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\ — • ____ * Wasson Changes Trustee Bill Is Now In Senate ®br dlintmt (ttltnmirlp Vol. 60 — No. 5 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, January 29, 1959 School trustees in Laurens Coun ty would be elected by the voters in the attendance areas they repre sent. or would be named by the v County Board of Education, under legislation prepared for introduction in the General Assembly. The proposal, which will be of fered as an amendment to a skele ton bill already before the Senate, would repeal a 1956 act which made mandatory the selection of trustees in a referendum. Election was by a district-wide vote in each of the two school districts in the county, with the voters in all atten dance areas voting on all the trus tees. Thornwell Orphanage Allocated $30,927 By Duke Endowment Thornwell Orphanage, of Clinton, will participate in distribution of funds by the Duke Endowment to l the extent of S30.927. The announce ment was made following a meeting of trustees of the Endowment in New York The Laurens County Hospital will receive 13 268 The Endowment appropriated $1,- 042.253 to 143 hospitals and 43 child care institutions in South Carolina and North Carolina on the basis of their work during the year which ended last September 30. The Endowment was established by the kaie James B. Duke, founder of the Duke Power Company. Under the new act. voting in any particular attendance area would be confined to trustees to represent that area. The bill, drafted by Sen. Robert C. Wasson, calls for appointment of the trustees by the County Board of Education, but specifies .that “if twelve or more qualified electors in any attendance area endorse any candidate and request an election, the county board shall honor such petition and order an election.” It further states, “such trustees from that particular area shall be elected by the qualified voters rather than by appointment by the county board.” Under terms of the bill, the board of trustees of District No. 55 would be composed of seven members, six of them residing in the follow ing attendance area: two in the Laurens attendance area, one each in the Fort, Gray Court-Owings. Hickory-Tavern and Garlington Street attendance areas and the seventh member an elector at large from the district. The board of trustees of District No. 56 would likewise be composed of seven members, six of them re siding in the following attendance areas: two in the Clinton attendance area, one each in the Joanna, .Vi'ountville and Cross Hill areas and one from the Lydia Mills qom munity with the seventh membei an elector at large from the dis trict. Clinton Area Farmers Visit Mills in First of Series of Tours Of Concern to State Sheriff Wier Sees Danger in Horry Bill Representative farmers of the Clinton section were guests c.f Clinton-Lydia Cotton Mills on Tuesday of last week when they were invited to view the Clinton plant in the first of a series of tours by local jrroups. Similar e.cnts will be arranged monthly. Shown above are, front row, left to right: Richard Buford, \V. P. Dickson, Robert M. Vance, president and treasurer of the mills, I. M. Smith. Back row: T. Heath Copeland, Van Oxner, Sr., Reese H. Young, and Pringle Copeland. In the photo at right, three of the group are' shown watching the operation of a loom. They are, let* i .‘ingle Copeland. W. P. Dickson, Reese Young, t: H. Cornelson. vice-president oi the min'*, a g ;i Following the tour the guests were entertained eon at the mill*’community building.—Photo !••. borough. *o right, id George at iunch- Dan Yar- Joanna Executive For 1959-1960 Year Laurens—Sheriff C. W. Wier of Laurens Count) Monday voiced a strong protest against a bill now before the General Assembly that would create an eight-member police commission in Hony County (Conway i. Members of the com mission would be appointed by the Horry County legislative delega tion. The proposed commission would, in turn, apppoint a' county police chief and eight policemen, a jailer, and other necessary personnel. * The bill stipulates that only two deputy sheriffs could be employed m the county. In a prepared statement Monday. Sheriff Wier attacked the police com m issioti bill as being “one step forward in depriving the people of Horry County the right to self gov ernment * “Pleas*, understand,“ the sheriff’s statemer* continued, “that my mo tive ... is not to dictate to Horry county as to what they should do but to point out the danger that Iks in the proposed legislation which could spread to other areas of the state and as a result thereof weaken the law enforcement of the different sheriffs by di\iding the responsibil ity of law enforcement'' The shenffs statement went on 4 to say: “As one who has spent most of his life in law enforcement work and having been elected five terms •s shyrff of my county 1 sm deep ly ^ooceiwd /bout the proposed Dr „roocerf*d at legislation? *7’ “tbs to s loc local bill for Horry Couhty; however, I fell that the passage d this bill would have its impact on the whole state by strip ping from the sheriff of that county his ability to enforce the law and protect the lives and property of his citizens. Although the sheriff is charged kith the* enforcement of the law, under this bill, he would be deprived of the proper means and support of carrying out the re sponsibilities placed upon him by 4 the Constitution of South Carolina Pat Chisholm Places Third In State Contest Pat Chisholm, editor of 'file Sen tinel, Clinton High School newspa per, placed third in the editorial division of the Story of the Month contest. The contest is sponsored by the • journalism department of Wiritkrop College for high school neil^pa in the state. as imposed in Article 5. Sec hr. 30; Article 7, Section 11 and ether i sections of the said Constitution and :he South Carolina Code of Laws. ‘HJnder Lie proposed bill a county police force would be appointed by a County Police Commission. This commission would be appointed by the County Delegation. Under the bill the commission would have con* trot over the county jail, appoint he jailor and other personnel. It u my opinion that this is w.c step for. ward in depriving the people of Horry County the right to sslf gov. ernment This bill, as propotsd, would place ibe responsibility of law enforcement in a* commission appointed by the county deiega:ion rather than in a sheriff duly eleried by the people I feel that members of the General Assembly should study (Ms act ard vote agairst it, leaving the law enforcemcn in the ia.k'.s if h* sheriff wpere it be tun,* ” Dr. Bellingrath Will Sp:ak At P. T. A. Meet Tuesday Evening Dr Ge* r**- • !J.'. I.^.at I, aca demic dean at Presbyterian College, will be the guest speaker tor the February meeting of the Hampton Ave.iue Parent-Teacher Association to be field on Tuesday evening, the 3rd, at 8 o'clock Dr. Bellingrath will talk on Child Guidance. Hugh Jacobs is in charge of the program for the evening dur ing which an opportunity will be given members to ask questions There will be a door prize. An nouncement has also been made of a district meeting to be held in Greenwood on February 19 which anyone who is interested may at tend. P. B. Mitchell Passes $631,360 School Budget Is Sought Fur.eral services for P. B Mitch ell, 77, Joanna Cotton Mills execu tive, were held Saturday at 3:00 p. m at the Joanna Baptist Church conducted by the Rev. James B. Mjtchell, pastor, the Rev. Nathan Flemming, and th“ Rev M. B. Lee. Burial was in Rosem.mt cemetery, ! Clnlton Pallbearers were C. W. Anderson, James, Tom. and John Addison. W. R Pills. Jr., and R. G. Wrenn. P. R. MITCHELL ‘ The honorary ejeort coisis. d of the manufacturing council and of fice personnel of Joanna Mills. An gu> Stewart, Warren Dillard, and Dr. D. H. McFaddcn. Mr. Mitchell died suddenly Thurs day morning at his office, bringing to an end a 66 -year career in tex tiles. 33 of which were spent as an official of Joanna Cotton Mills Com pany Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Clark Mitchell; three sisters. Mrs. Sally Hollingsworth of Charlotte. N. C.; Mrs. Dora League of Green ville; and Miss Lilbe Mitchell of Greenville. His first wife was the late Mamie Austin Mitchell, who died in 1918. Born near Greer in 1881, Mr. Mitchell was the son of the late Jo seph Columbus Mitchell and the late Mary Emma Dunnahoo Mitch ell. As a boy of 11 he went to work at at the Piedmont Manufacturing Company, w irking up to the posi- :.on if loom fixer during his ap proximately 10 year stay t ere Be com.! assistant overseer of weav. : r.g at Wiilumston Mill, he later I went to Ware Shoals Manufacturing jCimpany as overseer of weaving he served as weaving overseer at Anderson Mills, and then was an I •lector with the Draper corporation Dr a number of years. Before com- | <.ig to Joanna in 1126. he was for several years suyerinlendent of the .mils in Be-semer City. N. C. Mr Mitchell was general super nte.dert at Joanna Cotton Mills Company from 1926 through 1946. when he retired Upon the death | *n 1948 of William A. Moorhead. , .eneral manager of the mill. Mr. Mitchell was recalled lo duty as as sistaat to the vice-president and ; general manager. Walter Hennery ill was in this capacity that he was serving a* the time of his death ’He was also vice-chairman of the mills' administrative committee. | Active in many religious, civic, ^and community projects, Mr 'Mitchell was ? member of the Jo anna Baptist Church, the Joanna Old Timers Club, the Laurens Coun ty election board, a former member of the board of trustees of the Mu.v grove School, and a member of the Laurens County War Price and Ra Honing Board dunng World War II Under his leadership the Joanna Relief Chest, an employee-adminis tered hospitalization plan, was or ganized. Attend Episcopal * ♦ Meeting In Camd6n • Five representatives from All Saints Episcopal Church here at tended a meeting of Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina at the Grace Church in Camden Tuesday. They were Mrs. J. B. Hart. Mrs. R. M. Turner, Mrs. Newton Jones, Mrs. E. N. Sullivan, and Mrs. Bai ley Dixon. Sublett Is President CHS Block 'C Club Clinton High School Block XT' Club members met last Friday and elected Tommy Sublett president Serving with him as vice-president will be Milling Blalock and as secretary-Creak ir>*r anil be John Ekhalberger * Hie dub will manage the coo. ce»si«i stand at all home bashstball games to raise money tor the Block ‘C banquet this Goes to Pokey for March of Dimes I>el!e Wiliier. popular Clinton girl, is shown here behind the bars of Clinton’M calalicoMe; but she doesn’t seem to mind the experience very much as Chief B. B. Ballard turns the key. It all came about because she lost a race to Ballard last Saturday after noon when contributions to the March of D nits yinipaign pushed wheelbarrows for ward over a course in the business section .. i he rate of 25 cents for each yard, ^'Delle, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Wilder, : h chairman of teenage activitiea in the March of Dimes drive.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. Two More Booklets By Dr. Gettys Due For April Appearance Two new religious booklets by Presbyterian College Professor Jo- -eph M. Gettys have been accepted for spring publication it was an nounced today. Dr. Gettys. who serves as pro fessor ot Bible at PC, will add “How to Study Acts" and “How to reach Ads” to his growing collec tion of 19 titles in the field of re ligious writing The latest two booklets are to be pubiidied by the John Knox Fltsx 1 of Richmond, Va . and will appear on April 20 Of all his 19 books and booklets. Dr. Gettys is probably most widely known for his publication. “What Presbyterians Believe." Now in its eigiii.i printing, it already has Mild mure than 38.OU0 copie>. Safety Engineers Hear D. H. Roberts Tne South Carolina Chapter of -he American Society o( Safety En gineers met here at the Man Mus- grove Hotel last Friday evening D. H Roberts, superintendent of Lydia Mills, >poke to the group on 'Textile Mill Floors — Yesterday and Today." He used samples of old and r.ew floors to demonstrate .he advantages and disadvantages of each as regards slips and falls in accident prevention. Claude Crocker is secretary of the chapter Registration At PC Begins Today Registration for thfc second semes ter of the 78th session at Presby terian College is scheduled to get underwav this (Thursday) morn ing. Seniors., given the privilege ot reg istering first, will open the day-long operation at 8:30 a m. Thereafter students will move alphabetically ihrough this procedure of signing_ up for classes. The first classwork of the new semester w ill begin on Friday morn ing. following the regular schedule This semester then will continu" without break until Easter holidays, set for March 26-April 1 FBLA Club Members To Attend Convention FBLA president Margaret Mad-| den, Gail Templeton, and Miss Anne Rose, sponsor, will attend the State Future Business Leaders As sociation convention to be held 1’hursday and Friday in Columbia. Following a dance at the Wade 'tampton Hotel on TTnirsday night will be the general convention on Friday. Lawson Is President Hereford Association "Ryan 7. awson, breeder of Here ford cattle in the Hopewell commu nity near Clinton, has been named oresident of the South Carolina Hereford Association. C. W. Copeland, also of Clinton, is. a director in the association "14" Golf Association Luncheon Tuesday A luncheon meeting ot the Ladies Golf Association of Lakeside Coun try Club will be held on Tuesday February 3. at 12:38 For reserva tions members are asked to call Mrs Edward Ferguson, hostess A proposed budget totaling $631. 360 for School District 56 for the 1959-60 •‘chool year was submitted to the Laurens County legislative delegation Monday night at a meet ing in Clinton The budget, presented by th<> Board of Trustees, shows an in crease of $20,378 over the budget under which the district schools are operating for the present term which ends June 30 Estimated income for the 1959-60 year, chiefly from state aid, is giv en a- $441,710. leaving a balance of $189,650 to be >ecured by taxation in the county The same figures forjthe present school year are $432.150-.and $178 832. A statement from the trustees, submitted along with the proposed budget for 195960. said that with an approximate assessed property March of Dimes Mothers March On Friday Night Mothers of School District 56 have completed plans for the an nual fund-raising finale to the March of Dimes, slated for Friday night. Co-Chairman Mrs Fre<f E Holcombe and Mr* Charles Bur. nett. The fire whistle will blow at 7 30 to start the hour long march No definite amount has been stat ed as the quota for the Clinton area Dunng the march, mothers in all sections of town vyill call on their neighbors for contributions to launch the National Foundation's expanded program- Volunteer*mothers have been ask ed to wear light colored gloves to emphasize the “Hand of Mercy” symbol of the march Each moth er will carry a collection container bearing a “Join The March of Dimes' - stickers Literature has been ik-Irbuitod to all homes in the area "The success of our Mothers March, climaxing the March of Dimes, will determine the effective ness with which the four-target at tack' on the disease can be carried out.” the chairman said “Polio and other virus diseases, arthritis, birth defects and disorders of the central nervous system are the in itial specific targets Only by ex panding our ranks and increasing volunteer participation in the'Moth Rev. Cannon Attending Methodist Meeting The Rev. Joel E. Cannon, pastor of Braafl Street Methodist Church, left Men day to* attend the National Association of Methodist Home* and Hospitals in St. Louis. Mo. Mr. Can non represents Epworlh Children’s • Home. Columbia He will return Friday night ers' March can we hope to launch an effective attack in this broad field nf batile " During the march, home owner* are asked to *tgnal their desire to contribute to the March of Dune* by turning on their porch lights or placing a lighted candle or lamp in a front window Hotel and apart ment dwellers will tie a handker chief or ribbon to their doorknob* to signify their intention of con tributing All women w+to wish to take part in the Mothers’ March should get in touch with their area chairman as soon as possible, the co-chairman said Each marching mother will will be responsible for visiting homes in her immediate neighbor hood during the hour long march Following is the list of chairmen appointed Asssitunt* to the Co-Chairmen Mrs L V. Powell and Mr' Mal colm Campbell OAlylag Areas of Clintoi Mrs Tom Baldwin. * -z Divisional Area Chairmen Clinton Mill: Mrs C \V Wooten Mrs Eva Land. Mrs. J K * Rey nolds .and Mrs Joe Terry Lydia Mill: Mrs. R E Whitmire Mrs David Word, and Miss Nellie Osborne Joanna Mrs Carl Franzen and Mr* Mary Lehman Cru>s Hill: Mrs Robert Seegars Mountyille: Mrs Malette Wham Colored Du ision Miss Evelyn ‘ | Faucet, City of Clinton Area Chairmen*) Mrs Allen Simmons, Mrs. Robert L Flaxico. Jr.. Mrs Truman Ow ens. Mr* James Neal. .Mrs. Earl Horton. Mrs. S. A. Pitt*. Jr.. Mrs. Talraadge Simmons. Mrs. Fred Burnette. Mrs Lewi* Simpson. Mrs W W Barnett. Jr, Mrs Robert Uontiued on page four) valuation in 'he district of $6,000 OOP and a 95 per cent tax collect! n a levy of 33,mill* would be required to ra,'e 'he $18)6*0 by local tax ation The levy for t: e present school year is 30 mills In addition, there is a levy of four milts fur bird' and' mill for payment of accumulated deficits in prior-year s, • which will be con tinued for the coming year the accumulated deficit on June 30. 1957. was $53 747 78. with * pay ment ot $15 677 82 during the 1957 58 year, leavitg a balance on June 30 1958. uf $38.u69‘j6 I>T1M\1LI> INCOME Sources of estimated ocome for school district revenues for the 195960 »chot I year are given as follows Poll-tax dug tax drunquent tax* ev national furc*t Mrd—$L3.7$® State ami Federal, state aid. sal aru > $370 •DM 'tate aid supervi sion and overhead $21 «M state aid • maintenance aid operation '21 owe \ National agriculture $5. ►iOO. home ecenomtrs $t 300. dis- tr.but.ve t*iu«at,.i $* other $800 —$*23 200 "v 5J 260 Tran*fer* fr in > • r fjnds—ft. 500 Total-4441 710 ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES Administration $24 442 in*:ruction $525,573. health services $S*)0 ? ran'port at .on $I.u«> operation $50 225. maintenance ito.JW; fixed charges $11810. activities 8.700. capital outlay $4 110—Total $631 360 School' n Di*'nct 56 include those at Clinton. Joanna. Lydia Mounfvilk jiid Cro»* Hill Trustees of the district are H L Iichetoerger, ot Clinton, churman Jake Rasor. of Cross Hill, secre tary; J J Cornwall, of Clinton. Genr.H* H lluguley, of C’.t.iton D H R .St’' f Lytfi . J T Addi son. of Joanna avd ! B Cooley, .►f Mount ville. P\ll. L. PEARSON Pearson Is Named Exchange Governor Paul L. Pearson has been named Governor of District 3 of the Ex change Club which includes seven counties in thi* section of the state. Mr Pearson holds a position with the Southern Bell Telephone Com pany here and is immediate past president "Vt the local Exchange Club. Hi* service as Governor will be for the year 1968 \ Mr Pearson has been a resident of Clinton for seven yean He u a native of Fountain Inn If ’ L v