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Thursday, March 27, 1958 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa^t Num Items of Interest Front . . West Clinton MRS. C. A. ELLEDG^^Correspondent and Representative * • PHONE 17M Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Britt and fam ily of Greenville, were week-end vis itors of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Croy and family. Rev. and Mrs. R., L. Allen and Danny visited Mr .and Mrs. Victor Mattox and family last week-end. Also visiting them was Mrs. Alice Smith of Newberry. Mrs. Lucille Holtzclaw of Green ville, visited Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Mason the past wfeek-end. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Graham vis ited the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs Vernon L. Wtoods in Fountain Inn the past week-end. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Adams visit ed Granny Harvey at Lydia Sunday. Mrs. Harvey has been seriously ill. Mrs. M. C. Srriith has returned to Laurens after a few weeks stay with Mr. and Mrs. Horace Smith. Bennie Smith of Cross Hill, speht Thursday and Friday with Mike, Phil and Steve Elledge. Terry Smith of Whitmire, spent Saturday night with them. Mr and Mrs. James Traynham visited the latter’s father near Greenville Sunday. He was celebrat ing a birthday, with a dinner in his honor. Other members of the family were present. Mr. and Mrs. Mevin Holcombe and Douglas visited the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kinsey, in Greenville during the week-end. Mrs. John Hedgepath had as her dinner guests Sunday Furman Ad ams, Tommy Beanlan, Alice Faye Whitsel, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Hedge- pa ;h. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Frier and family visited the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Revels, in Greer the past week-end. Mr. and Mrs Downey Cogsdill and son ■visited relatives of the latter in Laurens during the week-end. Mary Culbertson of Greenville, THE TRUTH! m <2; YOU’LL Lfftfc SaVii'IS All our customers do! Young aid old appreciate the good, earnings, the insured safety, and the simplicity and convenience of our plan of saving. You may open an account with a handv amount- add to savings as you wish; in person, at our handy oflfit es.orhv mail (wefurnish special freeenvelopes). CITIZENS FEDERAL Savings & Loan Assn. A Clinton InHtitution Serving Clinton People Since 1909 Telephone No. • Current Dividend Rate 3V2% visited Mr. end Mrs. D. D. Ficklin on Saturday.- Aaron Prather of Greenville, "and George Farah, Jr., vsiited Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Elledge and family on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs James Callahan and Mona of Shelby, N. C., visited Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Coker and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Smith and sons of Whitmire, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Elledge and family the past week-end They also visited the latter’s mother. Mrs. Lonnie Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Walt Smith and children visietd relatives in Newber ry during the week-end. J. W. Smith and Arthur Smith en joyed a fishing trip at Lake Murray the past week-end. Mr and Mrs. Cecil Wooten, Mr. and Mrs. J E. Braswell, Jr, at tended the Legion of the Moose meeting last week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Prather spent the week-end with the latter’s mother, Mrs Rose Prather, in Whit mire. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Braswell at tended the Legion of the Moose meeting in Chester on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Leopard were called to Greenville recently due to the death of Rufus Tucker, an un cle of the latter. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Wooten accompanied them. Pfc. Bill Snow, stationed at a naval base in Jacksonville, Fla., spent the week end with his family. Mr. and Mrs. dward Singletary of Columbia, attended the Sunday morning services at the Fire Bap tized church on Beauregard street and visited friends also. Mrs. Gus Harris, Mrs. Dessie Douglas visited their daughter and s’ster, Mrs John McAlister, in New berry a few days recently. Birthdays and Wedding Anniversaries Marion Barker has a birthday March 29. Dawn Campbell celebrates a birthday 'March 28. Mrs. Joel Cox will have a birth day March 30. Alvin Trammell has a birthday March 28 Arthur Dunaway celebrates a birthday March 30. Coley Campbell has a birthday March 26. Brad Bagwell celebrates a birth day March 28. Paul Smith had a (prthday March 25. With The Sick Jessie Samples is a patient at Hays hospital. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson is a med ical patient at Hays hospital. Little Bruce Owens has been ill with flu. Lillian Womble has -bee ill with flu. Philip Elledge has been ill a few days. Mrs Joel Cox is ill and a patient at Sell Memorial hospital m Green wood. Mrs. D. D. Ficklin is a patient at Hays hospital. OFFICE SUPPLIES CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Phone 74 —In Washington THIS WEEK With Clinton Davidson * The hardest man in Washington to discourage is, without doubt. Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. A week seldom passes that he does not’reject demands that he resign. (f harsh criticism—and he has had an abundance of it—gets under his skin he shows no sign of it. Eggs and verbal brick-bats have rained down on him for more than five years. Since January, 1953, he has spent almost $20 billion on programs au thorized by Congress to help farm ers. Yet poll after poll has shown that most farmers want him to quit Benson, himself, disputes those polls. He would rather rely on the mail he receives which, he says, runs more than three to one in favor of his staying. How many of those are from farmers he doesn't say The Congressional Recprd has printed more than 100 speeches by congressmen demanding that Ben- Jomes E. Young At Newport Troining Center James E Young, boilermn third class, USN, son of Mrs. Lillie W. Young of the Lydia community, is undergoing a course of instruction in fire fighting at the Fleet Train ing Center, Newport, R. I. This course includes lectures and drills to increase the student’s know, ledge of fighting fires aboard ships J. R. Crawford SURVEYING CLINTON. S. C Phone 3493 Joanna DR. R. H. 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They don't come any bigger. station wagons Per yam TV mUriauumfui 1‘l^mJt prutnU toe free! tkaut: “Tkt Bade Wkilt M att's -Toy Fuaa amd Now TalmL" iaa TV mtmmfm fe«a am 1 1 / Winthrop College Choir to Sing Here Friday _ The Winthrop College choir will present two programs here on Friday. In the morning the group will appear :n the Presbyterian College chapel at 10:40. An evening concert will be held in the Thorhwell High School auditorium on Calhoun Street at 7:30, to which the public is invited. son resign. At least a dozen delega tions from Congress have faced the Secretary and insisted that he get out Recently one such delegation told him that if he didn’t -go soon he wouki cause 25 to 30 Midwestern Republican congressmen to be de feated in November Benson told them, in effect, that he didn't be lieve it. Some of those most ^ctive in the “dump Benson’’ campaign claim! that Vice !’resident Nixon is one of 1 their leaders Nixon, however, has neither confirmed nor denied the reports Benson say- the\ are not true In the Senate and Hou>e AgncuJ ture Committee, where farm legis lation must originate. Republican and Democratic members have been almost equally critical of Ben son and his farm polities They've.! made life miserable for him in the hope that he would quit The a’titude of the farm organiza tion leader; in Washington has ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile Generally, the Farm Bu reau has been less critcial than the others. 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