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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 oȣf 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.
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