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Volume LVIX
Clinton, S. C, Thursdoy, February 13, 1958
Number 7
Students Recognized
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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;
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Thurso
members on
to be ’'eld at 7
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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