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' > If You Don’t Read Thfi Chronicle You Don’t Get The News /‘ A The Chronicle Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIX Clinton, S. C, Thursday, January 23, 1958 Number 4 Sell Blue Crutches In Polio Campaign Board Hears Report On Charlie. Blackwell Held Gas Authority Business Death 0 f p uerto Ri ean The Clinton - Newberry Natural! named by the six city officials from Gas Authority closed operations for area served by the Authority, 1957 with all current obligations paid;Regnery being that member, and a cash balance of more than Be is currently serving as chair- $20,000, it was revealed at the Jan- man uary meeting of the Authority last Thursday. r During the year the Authority paid interest and principal on out- Copeland Retires From Production Credit Position Juan Aquino Dies From Bullet Wound Juan Andujar Aquino '24-year-old Thomas property, *-where Aquino v Puerto Rican, was shot to death lived w ith C C ash and the shoot- The meeting was held at the Clin- star >ding bonds in the amount of POSlflOH about 4 .10 Tuesday afternoon at mg started Aquino, he said, rart ton office of the Authority, with a PP roxirnat(, ly $150,000 from earn- , I^ike Thomas store and filling sta- into some woods near the house amirf Walter Regnery of Joanna, chair- mgs of the Authority for the second ‘ tion, abou* three miles from Clinton a hale of bullets Aquino Unen cir- man, presiding. Other members of y<*ar lormerly, interest Ceqpge W < opeland has retired ()ll Laurens highway ■ cled around and returned to ’he the board of directors of the Author ! an d principal was paid partly from from his position as assistant secre MHd m th(> l nur( ,^ rntintv house from the back The fi..nt ity include Mayor J. P. Terry of a cushion fund established from; tary treasurer of the Clinton Pro- Held in the Laurens County jail ind facing a charge of cmT ®d njr uiviuuc u«ta/vi i. ic.ij ui i - . ~ 1 - r*.''" vestferUnv md facins i cl i cnrrea Clinton, vice-chairman; Councilmen' r ^ ,(lu< -* " f a revenup bon<1 dUction CmHt Assonation after 24 ; ; i h .rlie^Bi.. kwell >«i 'here that the fatal shot oa i James P. Sloan and Harry C. Lay- which the gas system years of service. He was employed * ^\«Ze ' " ^ ♦>-«liet • ver?found ,n th* ton. of Clintony Mayor E. H. Lay- ^ built as b<H»kkeeper for the association ‘ walls of the kitchen AqU.no her Clinton Men Face Greenwood Charges “Blue Crutch Days” were observed here Friday and Saturday when members of the (Minton Moose Lodge sold the Utile crutch emblems on the streets of the city for the benefit of the March of Dimes. Va rious members of the lodge were on duty from time to time on both afternoons. Shown above at one of their “stands” on the public square are Cecil Wooten (left), governor of the lodge, and Gholdie Simmons, who reported a brisk sale of the emblems.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. "Fashions For '58" To Be Presented By Episcopal Auxiliary Committees in charge of planning and producing “Fashions for ’58,” a style show to be presented Febru ary 12 by members of the Women’s Auxiliary of All Saints Episcopal Church, were named'this week. Chairmen for the event, which is to take place at 4; 00 p. m. at the 'Mary Musgrove Hotel ballroom, in clude; stores and prizes, Mrs. E. N. Sullivan; tickets. Mrs. N. B. Jones; refreshments, Mrs. R Many Agencies' Busy In Effort for March of Dimes # _ Mothers March at Mills on Friday ton, of Newberry, and Councilmen Payments on principal and inter- 'In it \\ .y or.ani/i*-! 1014 and ' Aquino died tiom > , - C. A Duford and Frank Armfield st are made in June and Decern fevered his connection on January wounffetn tne right chesty said by of Newberry, the latter being V new ber, with approximately $50.t)00 on; T Sheriff i V\ Wier to have q u. member. the principal and $50,000 interest With Mr Copelands retirement. by Blackwell Aquino a a' The board is composed of the <’oming#due in June and $50,000 in- he closed a career with financial a * s,) . *bot through the right h.e.d mayor and two councilmen from! ,e^es, m December. offices and insfitlutions that began In a fight which occurred aft r each city and a seventh member It was pointed out at the meeting 1 —— Thursday that bonds of the Author- j ity are now selling at-about $90 af- i ter reaching a low point of approxi- roately half that amount Several years ago The Authority is serving 3.450 ga$ ! users in Clinton, Newberry and Job] Greenwood, Jan. 16—Four Clin ahna, including all cotton milLs and ton men were arrested here early | other large industrial users in the this morning and charged with 'hree areas, and does a business of breaking into Bobbie’s Drive-In a, a PP rox i ma l e ly $500,000 annually, short time earlier, according to * be system was built by the cities Sheriff J. Cal White’s office j of C linton and Newberry and will The men were identified by sher , * v t* n tually be owned by the two iff’s deputies as William Earl Cal- lowns vert, 23, Jesse J a mes Calvert. 18. Maintenance and operation is cen- Paul Eugene WUbanks. 22, and Dav-i ,en ' d m Clinton, while financial af-: id Arthur Smith. 22. fairs are hand,ed at the berry The four were arrested by City Collection offices are main-! Policemen Woodrow Tipton ami ll 1 l , , , < in < a ®, C1 ^ Jimmy Moore. Wilbanks and Smith were turned over to county officers and charged with housebreaking and Jarceny ^ i lhe Transcontinental Pipeline Com The two Calverts will be turned . Wyman M Shealy i s general manager of the system* and divides his time between the tvCo cities. The Authority buys its gas from The public schools, civic clubs and women of the Clinton and Lydia communities are throwing their support behind Clinton’s 1958 March of Dimes campaign this week A Mother’s March scheduled for B. Hellams both the Clinton and Lydia com mu- aid Mrs. J. B. Hart; decorations, Mrs. Bailey Dixon and Mrs. James Macdonald; .music, Mrs. A. B Stump. The fashion show is to preview spring and summer styles in chil dren’s, teen-agers’ and ladies’ ap parel. Clothes to be worn by local models will be presented “by Clinton ready-to-wear shops land depart ment stores. Features of the afternoon’s enter tainment include door prizes and light refreshments, according to Mrs. R. M. Turner, general chair man. The style show, the fourth annual presentation of its kind to be spon sored by the auxiliary, is for the purpose of adding proceeds to the carpet fund for All Saints Church. MRS. COOLEY AT BOARD MEET Mrs. John B. Cooley, of Mount- ville, spent Thursday in Columbia at an Executive Board meeting of mg the Woipen of the Church, Synod of Chamber of Commerce set South Carolina. throw'up a Polio Roadblock on Sun nities on Friday night and a teen age ’dance for polio on Saturday night, at which the March of Dimes queen will be crowned, highlighted the full week of activity. Among the other projects under sponsorship of Clinton young people are: change cards being filled by school children, theatre collections by the Campfire Girls, a special high school film program, Boy Scouts shining shoes for polio on Friday afternoon and junior high girls selling fortunes on Saturday. Three civic clubs also have activi ties planned. Members of the Ex change Club plan a Clothesline of Dollars for the business section on Friday afternoon between 4 and 6 o’clock. The Lions Club will stage its Friday night program around the infantile paralysis film and will eat a lighter supper for polio, with sur plus expenses of a regular meal go to the drive. And the Junior to Bank of Clinton Names Three New Directors day between 3 and 5 p m. to so licit contributions. The teen-age dance is set for the American Legion building between 8 and 11 p m. Saturday^ The vet erans organization will contribute the use of the building, and music will be orovided through the cour tesy of the Star Dusters under the dilution of Vinton Smith. A special feature of this dance will be the crooning of the March" of Dimes queen, chosen by secret ballot of the high '.school students from among these four lovely can didates; Diane Pripe, Ann Ray, Barbara Roberts Afltl Dell Wilder. . Funeral Rites Today For J. M. Hatton At / Church' In Joanna over to county officials after facing charges in city court, according to city officials. William Calvert was charged with driving without a South Carolina driver’s permit and Jesse was charged with carrying a con cealed weapon. Officers reported he w a s carrying a pair of brass knuck les. Deputy Giles Daniel said when ap prehended, the men had "in their possession four cases of beer, tv»o hams, a rolled ham, 17 packages of assorted cigarettes and four hand kerchiefs. One of the men had the padlock from the drive-in door and a key to fit it, Deputy D a niel said. Babson's Articles To Appear Weekly Hn The Chronicle „ Roger W. Babson, a pioneer in the field of business and financial statistics, has become a weekly con tributor to The Chronicle. He will discuss business and in vestments, jobs and wages, land and building, living costs and retail trade, inflation and taxes, and oth er topics of the day. — — The views^ of this man, whose keen business judgment is well known over the country, will be of interest generally, but more partic ularly to those engaged in business. pony, conecting with the transmis-! sion line at a point above Fountain-! Inn The Authority owns its line from Fountain-Inn to Newberry. jumo then rail and hid uncjpr another small house on the property and presum ably died there Hj' was pronounced dead upon aiVn.il at Blalock < !imc here the shooting began Blackwell suf Aqu,no W3S ’» ( feted several licks on the head 1 and P u J >wood ^ lo * :ia - v ’ r ' l * t " ,lv body, said by Sheriff W.er to have 18 blMn * heid ,ira > Fun ‘‘ ral Hvme been <ieli\eVi'd with a baseball bat ' from P’L.-ives in Puerto Rico in the hands of Aquinp before the fatal shot Shcnffstteputios H R Jones .and George Blackwell, brother of the man held, arrived on the scene atui took Blackwell to the Laurens Coun ty Hospital 11: medicaI*attefl$ion He was later placed in the county jail -h .ft Wier ad that witnesses oa the scene stated tnat Blackwell came to a small house on the L-iki Stale Jaycees Head lo Address Clinton Chapter On Jan. 28 Sheriff G .t: stated that he wired -•mho: itie- a; i a>\. n n Puerto fyeft where a registration car : found on the body was issued, in an effort to get in touch with relatives I p to mxm Wednesday nothing had" been heard from Puerto Rico Little is known here of the dead man He ha- been employed by Mr Gash for about three months the .sheriff said he was informed. Be fore that, the sheriff said, he was thought .to nave been employed in the Woodruff area ^ • i ' the sljerat also -aid ’.hat ** bad blood” existe : etw e -n the t wo men.- He said they had a fight recently in which knives were used ( ash :.- ft.i.; * er w.tn Har.ud Brownlee of the Lake Thomas -.tore, which is about 30 yards - from the house Where the shooting occurred. GEORGE WATTS COPELAND The-members of the Clinton Jun ior Chamber of Commerce will hon or their bosses at their dinner meet 'the.shorn j said he was informed in mi m the county treasurer^ * ,he Hotel * Mar >" Mu ** rove w * *?*** ,b - ,t ^ n ‘ n " lice in Laurens under his father: m ' h '” ,armar y ^ at 7 3 '’ Mate Law Enforcement when a lad of 17 u ““ JayTl'e is. expected to -have^hi In vision in Columbia and that Lt. , .employer as his guest for thi^ ik- Frank Faulk wa-. sent to assist local Mr (opeland was born in 1884 ,, K ,,, , , , , casion ofticers in the an estigat un m view near Hurricane Church > in Jacks i It- i.’ / i . ii * j tiic ' featured sneaker will In "f the tact that one ot t: c sherift s [Township, the son of John H and- , , . . 1 , Richard P Moses, well known Sum deputies is a brother of the man ter insurance and real estate exec- held in the case' C. W. Hogan, Clinton Man, Purchases Radio i Martha Thompson Finney Copeland r g » a ■ His father, a farmer, served as L ^ MatlOn n AshPV! P ^l-reasurer-ofthe county from 1885 U ' 1VP ’ who ls the current president JIQIIUII III lUIICflllC l0 18)J0 Elected again - in 1901 he Of the South Carolina Jumor Cham served until 1906~tt was during this b " r of Commerce Mr Moses has period that young George began his act,v I e f “ r a n , umber of ^ business career as assistant to his m ^-work of the . aycees in South father . _ ( arolina i , , ; Also on the program the local Chapman & Co., Atlanta brokers ; t»S ,,JayC, ’ <r chapter wil1 A $7,000 gift to the Presbyterian who handled the deal £ , v . bookkeeper with tty; award to Clinton’s “Young Man of t’ollege development program by Skyway Broadcasting Co was thf ^.^g^rway w.Ih’J S^CrX ,hc Year " A group of Jud8C8 Alumnus « xss Templeton of Char- C. VV. Hogan has purchased radio station WLOS in Asheville for $105,- 000, according to announcement in Asheville this week by Paul H. Templeton Gives $7,000 To College seller as president and J. Downs Bell as Hogan, a native of Iowa, until r*' cashier. Mr. Craig resigned two or ^e"the la’rgest "cmninbuturns select the young man between the lotte, was announced* tixlay by dies of 21 and 35 who they feel has 1 President Marshall W Brown to! Templeton, who serves as Caro- cotnnuimty welfare artd civic im bnas division manager of Field En- provement in Clinton during the, terpnses. contributed $3 000 last vear 1957. This is an annual project y<'ur and recently made an addition- of the Javcees throughout the na ! al of SJ.iXk) to bring his total tion. and the local winner will be, contribution to the program to $7,- eligible for statewide and national 00ft 00 recognition ! A member of the class of 1924 at . •— PC’, Templeton ranks as one of the after his farm in the Hurricane sec- cm M Y BOND SALES top five division managers of the tion, which he later sold Series E and H savings bonds national Field Enterprises orgam- In 1928 Mr Copeland was married sales in Laurens County for Decern zation and he w as named last year *-o Miss Ethel Jon^s of Mountville ber were $36,668 75. bringing the to receive, Presbyterian's Alumni Gold P Award for outstanding achievement He is a native of Ow- ings in Laurens Countv cently part owner ami general man ager of Laurens-blinton radio sta tion WLBG, made his home in Clin ton. He plans to take over active operation of the Asheville station The Atlanta firm -said the sale agreement was reached Jan 3 and filed with the Federal Commuriica- tioijs Commission last week He s a id the FCC usually takes about six weeks to grant approval of such transfers. 1 WLOS operates on a 6 a m. to They have on son, George Thump- total sales for the.year 1957 to $396. midnight schedule It has 5.000 watts ; son Copeland They reside on North 825 2'o, reports D‘ F Patterson. in~the daytime and 1,000 at night Adair street County Savinas Bonds Chairman three years later, being succeeded by B H. Boyd, who headed the Bank until it closed during the 1931 de pression. Mr Copeland’s service with the bank continued for 25 years During the period 1931 1934 he op-' crated a service station and looked John M. Hatton, Sr., died at an early hour Wfednesday morning at his home on Moorhead street in , p r0( J uct j 0n Credit anna. He had been m declining health for several years but his death was unexpected. Mr. Hatton, a native of Laurens county, was born October 3, 1892 He was a son of the late Thomas J. and Nannie Scott: Hatton. He was a veteran qf World War I, a mem ber of the Masonit Lodge and the Joanna Presbyterian Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Willie Mae Godfrey Hatton; two sons, J,. ,M V Hatton, Jr., and W'illiam S Hat- Staff of Laurens County Supervisor s Office Names McCrackin For Newberry Post J Thad McCrackin, Jr., a New berry farmer, is the new field repre sentative of the Clinton Production Credit Association. He succeeds R C. Hunter, who served for 20 years. McCrackin, a graduate of Clem- son College, is active in farmers or ganizations in Newberry County. • H. L. Eichelberger, J. C. Thom Addison and Young, vice presidents; grandchildren. Clinton Production Credit Asso- >on, of this city; a sister, Mrs E [ciatiun makqs^loans to farmers in W Copeland of Laurens; and fqur Laurens and Newberry counties as, and J. Leland Young tvtre Reel ed directors of the Bank of Clinton at a stockholders meeting on Jan uary 14 .according to announcement yesterday by R. P. Hamer, presi dent. After hearing a report on the. thad fcMiurccs-and liabilities of $2,- year’s operations, the stockholders also re-elected the following as di rectors: T. E. Addison, T. H. Cope land, John W. Finney, R. P. Hamer, H. D. Henry, H. Y. McSween, J P. Prather, and John T. Young. ' Following the stockholders meet ing, the directors re-elected as of ficers; Messrs. Hamer, .president; Clinton Lions To See Polio Rehabilitation Movie On Friday Night A film on polio rehabilitation'will feature the meeting of the Lions Club Friday night, President Wil liam Jacob; states. The meeting will be at Hotel Wary: Musgrove at 7:30. The meal td be* served will be of a less expensive’ variety and the dif ference in cost between it and'the Usual menu will be donated to the current March of Dimes campaign. Jacobs said. i McSween, cashier; and Lea man D. Jones, assistant cashier. The bank, organized in 1948, erected its own building in 1956. A condensed statement of condi tion on December 31 shows the bank 367,653.30. Capital stock was given as SlOO.oqp; surplus. $80,000; undi- vid d profits, .$13,102.59; reserves, $i0,U00; and deposits, $2,164^550.71. Exams At College Underway This Week Presbyterian College students are bitting the testing hurdle this wedk as professors administer final ex aminations for the forst semester of the'1957-58 session. ' — Two exams have be«n scheduled daily, beginning last Monday morn ing and extending through Friday, and a final- test closing the week- long siege- is set for next Saturday morning. Teh students -can look forward to a brief vacation after the examina tions white professors compile first semester grade*. Registration for the second semester 'will be held on January 30, and the regular schedule of classwork will be re sumed the next morning. Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Thursday) at 3 o'clock at the Joanna Presbyterian Church, conducted by Dr. D. J. Woods, the Rev. James B. Mitchell and the Rev. George ,H. Hodges. Irfterment will be in Rosemont cemetery here. The body will be at the home until the hour of the services. Active pallbearers will be Hubert J Pitts, Jeff D Boland, Jr, John A: Davis, A. A. Ramage, Jr., Thomas Crawford, Edgar Copeland, William Boyd, and Hubert Lindsey. Honorary pallbearers will be Ralph and Charles* Copeland, Hugh Bonds Workman, Joe Bonds, Gus Gary, Roy Crawford, Dr. George R. Blalock, L. Ray Pitts, J. J. Corn wall, J P. Prather, John Riser, Broadus Scott, Thomas Scott, and C. W Anderson. Mr. Hatton in recent years had been employed by Joanna Stores, Geo. A. Copeland and Son, Whitten Village, and Bonds Lumber Co. CLINTONIANS IN COLUMBIA FOR UNVEILING Mrs. Nene D.,Workman, Mrs, Jr Hamp Stone, Mrs. P. M. Pitts, Mrs. Joe Leake and Mrs. Wilson Harris attended the unveiling exercises of the bust of Robert E. Lee at the State House in Columbia Tuesday. I- Quorterly Meeting Of Laurens Association Baptist Brotherhood Th6 first quarterly meeting of the Laurens Assocation Baptist Brother hood will be held Tuesday, January 28, at 7:30 at the Warrior Creek BaptGt Church. Rufus Handback. program vice- president,- urges each Baptist church in the association to send a delegation. ~ , . • * Dist. Gov. To Visit Joanna Lions Tonight District Governor Victor Chap man, of Anderson, will make an of ficial visit to the Joanna Lions Club -tonight- (Thursday); club officials have announced. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7:30 at the Joanna Club House. President Calude Lawson will pre side 'and he requests a full atten dance of the membership. Visiting Lions are also welcome, he stated. Y~~ • *•’ i ' i i. i i —— VISITORS LN RALEIGH Mr and Mrs. Ansel B. Godfrey were week-end guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Dick in Raleigh, N. C. Y Here are the people who look after affairs In the business office of Laurens County—the Supervisor's office. Here center actlvities'relat- ing to road building and maintenance, county buildings, the county borne, etc. Seated are Mrs. Fred Garrett and Mrs. Tommy Cox, / clerks in the office. Mrs. Garrett has served for the past two vears .1 . _ I - and Mrs. Cox has had five years of service. Standing arc Bennie B. Blakely, Supervisor; Paul S. O’Dell a*4 Furman E. Thomason. County Commisslooers. Mr. Blakely has been Supervisor since 1951. being elected after serving four years as i'ommisshxier. Messrs. O'Dell and Thomason are in their first two r year terms as Commis sioners. having been elected in 1956.—Photo by Dan Yar,borough.