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7 x 4 » L If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News The Chronicle •strives To. Be A Clean Ne« paper. Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIII Clinton, S. C, Thursdoy, August 8, 1957 Number 32 $-Dollar-$ Days Begin Today Semi-Annual Trade Event Lasts Through Week-End Dollar Days are being conducted today, Friday and Sat urday in Clinton and local merchants have been busy lay ing out the merchandise and marking down prices to get ready for the big event. 'We are looking forward to having a good promotion,” said Charles Johnson, chairman of the Retail Merchants Committee of ~ the Chamber of Commerce, “and I know the merchants will have some real good values. I believe this will be the mast successful Dollar Days, ever held in Clin ton. ‘ Many stores are participating in the promotion,” Mr. Johnson said, and reminded shoppers that “if you want to save money, shop in Clinton on Dollar Days.” The Chronicle is carrying in Mills Plans * . * For Labor Day Event; To Be Paid Holiday The third annual Labor Day barbecue for Joanna employees and members of their immediate families will be held at the picnic shelter jan Monday, September 2. Walter Regnery, president and ( general manager ot Joanna Millr, i has announced that Labor Daev this Courts Redford, Of Atlanta, Named New PC Assistant Coach and this issue advertisements by merchants listing some of bargains they are offering, ln , g more than 1500 extra copies of the paper are being distributed in Clinton’s trade area. Visiting Ministers 4 Here During August Visiting ministers will occupy the pulpit at the First Presbyterian Church during August while the pastor. Dr. W. Redd' Turner, and family are away on vacation. Last (Sunday the Rev. George M. Webb, who spent the past year studying in Edinburgh, Scotland, was the preacher. Mr. Webb is the son-in-law of Dr. and Mrs. John McSween. Following is the schedule for the remaining Sundays of the month: August 11—'Rev. Neely D. Mc Carter, pastor of Presbyterian stu dents at the University of Florida. August 18—Rev. T. Robert Ful ton, of Charleston. August 35 — Dr. D. J. Woods, pastor emeritus of the Clinton First Church. the vear will be a paid holiday for all the; employees on active status, inelud- those on sick and maternity leaves and spare hands. Approximately 4,000 have at tended the event in the past and preparations aje underway for a Targe number “again this year. Ad mission to the barbecue is by tic kets issued to the employees. Val uable door prizes will be present ed holders of the lucky numbers. The barbecue will be prepared by Walter F. Lynch, of Mountville, the "King of Barbecue.‘*- During the morning hours, field events, races and contests for all age groups will be held at Clark Field. A variety of entertainment including carousels will be pro. vided for the kiddies. Musical entertainment will be by Roy Acuff and his band of sev en musidians, all of whom play instruments and sing, and “String Bean,” the “Kentucky Wonder.” AH of the group are nationally famous iperformers on the "Grand Ole Opry” program Plans are being made for « baseball game at Clark Field in the afternoon between the Joanna Hornets, champions of their league and an outstanding team in area. Presbyterian College rounded out its coaching staff this week with the announcement that Courts' Redford, of Atlanta, has been acquired as assistant football coach and head basketball mentor. Athletic Director Walter A. Johnson said that his new staff members is now- completing six months of army service as a trans portation corps second lieutenant at Fort Eustis, Va., and he is ex. pected to report here on August 19. ' ' * Prior to his army service, Red ford handled the assistant football and’ basketball duties at O’Keefe High School in Atlanta for twa yea s. He served as an assistant to new PC Head Coach Frank Jones at Decatur (Ga.) High in 1953-54, which gives Jones background for making this assessment: t "I think Redford is one 6f the best young coaches in the South, and 1 know he will be a real addi tion to our staff here at Presby terian College He is well quali- fied to handly both the footbalj and basketball assignments.” Courts Redford starred as a 4- letter athlete, at De*catur High, gaining All-State and All-South ern honors as a quarterback and All-State aclaim as a basket-ball forward in addition to participat ing in track and baseball. He was an outstanding freshman player at Georgia Tech, and after suffering a knee injury was graduated from Georgia State Collage. He is 25 years old, married and has two children The addition of Redford makes the third coaching appointment at Presbyterian College in the past six months end results in a com plete change of football staff. Frank Jones, one of Georgia’s top prep school coaches at Decatur High, was named head coach last spring to succeed Bill Crutchfield. He immediately signed up his ace assistant Clyde Ehrhardt, former Jacobs and 2 Negroes Said Sane Returned to Laurens New Officers of Clinton American Legion Post University of Georgia and Wash- the i ington Redskins star, to accompany There will be no charge for .him here as line coach and head 'admission to this gume. baseball man. Delegation Requested To Secure Recreation Area Suggest Lake Greenwood Property For Use of Laurens County Citizens b" Laurens county would secure 25 or 30 acres of a wooded tract 1>n Lake Greenwood just north of Cothran Bridge for use by its citi zens as a recreation and picnic area, equipped with boat landings, shelters, and waiter supply, if a plan presented to the County Del egation in the General Assembly Monday morning at the monthly meeting of the delegation at the court house materializes. The pl^n was presented by Gar vin B. O’Dell, county game war den, accompanied by I. V. Bur dette, special game warden for the Lake Greenwood area. * Messrs. O’Dell and Burdette said that Champion Paper Com pany, which owns 900 acres in the area, would soon begin to clear the land of all hardwoods and plant pines. Their suggestion was thbt the county begin negotiations to secure 2S Of 30 acres bordering the lake beh re its Natural beauty was destroyed by removal of hardwood trefes The delegation could not trans act any business at the meeting because of lack of a quorum. Sen a tor" Robert. C. Wasson and House Member W. Paid Culbertson, who were present, heard the suggest ion and deferred action, as they did upon other matters. Representatives William C. Dobbins and T. David Sloan, Jr., could not attend the meeting, it was stated. It was suggested that the coun ty trade some of its land for that on the lake.' Crowded conditions at Green wood State Park, also bordering the lake, and the distance of the park from more populated areas of the county were given as per tinent points to be considered. Mr. O’Dell also made a request 'to put radios, and walkie-talkie equipment in two game wardens’ oars, with the county paying half the cost of the radios in a deal with the Civil Defense Adminis tration. The county’s parr would amount to about $700, it was said. A request for a $5,400 account ing machine to serve both tt>e Auditor’s and Treasurer’s offices was made by Miss Jennie V. Cul bertson, auditor, and Sam M. Ira nian, treasurer. Mr. Leaman reported collection of $2,178 in delinquent taxes dur ing July, and $1,000 for the first three days of August. Leaman al so requested authorization for legal aid when needed in collec tion of delinquent taxes. Supervisor B. B. Blakely re quested a seperate water supply for the county home in view of the expansion of the chaingang camp which now supplies both es tablishments. They occupy adja cent sites. It was felt that a much larger storage tank at the camp to serve both places would in volve an expenditure as large or larger than a new well and pump at the county home. However, the delegation members suggest ed that the present arrangement be continued and see how it works out. It was stated tha tthe delega tion had authorized payment of $1,000 on a $1,900 account due Greenville General Hospital for charity patients sent there from Laurens County since 1952. It was said that the bill had never been passed on by previous dele gations. The balance will be paid in one year. It was also stated at the meet- in that the delegation had passed a re solution that the county as- sunea no responsibility for pa- tk. *ts sent out of the county in the future, and that payment will have to come out of the county hospital’s fund for charity cases. Travel expense for county offi cers was set at seven cents a mile. Heretofore annual appropriations of set sums had been made for travel allowance. Officers named to receive travel expense were the supervisor, two county commis sioners, auditor, superintendent of education, domestic relations court judge, county physician, as sistant county physician, probate judge. i Claims were signed for pay ment for two pauper funerals at $35 each. The sum at $2,500 formerly credited to the vital statistics fund has been tranefened to die general fund of the county, it was said. The county health de partment now handles vital sta tisrtdc^activities. ' Clinton Men To Attend Mobile Home Show In Indiana Thomas D. Jacobs, Cimton man held on charges of conspiracy to'j kidnap, was returned to the cus-| tody of Laurens County Sheriff, C. W. Wier on Friday, after be ing declared sane by the medical staff of the State Hospital in Co lumbia. He was under observa tion of specialists at the hospital for a 30-day period. ALso returned to Laurens with Jacobs was Jobie Shelton. Wil lie T. Hill, third man held in the! case was left at the state peniten tiary in Columbia. He was being detained there because of illness. Shelton and Hill, Clinton Ne groes, face the same kidnapping conspiracy charges, and were also given' tests and placed under ob servation at the hospital They, too, were declared sane. ' Sheriff Wier received the re ports from the hospital Thursday, which stated: . . examination does not reveal evidence of men- of the medical staff making the examinations diagnosed” the men “as not insane.” The trio is being held in con nection with an alleged plot to kidnap the four-year-old son of Robert M. Vance, president of M. S. Bailey and Son, Bankers, of Clinton, and hold him for $350,000 ransom. The case, one of the most sensa tional to occur here, broke the af ternoon of June 10 when sheriffs deputies and SLED agents arrest ed Shelton at a secluded spot on the Enoree river. Shelton had in his possession at the time of his arrest a ransom note which was to have been left at the time the child was “snatched.” Jacobs was seized early that, same night when he went to a re mote crossroads and pocked up a dummy package at the spot desig nated in the ransom note. Hill was arrested a short time later at his home in Clinton. The two Negroes have confess ed their parts in the fantastic plot, according to Sheriff Wier. Jacobs has maintained silence. The three men were ordered to the State Hospital for mental ex aminations by Judge Steve Grif fith about two weeks after their arrests. Sheriff Wier said that his men and^SLED agents, and Clinton po lice were able to foil the kidnap scheme through the cooperation of a mysterious “fourth party” who kept officers informed as the plot developed. The “fourth party” had been in vited to join the conspiracy, but had gone to the officers instead. Sheriff Wier went to Columbia Copeland-Davis American legion Post No. 38 installed oftii s for the eomin* year at an installation ceremony held in the Amrr. lean Legion Memorial Home on Thursday evening. Kneeling (Jeft to right): Edgar Taylor. Adjutant; Roy SmiJ). S, recant-At-Arms; standing: Charles Burnette. Athletic Officer: R. Pope Chapman, Servid Officer; W. S. Horne. Post Commander: R E. Johnson, Chaplain. 1 The officers were installed by R. Pope Chapman. Deputy Vice Commander. Other officers elected and installed but not shown in ptmtofMph Were: Efvfn Holtxclaw. 1st Vice Commander; Lewis Bord. 2nd Vice Commander: E. Gordon Tyner. Finance Officer; and Carlton F. Winn, Historian —Photo by Dan Unions Defeated At Joanna Western Mills In Chicago - According to a notice posted on the bulletin boards at Joanna Cot-j ton Mills in Joanna yesterday, two labor unions were turned; back in their bids to organize the’ Joanna Western Mills in Chicago, recently. Joanna Western is the parent company of Joanna Cotton Mills. Council Authorizes Sale Of Bonds for Water Plant Beaverdam Baptist Church To Observe Homecoming Sunday City to Seek Bids on $1,150,000 The combined vote of ( ^serve hom«-om.ng day and <-eI- seeking affiliation with the ,un-' ebrate lts 150th anniversary Sun- ions was 220, while those oppus-May it is announced-by RevT Friday morning and brought the|ing the move numbered 505. I George Mitchell, pastor CRy-coimcil t its August meet-' known as Pitts Meadows, with J. ir.g M nda' r ight authorized at- Hubert Pitts, the developer, sup- torneys to proceed with advertis-j plying the top-soil for the stre«?ts ing for sale of $1,150,000 in reve- and necessary easements for _ nue bonds for expanding and im- drainage of the area, according to proving the waterworks system of council's standard procedure in Beaverdam Baptist Church will cj t y a f Clinton ! accepting new streets. Council’s action moved a step, City clerk and treasurer W. B. . General information on the Na tional Mobile Homes Show which will be held in Elkhart, Ind., Au gust 23 and 24, was given by President James E. Wolfe at the directors meeting of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce on Tues day morning. Plans were made for members of the Industrial Procurement Committee, of the Clinton chamber to attend the show, along with representatives two men back to Laurens, where they had been held since their arrest in June. The case is expected to go be fore the grand jury when the Sep tember term of court convenes. In informing the local Joanna 1 , a barbecue wilf be served Attend B And PW Regional Convention further in the city's plans to pro- Owens submitted the monthly re- vide an adequate and modern wa poH of the rttyY ffriahcial opera ter plant that have been under lions, showing receipts for July of way for about two years. S4().ti45.18. und disbursements of employees of what transpired at th „ _ imHB <,n , Engineers' plans and specifica-" Sf,0.752 45 Included in disburse- Chicago, Walter Regnery. vice- ne cnurtn ^ rouna ' s 'Hons,for the propased new plant nients was $15,000 paid to Thorn- president and general manager,! f r* ev 'y fa ! f°rm t ‘ r pastors will re- will be completed in the next few well Orphanage for property on issued the following statement 'turn for the day to greet the weeks it was stated. Bids - for Gary street for the enlargement ‘To All Joanna Employees 1 members expected to attend the bui!din « tht ‘ water P lant are ex ' of tht -‘ utllltlei P iant A!s « includ- “Because what concerns the dav ' s exemses po, ted ^ souyht immediatel y - ^ was Payments to the Bond upon sale of the bonds. A feature of the observance will Plans include the construction Ala., during the week-end Two representatives, Mrs. S. M. Warner, delegate, and Mrs. W. W Harris, alternate, of the local Business and Professional Wom- from the County Planning Board, i an s club, leave tomorrow to at- Also, several local businessmen^ en ^ tbe T 5 onven ^ lon< ^.^ be ^ outb ‘ ........ eastern Region in Birmingham, plan to attend the show. 61 Dan Yarborough, reporting on the Clinton Pictorial Album, showed the pictures he had taken, including a number of aerial views. When finished, the album with more than 100 views will be a "Presentation of Clinton in Pic tures." The album will be an ad dition to the Industrial Procure ment committee’s file to be used in advertising and publicity. An interesting report was given on the meeting of the Recreation Committee. Lydia Presbyterian Church Youth Rally A youth rally will begin at Ly dia Presbyterian Church Sunday evening, August 11, at ,8 o’clock. Services will be conducted by an evangelistic team from Presbyte rian College with special music. People of all ages of all de nominations are invited to attend the rally. home office and our finishing plant in Chicago concerns us, we feel that Joanna employees will be tbe distribution of a history of of a pumping station on Knoree be interested in a recent develop- the church prepared by G T. R' ver ' a 14-mch main to the city, ment at Joanna Western. ! Jones, who is cashier for the ai ? <i ' a ^O-OOO-gaUon filtering “After conducting active drives C &WC and CN&L railmads Mr ^ t0 ^ bUlU amonv Joanna Western emnlovees ^ dna ™uroaas. vu on property recently bought from r ~ » ..'j.r.rnn J° nes traces the history of the Thornwell Orphanage adjacent to for more than a year, two unions , , , ., . . . , . i . called for an election, which was * hurch fr °m its earliest tupes the ntys present utilities plant Commission of approximately $3,- 800. was a branch of Bethel Ma y° r J <* P Te ,7^ J Prided ! 505 for the Company,. 220 the Church in Spartanburg County, ^ meeting, i on y mg tj V ™^nt W0 ^lid« , ‘ C ' W ri ”* Church in l ° "<*•* M- Boland, ward one: S. A. Clinton-Lydia Mills To Honor Employees At Barbecue Saturday held on August 1. The results— when it ■aanv 990 l Ha, a - i,, 1 ... -t r. nOu. ' 1 v A all eouncilmen were present: a™* . , P S. Bailey, presiden t and despite'the strongest VffortrtifVhe tht ‘ P Ivsent dav Beaverdam wa- Pitts, ward two; Harry C. Layton.’ treasurer of CUnton-Lvdia Mills, union jMritatnrs who had bom- 0 r K a n 1 z e d as an independent ward three. James P, Sloan, ward will present -ervice award pins to church on August 15, 1807. four; Woodrow L. Wilson, ward Mr Jones’ history mentions five; James C Craine, ward six. union agitators who had bom barded the employees with pam-i tacts^incliidmg *work^rs^“pk!nted’' Tnan - V names Miliar in this area Other business before council in the departments to stimup trou- tod ; ,v ' Principally a Bailey family . eluded a move to place parking kj e that gave the Land for Beaverdam meters on Gary street from South and aonther church in the section. Broad and extending below D E. “As anyone who scans the', . . ,, _... , _ , . , , newspapers knows, from recent! Th ^. are a ^f stora the 051 lk ^ rr!bbk / Co Actlon was , dt ' ,aved disclosures of unsavoxy union ac>n Clinton toda.v until the next meeting of council. 1 Beaverdam Church 525 employees who have from 10 to 25 years continuous service with ’he companies at a barbecue to be held in thetr honor on Sat urday Walter F Lynch, of Mountville. will prepare the food at the Lydia Mills, cookout where festivities tivities the large cities are high- neaverown vmuren may be Council voted to a<-cept deeds to vill beam at 5:30 p. m ly unionized. It is understood Clinton by turning mose streets within the city limits Each en ; plovtv ehgible to SUBSCRIPTION BLANK ' Many who get today’s issue of The Chroriitie are not regular subscribers. We hope you enjoy reading the paper, and we would be happy to have you on our list of subscribers. Let us send it to you every week— the cost is small, only $3.00 a year, delivered to your home or in your mail box. Tear out this blank, fill it in with your name and address, enclose check or three $1 bills, and mail to us —and you will get The; Chronicle every week for a year. Name Address City and State that the Joanna Western plant is probably the only one of its size in Chicago which is not organized. It is therefore the more remark able that a large majority of its employees declined to follow the pattern in that area. “It is heartening to all of us to feel that we belong to a company where fair play, teamwork, co operation, and the Golden Rule are the guiding lights for manage* ment-employee relations. It is a tribute to the intelligence otf Jo anna Western employees that, de spite the wiles of agitators, they recognize the fact that they will get fair treatment without paying weekly dues to a union to bargain for it. It is likewise a tribute to tbe understanding and common aims of management and employ ees at Joanna Western that they can work out t h e i * problem! whenever they arise, among themselves. ‘'Sincerely, “WALTER REGNERY” right o»£f the Greenwood highway included in the new sub-division just beyond Little River. on the east side of the city to be re ceive a service award is permitted to br^ng a guest of his choice. ' , L President Bailey’s remarks 30 j the honored employees will be broadcast by radio station WLBG. Drunken Drivers Lead In _ Payment of Fines In July! Shealy-Sheely-Shealey — . Reunion Set August 18 Clinton police arrested five law violators was $1,259.50. Total - ■ ^5-- drunk drivers during July, and days gvien was 180. ^ The annual Shealy - Sheely- four of them paid the standard Disorderly conduct charges! Sheaiey reunion will be held Au- levy of $100 imposed by Mayor, were placed agaunst 22 persons,; gust 18 at the ancestral Daniel Joe P. Terry in Recorder’s Court who paid $279. Shealy home place near Chapin, for a total of $400 in fines to the Seven offenders paid $95 fdr The route out of Chapin to the city treasury. The fifth man speeding and reckless driving. site will be well marked with di- didn’t have the $100, and he was Other charges and fines intiud-'rectional signs, sent up for 30 days on the public ed. operating auto without driv-| After family picnic lunches at l works, according to the monthly er’s license, 7, $81 and 35.days; report to city council Monday night by Chief of Pobce B. B. Bal lard. . _ 1 Following closely behind the drunk drivers were 27 persons taken in for drunkenness. They were assessed $360 and 103 days on the pufetic works. Total paid during the month by f , A damaging public or private prop erty, 4. $34.50; fighting, 3, $34; petty larceny, 1, $17; viointmg li quor law, 1, 30 days: other of fenses, 1, $25. Eleven were taken in for investigation or on suspic ion. Violators of parking laws num bered 118. and they paid $59. p. m.. Representative Burnet R. Maybank, ,of Greenville county. Will address the group. Also ap pearing on the program will be Dr. J. A. Shealy, of Leesville, in vocation; Curtis Shealy. ot Bal- lentine, welcome address; and George K. Dominick, of Newber ry. introduction of speaker. Music will be furnished by 1 quartet. V