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> * . / ■ If You Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don’t Get The News The Chronicle Strives To Be A_ Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Volume LVIX Clinton, S. C, Thursdoy, February 13, 1958 Number 7 Students Recognized $ TTiese students were among the 75 recognized on Academic Recog nition Day at Winthrop College. To be named to the Distinguished List, a student must have made a “B” plus average, or higher, dur ing first semester of this school year. Front, left to right: Betty Jane Hamer, Clinton; Harriet Dantzler, Great Falls. Back row, Margaret Anne Boiick, Clinton; Martha Goodwin, Laurens; DuPre Love. Lnwrys. Merchants Meeting Called For Tuesday To Make Year's Plans A meeting of the Merchants Di vision of the Chamber of Commerce is. scheduled on Tuesday, Feb. 18. CharTes Johnson, chairman of the division, stated yesterday. The session will be held at Hotel Mary' Musgrove. beginning at 10 a m. Recommendations will be made for a calendar of events for the year, holidays and half-holiday, and sea sonal closing hours. All retail merehapts of the city- are requested to be represented at the meeting. $4,901.03 Reported In March of Dimes Effort Clinton Area Exceeds Total for 1957 Contrbiutions in the 1958 March of Dimes campaign in (Fib Clinton area totaled $4,901.03 up to Tuesday, ac cording to Mrs. Ben Hay Hammet, chairman. This amount exceeds that collect ed in 1957 by several hundred dol lars. Mrs. Hammet, in making her re port, pointed out that funds have been received from a number of miscellaneous sources that are not listed, and that further collections will increase the amount Mrs. Hammet was high in her praise for the cooperation and gen erosity of individuals and participat ing agencies and clubs. ‘‘Through out the campaign,” Mrs. Hammet said, ‘‘we have received nothing but „ . . , „ A , Members of Laure is C mnty s the finest cooperation. 'Registration Board are continuing Following is the report to date; 'their five days a week schedule of ? Cross Hill Joanna Colored Drive: Business Area Churches Mothers March Bell St. High School Bell St. Elementary Midday School fhornwell Orphanage . Coffees and Bridge Sun Bonnet Garden Club Boy Scouts 70.00 1,015.90 21.92 24.97 52 53 119.08 150.08 34 00 116.06 97 62 15.00 16.59 Registration Board Continues Scliedule Of Points In County Special Gifts Business Area Mothers March Clinton Mill Community Lydia Mill Community Schools: 101.82 72.23 Clinton High 70.62 Junior High 94.53 Hampton Avenue 1*3.82 Academy Street 175.21 Providence 43.50 Moose Lodge 151.091 Kiwanis Club 21.00 Exchange Club 23.24 Lions Club 25.80 Jaycees 202.80 Civitan Club 150.90 Teen-Agers J . 138.60 Theatre Collection 17.80 Whitten Village 249.60, Presbyterian College 131.121 Mountville 81.49 Whitener Contracts To Buy Fuller Land For Sum Of $270,000 Laurens, Feb. 6 — Probably the largest land contract in the history of the county was recorded Friday of last week in the clerk of court’s office. The contract'Ctflls for the sale of 1,907.9 acres of the lands of the late A. P. Fuller, who lived near Mount- ville, to Guy V. Whitener, Jr, of Newberry for the sum of $270,000 ' Signing the contract for the Fuller estate were the two executors, Clyde T. Franks and John T. Stokes. The sum of $40,000 was paid down by the purchaser. The femainder is| to be paid in 90 days Whitener is a lumber dealw; in' Newberry. The, pr&perty sold to him has been described as having very valuable timber on it. It was bought in by executors at an exec utor's sale Sept. 2, T957, for $300,- 600. Later it was optioned to D. F. Patterson of Laurens, for $301,000 As a part of the sale contract, Mr. Patterson surrendered any interest in his option. It was due (o expire Feb. 22, 1958 An action begun in Octob t er, 1957, by Richard W. Stokes of Bennetts- ville, against the executors to hasten the sale of the property was with drawn som& time prior to the sale, it was stated by T. David Sloan, one of the attorneys for the plaintiff. Mr. Fuller died In October, 1956, at the Laurens County Hospital at an advanced age. $ 360.00 appearances at precinct points in 225.04 the county tj issue^registration cer- ‘621.02 tificates to voters. in the final stages of a task that began in October. With -two -weeks off during the Christmas season, they resunved the schedule which take them through March 10. Today (Thursday) the board is at the Mt. Olive precinct, with head quarters at the community house; Friday will find the board at the Daniels Store precinct, at Martin Bros. Stoi;e. ' Next week, beginning Monday, ap pearances will be made in the Ekom community; Tuesday, at Mt. at Trinity Ridge. Beginning Monday, the 24th, the board will meet engagements dur ing the week nearer the Clinton area, with the dates and places as follows: Monday, 24lh, Cross Hill; Tuesday, 25th, Mountville; Wednes day, 26th, Woodville; Thursday, 27th, Youngs; Friday, 28tn, Long Branch. March will find the board at the court house in Laurens on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th, Gardner’s Store in the Hopewell section on March 6; Dav id Glenn's store near Renno on March 7; and at the Shady Grove schoolhouse on March 10. Members .of the board are Mrs. Raymond Cook of the Fountain Inn section, M. D. “Milam of Cli Aon, and H. C. Sims of Waterloo. Boy Scouts Will Be Guests Of Kiwanians At Meeting Tonight ' Boy Scout^w ill the guests of the ClintoryKiwarns Club for its spe cial program on highway safety to night (Thursday). Sergeant R.’W. Smith of the safety education division of the South Car olina Highway Department is the scheduled speaker for the occasion. The civic group’s first February meeting will be held at 7 p. m. in the Hotel Mary Musgrove. President A. C. Young said mem bers of Clintpn Boy Scout Troop No. 3 and Scoutmaster Milford Smith, the troop sponsored by the local Ki- wanis Club, have been invited to at tend. Young pointed out that not on ly is Feb. 7-13 National Boy Scout Week, but the promotion of highway safety is a main objective of both Kiwanis International and the Boy Scout programs for 1958. He added: ‘‘The Clinton Kiwanis Club be lieves highway safety should be stressed at all times, hut a special program now gives added emphasis to the thqcne. Nationally, during March, April and May, the Boy Scouts will 'stress traffic safety in their activities. Each unit is to take- part in a project in automobile, bi cycle, pedestrian, railroad or farm equipment safety.” Sergeant Smith is well-qualified for his role as a safety expert. He has served with the South Carolina Highway Department for the past ten years in various capacities, in cluding driver license examiner and law enforcement work, and he was graduated from the highway patrol training school. College Schedules Showing Of Films The Presbyterian College English department is sponsoring a series of fine films for the pleasure of stu dents, faculty members and inter ested friends of the college Five films are offered in the se ries: The Titfield Thunderbolt, on Police officers representing the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division of Coltimhi.i. the CRy of Clinton, and Laurens County were guests of the C linton Exchange ( lab Iasi -JAtesday night.at a program given in connection with Crime Prevention Week, sponsorr . in the city by the Exchange Club. Front row, left to right, are S. A. Timmons, program Law Enforcement Officers of Crime Prevention Week Program chairman; Lieut. Cate, of State Law Enforcement Division, who was chief speaker of the evening; L. P. Pearson, Exchange Clnh president; Clinton Chief of Police B B.'Ballard. Back row: Deputy Arthur Holt, Deputy H. R. Jones, Deputy Douglas Bums, sheriff ( W Wier, and Deputy Floyd Pitts.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. ' Democratic Clubs Meet February 22 Convention Mar. 3 Democratic precinct clubs in Lau rens County are called to meet at their usual meeting places on Sat urday, February 22, at 3 o’clock fi. m., according to notices mailed out thus week to executivti committee men of the various clubs by County Chairman R L Plaxico of Clinton, and to an offical notice appearing in The Chronicle today The meetings are called for the purpose of reorganizing the clubs in preparation for the forthcoming pri mary elections Each club will elect a president, a- viqe-president. a sceretary, a county executive , committeeman, and delegates to the Laurens County Democratic Convention which will meet at the court house in Laurens on Monday, March 3 - According to law. each club is en titled to one delegate to the county convention for each 25 votes or ma jority fraction, thereof cast in the first primary in 1956 Immediately after the meetings, or as subn thereafter as possible, the secretaries will forward the names of the officers of the various clubs and the names of the dele gates elected to Mrs. Caroline Cole man, Laurens, acting secretary of The county Democratic party Mrs. Coleman has been appointed to the post, succeeding Mrs. LeEl- len Williams Slay, who has moved her residence from the county. Accompanying the notices to the clubs was a tabulation of votes cast in the first primary and the num ber of delegates to the county con vention to which each precinct is j. Dennis Bennett, j90 Cases Face Court Term; fhornwell Resident, • • ■ & * ■ Masses From Illness Begins in Laurens Monday February 20; The Mikado, on Feb. entitled Ora 50 27; The Red Shoes, on March 6; Following is the list: Owings 98 The Importance of Being Earnest. V 1956 Dele Pleasant Mound 28 on March 14; and Henry’ V. on a PRECINCT Votes gates Poplar Springs 128 date to be announced. Baileys ' 48 2 Princeton 48 Tickets for the series can be pur- Barksdale-Namie r/93 4 Renno 28 chased for a nominal fee. No tic- Brewerton i • t >159 6 Shady Grove 39 kets for individual films will be sold Clinton No. 1 567 23 Shiloh 63 now for the evening of the perform- Clinton No. 2 0 V 498 20 Stewart's Store 40 ance. Tickets are on sale at the desk Clinton Mill 659 26 Tip Top 53 in the College-Community Library. Cook’s Store r 44 2 Trinity Ridge 99 All performances will be held in Cross Hill y 98 4 Waterloo 75 the Thornwell High’ School auditor- Dials // 27 1 Watts Mill 379 ium, and will begin promptly at 7:00 Daniels' 'Store 68 3 Woodville 140 p. m. Ekom y 98 4 Youngs 52 No tickets will be sold after 5:00 Gray’s 29 1 — p. m. on Feb. 19. Gray Court 206 8 TOTAL 7,626 J Dennis Bennett, 20, died^friday morning at a Charleston hospital following several months of declin ing health and one week of illness. He w as a son of the late J Fletch er and Julia Ducket Bennett He had made his home at Thornwell Orphanage for*13 years and was a graduate of Thornwell High School He was a freshman at Presbyterian College Surviving are four sisters, Mrs Jolene B Nalley of Clinton; Miss Yvonne Bonnet of Red Springs. N C.: Miss Elaine Bennett of Fort Mead, Mil.; and Miss Emily Ben nett of near Laurens: his grandpar ents, Mr and Mrs H H Bennett of near Laurens; Mr. and Mrs J L Duckett of near Clinton Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 3:00 p m. at Thornwell Memorial Church by Dr M. A. Macdonald, president of fhornwell Orphanage Burial was in P.oseinont •v'cutery f Pallbesrers were Maxie Gfay. J ll .'Jockins. Jerry Stewart, Milton , „ t . .. . . Mays, Marion Dowdle. and Barbie) Maude Hart -, wh .« dl ^ ,n J. 938 Bay Murder Charges Head Heavy Docket A one week term ot court of gen : ral sessions scheduled to begin in 'Laurens Monday morning will be faced with 29 holdover cases and 61 new cases, according to a list pre i ared in the office of clerk of court early this week P^arl Elizabeth Buster Williams, conspiracy to murder Als. . E.ell SulHvjn, carrying un- lawful weapons and murder; Walter (Wash i Pitts: stroing illegal whis key. Elroy Maxwell housebreaking J. W. Montgomery )ies In Spartanburg Joseph Wvlie Montgomer" 75. Clinton resident, died Sunday at a Spartanburg hospital following a week’s illness Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon at the Floyd Mortuary conducted by Dr Marc*~Weersing, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Spartanburg Burial was in Oakwood Cemetrey Th * 29 holdovers will go directly xr ' , * , to. the court for trial or guilty pleas, I r ,u ‘ ,lt ’ 1 " m “ ; ‘ Mr Montgomery was a nattve of cases w,11 go b.- Motes. Ray UVwirow •Um.. Spartanburg and attended the Spar- Joel Aaron, all lor drunk dm,ng *or.K..r.r cnhrra.U an< i \\ OffOrd COL . true bills or no bills John Higgins Jones is scheduled to appear to answer a murder -charge in the holdover ease, while the new murder charges to be be fore the grand jury include Charlie Blackwell of Clinton, fo- the murder One murder case was held over and .grand larceny: Albert Smith, from the last term and two/ new breach uf—lruM Bnoks Chapman, murder cases will go before the I breirft nf trust ; Homer ShirteyTas- grand jury for action sault and battery Bobby Dean Wagner non support. William V. Fulmer, Willie Oscar Bishop, Willie tanburg schools lege 1 For several vears he had m He his home in the Clinton, where he was connected with Yarborough Oil Company. He was a member of Clinton’s Broad Street Methodist Church. Mr Vf mtgomexy wa* tv ice-mar- ! ried His first marriage was to Miss In 1946 he married Miss Betsy Ham, of Mebane, N. C. Hopewell 67 Hickory Tavern 256 Joanna 527 Jones Store 93 Lanford 63 Long«Branch * 77 Lydia Mill 295 Laurens. Ward 1 499 Laurens, Ward 2 143 Laurens, Ward 3 366 Laurens, Ward 4 1X4 Laurens. Ward 5 577 Laurens, Ward 6 241 Maddens 100 Mountville 78 Merna 41 Mount Olive 77 Mount Pleasant 38 his \vi?e. William G. 3 j Surviving are 1U ' daughters,. Mrs. ham and Mrs William H son. 21 4! both of Spartanburg 3 3 one twq Gres- Carr, Gen Also. William Coot' Dean, house- 1 peak mg and larceny, two* charges, James Curtis Scott, non-support H E Suiliv an. operating and maintain ing a nuisance. James B Burbage, issuing worthless checks. Archie Morgan, drunk driving, second of Of-Juan Aquino in January, ^dj Sti e ktand non sup- James Bay Dixon of Greeaviie ^ ***** ^ county, for the murder of Clarence ^ two cha, ^‘ s ^ rebreaking Mahaffey in the upper part of the '' ^ gratMi ^ county last Sunday Judge J B Pruitt of Anderson, will be the presiding judge Holdover Cases Hugh Lee Williams, drunk driv ing, Leo Westfield ami Rose West eral J. B Montgomery, retired, of field, violation of the liquor law. 12 2° | 6 14 7 23 10 4 3 2 2 4 1 5j 2 Cincinnati. O . three si.-tersk Mrs, John O. Lahrie, of Melbourne Beach, Fla.; Mrs. Alton L Broadwater,, of Fort Walton. Fla . and Miss Aonie Montgomery, of Washington. D C\, and seven grandchildren I Republicans Of Counly To Meet In I aurens On Fet). 22 Lloyd Eugene Johnson, two cases of disjxusing of property under lien Arthur Davis, assault and battery, John Higgins Jones, assault and bat tery Frank Huey, grand larceny; Lee Earl Anderson, drunk driving, second offense. Daniel Shelton, as sault and battery. Wilton Murphy, 'Charlie Murphy. Lawrence Medlin, larceny and receiving ,stolen goods. J T Roach, housebreaking and lar ceny and receiving stolen goods. Wilbur. Cunningham, non-support; J,ames L Smith, two charges of forgery, Charles W Collins, dis using of property under lien ; disposing of property under lien. Anthony Henderson, non suport Ja cob Jones, non support Law Enforcement Officers And Others Guests Of Local Club The Chnton Exchange Cl,ub ob served National .Crime Prevention week with a special program last Tuesday night that assembled offi cers of the South Carolina Law En forcement Division. Chnton and Laurens County, and ministers and educators of the city Speaker for the occasion was Lt. M N Cate, of the State Law En- 2 3 2 T 4 3 15 Republican Party adherents m- Hugh Porter. wwlaHon of the ^ Lrc ^ m f nL ^isiun. who stated that Laurens Countyhave been called to tu l»or law. two-counts. (Manor Ca-1 800 h , Carolln * has a good cnme T' meet in precinct dub session at the j an< f Geneva Cathy, operating court house in Laurens on Satur- and maintaining nuisance; J B 0 *’ r day' February 22, at 3:00 p Satur m *N(ltice of the meeting was issued by Harod Laws, of l-jureiis, county chairman. Purpose of the meeting, it was stated, is for reorganization and 6 election of delegates to the county 2 convention The .date of the county convention 308 was not stated record in comparison with states, but that crime intent to ravish. Clyde David Nelson, drunk driving, third of- Staff in County Auditor's Office Lawson Announces H s Candidacy For County Supervisor Ryan F. Lawson today announces that he will be a candidate for Su pervisor of Laurens County in the 1 forthcoming Democratic primary election^ Mr. Lawson is a farmer and cat tle breeder of the Hopewell section south of Clinton He is a 1931 grad uate of Presbyterian College Mr Lawson is active in farmers’ affairs, being chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Laurens County Soil Conservation District, em mediate pasC. president of /the County Farm Bureau, anti vice- president of the South Carolina Hereford Breeders Association. He made a creditable showing in his first venture into politics two years ago when he was in the race for County Commissiorteri. Continuing the series of photos of personnel in the various county offices in the court house in Laurens, The Chronicje this week shows Miss Jennie V. Culbertson, auditor (center), and the two members of her office force. At the left is Mrs. Ruby W. Curry, who has served in the office for eight years. At right is Mrs. Helen W. Rodgers, who has been connected with the office for 12 yraij^l^s Culbertson has held her position since October, 1M2. the first nine months being the un- explred term of Auditor Sam R. Dorroh, whom she succeeded. Mr. Dorroh, whose health had failed, did not offer for reelection in 1942. and Miss Culbertson, who had been nominated in the primaries, was named to the post when Mr. Dorroh died before completing his term. She has been reelected every (our yeaip since.—Photo by Dan Yar borough. '•trong. drunk driving, second of- fcn.se. B A Wooten,—larceny and receiving stolen goods, J T Collins, violation of liquor law Bobby Alexander. Gordon Whit lock, and Richard Matthews, facing three charges of gram) larceny, were transferred to Newberry coun ty foi-j trial for offenses in that coun ty - 4 ' To Face Grand Jury Charles Baker, receiving stolen i goods. Willie Anderson; Lewis Can non, Jr . an d Charley Simpson, I man ufacturinq itTegal liquor. Charles H Emery, housebreaking: [and grand larceny; Edward Edens, non support Bil Hunnicutt__con i dinting Ui^tirtiTTquency of minor ; \rthur A Bradley, non.support. |'Sam me Copeland, disposTiig ,<t | property tmdocJiea; Thomas Floyd, drunk driving, second offense. 'J-'.ck Peaw, non-support Chas H Emery forgery Ronald Suber. as j sault ‘and battery. Floyd Phipps, \ i'spesing of property under lien Will Clark, uhmk driving, second | offense. Also, Dan Kpting, James L Can ,j non. Billy Sexton, Guy Copeland, j non Nupbrt. James Jeter, sttrring and concealing stolen goods; Grace and Milton Burton, obtaining money under false pretenses Charles Hunter, Sam Cleveland, William C.i Allen, WTlhe Hunter. Jimmy Lewis Griffin, Melvin Calvert, Charles H Hunter, R D Allgood, ^phr^ny Hdl, Donald Godfrey, Fred L Hosteller, Presbyterian Church, the Rev Al len Wertz, ''pastor of St John's Lu theran Church. Dr Marshall VS Brown, president Oi Presbyterian. College. W R Anderson, superin tendent of. schools Chief B B Bal- iard, of the Clinton police depart ment; [Sheriff C. VV Wier of Lau ren.' County and Deputy Sheriffs Douglas Burns H R Jones. Floyd Pit'* and Vrthur Holt Camp Fire, Blue Bird Dad-Daughters Suppers Th annual Dad-Daughter Sweet- U just it suppers t at inn' ,w:!! he Nc. 1 u k r. « vc' been ronij the. tlf't s'i icen use. The nine C; o Thurso members on to be ’'eld at 7 ... iTte g !s w and coffee, a; iunii'jied .• the Camp Fire or- ho given this week 4> Fue building on The building has .Ie : ed and this will ■ axons on which it .ip> will enter- ins even in?, • ramp Fire evening Both • riday K) p. II bni J 1 soft g bo x drinks lunches vi ill be Secpnd Clinic For Polio Shots some is in- i iiuioaiiw , »/ LJ Walker, breach of trust and grand creas,n * «> the state faster than the larceny. Noah Jackson, pteping ‘“rmal increase in populaUon tom Vernon (j Turner, asault and Lt Cate showed color slides and battery Walter Lawson, assault explained the modem setup of the, state's law enforcement agency jn Columbia, and the use of film in fehse; Jt R Rumon and Junior keeping records and aiding in crime Lawson, larceny and receiving sto- detection len goods. Marilene James and Te-I Among those present for the meet retha James, disposing of property mg were the Rev. C Bynum Betts, under lien. Leland Floyd Arm-j pastor of, the Associate Reformed The second dime for. polio shots at Howard's Pharmacy will be held all for disposing of property under February 18 from t 30 Until 3pm lien; John Marvin Anderson, cape. All wpo took first shots at laM clinic Charles Wesley, violation of Section are akked to come for the second in 55 12. Dunham (Sank) WTIhamv^and the series] The 'hot' are 90o