of Cl:nton-Lydia Mills of South Carolina tournaments w ’ lth continuous service record* to Birmingham, Ala., for tihe ^ 10 to 25 y ear3 wil1 ** honored Southern championship series. | on August 21 at a barbecue at the The Wmmfooro games have a L ^ ia ^ Mllls f°? k ° ut The double elimination feature, by whl k ** ,n at 5 30 p m \ which a team must lose twice be-' President P. S. Bailey will fore being eliminated. , present the employee service Clintons’ next game will be to . I a'-vard, yins in a program prior to night (Thursday) at 8 o’clock, and ^ he barbecue to be served to the wlil be against the loser of the h l onore ^ employees and a guest of Pickens-Nortli Augusta game. c ‘ ,eir cho ice. In Monday’s game, Gordon Timmons, of Thomwell, pitcher Hospital Staffer Says Story on More Tests 'Did Not Come From This Office' The report on results of mental tests that have been ad ministered to Thomas D, Jacobs, Clinton man being held on kidnapping conspiracy charges, will be made "not later than Thursday” (today), according to information received on Monday from a physician staff member of the State Hos pital in Columbia, where the testa and observations were made. A court order was issued by afternoon and night Of June 10 by Judge Steve C. Griffith in New berry directing that Jacobs be taken to Columbia for the tests. city, county and state police offi cers, who had worked cm the case as it developed, beginning in Feb- rer stated that approximately _ioo _ i Thomwell, with 14 votes. Die 000 for the Clin tomans, struck out 15 in the seven ginning contest, and also hit a home run and a single. Phil King, of Florida Street, also got a home run and a single. Members of Team In addition to Timmons and Bureau : arm Bureau To Have Picnic Today I to cover a period of 30 days. The ruary. | Period ended Tuesday. The trio is charged in warrants The unidentified staff member with consipracy to kidnap the told The Chronicle in a telephone interview Monday that the report would be made at the end of the 30-day period. When told of reports in newspa-i ton CMtton mills. The attempt was A picnic sponsored by the Farm pers and over radio that Jacobs! not successful. Laurens County, will I would be held for further rrv 1 sETF inemlSex.saui "the ref*>rts four-year-old son of Mr. arid Mrs. Robert M. Vance, of Clinton. Mr. Vance is president of a Clinton bank and executive of two Clin- appears on the books of thei^ ^ at > s ‘ o f Academy.. Tommy 'Copeland, of Florida Street: and Billy Glenn, of Florida Street, al so received votes for the post. The voting is done by coaches of the five teams. delinquent tax collector against residents of the county, with $+1,- 000 of that amount being uncol lected 1956 taxes. Additional costs and penalties will be added to delinquent taxes, the treasurer stated. lOtbwmUnMSfrWa uu ...... cm-, star Pony team are Ned Hand-'Lake near Gray Court, begifmmg ' did ~not-come from this office” back, Barry Whitman, and Eddie at 6 00 p. m. The staff member’s comments Madden, of the Academy St. team^ All farmers and their families, indicated that he was thoroughly McMuHans Will Reside In West Point, 'Miss., Manage Belk Store Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Gene McMullan will be interested to know they will leave about the middle of August to make their Dr. Tribble Serving Stanley Alexander; of Ly d ia; <»n the county are invited Leonard White, Mike, Pace, and Donnie Rev is, of Florida Street; Doug'as Lollis, Tony Bedenbaugh. Donald Brown. Thomas Vaughn, With Air Force At and Ronald Sineath, of Joanna; Q. and Howard Higmbotham, of , ^OSSOChUSettS DOSC Thorn well. — Watts Mill Operates On Six-Day Schedule Laurens. July 25—Watts Mill, a unit of the J. P.’Stevens chain. home in West Point, Miss., where) htre, is now operating on a six- Mr. McMullan wiU.pmnage a pew day a week schedule, it has been Friends of Dr. and Mrs. David Tribble will be interested to know that they and their three sons, Curtis. Dave, and Ben, have moved to Hatchville, Mass. Dr Tribble has been called to active duty with the Air Force with the rank of captain. He reported for duty July 5 at Otis A,ir Force ! familiar with the case. He stated | that the majority of the tests were administered to Jacobs at the j state penitentiary, but that some special two-hour teats were given at the State Hospital “Some rhore tests are scheduled for today (Monday),” he said. amber bommeree Recreation Group Discusses Activities Belk-Hudson department which is opening there. The iMcMullans and daughter. atoiej learned.' The Recreation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce held a discussion meeting Tuesday night . i , ■ . . . i in the Forum Room of the Bank Also undergoing tests were Jo- 1 , . u . ™ cn nn i -r. <>f Clinton, when members re viewed activities |n the city and heard suggestions on improving operations and facilities. The meeting was well attended, ini presiding was Chairman Fred E' Holy-probe 1- bie D. Shelton, 30, and Willi*? T Hill, 61, Clinton Negroes being held m connectum with the case. The State Hospital'staff mem- tier said the report on the exami nations would be made to the .court . ' i ; When queried 'in Laurens Mon- The > comnwt'tee The mill, employing some 700 workers, has been on a five-day! er . v 33rd USAF Hospital. Nan, reside on West Walnut St. week It operates on a three-shift' The Tribbles expect to occupy an ,A native of Columbus, Miss.. Mr. | basis . > apartment on the base when it is for the trio tinues to reside here. Mrs. Harps, MjcMullan came to Clinton from 1 The entire mill, with the excep- ompleted in late summer. j ip av ^ Sloan, Jr , Laurens at the former Miss Helen Coleman, | Georgetown two years ago to bejtion of 250 looms, which have Dr Tribble Ls the son of-Mr torney, representing Jacobs, also discussfon Vfvich included Little of Chappells, is a sister of Mrs. | assistant manager of the Belk j been added recently, is on the and Mrs, W. Blakely Tribble, of he knew nothing of the re- Boys and Punv Baseba is made up of rve in the department of sur-jday, Sheriff C. W Wier said that representatives d: civic and ser- he had not been informed of any' v >ce organizations and leaders in extension of time for further testsi the various recreation activities. General facts, figures and in formation were brought out in a Buren A. Down of this city. store. stepped-up production schedule this city. Complete Swimming Lessons This Week Leagues, ported additional time to be taken■ Midget Football. .American Legion in the examinations, and infor- Junior Baseball, Junior and Sen- mally expressed himself as being i or Canteens. Canvptire and Blue- of the opinion that a new court'Scouting, ind recreational order would be required in order ^tjv.ttes available at the Scout to keep his client under observa- ^qt if supervisors personnel were tion by the State Hospital staff p rovu jed after expiration of the 30-dav pe- j.jqJ | Also, information was given or. . , . ,v. ,, . the CUnton-Lydia Mills recrea- Jacobs and Shelton were being . held m- the Laurens County jail ; ou program and facilities ottered prior to being sent to Columbia tK ‘ Seneral f uba ' Appreciation for the examinations, and Sheriff * J - S :o: tho cooperation. Wk ; aid it ,t was h„ mod- vri ‘‘" Coile «* ,nd Th ’ >rrl - tion that Ae would be notified wv " Orpha’Mge in the program, when the examinations were com During the discussion needed . pleted and that the prisoners improvements were suggested: adr I would be returned by him to Lau- ditional adult supervisors, plans j-rens. Hill was held at the peru- to secure a recreation.director to ; tentiary hospital tn Colombia be- coordinate activities and facilities, cause of illness. and a recreation center to take A preliminary hearing in the care of actmttes uJ all aifrt groups, case, set for July 2 in Magistrate j.inn\s E Wolfe, president of Che Sam McCrary’s court in Clinton, CflaaH)er 0 f Commerce, stated that a,i> ounce !od, and the trio was cv , nm i!:ees would be appointed to taken to Columbia on that day to Kather ina>nnikt ion on these sug. Vgm their examinations ^ thej K>ns and >t the next hospital Presumably a new date, c . . , ; v ' -,, , meeting ot the committee, for a preliminary hearing will be ® , , . set after the men are returned to ) o£ , lht> I D. S. Templeton. A C. v Young, Friday will fa* “Graduation Day” for iha 41 woman, soma of wkem are shown here, who h ting course braid in the Clinton bulls pool as a public service of Clmton-Lydia Cotton Mills. Class instructors wars Charles Laaiherwood. “Sonny” King, and Henry Chandler. Jr. (in Rfaxiet. Ji some of whom are shown here, who have succeesfully completed a 10-hour swim- (.inter of ring) Enrolled weeec Iris Bragg. “Tootsie” Benner. Bara Frances Rfaxiet. Janie Workman. Elsie Morton. Betty Ledford. Betty Power. Sue Ellison. Emma Coleman. BnmeU Chandler, Sara Templeton. Lib Adair. Marion Simmons. Mary Taylor. Nancy Simmons. Mary Ray. Is My Ja Chitwood. Carolyn Cook. Velma BumaiL Don Rod. Ruth Bagwell. Lib Stewart. Myrtle WeeL Marie Weir. Shirley BodtO Olga Ray. Ciariase Johnson. Nell HaggorL Pearl Lewis. Era Land. Dot Ballow. Louise Plaxlco. Amilee Gaskins. Jean Thornton. Nona Ray. Rachel Mills. Leila Johnson. Kathleen Weir. Helen Cook. Joan Putnam. Florence Franks. Eva Watt. Nellie Osborne. Ethel McGin nis. custody of Laurervs County offi cers The man w<r« arrested on the RELEASED FROM SERVICE Friends of Thomas R. Owens, son of Mr. and Mrs. T P. Owens will be interested to know he has been released from the Air Corps following ^5ur years service. His last assignment was Sehiiluig Air •Force Bose in Salina, Ki'sis. Calvin -Cooper, A. D. Lancaster, Mrs. F V Smith, Mrs. W & Home, Claude Crocker, Marvell L. Barker Herschel Thomason, W G. King, Jr.. Dr. Fred Hol combe. James E Wolfe. Mrs. Leila Jotason. Mrs. Dan Yarborough, Charles Burnett. Winfred Noma, Roy Smith. Russell Cooper. John Minina ugh. Harry McSween. Van Jones. Lewu Bagwell, Jr., Elford Smith. Mrs Fred Holcombe.