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Volume LVIX
Clinton, S.C. Thursday, September 11, 1958
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Number 37
College Building Seen During Open House
Court Term Begins
In Laurens Sept. 22
Union Services On
Sunday Evening To
Welcome Rev. Cannon
Here is a view of one of the lounges in Douglas House, Presbyterian College’s new student center
which was visited by many at an open house session on Sunday afternoon. The building, a commodious
and handsome structure recently completed, faces Spencer Hall on the Plaza. —Photo by Dan Yar*
—bonmub.
College to Break Ground
For Auditorium Tuesday
Is Second Unit in Expansion Program
Ground-breaking ceremonies for
Presbyterian College’s proposed
new chapel-auditorium will be held
next Tuesday morning, September
16, President Marshall W. Brown
announced today.
He said P. S. Bailey, Clinton tex
tile executive and chairman of the
trustee building committee, will re
move the first shovel of earth on
the site where the $500,000 structure
is to be built
Other trustees and the Presbyte
rian College student body, faculty
and staff will be present for the
brief ceremonies Alumni and
Funeral Services
For Mrs. F. L. Webb
Held on Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Emily
Cox Webb, widow of Dr. F. L.
Webb, were held Saturday at 4:00
p. m at Gray Funeral Home, con
ducted by the Rev. J. H. Darr, pas
tor of the First Baptist Church, and
Dr. W. Redd Turner, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church. Inter
ment was in Roaemont cemetery.
Pallbearers were Joe Shay, Mack
Stubbs. R. M. Vance, Goyne L.
Simpson, Eugene Johnaon, W. R.
Anderson, Jr, Dr. Charles L. Joss,
and Tom Plaxico.
The honorary escort consisted of
the physicians of Clinton and Whit
ten Village, where Dr. Webb was
chief of the medical staff for many
years.
Mrs. Webb, 72, died early Friday
at her home on Woodrow street af
ter several years of declining
health.
She was a native of Savanah, Ga.,
but had made her home in Clin
ton for 35 years. She was a daugh
ter of the late George Oscar and
Lydia An Harper Penton. She was
a member of the First Baptist
Church of Clinton, and a member
of the Order of the Eastern Star.
Mrs. Webb was married twice.
Her first ptarriage was to Madrid
Cox. By this union one son and two
daughters survive, Madrid Cox,
Jr„ of Carrabelle, Fla.; Miss
Louise Cox and Mrs. P. S. Bailey,
both of Clinton; and one grand
child.
Her second marriage was to Dr.
Webb. By this union one son sur
vives, Fred L. Webb of Columbia.
There are three grandchildren. Sur
viving also are one brother, C. L.
Penton of Yucaipa, Calif.; and one
sister, Mrs. John S. Wilder of Sa
vannah, Ga.
friends also are nivited to attend
the 10:45 a. m. program at which
Dr. Brown will preside.
The PC board of trustees recently
gave unanimous approval to the
base construction figure of $376,310
turned in by C. Y. Thomason Co. of
Greenwood, bidding against 11 oth
er contractors. Work is expected to
get underway in the next few
weeks.
President Brown said the
chapel-auditorium will fill a long-
felt need at Presbyterian College.
Not only ia it to provide adequate
space for the expanded student
body, but the facilities will enable
the college to offer students and
local residents a broader program
of cultural activities.
He pointed out that this building
was the second major objective of
PC’s recently successful $1,000,-
000 develpoment program The
other *oal. a new student center,
has just become a reality with
the completion of the $2ri0.000 Doug
las House.
The chapel-auditorium will be
erected directly across the plaza
from the library building, adjacent
to Bailey Hall dormitory on one
side and South Broad Street on
the other. It is to be of colonial
Georgian design with large lime
stone columns in keeping with the
architectural theme of the campus.
President Brown said the main
portion of the new building will be
an auditorium capable of seating
1,200 persons. A front wing of the
structure will house a chapel, lim
ited to a capacity of 100, for small
er religious services. The rear sec
tion of the chapel-auditorium, fac
ing Maple street, with separate en
trance, will include three stories
given to music rooms, studios, and
other fine arts facilities.
Young Men Sent To
Circuit Court On
May 11 Rape Charge
Four young men of the Clinton
area have been remanded to the
circuit court for appearance before
the grand jury on charges of rape
of a young Clinton woman on the
night of May 11.
The men are Charles Fuller, Sid
ney Bonds. Gene Adair, and Steve
Webb.
A preliminary hearing was held
before Magistrate Sam McCrary at
the city hall last Thursday morning.
Appearing for the state was Sher
iff C W. Wier, who questioned the
witnesses, Joyce Nance, Helen
Nance, Sara Shelmjt, Ted Ward,
Clinton policeman, and George
Blackwell, deputy sheriff.
Attorneys representing the defend
ants were O. L. Long and Marshall
Abercrombie of Laurens. Attorney
Lake of Whitmire, was present but
took no part in the proceedings.
It was brought out in testimony
that the acts occurred in a wooded
area near Lydia Mills. The young
woman was later brought to Clinton
and let out of a car on a city stfeet.
Residents of the area took her to a
hospital after notifying Clinton po
lice.
A one-week term of criminal
court is scheduled to begin in Lau
rens on Monday, Sept. 22
Judge Thomas P. Bussey of Char
leston, will preside over his first
term of court in Laurens. He suc
ceeded Judg£ W. H. Grimball, re
tired.
• In addition to 26 holdover cases, a
relatively heavy docket of new in
dictments is expected to be included
on the roster of the court, including
four murder cases.
Jurors drawn for the week are:
Tow W. Stephens, Cook's Store;
Robert Holden, Clinton Mill; J. Ed
win Templeton, Bailey; W. Carl
Taylor, Laurens; J. D. Burdette,
Tip Top; John T. Galman, Lydia
Mill; Carl' Hudson, Cook’s Store;
Herbert J. Martin, Ora; W. Henry
Yeargin, Clinton; Carl Hagen, Lau
rens; H. A. Marler, Woodville; H.
Pu. Dav i™f7E Tav C mas L ^ New
Telephone Directories
Distribution of one of Clinton’s
anna; H. D. Hardy, Watts Mill; J
J. Green, Clinton; Harold McClin-
tock, Ora; Belton Brown, Grays.
Also Robert Rice, Renno; C. R.
Elmore, Laurens; Clifford Butler,
Narnie; J. H. Barnett, Bailey;
James G. Miller, Joanna; A. J. Mc
Coy, Mt. Olive; Daniel Dunaway,
Clinton Mill; L. W. Ivey, Clinton
Mill; W. D. Campbell, Narnie; W.
L. Pulley, Ekom; John Wallace
Smith, Youngs; W. J. Burns, Lau
rens; D. L. 'Alexander, G raysT
Carlton L. Curry, Woodville; L. L.
Rice, Clinton; J. Clyde "Young, Clin
ton; E. C. Abercrombie, Hickory
Tavern; Fred S. Owens, Laurens
Holdover: A G. Smith, Clinton
Mill.
Clinton High Scores
Twice to Defeat
York in First Game
A union service of welcome for
the Rev. Joel Cannon, new pastor
fo Broad Street Methodist Church,
will be held Sunday evening, Sept
14, at 8 o’clock.
The churches of the city are co
operating in this service, and the
pastors of each church inp-down-
town Clinton will have part on the
program as follows:
Welcome and Preside—Rev. Wil
liam E. Moreau.
Invocation—Rev. Giles Lewis
Responsive Reading—Dr W. R
Turner
Prayer—Rev. J. H. Darr.
Scripture—Dr. C. Bynum Betts
Prayer—Rev. L Allen Wertz
Sermon—Rev. Cannon
Benediction—Dr. M A Macdon
ald. <
The public is invited to attend
the services
Hospital Referendum Set
For General Election Date
Funeral Services
For Miss Thomas
Held on Thursday
To Provide Two Ballots in November
best read books, the telephone di
rectory, will start September 15, I.
A. Edwards, manager of Southern
Bell in Clinton, stated yesterday.
Containing listings for subscrib
ers in Clinton and Joanna, more
than 3,500 copies of the directory
will be distributed in this area.
Laurens County voters will have ducted along ^with the general elec _
.in opportifhity to make a decision turn ind would he advisory in> na-
in the general election in November ture
on whether the county will have two The meeting in Laurens Monday
hospitals, one in the Laurens area was the regular monthly session of
Miss Sar'ah Frances Thomas. 74 »nd one m the Clinton area, or one the delegation at which member'- of
. , m in j hospital centrally located a committee, headed by W C
died at 1.45 a m., las .... decisjon was reaC hed Mon- Neely, of Clinton, appeared to re-
a Columbia hospital after a long ill | day a( a n f t h e county quest the delegation to arrange for
ness legislative delegation in Laurens at a referendum Other members of
Miss Thomas was born in Union! the court house when members the commitee ar Dr G R. Blalock,
County a daughter of the late WU- j went into executive gesviOR to dis- of t hr,ton. D H., Roberts of Lydia
liam Kelly and Margaret Hill Tho-|cuss the matter Mil^s. .1 B Hart of Joanna, and
mas. For a number of years shoj jhev determined that two ballots
John Simmons of Mountville
made her home in Clinton with her j wou | d ^ necessary One would be The committee w as appointed fol-
sister, Mrs. D. C. Heustess She; for resl( jenLs of School District 56 lowing a recent public meeting in
was a member of the Methodist and wou i,j ^ ^ worded to deter- Clinton when .residents of the area
church. mim . !f | t was the sentiment of the embraced by School District 56
Surviving is one sister. \Ir> voters i n that area to create a hos- went on record unanimously as fa-
Heustess. j p jt a i district, levy taxes to build voting building a hospital in ttu-
Funeral services were conducted | and equip a hospital and operate it lower part of the county
at 4:30 p m., Thursday, at the The other ballot would be submit The present Laurens County Hos
graveside in Rosemont cemetry in | ted on a county-wide basis and the pital at Laurens does not serve that
Clinton by the Rev. Joel E Cannon phrasing of the question or ques area proponents of the new hos
Pallbearers were Gus Jeter, Gor
don May, J W. Christopher, Dil
lard Boland, Charlie W Cooper,
William Brooks Owens. G A Bur
ton, and Ray Pitts ——■—
S. C. United Fund Chairman Visits Ctmton
MEET WARE SHOALS FRIDAY
Clinton High will meet Ware
Shoals in the second game of its
schedule here Friday night on
Johnson Field. Game time Is 8
o’clock.
Clinton High School s Red Devils
won their opening game by defeat
ing York here last Friday night.
14-0.
Coach "Buzz” Tedards’ team re
moved some of the duobt as to what
could be expected of the Devils this
year after losing 14 players from
the 1957 squad. They gave a sur
prisingly powerful and smooth per
formance
The Red Devils scored all of their
points in the second quarter The
first tally coming on a 44-yard end
run by Corley netting a 52-yard
drive. Fullback Henry Ingle ran
the extra point over right tackle
Dwight Moody led the next Clin
ton drive, 30 yards, with a 16-yard
jaunt, setting up the eight yard end
run scoring play by Corley. Ingle
$gaMl ran the PAT, this time over
rjght'guard.
York threatened only in the last
two minutes of the game when they
moved to the Clinton six
Laurens Assn. Rally
The Laurens Associational Young
People’s Training Union meeting
will be held Thursday (tonight) at
7:30 p.m , at the Laurens Baptist
Assembly Grounds on Lake Green
wood.
Everyone is to bring their own
cold drinks and an offering will be
taken to cover the expenses of
the weiner roast, which will be en
joyed.
Hallmark, Employing 200,
Is Visited on Local Tour
Ljgns Club Broom
Sale on Sept. 19
The Clinton Lions Chib will .stage
its annual broom sale on Sept 19, it
was announced this week.
A committee headed by Lynn
Cooper, Jr, is making arrange-
menu and salesmen will include all
members of the dub.
' Not proceeds of the sale wUI be
used to finance the wort of the
dub s sight
Hallmark Manufacturing Co. was
the seventh stop on the weekly tour
being made by representatives of
the Chamber of Commerce and
Merchants’ Division in their ocur-
tesy calls on officials of manufac
turing plants in the Clinton area.
Making the visit to Hallmark last
Thursday were six members of the
Chamber and Merchants’ Division,
including Jim Von Hollen, president
of the Chamber of Commerce, J.
C. Thomas, chairman of the Mer
chants’ Division, I. Mac Adair, J.
Robert Cox, D. B. Smith, and C. H.
Leonard.
General Manager E. B. Ginsberg
received the delegation in his of
fice. Mr. Von Hollen expressed to
him the appreciation of the Cham
ber and the Merchants’ Division for
the contribution the company is
making to the economy of the area.
Mr. Ginsberg replied in like man
ner to the greetings of the delega
tion and welcomed them to the
plant
A letter from Mr. Von Hollen con
taining the sentimenU expressed
was prorated with copies to be
posted on the plant’s bulletin boards
and read by the employees
Following the reception in Mr.
be. wfcfc
the manufacturing operations as
they cosducted the group on a tour
of the plant.
Began Operations in 1941
Hallmark began operations here
in 1941, .occupying a building for
merly used by a silk mill. Owned
by New York interests, cnotrol of
the company passed to the well
known Anvil Brand interests of
High Point, N. C., clothing manu
facturers. Men’s dress shirts and
women’s blouses are made in the
local plant.
Employing 20 Omen and women,
the payroll is $8,000 weekly. Fifteen
hundred dozen shirts and blouses
are turned out each week.
The company makes its own
brands as well as doing contract
work. Approximately 50 operations
are employed in making a shirt
and 35 in making a blouse, it was
stated.
In addition to Mr. Ginsberg and
Mr. Edwards of the management
staff, R. A. Simmons is head of the
cutting department; Mrs Ressie
McKenzie, the sewing department;
Mr a Alma Rejmods, the pressing
department, and C C. Adair, the
shipping deartment
Mr Ginsberg said that plans are
to teerrae tie plant s
the
W. G. Edwards, vice-president and general manager of the Southern Bell Telephone Compuay jn^
South Carolina, last Thursday paid au official visit to Clinton in his official rapacity as State Chairman
tor United (Community Chest) Campaigns and spoke at a regional rally for leaders In this srea of the
state attended by-apprstimatrly 1M peCooni -
Mr. Edwards is shown ia the center, with Robert .M. Vance, president of Clinton s Commumts
Chest organization, on the right. Howard F. Smith, campaign chairman, is at left. —Photo hy Dan Yar
borough.
Mrs. Turner Wins
Visit to New York
Mrs Marcia Galloway Turner,
wife of R. Michael Turner of Clin
ton, was anounced Saturday as the
winner of a “Lady Reporter" con
test conducted by The Greenville
News and WSPA-TV, Spartanburg
television station.
She will leave for New York Sat
urday to represent the newspaper
and the television station at Colum
bia Broadcasting System's Televisit
Tackle David Currance led Week, during which she will visit
York's defensive attack while John
Eichelberger and Captain Ken
Trammell stood out for the winners.
York 0 0 0 0 0
Ctinton 0 14 0 0—14
Clinton scoring: Touchdowns—
Corley 2 (44-yard run, 8-yard run).
Extra points—Ingle 2 (run).
Man Charged With
Liquor Violation
Luther Jacks, 44, of Clinton, post
ed a $600 bond after being booked
on violation of the liquor law.
Deputy Sheriff Geofge Blackwell
said Jacks was arrested at the
home of Charles Baker in Clinton
and had a one-half gallon jar of
illegal liquor in his possession.
Deputy Blackwell and Deputy
Homer Jones made the arrest Au
gust 28, they reported.
various TV shows, see activities
backstage, and report them daily to
The News.
Also on the program are a series
of luncheons, visits to Broadway
shows, and tours of the city.
The contest was a promotion of
the newspaper and the television
station in wrhich some 2500 netries
were received. The judging Satur
day included eight finalists whose
writing ability was considered
equal, and the judges paid par
ticular attention ot the contestants'
personality, speech and diction,
poise, neatness, physical appear
ance and sincerity of purpose.
Mrs. Turner, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. (Chick) Galloway,
is a native of Clinton, a graduate of
tions would be such as to determine pital contend
whether one larger hospital was de- Speaking tn favor of one central-
sired, or one each in the Laurens ly located hospital for the county
and Clinton areas were Charles L Milam of Mount-
Thr referendum would be con- ville, and Dr. J F Dusenberry and
;Dr M. B N’ickles of Laurens, while
Mr Hart contended for a new hos-
• iViryi 'Mr The pro^M' TiTriN'
W T Bolt. Laurens attorney,
: stated was not aaainst a ref-
jerendum hut was against two hos-
| pitals for the county He said he
j thought the referendum should be
| on a county-wide basis and sub
mitted three- questions which he
j suggested should he voted on in the
; referendum:
1 Are you in favor of having
I ONE hospital to serve all of Lau
rens County - ’ Yes No."
"If your answer is no. are you
j willing to support by taxes the
building and improyement of a hos
pital in the area of the county in
I which you live” This may mean as
j much as 8 or more mills in the
lower county and some increase in
I the upper county Yes No "
—Are you agreeable to separat-
j inj^ of the upper section of the
j county and giving to them the pres
ent hospital for improvement, ad
: dition. and operation’ Yes No "
’’Note If the answVr to No 1 is
j Yes. then it is not necessary to have
j the others answered, but. the delega
tion does need to know the feeling
I of the entire county on this matter;
and it should also know what the
feeling is in various areas For this
reason the voting should be sep-
■ arated by township- Certain town-
Presbyterian gridmen. heading . Coach Jones is keeping his fin- ships which are now partly or en-
into their final week of rough prac- ! crossed on whether he's solved tireiy m School District 55 or 56
tice before the East Carolina open
er at Greenville, N. C.. on Sept. 20, ^ , n (j* manner in
present a youthful, spirited squad *.h, c li Bob Waters of Sylvanu,
to carry the Blue Hose colors this Ga , is performing He earned the
year. {load here as j sophomore last year
The group is short on expenence, but needed seasoning Thus far in
with one-half of the 65 candidates pre-season practice, his passing and county-
being new to the PC turf But hall-handling have shown consider- Mr Milam stated that he Joesn t
Coach Frank Jones has been pleas- able improvement as Nat Cole of want it said that he is against one.
ed with the over-all team attitude; Natchez. Miss , pressed him for the two or three hospitals But are w*-
and the progress of several key | starting assignment Cole entered able to maintain two hospitals, he
players j PC last February asked Study the tax problem, he
Strength at ends and center Co-Captain Halfback Hony Ben- said •'It will take ten Mills" (to
coupled with depth potential ^atlson of Chester, meanwhile, con build anti operate a hospital in the
guards, indicate the Blue Hose line tinues to turn in the driving per- lower areai—three mills above the
will be a better unit than last year formances which have made him seven syjested as being necessary
Presbyterian will present another one of the most valuable players he said "I m not going to work
hefty forward wall to the ten 1958 fo the past three years And Half- against it. he said, but we must
opponents, but it’s expected to backs John Lucas of Donora, Pa , approach it from a business-like
move quicker than in the recent and Gordon Stanley of Rock Hill. ha>i>
past. Wejghtf of thy, current first (continue to run hard , Mr Hart said that seven nulL-
two units' average 203 pounds. Likeliest looking newcomers *ould provide for building the plant
Co-Captain Richard Shrigley of j among the backs thus far are: Half
Clinton, at tackle and End Ted back Bobby Pate of Fitzgerald.
Leahy of Atlanta, have been demon-' Ga . another South Georgia Junior
strating their rugged experience in [college student entering as a fresh-
PC to Hove Better Line;
Faces Last Practice Week
in
his crucial quarterback problem may show a de*ure to be included m
the backfield The answer just the plan of a different hospital area
"It is felt that question 3 is nec
essary since we must have the
agreement of the other areas of the
county to take the present hospital
for the use of only one section of the
and guarantee funds for operations
during the first few years Most
hospitals would make a profit if it
_ w ere not for charity patients, he
early workouts. Three former South'man. and Bill Hill of Clairton. Pa , said, and stated that 17 per cent of
Georgia Junior college players fresh out of Marine service
have been outstanding among the
! patients in the Laurens County Hos
pital were charity patients
I he size of the present Laurens
C ounty Hospital is ideal for eco-
newcomers They are: Tackle Cecil TO ENTER CLEMSON
Morris of Hazelhurst, Ga., and Jack Davis, Jr. and George Bu
Guard Tommy Boney of Jackson- ford, son of Mr and Mrs. Richard nomical operation, and doubling the
Clinton High School, and WInthrop ville, Fla., both juniors who enroll-, Buford, are among 1958 graduates would not contribute to any
College. The Turners have three
daughters, Melissa 9, Cynthia 6,
and Clare 1V4.
ed at PC last Februray; and Tackle
Bill Schofille of Fort Valley, Ga.,
of Clinton High School who will economy. Hart said, in quoting hos-
leave this hweek to enter CTemaon pital authorities. The delegation, he
who has just arrived as a freshman. College
(continued on
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Clinton Commerce Leaders Make Call on Hallmark Officials
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