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V v • 7. If You Don't Read The ^hronicle You Doirt Get the News The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean Newa- . . rp- paper. Complete, Newsy and Reliable VofiTme LVNI Clintoir, S. C., Thursday, November 21, 1957 Number 47 Methodists Prepare for Bazaar, Supper Committee chairmen are shown as they met to make preparations for the baxaar and slipper to be given by womei/of Broad Street Methodist Church. A turkey supper will be served “eat Monday evening from 6 to 8 o^tock at the Armory on South Broad Street, tickets having been sold in advance. TTie bazaar will open at 3 p. m. Monday and will continue all day Tuesday. Proceeds from the event win be used to equip the kitchen in the new building now under construction. Front row, left to right, are Mrs. Wilmot Shealy, Christmas decorations; Mrs. James E. Wolfe, Christ mas gifts and novelties; Mrs. J. B. Arnold, publicity. Middle row: Mrs. Alan Simmons, dolls; Mrs. James I.. Walker, white elephant booth; Mrs. G. W. Hollingsworth, apron booth. Back row: Mrs. George H. Hodges, general chairman; Mrs. Howard Watkins, handwork and sewing; Mrs. Roy Gasque, country store; Mrs. Heary Trammell, cake booth. Absent when picture was made: Mrs. B. B. Ballard, candy booth; Mrs. L'. L. Copeland, Jr., parcel post; Miss Rebecca Speake, Uckets; Mrs. Cecil Wilson, dinner; Mrs. Sterling Pitts. Jr., baby booth; and Mrs. Milford Smith, posters.—Photo by Yarborough. City Sells $1,150,000 Bond lssue To Finance New Water Facilities Production Credit Associations To Ballot On Merger Voting today (Thursday) will par tially decide whether or not Clinton and Greenville Production Credit Associations will be merged A sec- ond'vote Saturday will give the fipal decision. ^ Directors of both associations voted August 26 to merge the two groups, making one of the largest such associations in the state. Stockholders will vote this week. Greenville members will vote this morning during their 24th annual meeting. Clinton’s stockholders will vote at their annual meeting here Saturday The Clinton group serves Laur ens and Newberry counties; Gi\en- ville serves Greenville and Pickens counties. Christmas Parade Plans Are Stated By Chamber To Get Holiday Season Underway The Christmas shopping season in Clinton will open on Thursday, De cember 5, with a gala event, states Charles Johnson, chairman of the Merchants Committee k The program will include a pa rade, which is expected to attract wider participation than in previous years, and “after parade activi ties,’’ the nature of which has not yet been divulged. W. C. Baldwin is chairman of the parade activities. He states that the religious emphasis will be main tained again this year, with the theme being “The Greatest Gift.” parade, floats will be based on this To be eligible for entrance in the religious theme. Baldwni said the floats last year nicluded a large number that were outstanding, and asks the renewed copoeration of churches, schools, institutions, civic clubs and business houses. Serving on the committee with Baldwin are: I. M. Adair, Howard F. Smith, C. H. Leonard, Mr. B. H. Boyd, Mrs. Joan Adair, Mrs. Eva Land, Mrs. Perry Moore, W. L. Corbett, D. B. Smith, Lt. Col. W. .^VV, »ilaroett. aad L -A-JEd»wixd&, James E. Wolfe, president of the Chamber of Commerce, is chair man of the “after parade activi ties,” and said yesterday he is planning a program that i will en courage more than 15.000 people to atend,, (Details of which will be an nounced in next Thursday’s issue of The Chronicle. He did say, how ever, that features to be included in the program have never been of such nature tha tthis part of the pre-Christmas program will be a spectacular addition to the city’s annual event. The Chamber of Commerce urges all merchants and business houses to partiepiate in the parade and “after parade activities." In order for them to participate,/officials said, it is necessary that they be membei's in good standing of the Chamber of Commerce. In order to give everyone an opportunity to be eligible, ac ommittee has been formed to contact busines houses not presently listed. The “after parade activities,” Wolfe-stated, will be Extended for several weeks following the gala opening event to allow shopping in the participating businesses. 1957 Tax Collections For City $14,803.90 business Saturday, it was stated by City Clerk and Treasurer W. B. Owens. Tax collections for the year will total approximately $112,500, Ow ens said, most of which will be paid during December. Tax books open ed October 15 and will close De cember 31. Payments made after December 31 will carry a penalty attempted here before and will eb of 10 r ,.. Clinton Couple In Critical Condition; Hurt in Wreck - . . v Mr and Mrs. E. E. Harrison, ied several times three-tenths mile Goldsmith Heads County Baptist Brotherhood Assn. The Laurens Baptist Association- al Brotherhood has elected officers for the coming year 1957-58, as fol lows : , President — G. Browning Gold- sqiith, Clinton. Membership y„ice - President — Rembert S. Truluck, Clinton. Program Vice-President — Rufus Handback, Clinton. { Activity Vice-President — Mack Ellison, Laurens Chorister—Rev. J B Abercrom bie, Laurens. RA Counselor—Fowler Brownlee, Laurens. Secretary-Treasurer — Raymond Martin, Laurens. The Advisory Committee is com posed of Rev. Hugh Hazel, Rev. Randall Turner, Rev. Wingard Ber ry. Rev. C. B. Rogers, and Rev. Kenneth Word. Two Assistants Will Carry On Work In Clerk Of Court Office The resignation of Mrs LeEllen wniiams Slay, deputy clerk of court for Laurens County, has been an nounced to take effect at the end of the year. Mrs. Slay has served in the post for 16 years She has been commut ing from Greenville daily since her recent marriage. Upon her retirement the work of the office, under Clerk of Court Walter Dunlap, will be carried on by Mrs. Thomas E. Abrams and Mrs. James F. Goss, both of whom have served in the office, Mrs Abrams on a permanent basis for several years, and Mrs. Goss as needed from time to time. Mrs. Abrams will attend to the recording of documents while Mrs. Goss will be concerned principally with the work of the courts. They IMd It Again! ’. . . For the sixth consecutive lime. This is the congratulatory message which greets the more than 600 employees of Lydia Cotton Mills on their way to work after they contributed 100 per cent strong in the 1».>8 United Fund drive. Since inception of the Greater Clinton Community Chest in 1951. every single employee In every department at Lydia has participated in the drive 100 per cent, for what is believed to be an unequaled record in the textile industry. I). H. Roberts, superintendent, said, "This is another fine example of the ‘Lydia Spirit —a spirit of co operation and support for a better community.” Mountville PTA Soonsor Supper A chicken stew will be given Fri day night at the Mountville school at 6:30, according to an announce ment by Lloyd Byars, president of the- school PTA that is sponsoring the supper. A special rate is given for chil dren and entertarnment will be pro vided for children and adults. Bingo will be played with prizes awarded the winners and playground equip ment is available for children The public is invited to attend Wednesday Closing Hailed Until After Christmas Holidays Clinton’s schedule, of Wednes day closing of business houses has been halted until after the Christ mas season, It was announced yes terday by Charles Johnson, chair man of the Merchants Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. The stores will remain open on Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving and thereafter, it was stated. Business houses will also remain open on Friday evenings until 7 o’clock beginning the Friday after Thanksgiving, the 29th, and in cluding Dec. «, 13, and 20. The action followed discussion at a meeting of the Merchants Committee Tuesday morning. Community Chest Drive Is Well on Way To Goal $5,327 Yet Needed to Meet Budget Contract To Be Let in December The (“Vv of Clinton sold a bond • issue totaling $1,150,000 last Thurs day to finance the construction of a ; new water plant Purchaser f the bonds was a syndicate of six members headed by White. Weld Co , of New York, the hid submitted by Alester G Furman Co . of Greenville, one of the six associates The «avcra.e m'erest rate to be paid by the city on the bonds is 4 27319 The hond-N w ill be amor- bzed oyer a period of 30 years with revenue from rbe utilities depart ment Of the city, including water revenue, electne light revenue,- and roturi* fwm a monthly 's e w e r charge . Two other bids were received for purchase of the bonds Shields A Co , of New York, offered an av erage interest rate of 4.4577, and John Nuveen & Co. Chicago, 4 74 78 The City Bond Commission rec ommended that the White A, Weld 4,1 & Co bid be accepted, and City Council at a called meeting, held immediately after the opening of bids, voted unanimously that the sale be held. The Bond Commission is compos t'd of R F Ferguson, Robert M Vance, and R P Hamer Members of City Council, includ ing Mayor J. P Terry, are: Frank M Boland. S A Pitts. Harry C. Layton. James P Sloan, Woodrow L Wilson, and James C. Crame It was stated that bids for con struction of teh water plant will be received the middle of December. Plans and specifications for the new facilities were made by yar Beebe Co., consultants and Clinton and Lydia Mills To Close Christmas Week Employees to Get Pay for Period ‘aTYlT853 9()^it /he close^of ‘ ^ an d Lydta COtton Mffls’yefterilay* announced their operat ing schedule for the Christmas holidays and the Thanksgiving week end. , J.- ; '•/. President P. 8. Bailey stated that the mills would close down during the week of December 22-28, but operations would be con tinued during the Thanksgiving period. Mr. Bailey further stated that employees with five .years or more continuous service will receive pay fof the Christmas week vacation. The Clinton and Lydia plants recently resumed a six-day work schedule after cutting their production program to five days a week for several months. 0 Clinton’s Community Chest, in its first report yesterday of funds col lected and pledged in the three-week-old campaign to meet its 1958 bud get shows that it is still short of the announced goal of $19,519 01 Up to now, reports on progress have been in percentages This week when the columns of figures were tabulated and announcement made of hard cash and pledges in hand, it was found that $5,327 23 is needed to successfully put the campaign across. , wood Three solicitation divisions have completed their work, while five still engineers, of Spartanburg, and will have additional funds to report in order to mark their column “complete ” go out to contractors desiring to bid James E Wolfe, campaign chairman, stated, however, that he is con- on the project in the next few days, fident that the campaign will be successful and urged division chairmen Plans call for building a 3,000,000 gallon daily capacity plant, with the source being Enoree River, eight miles northeast of the city The city presently gets its water from Duncan (’reek, four miles to the north, with a daily capacity of 1,000,000 gallons "niat has proved inadequate on a numbber of occa sions in recent years, city officials state, and restrictions on the use of water have had to be imposed. Facilities to be provided by the new plant include a pumping sta tion on Enoree River, a 16-mch raw water main to the city, and the con struction of a filter plant and bnck building adjoining the city’s present i utilities plant on Gary Street. Prop- j erty on which to put the Jilteh plant : ami building was recently pur- j chased from Thornwell Orphanage, which also sold the city,the proper ty about 50* years ago on which the present plant is located. B R Austin is superintendent of the city's utilities department 5nd he has worked diligently with the engineers over a period of two years during which negotiations and planning for the new water plant have been underway He expressed himself yesterday as gratified that construction of the project sooo will begin to wind up their work as quickly as possible Following is the report on progress up to yesterday: Cash and Needed to 'Divisions Pledges Reach Goal Advance Gifts $ 5.758 00 Complete Commercial 1.770.35 $ 282 00 | Residential 1.758^7 Complete I Payroll . 1.894 75 4.775 23 ! Institutions. Schools , 2.707 71 Complete Out of Town 150.00 70 00 l Miscellaneous 150 00 200 00 Totals $14,191.78 $5,327 23 New Textile Industry Announced for Laurens Wildlife Group Invites Ladies To Dec. 4 Meeting The C'hnton Chapter of the South Carolina Wildlife Federation will celebrate jts annual ladies night at the December 4 meeting, it is an nounced by J J Cornwall, presi- . dent. Beginning at 7:30, the informal affair will be held at the American Legion Memorial Building A smor gasbord will be served - Entertainment will be by the Lon nie Love Troubadours, well ^onwn stage and night club cast Later in the evening round and square dancing will be a feature. Luke Chaney and his “Slaves of J Chronicle in a telephone interview ed to begin on December 2 1 he Syncopation’ will furnish the music The industry, a textile weaving* company expects to begin operations Members are requested to make operation, will employ 300 pet sons i in June 1958 « reservatoins, with any of the follow- j when it gets into full production, it Negotiations have been under way ing: Shirley Timmons, Earle Pitts, > was stated, and will be housed in a j tor some time to locate the.plant in Heath Copeland, Brooks Owens, modern air-conditioned 200,0001 I^iurens. w ith a number of Laurens Buck Holland, Peck Cornwall square foot building to be construct- people joining in the effort, it was ed on a site about a half mile from' stated, including Ernest Easterby. County Bond Soles the «ity limits on the Greenville j president of the Laurens Glass -‘^erwrR-^nd ~ ~ rwururTTr^nratt^rsoh^’T^^ldofr oT’ month of October in Laurens. Coun-1 The .name of the enterprise will tie the Palmetto Bank, the county dele ty totaled $21,375. D F Patterson, Graham Manufacturing Company, | gallon in the General Assembly, and county savings bond chairman, re a newly organized company it was 1 Mayor Joe Medlbck and Cit? Coun ported - , * | stated Uil Aid Clinton's Community Chest Laurens has been chosen as the The coming of the new industry site for a new multi-million dollar ' 0 Laurens was termed a “s.gnif. industry. Robert M Cooper, direc tor of the South Carolina Develop | cant development'' by Mr Cooper. Daniel Construction Company, of Greenville, has the contract for the ment Board, yesterday advised The ] building and construction is expect Clinton High To Meet N. Augusta. Clinton residents who were injured last Thursday night in an automo bile accident on the eastern out skirts of Joanna, remained in criti cal condition at Greenville General Hospital yesterday, according to in formation received here. Mr. Harrison, a furniture dealer here, has head and chest injuries. Mirs. Harrison has head injuries, a broken arm and leg, and a dislo cated collar bone. Neither has regained conscious ness, information from Greenville stated. Mr. Harrison’s age was given as 45, and Mrs. Harrison’s a 40. He is a partner in the Burriss-Harrison Furniture Co. here. Patrolman J. A. Edens, the in vestigating officer, said the Harri sons' 1953 Oldsmobile ran off the road, clipped'a telephone pole off even with the ground and overturn- east of Joanna on Highway 76. The driver of the car apparently went to sleep. Patrolman Edens said. He had been unable to deter mine whether Mr Harrison or his wife was driving. The automobile was traveling w'est as the Harrisons were enroute Home from a Shriners convention in Columbia, the patrolman said. Patrolman Edens said the acci dent apparently occurred about 1:00 a. m., but the wreck went un noticed until 4:00 a. m. when it was discovered by a truck driver. Mr. Harrison was examined at Joanna hospital and Mrs. Harrison was taken to Blalock clinic in Clin ton Both were later transferred to Greenville General Hospital. Mrs. Harrison was discovered about 100 feet from the car and Mr. Harrison was partially under the vehicle. Patrolman Edens said the car was a total loss. Dobbins To Speak At Lions Meet Friday William C. 'Dobbins, Laurens County representative in the state legislature, will be the guest speak er Friday evening at a meeting of the Clinton Lions Club, it has been announced by club officials. Representative Dobbins, a mem ber of. the so-called Gressette Com mittee which studies and reports from time to time on questions con cerning segregation in the state, is expected to speak on the work and findings of the committee. Wives and friends of members have been invited to attend the meeting. Tickets Newberry-P. C. Gome Now On Sole Tickets for the Newberry-Presby- terian College football game on Thanksgiving day, .November 28. are now on sale at the four local drug stores. The game* will be played at 2 o’clock in the afternoon at Newberry. . Thornwell Is Back To Normal After Siege Of Influenza Things are getting hack to norqial at Thornwell Orphanage after a siege of influenza, Dr. M. A Mac donald, president of the institution, said yesterday Since the onset of the epidemic early in the month, 175 cliildren and workers have had flu, with 82 being the highest number at any one time. Approximately half the population of the campus has ex perienced the affliction Ten cases said yesterday by Mrs J. B Nich- are presently on the sick list, it was olson, nurse at the Thornwel hn- firmary, who also said that children in al but two homes have been given Asiatci flu shots, and they will be administered this week. No complications have developed from any of the cases, she said. School sessions were suspended for the week of November 4 in an effort to halt the’spread of the epi- demiic. Shown above are some of the leaders who figured in the highly successful campus fund drive of Pres byterian College in behalf of Clinton's United Fund. Pictured in the lobby of Hampton Avenue School Audi torium just prior to the presentation of the "P. C. Variety Show’’ last Friday night are, left to right: L. V. Powell, campus drive chairman; Dr. Fred E. Holcombe, president of the Community Chest; Herbert Entrekin, Pi Kappa Alpha, 100 per cent; Miss Norma Jean Wefsner, Alpha Psi Delta,' 100 per cent and winner of the highest per capita donation award; James E. Wolfe, drive chairman of Greater Clinton; George Sanborn, Theta Chi, 100 per cent; John Greer. Sigma Nu. 100 per cent. In his final report, Mr. Pnwell expressed his appreciation for the fine work done by all departments of the college to achieve 353.7 per cent of last year’s contribution to total $1,064.75. Dr. Holcombe commended Bill Yearick, president of the Student Cnristian Association, for their work in producing the “PC Variety Show” to culminate the Campus drive. He further pointed to the pride that should be felt by the college and the community concerning the contribution made by the college group. Mr. Wolfe congratulated the students for their interest and industry and complimented them on their contribution of 5.1 per cent of the total ettv goal to the drive.—Photo bv Yarborough. - , a ' * i . Tomorrow Night The Clinton High School Red Devils- will meet North Augusta in a rained out game at North Au gusta Friday night at K o’clock. The announcement of the re scheduling. of the game was made this week bv Coach Ralph "Buzz” Yedards. North Vugusta is unbeaten hut twice tied in a :»4-game string cov ering the last three years. Clinton, after a miserable beginning, has won four straight games and stands 5-5 for the season. The game was originally schedr tiled Oct. 4. but heavy rain and high winds l,hut weekend forced the postponement, being one of 12 contests washed out the same night. Union Thanksgiving Services At Thornwell, Wertz To Be Speaker A union Thanksgiving service for churches in the city will be held dt Thornwell Memorial Church on Thanksgiving morning. „ November 1 28. at 10 o’clock The Rev L Allen Wertz. Jr . pres ident of the Clinton Ministerial .As sociation, will be the speaker. The association has sponsored the union service for a number of years, and members of all churches are invit ed to join in the worship: