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Number 34
Football Practice at Clinton Wah School Underway
Sentiment Is Crystallizing
For New Hospital in Area
Merchants Group'
In August Session
Public Meeting Monday Night
A public meeting has been arranged for Monday
nitfht jn the auditorium of the Clinton Hijrh School for a
discussion of the proposed district and hospital for the
lower end of the county.
Those interested in securing the new facilities for the
area are invited to participate in the meeting, which is
scheduled to betfin at 7:30 p. m.
Citizens Express Views in Survey
These three Clinton High School Reg Devils ore typical at the M boys who reported in
noswer to Coach Buzz Tedards’ call lost Friday afternoon. Henry Ingle, hack; Kenneth
Trammell, center; and John Eichelberger, tackle, will be stalwarts on the 1958 Clinton
team. Coach Tedards. at left. Is beginning his second year at the helm of the Red Devils.
la the photo at right, Tedards, In the center. Is flanked by his assistant coaches.
Norman “Sonny” King, formerly of Presbyterian College, on the left, and Rob Strork. of
Walterboro and Ersklae College.
—Photos by Dan Yarborough.
57 Report for Football
Practice at Clinton High
14 Lettermen Nucleus for '58 Squad
Battery B Assn.
To Hold Reunion
Fifty-seven candidates for
Clinton High School football team
answered Coach Ralph “Buzz”
Tedards, call last Friday for the
season’s first practice
Tedards and his assistant coach
Norman “Sonny” King and Bob
the| end; Ronald Corley, ' back; and
John Eichelberger, tackle.
Others reporting for the initial
practice were: Bill Campbell,
guard; Blil Glenn, guard; Melvin
Sanders, end. James Stewart, end;
Nathan Gilstrap, tackle; Terry
Rushton, end; Donald Brown,
Battery B. 107th AAA Association
will hold a reunion on August 30 ati
the Clinton Armory, with registra
tion beginning at 10 a. m.
The association is composed of
members of the old Battery B Na
tional Guard unit in Clinton prior to
and including World War Two. it
was stated
Further information may be had
by contacting Boyd Holtzdaw, of
Clinton.
Strock, divided the group into three back; Mac Campbell, end; Harry
sections and put them through calis-
themes to loosen up muscles, to
gether with some instruction in fun
dam entail that Involved a
body contact
Coaches and boys
in shirts and shorts. The day was
hot. and it was no trouble at all to
work up a good old-fashioned sweat.
The first few days have been de
voted to light workouts and ball
handling Morning and afternoon
sessions are held.
Inexperience will be his greatest
nemesis. Tedards said He was pro
bably thinking wistfully of the IS
letermen he lost by graduation in
League, end; Wilmot Shealy, end;
Paul * Watts, back, Scott Watts,
guard, Bill Nelson, tackle; Ned
little Haodback, hack; BUI Gunn, tackle.
Enice Bradshaw, guard; Jack Po-
were dressed; well, end; Philip King, back; Gary
Sprouse, back. Milling Blalock,
end; Brantley Bishop, guard; Don
nie Revis, end; David Estes, back
Also. Ernie Stroud, end; Sandy
Templeton, end; Gary O’Shields,
end, George Sease, center. Roger
Whitmire, tackle Harry Elder,
tackle; Keith Stewart, back; Bob
Hamer, back; Kinard Littleton,
back; Melvin Lewis, guard; Shan
non Long, end; Billy Pitts, end;!
Leonard White, center; .Mac Gaff-
hack;
Me El
Moore's Shoe Store
Adds New Merchandise
Moore’s Shoe Store, at the cor
ner of E Main and Musgrove
streets, today announces in an adv
in The Chronicle the addition of a
new line of merchandise, including
a sports line
Space in the store has recently
been enlarged and redecorated
Harmonizing shades of rose and
green walls and birdeye maple
fixtures create a pleasing back
ground for the enlarged store
May In fact, be was not only think
ing about them, but stated that the ney. tackle Harold Corley,
group would leave many slots to be Melvin Bailey, guard; Joel
filled on any team, some
being his best performers
However, Tedards was not wholly
pessimistic regarding the season
ahead of him. He stated that 14 let
termen are among the returnees
who will serve as a nucleus around
which to build his 1958 team.
Of the remaining group, 29 are
tenth and eleventh graders, some of
whom are experienced players
Fourteen are eighth and ninth grad
ers. Several of the lettermen are
juniors.
Much work lies ahead in the next
few days, Tedards said, in order to
get the players in shape for the first
contest on their 11-game schedule,
with York appearing here on Fri
day, Sept. 5.
Included among the lettermen
returning are: Henry Ingle, back;
Delmar Hardeman, guard; Joel
Cox, tackle; Larry Garner, guard;
Dwight Moody, back; Wayne Ful
ler, back; Jerry Lewis, back;
Ricky Rhame, back; Ken Tram
mell, center; Dick Casque, back;
Horace Payne, back; Danny Lewis,
of them hannon, center. Houston Mason,
guard, and Duck Adair, tackle.
JULY SAVINGS BOND SALES
LN LAURENS COUNTY
Series E and H savings bonds
sales for the month of July in Lau
rens County totaled $48,075, reports
D. F. Patterson. County Savings
Bonds chairman
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name wiH be drawn.
The Merchants Division of the
Chamber of Commerce met Tues
day morning at Hotel Mary Mus
grove for its August session, with
Chairman J. C. Thorfias presiding
Business before the group includ
ed plans for welcoming those who
attend the reunion of former mem
bers of Battery B, AAA Bn.. Clin
ton National Guard unit, from its
formation through World Mar Two The proposal to create a hospital
The reunion will be held here oh district coinciding with the terri-
August 30 « tory embraced within Laurens Coun
A discussion was held on plans ty School District >6 and the erec
tor decorations in the downtown sec tion of a $1.000 000 hospital to serve
tion during the Christmas season the residents of the area has been
Mrs Pearle Henry, chairman of greeted with enthusiasm by taxpay-
the Industrial Appreciation Visiting ers °f ^* s section
Committee, reported on recent and] In a survey conducted by The
forthcoming activities, and on the Chronicle over the week end, nu
proposed “Industrial Appreciation merous citizens expressed them
Days” scheduled for the last of Oc- selves as favoring both steps A
tober. number did not wish to state their
Joe Holland reporting for the Ad f,,r publication hut a cross
1 vertising-Publicity Committee on re section of opinion from re-idents in
cent Dollar Day activity, stressed the proposed district was (Anained
the need for greater participation from 13 citizens who allowed them
in the event by the city's merchants selves to be quoted
A budget for the Merchants Di Of the 13. all are in favor of pro
vision will be set up by J A Orr, vidmg new hospital facilities for
D. B Smith and Joe Holland, at the the area by formation »f the hospital
request of Chairman Thomas district, with one of the number ex
Mr Smith told something of the pressing preference for one hos
plaas for the proposed new hospital pital for the county
for this area, suggesting that the Included in the survey were resi
Merchants Division approve the pro dents of Clinton. Joanna. Mountville
ject and write members of the coun and the Hopewell section Citizens
ty legislative delegation of their of Cross Hill and Lydia Mills were
action Approval o fthe project was not reached because of lack of time
given. f or further efforts
MEN'S SOFTBALL
Arrest Six Men in Thefts
Of Church Bells in Area
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Three young Clinton men. a rela was said, including a window fan.
live from Ohio of one of them, and gaa lamps, and a communion cup
two men from Newberry County Churches in Laurens County that
were being held in the Laurens w«re victims of the thefts included
Yanks 14
3
824
Red Sox 9
m
7
. 563
Braves 7
9
438
Cards 3
14
177
Results
Cards 8. Red Sox 6
Yanks 10. Braves 9
Red Sox 5, Cards 3.
Braves 19, Yanks 11
County jail early this week charged
with thefts of bells and other items
from churches in Laurens County,
primcipally in the Clinton area Of
ficers stated they will also be
charged with similar thefts in New-
berry. Union, and
Counties
Teaching Staffs Named
For Schools in District
Broad St. Church
Gets New Pastor
In Annual Change
The Rev. J. E. Cannon has been
appointed as pastor of Broad Street
Methodist Church in Clinton and it
is expected that he will occupy the
local pulpit on Sunday. August 24.
He comes here from a Pickens pas
torate.
He succeeds the Rev G. H. Hodg
es. who served the Broad Street *ecqpd and third teams playing a ton. Ohio, said to be a cousin of
congregation for two years He was ,wo o* 11 °t it’re* series The winners Griffith and visiting relatives here;
(Make-up games from July 28)
Yanks vs Red Sox. 7:00 p. m
Cards vs Braves, 8 30 p m
A playoff will begin Monday with
the first and fourth teams, and the ton. Larry Earnhardt
Shady Grove Presbyterian. Lang
ston Baptist. Bethany Presbyterian
and three Negro churches. Wateree
Baptist. White Plains, and Bethh-
hem Grove, all near Clinton
Newberry. Spartanburg, and In
ion officers have been in Laurens
sparianburg dunn g th »* week trying to connect
(the men being held with similar
thefts that have occurred m their
They are being held under bonds counties
ranging from $750 to $4,500. she- Officers said that some of the
riffs deputies stated hells were quite heavy, one weigh
The men are; Cleve C Smith. 33. "di approximately 350 pounds
of Clinton; Matha Simmons. 25. of 1’arts of what appeared to be a
Clinton; Donald Griffith, 16, of Clin- block and tackle outfit were left at
16. of Day the church where the heavy bell
was taken They surmised that it
was lifted from its base, placed on
Mobile X-Ray Unit
Scheduled For County
From Oct. 7-Nov. 10
A mobile X-ray unit will be in
Laurens County from October 7 to
November 10,. It has been announc
ed by the County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation.
Preliminary plans are being made
for the chest X-ray survey to be
made in communities rather than in
industries as in the past.
Miss Mary Schiffley of the State
Board of Health and Mrs. Celestia
Galletly of the S. C. Tuberculosis
Association are working with Dr.
Von A. Long and his staff of the
Laurens County Health Department
and Mrs. Martin Teague of the
—Laurens County Tuberculosis Asso
ciation in making the plans.
A schedule will be publish*-! ater.
GRAYDON REUNION SUNDAY
The descendants of John Star
bag and Caroline Riddle Grayden
will hold their reime Sunday. Au
gust 84. af Curry’s Lake osar Gray
at 1 •*(
Teaching staffs of the twelve
schools in Laurens County School
District 58 were announced this
week by W. R. Anderson, Superin
tendent.
The schools include those in Clin
ton, Joanna. Lydia Mills. Mount
ville and Cross Hill.
Dates for pupils to report to the
various schools and the schedule for
the first week were announced in
last week’s issue of The Chronicle,
with most pupils reporting on
Thursday, August 28.
Following is the list of teaching
staffs
W. R. Anderson, Superintendent.
G. N. Foy, Asssitant Superinten
dent.
Mrs. Clarice Johnson, Secretary.
Mrs. Christina DuBois, Clerk.
Cliatoa High School
R. P. Wilder, Principal.
Mrs. Marjorie Templeton, Secre
tary. *
Miss Elizabeth Boland, English.
Mrs. Marie Bannister, Home Eco
nomics.
Roger Blakely, Biology.
Lee V. Duryea, Chemistry and
General Science.
Mrs. Betty Fleischman, Libra
rian.
Miss Irene Hipp, Algebra.
Mrs. Sadie McLeod, Commerce.
Mias Eloise Miller, Algebra.
Mrs. Mary Emma Motes, Physi
cal Education.
Miss Betty Jean Reid, French
and English.
Mrs. Mildred Robinson, English.
Mias Ann Rose, Economics and
Typing.
Miss Frances Sheely. English
Mrs. Sarah B Johnson Shouse,
Geometry and Algebra.
Avery Smith, Agriculture and Di
rector of Transportation
John Boyd Smith. Robert Strock,
Gaaeral
Catch
Ralph M Tedards Physical
Mrs
Eloise Ellis, second grade.
MoUle Donnan, third grade.
Nene Workman, third
Catherine Buford, fourth
Daniel Vandiver. Social Studies.
Mrs. Armiota Wallace, Latin and
English.
Mrs. Essie Workman, History.
Academy Street SchoeJ
D. S. Templeton, Principal and
sixth grade.
Mrs Helena Pitts, first grade
Mrs. Collette Coleman, first
grade.
Mrs. Hugh Ray, first grade.
Miss Elizabeth Copeland, second
grade.
Mrs.
Mrs.
Mrs.
grade.
Mrs.
grade.
Miss Odetta M a u n e y, fourth
grade.
Miss Rose Lee, fifth grade.
Miss Kate Milam, fifth grade.
Mrs. Margaret C. Blakely, sixth
grade.
Mrs. Nellie Wingard, seventh
grade.
Mrs. Melda Johnson, second
grade.
Miss Blanche Cox, third grade.
Mrs. Mercer Vance Wise, third
grade.
Junior High School
R. E. Martin, Principal, Sciencey
O. L. Patterson, Mathematics
Miss Ruth Hair, English.
Mrs. Shadie Wilder, English
Mrs. Frances Crawford, Science.
Mrs. Belle Sumerel, Mathema
tics.
Charles Leather wood, Social Stu
dies.
Miss Mary Bragham. English
and Reading
Miss Hazel Gilfillin. Reading and
Social Studies
Mrs Marian Neighbors. Social
Sttmies
Mrs Margaret Wilkes.
Frasier Sanders
Hampton A
Wdmet
sixth
placed on the retired list and he and a I*° Pi*? * * wo °ut
Mrs. Hodges will make their home S *ries.
at Myrtie Beach \ Games Moa4*>
. . . . Braves vs Red Sox, 7:00 p. m
The appointments were made at v.-w. a
.. . . - . (ards vs Yanks, 8.30 p m
the- close of the South Carolina An
nual Conference held at Bethel
Church. Charleston, the past week
The Rev. C. F. Hamm was reap
pointed to serve Hopewell Methodist
Church near Clinton
of three J D Lapford, 27. and C h a r 1 e s
Bobb, 25. both of Newberry County
Smith is charged with house
breaking and grand larceny Sim
m o n s, Griffith, and Earnhardt,
grand larceny; L i p f o r d. house
breaking and grand larceny: and
Bobb with grand larceny
The investigation and arrests
R Jones
a sill of the belfry and allowed to
drop to the ground, then placed in
a waiting car
The thefts had occurred over a
period of several weeks, the police
officers said
DR. GETTYS TO PREACH
Dr Joseph M Gettys, who re-
turned last week from a two
months tour of Europe and the Holy were made by deputies H
Don Yarborough,
Clinton Photographer,
Land, is scheduled to occupy the and George Blackwell of Laurens Awarded Certificate
Other new pastors in this section pulpit of the First Presbyterian County Sheriff C W Wier’s office
include the Rev. Nathan Fleming Church on Sunday morning Two of the men were taken in by
at Joanna, and the Rev. James Wil- ~ . 1 - .1— — the officers as they were trying to
liams for Lydia and Sandy Springs „ "j Gr * env,1 |*- sell some of the bells to a dealer in
Posts of former pastors who served' ‘ r a a su ^ coss ^ u * tw °- the upper part of the county near
the Broad Street Church: Rev. J. E. ^ ar P a - stofate i at th * Rroad Street Fountain Inn Three bells were tn
Merchant to St. Mark in Greenville;
Rev. Edward K. Garrison, returned
to Batesburg; Rev. P. L. Bauk-
night, retired; Rev J. H. Kohler, to
Duncan Memorial in Georgetown;
and Rev. L. E Wiggins, continued
on the retired list.
Church.
Dan Yarborough, photographer of
Clinton, has been awarded a spe
cial certificate of merit by the Wi
nona School of Photography, Winona
Lake. Indiana, for successfully
completing an intensive course in
speedlight portrait photography The
Rev. V, M, Ross, who has been which includes three churches
serving at Joanna, was transferred the Greenwood district.
according to members of smith’s car at the time, officers
his congregation. A new educational said The other men were arrested
building was completed during his later,
pastorate, being dedicated in July. The men took a total of twelve scho01 ,s conducted by the Prufes
Rev. James D. Stewart, who has bells from churches in the four s ' ona l Photographers of America,
been serving the Lydia and Sandy counties, the deputies said, five of l nc
Springs Churches, was transferred them in Laurens County, three in Mr Yarborough has been at the
to a new circuit, Mt Lebanon, Newberry, two in Spartanburg, and Indiana school for the past several
in two in Union. Several other items weeks He is expected
were taken from the churches, it the city this week-end
to
return to
It was pointed out that no one was
com idl'd who was known to be in
favor of the undertaking, <the inter
views being held by on-the-spot
calls Two were made at Joanna
three 1 at Mountville. two m the
Hopewell section, and the others in
this city
It will be recalled that the move
to create a hospital district a/id
building of a hospital to serve the
lower end of the county was an
nounced in last Thursday’s paper
following a meeting in Clinton the
previous Monday night of interest
ed citizens and physicians of the
community to which memoers of
the Laurens County legislative dele
gallon were invited
The proposal was to create the
hospital district including territory
embraced in School District 56. is
sue bonds m the amuont of $700,009.
secure federal funds of $506,000 to
match $5*10 000 of local funds, and
build a $1,000,000 hospital plant Fhe
extra $200,000 would be used to se
cure and develop a site of consider
able acreage anu to underwrite the
operation of the hospital during the
first year or two in whatever
amount would be needed
The bonds would be amortized
over a period oi 30 >ears at a stated
rate of 3*« per cent requiring an
nual payments of from $37 500 to
S41.U00 A •a-ven miU tax levy was
suggested as being necessary to
raise the funds to pay interest and
retire the bonds as they hecoato
due
Cituans of the proposed new dis
trict would relinquish whatever
claim they have to the property
and assets of the County Hospital
in l*auren»
it was pointed out. too, that nu
move would be made that would
jeopardize (he contemplated en
largement ami renovation of the
building and facilities of the County
Hospital On the contrary hope was
expressed at the meeting that plans
for making the Laurens Hospital a
modern and adequate institutmi to
serve the people of that area would
be successfully carried through
Only one mill is presently levied
as taxation in Laurens County for
the support of the County Hospital
and a one-half mill levy is contem
plated to apply on a $50 000 bond
issue planned for the near future
from the present county tax mill
age No increase tn the present mill
age is necessary members of the
del* gatiun have said
The $50 000 bond issue revenue
would be added tp Spo duo m cash
already on hand, making $130,000
with which another $130,000 would
be secured in federal funds, making
a total of $260 000 with which to
build a new wing to the Laurens
Hospital Another $10,000 in cash
would be used to secure an undeter
mined amount, said to be a total of
about $30,000. from other sources
for renovation of the present build
ing and equipment.
These steps would provide a to
tal of about 70 beds in a modem
plant for residents of the Laurens
area, it was said
The area proposed tor the new
hospital district is presently served
by two small private hospitals m
Clinton and one in Joanna These
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Clinton Guardsmen in Annual Training at Fort Stewart