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i If Yoo Don’t Read The Chronicle You Don't Get The News Volume LVIX The Chronicle ' V Strives To Be A Clean News paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable Clinton, S. C. # Thursday, March 6, 1958 * Number 10 At Camp Fire Conference Here Last Week High School Robbery Still Goes Unsolved No arrests have been made in connection with the recent break-in and robbery at the Clinton High School, it was stated yesterday. Local oficers and State Law En forcement men have been working on the case. Entry was made in the early morning hours through the gym. The cafeteria and both administra tive offices were entered. Seven doors were damaged, five locks broken, and three blocks knocked out of the safe wall. About $45 or $50 was stolen from the safe, and the pay telephone de- miblished. Laurens County Democratic Party Officials Shown here are local, regional, and national officials of Camp Fire Girls at the annual regional meet ing and conference of Region III, which embraces several Southeastern states, held last week-end at Hotel Mary Mnsgrove in Clinton. Left to right are Mrs. Elizabeth Siddall, regional director from Jacksonville, Fla.; Mrs. Thomas Hollis, president of the Clinton Camp Fire Council; Mrs. Helen Rowe, assistant national director, New York; Mrs. J. B. Templeton, treasurer of Clinton Council; and Mrs. David Word, vice presi dent of the Clinton Council. Mrs. Rowe was principal speaker at the meeting at which workshops were conducted on work of the organization and general conferences held relating to phases of activity and progress in the region. —Photo by Dan Yarborough. Board of Registration to Hold Sessions Every Day At Court House and Out in County The Laurens County Registration Board will be in session at the Court House in Laurens six days every week from now on until further no tice is given, it was determined Monday afternoon at the monthly meeting of the Laurens County leg islative delegation in the court house in Laurens. With fhe addition of new clerks to assist the three members of the board, all of whom are empowered to sign the certificates, faster prog ress can be made in serving pro spective voters as they make appli cation for the new certificates, it was pointed out. With the additional clerks, the board can be split up, a division of the board going out to various pre cincts in the county where there is a demand for additional meetings in order to register voters who have not yet made application for cer tificates. Additional dates for sittings of the board were arranged Monday for Joanna and Clinton City. The board will be in Joanna on Monday and Tuesday, March 17 and 18, and in Clinton the following week on March 24 and 25. Meanwhile the board will continue to give service in Laurens. The hours to be otwerved each day, Mon day through Saturday, in Laurens r d out in the county, will be from a. m. to 7 p. m., beginning next week. Hie additional service to be given by the board was arranged in order to facilitate the re-registration of voters. It is estimated there are about 15,000 eligible voters in the county. Approximately 8,000 had se cured their new registration certifi cates through the first of this week. A division of the board will be in session today (Thursday) in the Hopewell section, at Gardner’s store; and Friday at David Glenn’s Service Station in the Ren no sec tion. ^Monday. March IQ, will find the board at the Shady Grove school house, and Tuesday, the 11th, at Cross Roads store near Ware Shoals. J. J. Clark, of Clinton, has been appointed as a member of the reg istration board effective March 15; succeeding M. D. Milam, of Clinton, whoee two-year term expires on that date and who requested not Jo be reappointed. He has served on the board for many years. Other members of the board are Mrs. Ray mond Cook, of Fountain Inn, and C. F. Sims, of Waterloo. Other business transacted Mon day by members of the delegation included the hearing of a request by the Laurens Soil Conservation Dis trict for an appropriation of $500 to employ secretarial help in the dis trict’s office to keep records, col lect and pay bills, act as timekeep er and paymaster, and to keep the office open when technicians are out in the field. The request was presented by Ryan Lawson, chair man of the board of District Super visors, and was taken under consid eration by the delegation. The County Supervisor and Com missioners appeared before the delegation to request additional funds for operations at'the county home through the fiscal year clos ing June 30. The Commissioners stated they had a balance of $2.- 264.90 on hand for operations for the four months remaining in the year. Operations costs have been aver aging about $700 per month, with some months more than that due to increased heating costs. The delega tion adopted a resolution requesting the Supervisor and Commissioners to “exercLe caution in making ex penditures at thl county home, but not to the extent of depriving in mates the necessities of life.” The delegation intimated they would make further provision of funds when the present balance is ex pended. ' A request was received from the Mountville Parent-Teacher Associa tion, presented by L. C. Byers, for some drainage pipe to improve the school grounds and for guttering and drain pipes for the building to prevent washing of soil. The dele gation agreed to make available a sum not to exceed $230 for the drain age pipe, and to confer with school authorities as to whether guttering and downpipes were included in the contract when the school was built. Chamber Commerce Directors To Meet This Morning At 10 The Board of Directors of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce will meet this (Thursday) morning at 10:00 a. m. in the Forum Room of the Bank of Clinton. Officers for the year ending April 1, 1959, and the five directors re cently nominated for a there-year term will be named. ON DEAN'S LIST AT ERSKINE COLLEGE Jane Todd, of Clinton, senior at Erskine College, Due West, is a member of the Dean’s List for the first semester, it was announced from the college this week. Mobile Manor, Inc, Sets Up Business In Clinton Shelton J. Rimer, of Greenville, is in the process of setting up a mo bile homes manufacturing plant in Clinton, according to announcement made early this week. Mr. Rimer recently purchased a mobile homes plant in Lenoir, N. C., Eight Candidates Qualify For Primary Eight candidates had paid en trance fees and otherwise qualified to enter the June 10 Democratic pri mary up to yesterday when The Chronicle went to press, .according to Mrs. Caroline Coleman, party secretary. Entrance books opened Monday for a twd-week period, closing Mon and on Monday began moving the equipment here. The plant will occupy a site on the Seaboard railroad in the south western part of the city, recently purchased by Mr Rimer. Several buildings are already on the site and plans and specifica tions have been made for rebuilding present structures and construction of any needed new buildings Several weeks will be required to get the buildings in condition and machinery and equipment *set up, Mr. Rimer said. He-will recruit a working force consisting of an of fice manager, welders, cabinet makers, and sheet metal workers. The name of the new company will be Mobile Manor, Inc. Mr. Rimer, who operates several sales bases for mobile homes, prin cipally in Greenville, Augusta, Ga., day, March 17, at noon. Entrance fees may be paid at an ^ Florida, states that he will be- the office of Mrs. Coleman in the court house in Laurens. Candidates qualifying are: Robert N. Bigham, Rt. 2, Clinton, for Mag istrate in Jacks Township: James M. Copeland, Jr., Rt. 2, Clinton, for Magistrate in Jacks Township; M. N. Pressley, Rt. 1, Waterloo, for County Commissioner; Paul S. O'Dell, Rt. 2, Laurens, for County Commissioner; Furman E. Thoma son, Rt. 3, Laurens, for Supervisor; Justin A. Bridges, Laurens, for House of Representatives; William Dorroh Owings, Rt. 3, Laurens, for Magistrate in Laurens Township; Lucile M. Watts, Laurens, for Mag istrate in Laurens Township. gin building smaller travel homes, and after getting together a trained force he will go into making the larger mobile units. He has had past experience in making the travel trailers while con ducting his sales business in Green ville. Negotiations have been under way for several months between inter ested citizens of the city, led by James E. Wolfe, president of the Chamber of Commerce, and Mr. Rinfer seeking to get the plant lo cated in Clinton. Mr. Rimer has visited the city on several occasions during recent weeks while negotio- tions were in progress. College Board Hikes Salaries; To Award Honorary Degrees Presbyterian College trustees au thorized a 20 per cent faculty pay increase and selected three honor ary degree recipients as the high lights of their annual business meet ing here today. Honorary doctor of divinity de grees will be presented at June commencement exercises to the Reverends Ernest Arnold, of Atlan ta; Lynn Temple Jones, of Colum bia, and Allen Jacobs, of Talladega, Ala. All are outstanding PC alumni. President Marshall W Brown, re porting on the trustee decisions, said salary increases of 20 per cent for faculty members avith two years of service will become effective next September. At the same time, cleri cal workers with the same tenure will receive a ten per cent raise The board of trustees also approv ed a revised salary scale pointing to further increases (or the Presby terian College faculty in the years immediately ahead. All officers of the board were re elected for another year They were;, Robert M. Vance, of Clinton, chair man; the Rex. J. Davison Phillips, of Decatur, Ga., vice chairman; and J. Ferdinand Jacobs. Sr., of Clin ton, secretary. In selecting the honorary degree recipients, the board cit«j Ernest Arnold for his work as president of the Protestant Radio and Television Center in Atlanta; Lynn Temple Jones, for his service as pastor of Columbia's Eastminster Presbyte rian Church and of the Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church of Norfolk, Va., before that; and Allen Jacobs, for his accomplishments as president of Alabama’s Presbyte rian Home for Children. Four faculty members received promotion in rank through board approval. Robert A Mclntire, as sistant professor of biology, and Dr. Karl A. Scheele. assistant profes sor of economics, both will be ad vanced to associate professorships neit fall. Instructors Andrew How ard is mathematics and William B. Toole in English will step up to as sistant professor in their respective departments. » Laurens County Democrats effected reorganization, naming party officials and leaders at the biennial convention held at the court house in Laurens .Monday. Left to right are Senator Robert C. Wasson, who was ! amed president of the convention and presided over the session; Mrs. Caroline Coleman, elected new party secretary; R. L. Plaxleo, reele:t<d county chairman; and O. L. Long, renamed as the county’s state ex ecutive committeeman. - * —Photo by Dan Yarborough. J. C. Pace Promoted To Sergeant; Moved To Orangeburg Post J C Pace, popular highway pa trolman who served in the Clinton area for about 13 years, was pro moted to sergeant on March 2 and transferred to Orangeburg. Sergeant Pace will head highway patrol activities in District 7, which is composed of the counties of Or angeburg, Calhoun, Clarendon. Bamberg. Allendale. Hampton and Barnwell Sgt. Pace joined the highway pa trol in July, 1940, and after a three- months training course was assign ed to the Clinton area, where he Democrats of County Elect Officials, Name Delegates Hassels Develop Delegates Named To Orgahize For On Two Motions State Convention In Juno Primaries Columbia March 25 PC To Institute Mathematics Award A freshman mathematics award to stimulate interest in the subject at Presbyterian College was announced today. The college mathematics depart ment will present this award at the tend of the current academic year to the freshman who has shown the greatest progress in the subject dur ing the session. The recipient will be chosen by the math professors and will receive a book of mathematical tables with his name engraved upon it. LDC TO MEET TONIGHT The Stephen D. Lee Chapter, Unit ed Daughters of the Confederacy will meet this evening (Thursday) at 7:30 at the home of Mrs Frank Miller. At Womens Press Meeting in Columbia SGT. J. C. PACE served until August, 1956 He was promoted to corporal at that time and transferred to Aiken. In April, 1957, he was again transferred, to Anderson * During World War II he served three, and a half years in the army as provost marshall with the ini.i- tary police and as special itfvesjtL gator, with Security and Intelligence. He was discharged with the rank of master sergeant. S°t. Pace was educated in the Or angeburg schooLs, Clemson College, and Bowling Green University, Ky. He has been active in many pha ses of highway patrol duties, in- cludin genforcement, safety educa tion, license, and drvier training. While in Clipton, Sgt. Pace was active in civic affairs, being a mem ber of the American Legion, Wild life Association. Exchange Club, and Campbell Lodge No. 144 Scholastic Leaders Named ForSenior Class At High School Two motions ignited sparks that set-off considerable fireworks at th*-| Laurens County Democratic Con vention Monday morning. The biennial session of precinct i club representatives, held in the county court house in Laurens, had i been expected to be a somewhat' routine reorganziation meeting and | was proceeding merrily on its way when—bang!—all the sweetness and light that had prevailed was exter minated and the harmony hitherto exhibited disappeared. The first fight came on a motion to name members of the county delegation in the General Assembly by acclamation as delegates to Uje state convention The second hassle developed when a motion was made I that the convention endorse Thomas H. Pope o/ Newberry for chairman j of the State Democratic Party The motion to elect the members of the delegation to the state con vention was made by Homer Black well of Laurens. The motion was op posed by O L. Long and A B Cul bertson, both of Laurens, who de manded that all edelgates be nom inated from the floor in democratic procedure Mr Blackwell withdrew his motion upon request of the pres- j ident of the convention, Senator Rob- ert C. Wasson, who w'as presiding , W H Harley of Laurens, moved) that the 46 nominees to the state convention receiving the highest j vote be elected as delegates, with [ one-half vote each to cast the coun ty’s eight votes at the Columbia convention Twenty-six were nom inated, with the other ten to serve as alternats The mntion that the convention endorse Pope for state chairman of the party was made by Mr Long, who.recounted Mr. Pope's service to the party. Oposition to endorsement of Pope was led by James P Sloan of Ciin^ ton, who said such an endorsement would require support of Pope in the | state convention Sloan pictured Pope as a man w ho would follow strict adherence to the National Democratic Party, which is con trolled by radical elements, indud mg Walter Reuther v -Adlai Steven son, the ADA, NAACP, Harry Ash community of interest between the South and the National Democratic (continued on page 4) Sixteen delegate an ten alter nates were named by (he Laurens County Democratic Convention in Laurens Monday to attend the state convention to be held in Co lumbia on March 25. Included were: Robert C. Was son, Joe B. Medlock, W. W. Niver, Jr*, Sam Williams, J. Hewlette Wasson. James P. Sloan, William C. Dobbins, T. David Sloan, Jr., Justin A. Bridges, W. Paul Cul bertson, Furman E. Thomason, John M. Ross, Rev. J. C. Rice, Jr., Thomas A. Babb, R. L. Plax- ico, Tom Plaxico. Alternates: A. B. Culbertson. Ellis Iluffstelier, King Dtxoa, Jr., J. C. Godsey, Dr, R. T. Crowe, George 11. Young. George L. Plunney, M. W. Abercrombie, Mason T. Motes. laturens County is entitled to eight votes at the state convention. The 16 delegates will have one- half vote each . Campaigns For Red Cross And Crippled Children Underway The annual campaign to raise funds for the American Red Cross in Laurens County got underway this week, according to leaders of the movement. The campaign for the Crippled Children's Society of South Carolina will begin today (Thursday). Both -of these agencies partrcTpan? jn the Community Chest fund in the Clinton area, the Red Cross receiv ing $3,787, and the Crippled Chil dren’s Society $1,200 Baker Is Winner Of Console Set J E Baker, of 523 Musgrove St., was the winner of a Hi-Fi console set given in a drawing of tickets at) the Clinton Winn Dixie Store on Monday, Charlie Wise, manager- of the store, has announced The La lire ns County Demicratic Convention effected its organization in short order Monday momirig. naming its officers with clock-like precision and electing 16 delegates and 10 alternates to the State Demo cratic Convention to be held in Co lumbia on March 25 Between the processes of choosing officers, which came early in the meeting, and electing the delegates, which was the last item transact ed. the convention became involved with two motions which produced considerable excitement that enli vened a session that was expected by most observers to be rather routine The motions concerned the pro posed election by acclamation of members i>f the county legislative delegation delegates to the state convention, and the convention's en dorsement of the candidacy of Tho mas H. Pope of Newberry, for chairman of the State Democratic Party (The report on the proceed ings concerning tln*se two motions may be found in an adjoining col umn). Senator Robert C Wasson was named president of the convention and presided. Mrs Caroline Cole man was elected secretary, succeed ing Mr LeEllen Williams Slay, who has moved her residence from the eounyt R L Plaxico. of Clinton, was re elected to his post as county chair man of the party, and Mrs. Nene Workman of Clinton, vice-chair man. O. L Long of Laurens, was chosen state executive committee man from the county The convention;got underway at 10 00 a m in the court room in Laurens, with Mr Plaxico in the presiding officer's seat. He c.-illt>d upon Ihe Rev _J. C. Rice, pastor of Poplar Springs Baptist Church, to open the convention with prayer Chairman Speaks Plaxico immediately entered into a short address in which he called upon the citizens of the county to participate in the approaching cam paign and primaries and in the gen eral election next fall Important offices are to be filled, county, state and national, and. issues are to be resolved and maintained, he said, in urging, citizens to procure regis tration certificates. (continued on page 4) Candidates Fees Set By Committee Shown here are several members if the Women's Division of the South Carolina Press Association at a tea given by Mrs. George Bell Timmerman, Jr., wife of South Carolina’s governor, during a recent meet ing of the Association In Columbia. Left to right are Mrs. W. T. Bruner of Lexington, Miss Cornelia Harris of Clinton and Columbia, Mrs. Timmerman, Mrs. E. G. Quattiebaum of Columbia, and Mrs. Irvine Beiser of Columbia. Miss Harris wras named president of the women’s division. . Jackie Pitts, Jean McDaniel, and Cecil Davenport have been announc- ed by Principal R P Wilder as scholastic leaders of the class of 1958 at Clinton High School Jackie and Jean tied for first place in highest average for schol arship during the first three and one half years of the high school course, and are co valedictorians of the class. Cecil won third place and will be salutatarian The three will apear on the com mencement program of' the school to be held May 26. Apearing on the class day pro gram during the commencement season wall be Norma Elder, poet; Joe Dailey, who will read the class wilb and Joe Neely, who is the class prophet "nicy were selected by the class at a recent meeting Entry fees for candidates were set House of Reprere itativ* and a budget adopted by the County ; minimum $40 Democratic Executive Committee at a meeting immediately following I the county convention m Laurens ] Monday morning Ihe committee also elected a new party secretary. Mrs Caroline Cole man. She succeeds Mrs LeEllen ' Williams Slay, who ha^ moved her! residence from the county 1 Entry books for the quulifica-: tion of candidates to enter the pri maries opened Monday ami will dose ‘SKjioon on March 17 Candi dates will sign tieldges and pay their fees to. Mrs! Coleman on or before that date. Her oftieje is with, the County Service Officer on the sec ond floor of the eburt house The candidates’ fee; for qualifying ) for entry in the primaries were set at three per cent of the respective! salaries paid during the two or four year terms. The fees are \ >t>0. Party Hie jqtal budget as pre>ent- ed tor paying expense^ of two pri- Trcasurer—$756, minimum SL’OO manes was $3.trio Auditor—$594, minimum $160 The Budget Probate Ji $150 ~Supt ot mum $175. Supervisor Couijty Co mum $30 M agistrate mum $35 Magistrate mum $30 Magistrate Gray Court, Youngs—$17, minimum $10 Magistrates, -Scufflctown. Jack- $13, minimum $10 The fees are expected to provide funds totaling $3,705. which is a few dollars less than the net budget of $3 ,740, to which will be added an estimated amount of $200 to be re ceived from the State Democratic Net Total dge $540 minimum Box managers' pay. mileage. two primaries $2 .403 Education $660. mini Printing, notices of elections. ballots, etc 300 -540, minimum $150 Preparing and receiving bal- * ’ n mi vsioner —$40, mini- lot boxes too Secretary 125 Laurens $126. min. '. P'i> i ;< ^ st.i \ m me graphing.' etc 40 Clinton — $101 mi m- Booth expense> .50 Executive committee meet . Cross Hill, Waterloo, mgs. probably three 600 Sullivan, Mountville. Public address system for campaign \l sc ei coni 200 125 Total $3,940 Less estimated—contribution,— from State Democratic Par ty -’00 $3:740 pf*' \ \