The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 12, 1957, Image 1

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V i A a If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You-Don’t Get the News (Elinlmt The Chronicle Strives To He A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIH Clinton/ S. C., Thursdoy # September 12, 1957 Number 37 Presbyterian Children Recite Catechisms The children shown here, of the First Presbyterian Church, recently memorized catechisms of the church and will receive Bibles and Test aments for reciting perfectly the answers to questions in the booklets on beliefs taught in the fhurch school. The two boys in front will re ceive copies of the Bible for reciting the “Shorter Catechism,” an inter mediate booklet, and the others will receive New Testaments for an swering (he questions in the “Child’s Catechism.” Front row: Joseph .M. Gettys, Jr., and William David Glenn. Middle row: .lone Johnson, Sandra Red, Susan Turner, Dixie Bolick, Jane Mi lam. Beth Fleischman. Back row: Barry Wingard, Watts Ferguson. Tommy Morton, Carol Copeland, Hdrry McSween, and Mrs. W. R. An derson, teacher. Absent when the picture was made: Ame I-ou Black and Mary Sue Gibert, who will receive Testaments. —Photo by William M. Shields. Presbyterian College Opens New Session Saturday Morning Presbyterian College officially op ens its 77th session this Saturday morning when 'students -start their regular cfhss schedule for the nt\w I school year Freshmen nave been on campus for the past several days participat ing in orientation week exercises They will register Thursday, at 1 which time approximately 180 new i students are expected to enroll Upperclassmen, meanwhile, start arriving in Clinton Thursday after noon in preparation for Friday ifeg- is-tration. The freshmen have had a full pe riod of orientation. In addition to; a series of placement tests, the schedule has included numerous! meetings and entertainment. The Presbyterian, Bapftijt. and F.piscopal churches ties for members of their resf denominations Tuesday- night and the Student Christian Association at PC sponsored it sannual supper on Lake Greenwood Wednesday eve ning. Now. the freshman reception is coming up Thursday night It will i be held in the library building at j 8:00 p m. under the sponsorship of ! the College Dames, organization of 1 faculty wives Community Chest .v -Sft. Meet Here to Plan Erskine Campaign 1 Phrtio bv Dan Yarborough. Here are the leaders of the Initial and special ( ommittee <U the f rskin*- < <>lleg P Living F.ndnw ment Campaign which met here on Tuesday. September .!. to make plans tor the drive, left to right, ihev are Karle P. Barron. Sr., of Greenwood, chairman of the committee; F. I> Craig, of Gastonia V. C.. gen eral chairman of the campaign; and Joe Patrick, of Greenwood, president of the Xlumm Xssociation County Delegation Sets Up Dates for Registration Schedule Arranged Through Dec. 18 The Laurens County legislative delegation in a meeting on Mtmday at the court house in Laurens set up a schedule for the Board of Reg istration to issue registration cer tificates to voters of the county. Issuing of certificates will biffin on October 7 at the court house; and will continue three days each week through December 18. Another schedule will be arranged for the months beginning January 1. The first part of the registration period will be devoted to issuing cer tificates in cotton mill villages in the county and in the cities of Clin ton and Laurens. However, any voter in the county may secure a certificate if he appears before the board at any of the scheduled places. The itinerary of the board follow ing the Christmas holidays will be devoted chiefly to register voters in the rural areas. Present registration certificates will expire next June U IL was pointed out that new or old certifi cates will be valid for elections held between now and that time. Lau rens has a city election scheduled for early spring, and it was stated that an attempt will be made to move Clinton’s city election up sev eral weeks prior to th£ usual June date. Schedule for Board October 7-8-&—Court House. October 14-15-1&—Joanna. October 21-22-23—Clinton Mill. October 28-29-30—Lydia Mill. November 4-5-6—Court House. November 11-12-13—Clinton City. November 18-19-20—Laurens Mill. November 25-26-27—Wattsville. 'December 2-3-4—Court House;— December 9-10-11—Laurens City. December 16-17-18—Clinton City. It will be noted that the days for registration are on Monday, Tues day, and Wednesday, and that the board will be in session at the court house in Laurens the first week in each month. During other weeks the board will be at various points in the county. TTie county has $7,100 to pay for the registration of voters, it was stated at the meeting in Laurens Monday. $5,000 df that amount is an extra sum provided by the state since this year all voters must reg ister, $1,800 is the annual state ap propriation, and $300 is provided an nually for the purpose in the county supply bill. The three members of the Board of Registration and a cler? to be nonued will each receive remunera tion of $10 per day for their work. The board will be in session .from 9 to 5 each day. Members of the board are Mrs. Raymond Cook, Fountaip Inn; H. C. Sims, Waterloo: and M. D. Mi lam, Clinton. Members of the board are paid $400 annually in off-election years, and $600 in election years. Nor mally, they are in session three days each month. But since Che 10-year period during which tion boaed, and R. L. Plaxico, Dem ocratic chairman for the county, the delegation received communications and heard others who appeared for the meeting. The delegation had a request from P. S. Bailey, of Clinton, to put some road mileage in the Philson Bridge area in the state highway system. Also 1 , a position made the same re quest for sections of roads in the Lake Greenwood section. It was pointed out by Senator Wasson that the county’s allotment for putting roads in the state sys tem was about used up. He said that under a new ruling of the high way department roads to be taken into the state system that did not meet highway specifications must be rebuilt at a cost of about $12,000 per mile. The county has 40 miles of roads already scheduled for the state system between now and next June, and at that rate $480,000 will be spent in the county during that period for such roads. The county’s (continued on page 4>* Special Courses At College Open To General Public Special courses in one or more subjects at Presbyterian College are available to the general public, Clinton residents were reminded to day. *■ Although the college has a capac ity of full-schedule students, it will accommodate a limited number of special students in a type of adult education program'. These students will be permitted to attend the regu lar class session, and no entrance examination will be required for admission. Persons interested in special work may register in the library building at 3:00 p. m , Friday. The fee is $46.00 per semester course CENTURY CLUB TO MEET The first fall meeting of the Cen tury Club will be held September 17 at 4 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Marshall W. Brown. Making Plans for Mass Inoculation of Children PTA Sponsoring Move Against Flu A mass inoculation of school chil dren of this district against Asiatic influenza is being planned under the joint sponsorship of the Parent; Teacher Associations. Dr. David T. Mixon, chairman of the Hampton Avenue School health committee, and coordinator of the program, today announced that 1,- 587 children and faculty members of nine schools have signed to re ceive the vaccine. These schools in clude: Presbyterian Church Kindergar ten, Baptist Church Kindergarten, Hampton Avenue School, Academy Street School, Providence School, Clinton Junior High, Clinton High, Mountville' School and Cross Hill School. He emphasized the program is en dorsed by the doctors of Clinton and will be administered under strict medical supervision. Although the vaccine has been ordered and its shipment will be expedited as much as- possible, it is not known when supplies will be available for the project. '1 ae present plan calls for begin ning with the kindergarten children, as vaccine becomes available, and working up through the schools ac cording to age groups. Pre-schoo) children Op to 5 years will be given a small dose in two injections about ten days apart. Children from 5 to 12 years will be given a somewhat registration 1 la r K er d° se - a * so ' n two injections certificates are valid is soon to ex-1 aboul ten (la y s a P art Children 13 pire, the magnitude of the job of re- > ea « and older win receive the registering all voters is such that frequent meetings will be required. Jacobs Hearing Scheduled Today A preliminary hearing for Thomas D. Jacobs, 59. who is be ing held on a charge of conspir acy of kidnaping, is scheduled to be held here this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the city hall on North Broad Street. The hearing was postponed frwft, last Thursday afternoon, due (fji> the death of the mother of t h e state’s prosecuting attorney, So- To Meet Tuesday e total goal ity (pest of antf quotas Council Adopts Budget Of $546,350 for Year The total goal of the 1957 Com * r y J* munity (pest of Greater 'Clinton, ^linYOII S N6W KflQIO Incv, ancf quotas of participating: agencies will be decided after a: meeting of . the budget committee next Tuesday afternoon. This group is scehduled to assem ble in the Presbyterian College Li-| 53 Mills to Be Levied for Revenue Station Now on Air Clinton's new radio station, WPCC, went on the air Wednes- brary at 1 30 p. m. to develop plans n-^i-njng and w ill be heard for the city-wide campaign next da ', y frjm 6:00 a m - t0 | ()Ca | mor> * b - sunset. It may be heard from the Community Chest President Fred 1410 spo( on dia | ^ statlon h Holcombe, has announced that operates on power of 500 watts all participating agencies have been ' The transmi tti n g station and of licitor William T. Jones, of Green- invited to send representativs to the f j ces are housed in a recently com wood. meeting to summarize plans and p| t ^ ed building about a mile from The proceedings will take place needs for the coming year t he city limits on the Greenwood in the court of Magistrate Sam t Besides Holcombe, members of highway the budget committee include: A. C. Young, chairman, who. will preside, Mrs". Esther H. Pitts, James E.i., ,, D i. _ t d u / l vi- Valdese. N. C., Robert L Baker, of water. ar Gastonia, N C . and H Earl Payne, charge. (ity council at its meeting Mon nous departments of the city in day night adopted a budget totaling vlud« - admini'trative. $J3.o09 .4 $546,350 00 for operating the city for Fire department, $15,210. police de I partment $56.863 81. street mamte 19o7 .>8, aWl ertacted ^ \ the fiscal year a tax ordinance levying SJ mills on taxable pn>perty to support it for that part of revenue raised by taxa tion The millage is divided 27 mills for debt service and 26 for, operaL mg expenses. ' / Other Delegation Business All four members of the legisla tive delegation were present for the meeting Monday, inducting Senator Robert C. Wasson, and Representa tives W. Paul Culbertson, William C. Dobbins, and T. David Sloan, Jr. Following lengthy discussion on registration and arranging ' of a schedule for the board, participated in by the delegation, the registra- adult dose in a single injection. . This schedule is recommended by the American Medical Association which more than two months ago announced a nationwide prepared ness program to combat a possible outbreak of Asiatic influenza in the United States. TTie disease has swept the Far East and spread to other parts of the world in recent months. A num ber of cases already have been re ported in this country, and the Unit ed States Public Health Service fears'that any epidemic—if it comes —will strike during the fall and early winter. In this event, it es timates that approximatel&'lT.OOO 000 Americans will contract the di sease. Doctors stress that there is no im mediate cause for alarm, that the influenza caused by this new virus has been relatively mild and that the anticipated fatality rate in this country would be only 1 out of 7,- 000. It is marked by a three-to-four day period of fever, the symptoms being fever, prostration, headache, and general lassitude. The prinicipal concern over Asi atic flu is the effect an epidemic might have upon the critical people of a community such as policemen, firemen and doctors, the possibility of closing schools, and the economic factor relative to individual incomes and to industry. Because of these considerations. C'linton-Lydia Cotton Mills and Pres byterian College already have an nounced inoculation programs, and other business also plan such proj ects. ^ Dr Mixon said the final details of the school program will be an nounced shortly. It is expected to cost under $1.00 per shot, depend ing upon the cost to the PTA The inoculations probably will be given in each individual school, with the exception of the kindergartens which are to go to Hampton Avenue School. Doctors point out there n*iy be slight reactions to the vaccine in some cases, but are no reason for concern. It should not be given to anyone who is allergic to eggs, chickens and feathers, since an egg base is used in production of the vaccine. Army doctors have been gviing it routinely to anyone who can eat eggs. All parents of school children throughout this district are urged to cooperate in the program when it gets underway. McCrary, of Hunter Township. Magistrate McCrary said that the hearing was arranged at the request of Jacobs’ attorney, T. David Sloan, Jr., of Laurens. Arrested along with Jacobs In the case were Jobie Shelton, Jr., 30, and Willie T. Hill. 61, Clinton Negroes. Hill is still a patient in the state penitentiary hospital in Columbia suffering with high blood pressure. Jacobs, Hill and Shelton were arrested last June by Sheriff C. W . Wier and his deputies, Clinton and state law enforcement Officers and charged with conspiring to kidnap young Robert M. Vance, Jr., son of a Clinton banker and cotton mill official. Sheriff Wier said a short time after the arrest of the trio that the two Negroes bad confessed their part in the fantastic plot to kidnap the child and hold him for $356,900 ransom. Jacobs has maintained silence. Jacobs and Shelton were return ed a short time ago from the State Hospital in Columbia where they underwent a 30-day sanity test. Both were declared sane and were returned to the Laurens County jail in Laurens where they are be ing held. Hill also was declared sane. Owners of the station are Earle M Spencer and J D Bnnkley, of The new fiscal year bjeijan Sep tember 1. Sources of revenue and the esti mated amount from each for ope rating the city during the|year are sale of electricity. $251 $85,025. sewer $23,100. taxes of Clinton nance and -arhage. ^^790 40 cem etery. $5.069 20 }oint utilities. $62. 850 52. light department. $144 855. 73 street lighting S3 000. water plant, $20,222 14 sewer department. $8 280 recreation comnu-ssion. $4 - 800, National Guard arnvory. $200 retirement system. $7,350 public b brary, $750 children's library $100 insurance (fire. auto, etc i, $4,000 4roup insurance, $2,850. bonds ma tunng. $41,500 interest on Qonds. le of | $17,98(5 50 Fnoree River project for anticipated interest, $52,000. health and sanitation, $5.- 51.875. sah er sje r v i c e j bond fund $105,000. business licenses, $18,000,j from S 000. preparation of tax books $375. Ic Tax Commission. $15,0J)0 motor miscellaneous general expense icily transport fund. $10,000 parking me-lliall$750 contingent fund. $12,- staff include ;fo rs - $7,500; cemetery tot sales. $2 -j 955 86 1 Wolfe, I A. Edwards, j ren, and C A. Crocker. Holcombe said the exact date of the drvie, as well as the total goal Manager of the station is Howard and quotas, will be announced after formerly of ( uncord, N the budget committee meeting ^ Members of the. Bob Miller; of Concord, announcer;!^ paving assessments. $3,000 in With an apparent operating sur- Glendon French, of Orangeburg, an terest on paving assessments. $500 iP | us ^ $<>4 873 59 $10,919 65 of which sentation at the meeting Tues day nourKer i ‘ n>!ineer ' James n <* m P> w >' P°l'ce fint*. $16,000 light and wa- was accumulated in poor years, are: the Cancer Society, Salvation of HartsvUle. salesman and a y n- er meters and taps. $4,000. miscel couned transferred $23.788 51 to the Army American Heart Association nuunce r Office employees are laneous income. $3,000. customei Among participating agencies w hich are expected to have repre- and M rs—Tw anda~-Sloan-~Xe>ik‘y. ~uk.-iL2.QiL- Clinton Criminal Court Term Scheduled Sept. 23 A one-week term of criminal court is scheduled for Laurens County be ginning Monday, September 23. Judge T B (Ireneker, of Edge- field. w ill preside Two jury panels of 18 members each were drawn Tuesday morning to report for service during the week. Those chosen were: ♦ Vernon Wood, Dials Church; J. W. Pilgrim, Brewerton; Guy Stone, Gray Court; J. C. Meadors, Clinton Mill; C. D. Reed, Renno; C. W. Rushton, Clinton Mill; Houston May. Joanna. Houston Crawford. Poplar Springs; Howard Williams, Narnie, James R Pitts, Laurens City; C. C. Hough. Laurens City, Walter L Stewart, Watts Mill; J A Davis, Laurens City,; F S. Childress, Mountville; Bernard Nabors, Jo anna, Leroy* Knight, Youngs; Wil liam N. Prater, Joanna; M K. Ward, Cross Hill. Also W. Henry Yeargin, Clinton; Robert M Mahon, Merna; C. C. Wells, Waterloo. J. C. Nabors, Shady Grove; T.. J. Carnes, Lydia Mill; Tillman Morse, Joanna; James M Albert, Waterloo; Leon ard Dover. Clinton; Gary Lehn, Clinton; W. H. Knight, Mt. Olive; J. A. Simpson, Shiloh; R. C. Oxner, Clinton- Mill; D. L. Gunter, Joanna, Jerome Clardy, Gray Court; I. Mac Adair, Clinton; Horace F. Herbert, Watts Mill; Clyde J. Nelson, Lau rens; Thomas J. Lee, Jr.; Laurens. Holdovers: J .0. Mediock, Lau rens Mill; J. A. McKee, Watts Mill; James Dunaway, Clinton Mill. piety. Blue: Ridge Council <rf Boy* Scouts, Camp Fire Girls Local Girl Scouts, Christian Welfare Bureau (local chantyj, Carolinas United Club To Observe Notional B&PW Week The regular dinner meeting of the Business and Professional Women’s dub was held in the ballroom of the Mary Musgrove Hotel on Tues day evening Miss Margaret Blakely, vice- president, presided Plans were made for observance of National Business Week Sept 22-28, * also for the calendar sale, the proceeds being used for the betterment of thcTOTmnanrty. Mrs Dan Yarborough, chairman of the public affairs committee, led an interesting plogram. Dr. Daniel E. Orr Opens Animal Clinic Dr. Daniel E Orr today announc es the opening of the Orr Animal (linic on the Whitmire highway, have fingers crossed and re-efoss- opposite The Beacon Drive-In Res taurant near the Musgrove Street, ihc Hosemcn do not have a great intersection, j record f rom i a: ,t year to live up to Dr Orr is a recent graduate in this season But they have poten veterinary medicine at the Univer i sity of Georgia He is married to KxpemliFures allocated to the va PC Opens 1957 Season Saturday at Appalachian New Coaching Staff at Helm of Team That's Good in Spots, But Lacks Depth A baptism of fire-faces T’resbyterian College’s new eoach- ing-staff when the Blue Hose journey to Appalachian f<»r the 1957 season opener this Saturday night. When the whistle blows then for, one of the nation's earTteSHopening |* Appalachian game dates-. Head Coach Frank Jones and assistants Clvc Myde Ehrhardt and Courts Redford will send into action a team they have known less than two weeks Little wonder they bond commission, representing total sewer charges and increase in water rates $15 000 was paid for additional property bought from TSomweR Or phanage for expansion of the water plant, street department truck ad justment $1.083 06. and miscellan eous $338 92 leaving a net amount of $37 680.17 Alfocation of the 1956-57 surplus included a number of items for the various departments of the city, the largest amounts being $10,000 for a street sweeper and $5 800 for a special truck for the utilities de partment Total of allocations amount to SIT.987 50 In addition. $25.Oft) deposited with the Bond Commission as a re serve for utilities extensions and $21.886 09 was placed in reserve for debt account on the proposed Enoree HiVVr ,-vc-t:i_grviecCaad. Other debt, service as authorized . • Phe budget wp* prepared bv the . is strong at finance commitI(ee of council under »t center but offer- the chairmanship >f Councilman Janv'N 1‘ Sloan, and included an approximate five per ceftt nc're^se m salaries for city employees Mayor Joe P Terry presided over the session and all councilmen were present Frank -M Boland, ward Pitts, ward, two Harry ward three James P Woodrow L Wil- ames C Cratne. tial that may well begin to assert itself if a few weaknesses can be | overcome Ken Webb, the bjock busting run ner from Decatur. C.a . is back for his final fling at achieving nation al honors. Now shifted to fullback, he’s performing better than ever and gives every indication of Lit tie All-America quality The backfield also ha> Tony Benson, of Chester. Mitch Mavro- mat. of Brunswick. C.a . John Ld cas. of Donora. Pa., and Ed Mes- Davis and Mrs. Mamie >t,r ' ^ es * Palm Beach, Ha, returning at halfbacks A n d there’s the addition of Bob Math cw§, of Decatur. C.a who's vault ed into a starting halfback role since being shifted from end the former Miss Mary Catherine Anderson, daughter of Mr and Mrs C. W Anderson, of Clinton. Club To Meet Tuesday Evening The Duwego Club of Whitten Vil lage will meet Tuesday evening, September 17. at the.Center Host esses will be Mrs. Annie Lou Wets- ner, Mrs Nannie Thompson, Mrs Margaret Jlellams end. fairly stout ing problems at tackle and guard It's the heaviest in the state, averag ing 214 pounds per man, but it's also slow and needing reserve-- Four lettermen.ends are back— T^d Leahy, of Atlanta. James Walk er. ok Anderson. Ken Gardner, of one S A Greenville, and Paul Chastain,’ of'C Layton Central—not to mention a rugged Ska:’., ward four freshman rvamedt Wilson Yastine..-on. ward five who currently runs-first string on ward six the left So the. situation is- set here Marion Parrish, of Chester, and Jack Coppley. of Lexington N C leave little to be desired at tackle, but their shocn are hard to fill when they need relief And now Parrish nurses an ailing knee that may keep him out-of the opener Second line of defense here hinges on James Beach. ami Joe Neg- Lee, of Myrtle ley, of Pittsburgh M S'rs Boland .Cra.ne -Layton, and Sloan voted in favor .«f adi>ptx*n ->t the budget, while Messrs Pitts ami Wilson were opposed Wilson expressed himself to basing the sal ary increases on a percentage basts, while'Pitts >a:d he-w.L' opposed to the increases City Clerk, and Treasurer W B * *w ens readtthe minutes -of tne pre vious meeting and gave a sum marv of receipts and expenditures for the month of August Receipts were given .is $40 S05 40. and e\- iH.mii:ure' were $56.964't Includ- PC-Clemson Game Tickets Available , Tickets for Che Presbyterian Col- lege-Clemson football game, to be played on September 21 at Clemson, are now on sale at the four uptown drug stores, it is stated by Atheltic' Director Walter A Johnson The tickets are available at How ard's Pharmacy, McGee’s Drug Store. Sadler-0wtms Pharmacy, and Young's Pharmacy The game will be played in the af ternoon. beginning at 2 o’clock The guards find John Firtoy of Belvedere, and Bill Bowman, of Mo- mmgehela. Pa . .is capable letter men, Jackie Powers, of Andrew!, ed in extwnditurvs were the trans- .i'a rugged returnee improving fast ferral ot more than $11.5ft) :o Che — but after that, only freshmen Bond comm.ssion for payment of With Bowman already ailing again, principal and interest 'on bonds, re- these first-year boys—Don Bulges movui of $5 065 38 from the city's Webb and all the rest of the boys ( »f Decatur, Bruce Barnes »f Con- boe*' to a special firemen > fund assure that PC will be well rep re- cord, N C . and Ken Nix of \Uantu over which the city has v control, sented in the ball-carrying depart —may hold the key ’ ami payment ->f $2 614 to the Inter ment The question, then, settles t enter is capably hundkxi tn the ru! Revenue Department as the on quarterback as it has the past’first division by Jim McLauchUn. of city > share in the social security two years Here, two new faces are, Charlotte, ami he has strong support program, tor employees in the lead, and whereas the season from Mac has not even begun, they already appear nearer a solution than in re cent years These two are Bob Wa tens, of Sylvania, Ga., who transfer red to PC last February after Stet son dropped football, ami Danny Bridges, of Valdese. N. C Copeland, of Vihens. C.a Beyond that, the situation is >enou> Coach Jones, at this point, consid ers his probable starters thusly Ends—Vastine and Walker. Tackles —Lee and Coppley. Guartfe—Firbv and Powers. Center—Me La uchlin. Quarterback—Benson and Mathews The Presbyterian line, going into Fullback—Webb A motion bv (.'mine to install' parking meters on Gary street fail ed to receive a second, therefore no other action was taken One block of Cetueomal street was made a one way street from South Owens street (at Presbyterian cemeteryt to Cleveland Street- / continue-!, m ;->age 4) i'-*