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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday. May 14, 1959 Negro's Wife Held In Mountville Shooting M,ir> Ann Andrew. 1®. ot Mount- \ ilk 1 , w ai« rkarcrd by l.aumi* Coun ty o((iC('n> with asMult and battery w ith intent to kill in the shooting of her husband. Marvin Anderson. Jr.. 31 The shooting occurred Sunday aft ernoon at*their home in the Mount ville section. officers siiid that Anderson. Who was sitting on a bed. received the load i*f shot from a single-barrel shotgun in his right arm. Some shot also went into his left. Reports state that the arm was badly mangled. Anderson was brought to Blalock Clinic in Clinton for treatment, being transferred la ter to Brewer Hospital in Crreen- wood. '' Investigation of the case was made by Sheriff's deputies H. R. Jones and Leroy Keeble. The woman was released on SoOO bond. W. G. Duncan Laurens—Walter G. Duncan. 56, native and former resident of Laur en?. died early Tuesday morning in a Columbia hospital following sev eral years of declining health. He was the son of the late Fet'd G. and Eva Frances Casey Duncan. Surviving are one brother, Cole man L. Duncan, of Columbia, and three sisters, Mrs. Ahnie Mae Skew- ron. Mrs J. Herman Power and Mrs. Eula Owings. all of Laurens. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 5 p. m. at Kennedy- Mortuary by the Rev. Fred Harmon and the Rev John R. Waters Bur ial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery Mayor Proclaims National Cotton Week Whirr**, rach and every member of our commututy is served by cot ton in Mune w ay every day of every year, and ' Whereas, the cotton fiber, through the wonders of nature and the magic of modern science, has the .superla- tive qualities of comfort, durability, dependahhittty. beauty, and' jun- m.itched versatility, and Whereas, cotton, in addition to supplying two-thirds of our fiber needs, also provides seed as a source of healthful and nutritious foods, and k* Whereas, the production of cotton and cotton seed products is esential to the economy of our community, our state, and our nation, and Whereas, the multi-bilhon Amer ican cotton indusrty has climbed td a position of preeminence in the world with respect to fiber produc tion as well as in terms of machin- ery. captial, and scientific develop ment, now Therefore, I. Joe P Terry, Mayor of the City of Clinton, do hereby join w ith t h e communities all over America in proclaiming the week of May 23. 1959. as National Cotton Week in the City of Clinton, and urge every citizen to stimulate fur ther the consumption of cotton through purchases of cotton and cot ton seed products. GOLF ASSN TUESDAY The regular luncheon of the La dies Golf Association of Lakeside Country Club will be held Tuesday, May 19. at 12.30 Reservations must Ik- made by Saturday. May 16. by calling Mrs Ed Sadler, the hostess. UTTLE BOYS LEAGUE ^ ——” The Clinton Little Boys Baseball league has been operating for two weeks Some fine games have been played It looks as if Joanna and Whitmire will be the teams to beat this year. Hark Prater. Joanna roach, has two big boys. Gene Koon ami Jerry Strand, to use on the mound These boys also exchange places behind the plate when not pitching. Whitmire has a well balanced team with not quite as good pitch ing as Joanna, but with good field ing and base running Whitmire’s top pitchers are Jerry Alexander and Steve Collier. Pitchers for the other teams are as follows: Kiwanis—Danny Wisher, Johnny Still, D. Watts, and Riley Fillingame. Exchange Jimmy Dean, Tommy Lawson, and Estes i Moose — Johnny Rushton, Gerald McWatters, and Gary Laney Lions i —Dusty Rhodes. Mike Norris, and David Templeton. Joanna Little Boys completed a fast triple play in their first game with the Kiwanis team. The bases Clinton Revival Center Damaged News Of Bonds Cross Roads Waters Is President Of PC Student Body Bob Waters of Sylvania. Ga.j is the new president of the Presbyte. Friends of Mrs. Guy Miller will be | nan College student body, glad to know she has returned home He was chosen in a recent cam- after being a patient in the New- pus-wide election to succeed Paul berry hospital. Arrington of Charlotte as head of the Mm Margaret Berry has returned » tud «* government. Waters U a ria- to work after an illness. »« nior • nd quarterback on the PC fotoball team. Tom Wise of ’Hiomasville, Ga., was named vice-president of the stu dent bdoy in receiving the second highest number of votes for senior Mr. and Mrs. 1) t*. snipes of Co lumbia, announce the birth of a son, Last Day Today were loaded and one out A Ki- wanis playei hit a hard smash to Joanna shortstop in the air. He threw to third base for second out and on to first base for third out. LB BATTING AVERAGES Through May 8 Player—Team AB H Avg. Stroud (J) 15 9 .600 Templeton (L) 10 6 .600 Graham (W) 12 7 .583 Wisher < K) 7 4 571 Ramsey (W) 13 7 .546 T Alexander t W t 14 7 .500 Senn (J ) 15 7 .467 Koon (J) 14 6 .429 J. Rushton (Mi ‘ 12 5 .417 Whitsel i J) : 10 4 .400 D Rhodes (L> 10 4 .400 Rushton (J i 16 6 375 Peay < W) 11 6 rs Foster • M) 11 4 364 Laney iM » 11 4 364 Walker iW) 11 4 364 Adam* iL) 11 4 364 Collier iWi ii STANDINGS 4 300 Team VIoa 4 le*l 0 ' "It will sec us back about two months, but we will repair the dam age and complete our church prob ably in September ’’ That was the comment by Rev. E P Johnson, pastor of the Clinton Re vival Center on North Owens street, which was damaged by fire early D. P. Shipes III, on Friday, May 8. Monoav night of last week Mrs Shipes is the daughter of Mr. The church has been under con , and Mrs - Felton Crapps. struction for the past several Mr and Mrs Robert Lee Franklin . ... . and little daughter. Donna. Mrs. R. months, with the work being done Franklin and Mrs Mamie Mason by members of the congregation. were visitors in Athens, Ga.. Sunday The fire is thought to have origin- of Mrs E L streetman. mother of ated in a trash pile on the north side M rs E £ Franklin, of the building by a cigarette tossed yi r and Mrs Felton Crapps and by one of the workmen. granddaughter. Ann Shipes, of Co- Phat side of the building and the lumbia, spent Sunday with Mrs. Ro. roof of the auditorium which was i an d smith in Lyman, under construction was badly dam- * * • STUDY COURSE Phe back part of the building con- Fairview Baptist Church Training taining a smaller hall and several Union Study Course was well attend- dassrooms, which had been in use 0 d this week. Tuesday night a group for some time, were not damaged 0 f state Baptist workers gave a extensively, v model demonstration of a Training Union program Woman Released On The Tuesday evening meeting was ~ i | followed by a social hour at the brand Larceny Charge shady Grove community House. Agnes Hughes Jacks, Clinton wo- Refreshments were served by mem- man, was released on bond early bers of the Training Union, this week by the sheriff's office after * ♦ * being charged in a warrant with CLUB MEETING grand larceny. The regular monthly meeting of The warrant was issued by Magis- the Shady Grove Community Club trafe Sam McCrary upon complaint will be held Saturday evening at the of Dewey Summers who charged club house. Hostesses will be Mrs. that the woman took $110 off his B W. Cooper. Mrs. David Pitts, person during the week-end. Mrs. Hack Todd and Mrs. James Officers stated that Summers said Green, the woman relieved him of the mon-1 * • * ey before* leaving him in a parked car in the Clinton area. VI Saturday Morning 10 JO *f*CI l %i MUDIE **H»* SHEP OF THE PAINTED HILLS I* * % I*—— !• 1 NO Ml ■( N' t—1 V» f«lCfc%Y i Twar ARTia MOADViRi I . .. * ^awa kaMka eat i fan «# fl aaftAM* M • «»Wf m Cl * #4M ar 1 STARTS FRIDAY, MAY IS FOR A WEEK Thornwell—Bill Sullivan: Hampton Ave —Wilmof Shealy: Whitmire— Charlie Brown, Joanna—Hack Pra ter. Friday will see four teams meet- ing in a doubl.'header All Pony games will be only six inings until school is oiu ILL FRY Small Fry »UrU the 25th M 10 00 a m All be*t who <hd mm make the Little Boys sod Pony tram' and atlO * am ta play baseball this summer at*** P ft TrmpMaa at the Little Bey* park .Saturday manual of Uw* •md at la m a m Hus mtuim wa* formerty «ch»4utod for May 23 AU boys aha da aat the Ms*ii rr> leasts are a*had ta re pwrY HI YRff wmts IdMMNPRV IlMTH miH fJMMl Ml M g Ml M tbf AfldtfctJj dfcMMMtf T^MHK Ivya m j haaJWh ^^tam ^ - - ^ ^ _ Mi' Ml IdMRDfMMR# lawpsod rfVirsai aouruv at Bt» lamia WMR * pMTt mmm IB WMi T%hu buy* e*d dba ydoy uH»e J» *mua Jauama brndB ' r V Iday tv»t» augmUrSy tedadbud HtHf ■ BROADWAY REPORTER councilman. .And Joe Hardin of Greenwood, became the third senior representative on PC’s student coun cil. Billy Betchman of Summerton, re ceived the Largest number of votes among the junior representatives to become the new secretary-treasurer of the Presbyterian College student council. Serving with him from the junior class will be Frank Forbes of Decatur, Ga., and Ron Boston of Darlington. The newly elected sophomore class representatives are Bob Ste vens of Orangeburg and Jimmy Thompson of Manning. All of the councilmen have been elected to serve for the coming year. Freshmen representatives will be named next fall after the new class arrives. Drive-In Operators Charged With Nuisnce Laurens—Tw'o warrants were is sued Thursday charging a man and his wife with "operating and main taining a nuisance” and "having in possession legal whisky for illegal purposes.” They were Floyd and Ruth Mor. Mrs. Felton Crapps has returned ton, operators of Tis-Ours-Drive-In, home after a visit in Columbia with a cafe just off Highway 276 near her daughter, Mrs. D. P. Shipes Fountain Inn, who posted $500 bond Little Ann Shipes. her granddaugh- an each count Saturday morning, ter. returned with her for a visit. according to Sheriff C. W. Wier's of- Mrs Texie Johnson and daughter, fice. ( laudia, were visitors of Mrs. Rob The warrants were sworn out be en Henderson, in Whitmire on Sun fore Magistrate C. M Curry and day Mrs Henderson is Mrs. John -igned by Sheriff Wier sons' mother —— Twenty-four of South Carolina's IT YOU DONT READ 46 counties have only one THE CHRONICLE ***** YOU DO ITT GET THE NEW* OFFICE SUPPLIES 74 CHRONICLE PUB. CO. Carolina High Takes First In 3-Game Series From Clinton Carolina High held off a seventh inning rally by Clinton last night at Duncan's Athletic field to take a 5-4 victory in the opening game of the upstate AA baseball finals. Ronald Cross. Truman McCarter and Donnie Sargeant combined to limit the Clinton team to four hits in taking a 1-0 lead in the best-of- three aeries Ed Bailey had a triple and smgit and Berry Whitman picked up two singles to collect the four Clinton hits. Whitman drove in two runs and Bailey knocked in one. , Alvin Hawkins’ pinch-single in the third accounted for two of Caro lina's runs. Sargeant had a double pff the fence to score two, while Skeeter Hammett and Billy (^reer each collected two hits. ' > The two teams square off again Thursday night in Clinton at 8:00 o’clock. (rratlualioii Special! overnight cases ftf? fOR MEN AND WOMEN?) ■ B/—(T) (Regularly 19 95 ) GET THREE DOLLARS OFF regJor P ,„. on th, v Indies C Nile C or ^onds • • Me c asp n wus Sa'”*.ocite Suea*^' *• Aao • (Vc* riecev o cot:>!* *♦• ycur set of the. lu«ur»Cus : MB EATON E —4 UN TON Headquarter* SEAT COVERS HtKK INSTAI.I. %TlO.N 4 laMwn I tttMm Ewr* Car! 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S Senate’s Rackets Investigating Committee, says every citizen in this country should see and whose judgment is that it will have a po tent influence for the maintenance of Law- and Order. PICTURES GREAT THUS SUMMER The motion picture industry, en couraged by the recent surveys which show that for the first time in ten years the number of fre quent moviegoers is increasing, has scheduled a succession of great pic tures for this summer. Walt Dis ney’s SLEEPING BEAUTY and al so DARBY O’GILL AND THE LITTLE PEOPLE should make this a memorable summer for the [children. We believe that IT HAP- [PENED TO JANE, which stars Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie > Kovacks will bring the families to the movies in droves It is a great picture for the whole family THE FIVE PENNIES should be one of the finest musical dramas m recent rears WOMAN OBSESSED will bring mere acting awards to Susan Hayward THE YOUNG PH1LA DCLPHIANB is rated Ftrr Aad Nava Pawl Mrwatan and Bar kora a**a this EARTH is MINX atork ta m Boob DaowMkp Mr* Vi BIT * . MAY 18 Through MAY 23 b NATIONAL COTTON WEEK WE JOIN WITH MANY COMMU NITIES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES IN SALUTING THE COTTON INDUSTRY Every member of our community is served by cotton in some way every day of every year. The production of cotton and cotton seed products is essential to the economy of our community, our state and our nation. The American cotton industry has climbed to a position of preemi nence in the world with respect to fiber production as well as in terms of machinery, capital, and scientific development When You Buy, Ask for American-Made Cottons i s. mim t sola*. r