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u I It If You Don*! Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get the News The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume fLVIll ■ j Clinton, S. C, THursdoy, November 14, 1957 Number 46 Fifty Years in Masonry M. B. Hipp is pictured here as he received an award from Clinton’s Campbell Lodge No. 44, A. F. M„, upon celebrating his 50 years as a Atason. The presentation was made by William Davis, master of the lodge, in a recent ceremony. Mr. Hipp became a member of the Clinton fraternal order in March 1907. The pin was a gift from the Grand Lodge of South Carolina—Photo by Yarborough. \ Optimism Expressed On Community Chest Drive Reports on Campaign Still Incomplete An optimistic note was sounded \ had Tuesday morning at a meeting of division chairmen of the Clinton Community Chest organization when, President Fred Holcombe stated that the campaign was pro ceeding satisfactorily. This was the second weekly re port of officials and leaders spear heading the 1957 campaign for funds for the nine agencies partici pating in the budget. A total of $19,519.01 is being sought to carry out the work next year. Jim Wolfe, drive chairman, stat ed that the goal was in sight and is expected to be reached during the next week, when intensive efforts will be made to wind up all solicita tions. No announcement was made on the amount collected in cash or pledges, but the previous report stated that 48 per cent of the total Clinton, Greenville Production Credit 1 Associations To Join The annual stockholders meeting of the Clinton Production Credit As sociation will be held on Saturday. November 23, at the Florida Street School at 10:30. One of the chief items of business to come before the meeting will be that of a merger with the Greenville Production Credit Association. The board of directors of the two organ izations have held several meetings during recent weeks, and have agreed upon a merger proposal, it was stated this week by Luther B. Bedenbaugh, of Silvertstreet, secre tary-treasurer and directing head of the Clinton Association, in notices mailed out to members. Headquarters of the merged asso ciation would continue to be in Clinton and the name would be re tained, Mr. Bedenbaugh stated. Officers .will be elected at the forthcoming meeting and other bus iness of the association transcat- ed. The association, in a financial statement released to members, shows assets totaling $474,(X)9, lia bilities of $343,346; and a net worth of $130,663. • The association is owned by mem ber-farmers of Laurens and New berry Counties. Organized by W. Rex Lanford, of Waterloo, 24 yeass ago with money borrowed from gov ernment agencies, all stock in the association is now owned by mem- bcirs of Clinton, is the Red Devil scoring, but the los Hugh IT Workman, president of the association; J. F. Hawkins, of Newberry, vice presi dent; and Mr. Bedenbaugh. secre tary-treasurer. Members of the board of directors are Lawrence F. Davis, Clinton; Mr. Hawkins; IF N. Jackson, of Gray Court; C. L. Lester. Newberry, and Mr. Workman. George W. Copeland is assistant secretary-treasurer and bookkeep- er; Mrs. John A. Davis, stenbgraph- been reached. Since then, divisionheads have continued their efforts, and Wolfe urged those who have not yet completed thefr work to turn in their reports as early as possible. ■ • - — Only one division has reported completion of it phase of the cam paign, the advance gifts section un der Chairman William P. Jacobs, with a l2Vt per cent increase over last year. W. L Corbett, commercial di vision chairman, stated that the downtown employees were pledging and contrbiuting about 50 per cent more than this division reported last year. Mrs Jack Red, residential di vision chairman, with scattered re turns vet to come in, stated that the division expects to exceed last year by five per cent. Vernon Powell, reporting for the Presbyterian College area, stated that his section of the institutional division would report a large in crease over 1957. The industrial division, Gary Lehn, chairman, stated that some individual plants contributed larger amounts aver last year, but that reports from this division are not yet complete, with work in several substantial areas continuing and collections and pledges expected to greatly swell the total of the report. Donald Clough, field director of Carolinas United, attended the meeting Tuesday and rendered as sistance from a professional stand point. I. A. Edwards, - pubhcity chair man, expressed appreciation of the leaders for coverage and efforts on behalf of the campaign by the local newspaper and radio station. Plaque Presented Te^r. Whitten Mental Health Assn. Dr. B. O. Whitten, superintendent of Whitten Village, state institution here, was presented a plaque last Thursday, bf tne South Carolina As- soriation for Mental Health in recog nition of his long service to the state. The presentation was made by Lieutenant Governor E F Hollings, of Charleston, at a special awards session of the association held in Co- Idmbia at the Jefferson Hotel. In presenting the plaque to Dr. Whitten, Lt. Gov. Hollings pointed olt that Doctor Whitten had been su perintendent of the State Traininf School at Clinton since its beginning, almost 40 years ago, and that he had served the mentally retarded of the state in an outstanding manner. Under his direction, the State Train ing School which was re-named in Joanna Mills to Close For lanksgivmg, Christmas Employees to Get Pay for One Weelt New Officers of County Form Bureau Joining in an industry effort to cut down a backlog of unsold cloth,* Jo anna Cotton Mills at Joanna yes terday announced that the mills would close for two periods between now and Christmas Walter Regnery. vice president and general manager, stated the mills would close down Thanksgiving Day and remained closed for the remainder of the week. The. second period for cessa tion of production in the plants will be the entire week of December 22- 28. “Print cloth mills have been urg ed by textile- leaders and analysts to close down for a short time or shorten work weeks in order to les sen industry-wide production and to plan, which takes its place along with our profit-sharing plan. Jo anna Foundation programs, free life insurance, .service awards, the LaGor Day paid holiday, and other lesser benefits, and which we hope will continue to make your job at that!** oanna rnore desirable and satis- f or j factory for you." I O. WHITTEN Doctor Whitten’s honor in 1954 has grown from a population of zero to over 2,000, and today his philosophy of helping all of the trainees at the school develop their full potenitali- ties is found in practice among all of the school’s employees. Clinton Trounces Laurens To Take Fourth In A Row Clinton closed its comeback sea son with a record-evening 19-7 vic tory over Laurens here last Friday night It was the fourth- straight win for the Red Devils. Coach Buzz Tedards’ rugged line led the way with victorious defen sive play throughout most of the game, as Clinton scored in each bf the first three periods. It was the fifth win in ten games for the Red Devils. ' Short smashes at the end of three extended drives accounted for all er; R. C. Hunter, representative at Newberry; and W J Henry is in- speltor. m j- At College Press Conference In New York Miss Jane Todd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Todd, of this city, «a student at Erskine College, Due West, and news editor of the col lege publication, the “Mirror,’’ along with three other delegates from Erskine, representatives of publications of the “Arrow” and "Erskine Review,” attended the As sociate Collegiate Press conference in New York November 7-9. ing Tigers needed a 76-yard sprint by halfback Colin Harley to notch its lone touchdown in the fourth quarter. Cecil Davenport got the Red Dev ils under way in the first quarter, g ing over from the one aftei; Clin ton had recovered a Tiger fumble on the Laurens 15. Davenport’s passes to Billy Cranford set up a second touchdown for Clinton, a plunge by Wayne fuller and passes S. C. Textile Industry Offers Opportunify, Bailey Tells Students Farm Bureau Elects Officers, Directors For Coming Year The Laurens County Farm reau at its annual meeting Here are tfe Tuesday evening, November 5, at the Laurens High School. They are. left to right: Ia*wis Power, vice pres ident; Mrs. Floyd Nabors, serretary-treasurer; and Thomas J. Copeland, president. —Yarborough Photo the new otficers of the I.~rurens Count' farm Bureau, elected at the annual dinner meeting Bu- last! „ _ Public Invited For provide an opportunity to sell sqine j Tuesday in the high school audito Methodist Bazoor- of the backlog of unsold cloth," Mr | rium in Laur en.s elected officers > C n0a, lT. o 0200 ^ and directors for 1958 T J Copeland will head the or ganization, succeeding Ryan F Lawson Louis Power was named vice-president, and Mrs. Floyd Na bors, secretary-treasurer. Directors at large are Mr. Law- son, M B. Henderson, Marcus S. Boyd, and Hugh B Workman Township directors are: Cross Hill: J H Shealy, J B. Pinson 0 Hunter J L Adair, Sr . W P Dixon Jacks. Tan M Ray, Walter W. Shuman Lauren.s: Robert W\ Tinsley, H D Youngs: Hunter Dials: L. “It is no longer necessary to leave South Carolina in order ‘to get ahead’,” the vice president of the South Carolina Textile Manufac turers Association told a group oL high school students here tonight. P. S. Bailey, president and treas urer of Chnton and Lydia Cotton Mills, in an address to approxi mately 40 members of the Future Business Leaders of America and the Clinton High School Textile Club, declared: “The textile industry in South Carolina is looking for young men and women of good moral character who have vision, determination and a willingness to work and to accept responsibility.” ‘The textile industry,” Mr. Bailey declared, “is so vast in this state Uiat it can use to the fullest extent the total abilities of thousands of highly skilled individuals. The in dustry, he continued, is looking for individuals possessing a variety of talents which come from many edu cational backgrounds.” He emhasized the need for. in dustrial engineers, chemists, artists, accountants and research person nel as well as tWe persons trained in the textile field. • Mr. Bailey told his audience that it was his sincere opinion that the young people of today are in every way the equal of preceding genera tions “and in a good many ways bet ter. I am confident tha tour young people of today will be outstanding leaders of tomorrow." Mr. Bailey challenged the group to “maintain and carry forward their heritage," the textile leader ship of South Carolina. “Cardinal principles that make South Carolina the textile center of the nation is the availability of fine people to work in our plants and in the development of their sons and daughters to assume positions -of leadership in the industry.” Regnery stated in a message to em ployees of the mills. “Rather than cut our work week, to our employees’ disadvantage, we are closing down for these holiday periods to give our employees con secutive days off.” Mr. Regnery also said that em ployees with five years or more service with the Joanna plant will receive pay for the Christmas week. More than 1,300 employees will be eligible for the second week of paid vacation, it was said. The Joanna Mills already have a policy of giv ing employees a week’s paid vaca tion during the week of July 4, in addition to other liberal fringe h Wheeler benefits. | Scuffletown: Following is Mr. Regnery’s state- .Fleming ment to employees: j Sullivan: James “In cooperation with the efforts of George Wasson a number of mills in the print cloth I Waterloo: Niles group (representing over 60,000 Fehnell, Jr looms and affecting approximately 30,000 people) to cut back produc tion and to reduce cloth inventories, Joanna Cotton Mills Company will m close down for Thanksgiving after . work Wednesday, November 27, to!Attend Meet Of remain closed the remainder of the week. Also, we shall close down for the entire Christmas week, the va cation period beginning after work ing hours on December 21 and •ofr’ ing December 29. Employees with five years or (more of service at Jo anna Cotton Mills Company as of December 21, 1957, will receive pay for the Christmas week. “All print cloth mills have been urged by leaders and analysts to close down tor a short time or shorten work weeks in order to les sen industry-wide production and to provide an opportunity to sell some of the backlog of unsold cloth. De creased production should give greater stability to the industry and should make it possible for us to look forward to a steadier market next year. •'Rather than cut our work week, to our employees' disadvantage, we are closing down for these holiday periods to give'our employees con secutive days off. The second week’s vacation-with-pay for five-year em- W T Blakely, S B Wasson, C. Clark. J L W D Lomas, J Ben B Stoddard, Jr Supper, Tickets On Sole Tickets are on sale now through November 18 for the turkey supper being Atyen 6y tie” women of Broad Street Methodist Church in connec tion with a fall and pre-Christmas bazaar at the Armory. These may be obtained at a number of busmen houses in the city or from any of the church members There will be no admission charge for the bazaar and the public is invited to attend The turkey >upper will be served Monday evening. November 25 from 6 until 8 o’clock and tickets must be Ibought in advance The bazaar will open at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Mondayyand will continue all day Tu€s3ay Proceeds will be used to equip the kitchen for the new build ing now under construction Handwork, toiys. dolls and Christ mas gifts are special features of the booths, in addition to a wide va riety of cakes, pies and candies Presbyterian to Observe Parents Day on Saturday E. Carolina Football Game is Feature Presbyterian College will enter The Blue Hose penetrated to the tain East Carolina thi>, Saturday in opponents’ .ix yard-line with five a Parents Diy football game which minutes left in the game but lost has been shifted from night to aft- the half on downs when four running ernoon play _ plays failed A 30 yard pass from The Blue Hose will be striving n> Quarterback Bob Waters to Half-, give their parents and other sup hack Tony Benson was the key play porters their first victory of the : °f th ,s drive against a six lost-one- ^ 1957 tied Pre-Polio Campaign Mrs. Fred Holcombe and Miss Rebecca Speake were in Atlanta last Tuesday and Wednesday where they attended a meeting of the Pre polio campaign which was attend ed by a number of the leaders of the National Polio Foundation Baptists To Observe Mobilization Night In cooperation with associations in the Southern Baptist Convention, Reedy River Baptist Association will observe Vtobilization Night at the Bush River Church on Tuesday, season against a record As an addl'd conven ience to visitors traveling long dis tances, the kickoff has been chang ed from the initially scheduled 8 p m to 2:30 p m on Johnson Field'" A special Parents Day program will precede the game and a larg' 1 crowd is expected for the occasion Registration is set for 11 30 a m in the library building, to be fol lowed by tours of the campus Pres ident Marshall W Brown and Stu dent Body President John Knox will welcome the visitors to PC in a 12 30 , p m gathering in the auditorium, and a barbecue dinner is scheduled | for 1 p n». After the football game, f the various fraternities will enter tain with drop-ins in their quarters East Carolina also is winless in December 3, at 7:30 £ m. Dr. Dotson Nelson, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Greenville,; eight games thus far, so each team carried out again this year in the Christmas Parade Set For December 5; Baldwin Is Chairman Tile Merchants Division of the Chamber of Commerce has again- i named W C Baldwin chairman of the Christmas Parade, according to Charles H Johnson, chairman of ! he Merchants group The parade-is set for 4 3$ Thurs day, December 5 Three prizes will be offered with the first place winner receiviifg $75. second, $50. and third. $23 The religious emphasis will be will be the inspirational speaker Grand Jury Recommends New Court House and Jail Says Not Too Early to Begin Plans Laurens, Nov. ll-*-The construc tion of a modern court house and new jail was recommended in the year’s final presentment of the Lau rens County Grand Jury at General Sessions Court which convened here ployees is a new fringe benefit, lib- today, eralizing the previous pobey of one week’s vacation-with-pay for all em ployees with at least one year’s ser vice. which policy has been in effect of building a modem court house, at Joanna for, more than twenty, probably at some other location” years. It gives me genuine ure to announce the new vacation ‘ The jury recommended “that an architect be employed or other for the needs of the county The steps taken to study the feasability jury found that the jail is over crowded and lacks facilities for the inadequate, and it is not too early, in our opinion, to study and make plans for the future." j- The jury, of which Lucian W Bo bo is foreman, also recommended that “it would be advisable to build' permitted Citadel to score both a new jail probably at some othdBl touc ^ owns - aRer which the IIo>e location which would be adequate men dominated play although fail will-be keyed to “shoot the works’’ for victory And both have a po tential, not indicated by their rec ords to date The Bucs from North Carolina wi|l present a la^ge forward wall operating ahead or fast backs’ Half back James Speight poses a par ticularly strong running threat, along with Fullback Bob Maynard, and Quarterback Ralph Zehnng heads the passing department After being sidelined for two weeks by influenza. Presbyterian .gndmen held the highly favored Citadel Bulldogs to a 14-0 victory margin last week-end A lapse of ' * six minutes in the second quarter Hallmark Employees permitted theme, "The Greatest Gift ’’ To be eligible to enter" floats will have to carry out this theme Chairman Baldwin was very pleased with the outstanding floats entered last year, and asks the same cooperation of churches, schools, institutions, civic dubs and business houses again this year Serving on the committee with Baldwin is I M Adair. Howard F Smith, C H Leonard, Mrs B H. Boyd- Atr»r Joan Adair, Mrs, Eva Land Mrs Perry Moore, W Corbett,. D B Smith, Lt Col W Barnett and I, A Edwards L. W Receive Flu Vaccine a, uura .separation of children from , adult pleas -j It was pointed out that the^pres-1 offenders and also for the segrega- ent facilities “are rapidly becoming I tion of men and women , men ing tp score Employe* > Hallmark Manu- Citadei scored on an 11-yard end i factunng Corporation received Asi- sweep by halfback Joe Bonifacio, itic flu snots on Friday These and on a 31-yard pass play from ; were given through the cooperation Quarterback Bobby Swartze to Half of the company. Young’s Pharmacy back Joe Lhefalo I and Blaliiok clinic Red Devils Strike in Game With Laurens Here Friday In the last home game of the season Friday night, the Clinton High School Red l>evll<» defeated I*aur- ens 19-7. Shown In these action shots are Clinton ba k Wayne Fuller as he goes over for one of his team's counters with a short push for the necessary yardage. In the photo at right Billy Cranford, Clinton end, snags one of several passes he caught during the course of the game —Photos by Yarborough. to Locke gave a sdbring opportunity to Billy Horne from the two. TheTeams then jockeyed back and forth until midway in the fourth period when Harley made his sensa tional run just before Laurens had taken over bn their own 24. Harley also kicked the extra point Heading ihe defensive effort for Clinton were center Joe Neely and tackles Earl Horton and John Wrenn. Laurens * 0 0 0 7— 7 Clinton 6 '7 6 0—19 Laurens scoring: Touchdown — Harley. Extra point—Harley. Clin ton scoring: Touchdowns—Daven port, Fuller. Horne. Extra point— Fuller. Horvley Is President Greenwood County Bonk Friends here of Bonner Harvley will be interested in the announce ment of his election MWie board of directors as presideftWf the Green wood County Bank. He succeeds the late John Benson Sloan who was killed in an automobile accident October 31. Mr. Harvley has been cashier o! the County Bank since it was formed in 1933. Mrs. Harvley is the former Miss Martha Blakely, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Blakely of this city.