Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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V r ""xu r ji • * a a J f ^ \> k Hi U 2 X » * « 5» » > » 0 it « . | « # *# f> * =» « * # r* ? ; « 1 rWIJMft ;rra« ' « e 4 ^ * r » « * * « A Vol. 61 — No. 16 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 21, 1960 ■ «*'« i* «• * '<**» M # u Winners of Bicycles in Chronicle Contest “Dusty” Jones and Ginny Bell were the first to win bicycles in the subscription con test now being conducted by The Chronicle. They are shown here as they proudly re ceived their “bikes” in The Chronicle office Tuesday afternoon. Each has sold more ithan the required 15 new’ subscriptions to get a bicycle and are now busy trying to win a second. “Dusty” is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jones of Woodrow’ Street. He is 10 years old and is in the fourth grade at Hampton Avenue School. Ginny is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bell, Jr., of Route 1, Laurens. She is nine years old and is in the fourth grade at Central School in Laurens.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. Steve Richey Dies When Hit By Auto Saturday Night ' James Steven (Steve) Richey. 5- ytar-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James T^lfichey of Lydia Mill, was fatal ly injured Saturday night vvheh struck by an automobile Investigating officers said the child had crossed the street from the church to a store to buy candy. The accident occurred about 9:45 p. m. He was rushed to Hays Hospital where he died shortly after arrival. Sheriff C. W. Wier said the driv er of the car, Woodrow Hanley. 52. of Beauregard St., Clinton, was placed under “technical arrest” and released pending an inquest. Acting Coroner Sam McCrary, of Clinton, empaneled a jury to view the body and announced that an in quest will be scheduled. Steve attended Lydia Mill Pente costal Holiness Church, was a mem ber of the Sunday School and at tended Lydia Mill Kindergarten. Surviving, in addition to his par ents. are his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Richey, of Lydia Mill, and Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Pierce, of Clinton; a great-grandmother. t ri LENA COPELAND PAT JACKS SYLVIA KING CLAIRE SMJTH Four CHS Seniors To Receive Winthrop Scholarships Four senior girls of Clinton High and secretary and represent^ive.at the JCL. and during her junior'year as assistant business maneger of the School have been notified by Win. large of the student council She she was a National Honor Society annual, she is also eligible for an throp College that they have been is also typist for Tl»e Sentinel, a so- and a Beta Club member Serving Old English C selected as recipients of Alumnae licitor for The Clintonian and a as classes editor of the annual this Honor Scholarships senior class beauty As a vvpho- year. Pat is eligible for an ()ld Eng Those girls to receive the schol- more, she was homeroom president hsh C. arships for the 1960-61 school year and class vice president She has As a freshman and sopohomore, at Winthrop are Lena Copeland and been a cheerleader since her fresh- Sylvia was a member of the Tri-Hi- Sylvia King of Clinton; Pat Jacks man year V'. JCL, and JHA. of which she was Claire, who wais chosen class his torian by the senior class members, has been a member of the National Honor Society and the Beta (Tub this year By being c<>_literary editor of The Clintonian, she will receive an of Mountville; and Claire Smith of Pat, who was elected Miss CHS treasurer her sophomore year Last old English C Claire has served Eastern Carolina League Opens On Tuesday Night The Clinton Cavaliers will be play ing at home when the opening guns are fired in the Eastern Carolina Baseball League on Tuesday, April 26. Clinton's opponent in the night kickoff game will be Riverdale of Enoree. Special pre-game ceremonies are planned for opening night and sale of tickets is already underway. A 30-game schedule has been an nounced for the six-team textile league, which will end on August Pentecostal Holiness Church by the Rev. James R Bryan and the Rev. I. H. Webb. Burial was in Rose- £en. Thurmond Is Speaker For PC Ahimnr Banquet Senator Strom Thurmond will de liver'the main address at Presby terian College’s Alumni banquet on June 4, President Marshall W. Brown announced today. The banquet, scheduled for the PC dining hall that night, will be the highlight of the newly inaugurated Alumni Reunion program at Pres byterian College. Class reunions and other alumni activities pre viously held during the fall Home coming are being shifted to the commencement season, beginning this year. As announced earlier, the sched ule of PC’s 1960 graduating exer cises calls for the baccalaureate sermon on June 5 and final com mencement program on June 6. Presbyterian alumni will arrive on the campus one day early, on Saturday afternoon, for the Alum ni Reunion program. Some are ex pected to remain over for the com mencement exercises. Senator Thurmond, junior senator from South Carolina, former gover nor and a dose friend of PC for the past decade, will' be awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree at the college’s 79th commencement program in June. He has had an outstanding career in military ser vice and politics, and he carried four states as the 1948 presidential candidate of the States’ Rights Dem ocratic party. Pre-School Clinic On May 2 And May 3 . The annual pre-school clinic for children who will enter Hamptort Avenue School in the fall of 1960 will be held on Monday, May 2, and ! Tuesday, May 3, at the Clinton Health Center on Woodrow Street. Hours on Monday are 1 to 3 p. m. ai^i on Tuesday 8:30 to 10:30 a. m. Parents of children entering the first grade are requested to bring them during the above mentioned hours for an examination. The clinic is sponsored by the Hampton Avenue Parent-Teacher Assn. Cpoper On Staff Of Erskine Paper Jackie Cooper, rising sophomore at Erskine College, has. been named business manager of The Mirror, Erskine newspaper, for the 196-61 term. Cooper is a 1959 graduate of CUn- otn High School. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cooper. I o Serve On Board enny Addison of Joanna, rising senior at Winthrop college Rock Hill wiH serve on the judicial board of the Student Government Asso ciation for the 1960-61 term. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Addison. , -x . " - 13. Games will be played on Tues day and Saturday. Other teams in the league are Buffalo of Union, Carlisle, Draper and Kohler, both of Spartanburg- The other two opening contests are: Buffalo at Carlisle, and Kohler at Draper. On the mound for Clinton Tuesday night will be either Larry Madden or Charles Malpass. Sonny DuBose will be behind the plate. Filling other posts: Melvin Bailey, first base; Truman Owens or Earl Satterfield, second base; Tot Fal- law’, third base; Kinard Littleton, shortstop; Jimmie Braswell, Sam Owens, and Ellis Huffstetler, out fielders. Truman Owens is manager for the Other pilots are: Chuck Millwood of Buffalo; Mancil Adair, Jr., of Draper; Ralph Woodward of Car lisle; Jack Holmes of Riverdale; and Joe Johnson of Kohler. Claude Crocker of this city, is president of the league, and Bill Terry, also of this city, secretary- treasurer. Wives To Be Guests Of Lions Club Friday Friday will be “wives” night at the Clinton Lions Club. Wives of members have been invited to at tend the regular meeting at 7:30 at the Mary Musgrove Hotel. The Rev. A. D. Croft, blind minis ter and president of the Association for the Bhnd of South Carolina, will be the speaker. Mr. Croft is one of the most hum orous and inspirational speakers in the state. His visit precedes the an nual Lions Club Broom Sale which will be held Thursday and Friday, May Ti and 13, when members will sell brooms, hearth brooms, polish ing mitts, and door mats. Don G. Creighton is chairman of the broom sale committee. Senior Fellowships Spring Rally Slated At Abbeville Saturday The South Carolina Presbytery Senior High Fellowship will hold the mont Cemetery, annual spring rally at the Abbeville Pallbearers were Bruce Bagwell, First Presbyterian Church on Satur day. 8 ra'rScholarship Winners starting at 10:30. Featured on the To Attend College Here For # 60- / 61 Term Kinards this year, has been class secretary year she was a member of the The selection of scholarship win- her junior and senior years She was FBLA and the Beta Club, ami last Mrs. Homer Richey, of Lydia Mill, is based on the student's high homeroom secretary as a freshman summer she attended Girls State and a great-grandfather. N. W. school achievements and homeroom president as a jun This year Sylvia is secretary of the Medlock, of Brooklet, Ga. This year Lena serves as sec re ior During her freshman and sopho- Beta Club and a member of the Na- Funeral services were conducted tary-treasurer of the Block C Club more years Pat was a member of tional Honor Society For her work Monday at 5 p. m. at Lydia Mill , , as junior marshal, secretary of the JHA, and reporter for The Sentinel She has also been a homeroom offi eer, a member of the JCL and a member of the junior and seruor class plays Edmond Blackwell. Jessie orombie and Oliver Smith Aber- program will be the election of offi cers for the coming year, a talk by a missionary and Bible study cours es. Each person attending is asked to bring a Bible, sandwiches for a pic nic and a 25c registration fee. Officers Get Still In Gray Court Area Laurens—Laurens County sheriff’s deputies seized and destroyed an up right steam type still monday near IB Association In Annual Meeting In Clinton Tonight The annual meeting of the Laur ens County Tuberculosis Associa tion will be held in Clinton tonight M. S. Bailey School Pre-School Clinic t To Be Held April 25 The Mercer Silas Bailey School Parent-Teacher Association will hold its annual pre-school clinic Monday, April 25.a Ithe Clinton Mills Com munity Building Parents are asked to bring chil Victim of Soviet and Nazi Persecution Speaks Here A European educator and author who survived Russian persecution w-tll address the Presbyterian Col- Deputy Wallace Abercrombie said the outfit was not in operation when officers raided it, but there was evi dence that a partial run had been made. Officers destroyed 550 gallons of mash and the boiler of 110-gallon capacity. The raid was made by (Thursday) at 7:30 p. m. at the dren who will begin school next fall le * e stud * nt body on world commu Two of the top six winners in the Presbyterian College dining hall, it or have them accompanied by a re- msm * iere Wednesday Presbyterian Board of Christian Education’s competitive scholarship contest will attend Presbyterian Col lege next fall, it was announced to day. for Tuesday night, but the date was his or her birth certificate, changed to avoid conflict with the' Doctors George R Blalock was stated by the president. J. Al- sponsible person He is Dr. Karlis Leyasmeyer, a len Thompson. Jr. K u necessary under South Latvian and first hand au The meeting had been scheduled Carolina law that each child have thonty on the Soviet system, com munist strategy and world prob and lems His topic for the 10 a. m. lec- One of these PC-bound recipients Community Concert. R M Fuller will make physical ex is Marion Boozer of Gaffney, whoj Mr said y* program, aminations Doctors Carl Wessinger TrT* ‘J? f °p ^ , enUre ! “Laurens County and It’s TB Prob- and Manon Lawson wiH conduct the area of the Southern Presbytenan j „ . oresented bv G Mil- denlal clinic. Appointments will be Church. H* WU1 ^ ,„r e^ w.th Dr V T Fmi Hota>mbe “ Ap ter, he tentatively plans to enter the ^’ r ^* X co ’ Hinton mission field after completing his education. The other scholarship winner plan ning to enroll at Presbyterian Col lege in September is Ellen V. Wil son of Savannah. Ga. Announcement of the competitive from the division of church relations ture in Neville Hall auditorium will be “The Fateful Problems of the Atomic Age” Dr. Leyasmeyer lived in Russia throughout his youth, saw the Com munist revolution in 1917 and sub- ° in ' sequent events Afterw ards he re turned to independent Latvia and New Subscribers Deputies Abercrombie and Horace scholraship contest results came Mitchell. of the Board of Christian Education.' Presbyterian Church. US. in Rich- i mond, Va.i Explorer Scouts Meet This Evening Explorer Post No. 60. Boy Scouts of America, sponsored by the Clin- Foresters Society 1 Dinner Meet Tonight The Enoree chapter of the Appa- ton and Lydia Cotton Mills and the , achian Section * the Sockty of, Lions Club, wnll meet this evening at 7:30 at the Clinton Mills Com munity Center. LOSES SISTER • Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Loftis spent a part of last week in Landrum, being called there by the kudden death on Sunday morning Mrs. Mrs. Mdrah Huggins Phillips, sister of Mrs. Loftis. Mr. and Mjs. Loftis were accom panied to the funeral service, held at the First Baptist Church at Lan drum, by Frank H. Loftis. Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Bollinger of Green ville. American Forsters will hold a din ner meeting tonight at the Mary Musgrove Hotel. Chairman John Graham will pre side. A program planned by Don Creighton will be presented All members are invited to attend To Serve Barbecue Saturday Morning Battery B, 107th AAA Associa tion will serve a barbecue Saturday morning at 10 o’clock at the Le gion Home on the Whitmire High way. MILTON A. MILAM, MRS CLARKE JOHNSON LAWRENCE LAN FORD J T KELLEY, BILL TRAMMELL. JAMES E WILIAMS. RUBY TONEY. , . T FRED BURNETT. SHIRLEY POWER. SUNSHINE SELF LAUNDRY. WALLACE PATTERSON. JONES SINCLAIR. JIMMY REVLS, TEMP CAMPBELL. IONA FURR. JAMES C. HAUPFEAR MRS CARL LANDERS. W. H ADAMS. PAT TERRY, T E BLACKWELL. HELEN CRAWFORD. MRS ELIZABETH HARRISON MRS MINNIE TURNER. Clinton MRS GEORGE SIMPSON, MRS J W MILLS. FRED L ELLIS. , Joanna WILLIAM P DAGNALL. MRS JERRY WINGO GEORGE PENLAND J G ROY. MRS AILEENE BELL WILLIAM BELL. JR . F E BROWN. MRS ELBERT T WORKMAN, BRYAN GOODWIN. ALBERT STRIBLLNG. JULIA HOLLAND, .ANGELA HASELDEN. _E L RODGERS, Laurens EDWARD SHEALY, Wattsville WILMA ABERCROMBIE G W McKITTRICK. JR Enoree NEAL SPEAKS, Cross Hill J W CROWDER. Gray Court MRS ELBERT JONES. Columbia MRS C. F. PIPER. JR . Oak Ridge, Tenn E A CHITTENDEN, Pinellas Park. Fla W. R GARRETT. MRS JOSEPHINE OLIVER Dalton. Ga. MRS REBA BISHOP. Fayetteville. N C. t ' nt rr. and Dr David Thursday. April 28. Mrs. Annie Waldrop, county nurse will be at the clinic to vaccinate children who need smallpox protec tion. The clinic will begin at 1 00 p m and continue through 3:00 p m Children must be six years old by November 1. I960, to enter school in September Mrs Nell Haggan. Clinton Mills nurse, and PTA members will be in County Home Demonstration Coun- Spring Council Of Demonstration Club To Meet On Thursday The spring meeting of Laurens charge of the dime Parents are asked to please have children at the clinic on time. Alderman Boland Will Stand For Reelection Frank M Boland. Jr., member of city council from ward one, has announced his candidacy for re- election in the May 31 city Demo- cratcr primary cil will be held on Tuesday, April 26. at Youngs Community Center with Youngs Home Demonstration Club.as hostess Refreshments will be served by the hostess club from 3 00 until 3:30 p m. and the program will start at 3:30 p. m Reports will be given by the chairmen and election of new offi cers will take place. A program earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Univer sity of Latvia He knows by personal experience Communist and Nazi persecution. In 1941 he was arrested by the Com mumsts. sentenced to die and faced their firing squad but miraculously escaped death. He later survived the Nazi ordeals. Since 1930 Dr. Leyasmeyer has been editor of educational and scientific magazines, taught philos ophy and political science in insti- ; tutions of higher learning and lec tured throughout Europe and this country. He is mwv a citizen of the United States. His lectures, under the sponsor ship of International Christian Lead ership. Inc., have been acclaimed by more than 300 colleges and uni versities of this country and over 1.600 civic audiences. Laurens Library To Sponsor Summer Program For Librarians The Laureas County Library, with the help of the South Carolina State Library Board, is sponsoring a Jun ior Internship summer program to interest and encourage qualified I young people in library' work. The junior interne must be a college sen ior or junior with a B or C-plus average or a teacher under 35 years of age For more information con sult the librarian, Mrs. Phil D Huff, Boland, connected with the CN&L featuring slides of Western states of thv Laurens County Library Railroad's Clinton office, is serving will be given by D A. Yarborough his third term in the post of Clinton News of Men In Service Serving at the U S. Na\al Station. Rota. Spain, is William M Patter son. storekeeper third class, USN. son of Mr amt Mrs William A. Pat terson of 519 Musgrove St. The Ro ta naval station's mission is sup porting the ships and aircraft of the U. S Atlantic and Mediterranean fleets • • • •v ?.• i rr Principals in Concert Here Tuesday UTTi Jimmie E Gregory, airman ap 1 prentice. USN. son of Mr and Mrs James C. Gregory of 58 Beech St.. Lydia, is serving with the helicop ter training group at Ellyson Field. Pensacola. Fla * • * ♦ John E. Taylor, seaman, USN. son of Mrs Eva Taylor of 111 Hill St., is serving at the Naval Receiv ing Station. Brooklyn. N Y Before entering the Navy in June 1956. he graduated from Bell Street High School. • • • James R Franks electrician's mate, second class. USN. of Co lumbia Hwy.. Joanna. S. C . and husbafid of the former Miss Nan L Harvey of Clinton, recently re turned aboard the tank landing ship USS Waldo County afu-r a tour of duty w ith the U S Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean area. The Waldo County look .part in several auiphibiou> landing exer cises while part of the amphibious arm of the Sixth Fleet The ship re turned to its home port of Norfolk. Va., after unioaduig Marine" at nous opt rational exercises and rec reational visits to Spam. France. Italy ami Greece • \rmy RFC Roy Lawson, Jr , son of Mr and Mr< Jessv^ L. Lawson. 101 Stewart St . recently quaiilied a> expert in firing the carbine while serving with the J96lh Transporta tion Company in Germany Lawson, a light truck driver in the company entered the Army in Brian Sullivan, tenor of the Metropolitan Opera Association, appeared in concert Tuesday evening in the Thomwell audi torium, and Was the final number in the- current Community Concert series. At .the left is Richard Tetley-Kardos, accompan ist. In the center is Mrs. James E. Wolfe, president of Clinton Community Concert \\ Association. Mr. Sullivan presented a six-part pro gram, including numbers by Mendelssohn, Handel, Schumann, R. Strauss, Puccini, and other composers, as well as several Amer ican ballads and other favorites. Mr. Tetley- Karlos gave several piano solos.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. „, Dunaway Announces For Alderman Post Daniel L Dunaway has announced his candidacy for alderman in ward 6 Mr Dunaway has resided in the ;,Morehead City. N ward for 30 years and is a Veteran employee of Clinton Cotton Mills, be- William R Fuller Jr >ejman mg a charter member of the Quar- apprentice. ISN. son of Mr. and ter Century Old Timers Club. He is Mrs William R. Fuller ot 116 Pop a member of the*official board of l*r Street. Lydia, is serving aboard Bailey Memorial Methodist Church. ! the destroyer USS Du Pont for a for which he has served as sec re tour of duty with the V. S. Sixth tary and treasurer for the past fif- Fleet in the Mediterranean, teen years. Scheduled for the cruise are va> December 1958 and received basic training at Fort Jackson He arriv ed overseas in July 1959 Before entering the array.’ the 18 year old soldier was employed by the Clinton Cotton Mill • * • r Thomas H. O Shields. * aviation electrician's mate airman. USN.. son of Mrs Sara L. O'Shields of 199 Tillman Circle. Joanna, recent ly returned to h.s May port. Fla., base aboard the attack aircraft car rier USS Saratoga after a six-month tour of duty with the l. S Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean . The Saratoga and her 4.100 man crew was involved in many fleet exercises with the Sixtn Fleet and N VTO forces.. While in the area the carrier visit ed Italy Fiance. Turkey. Spain and Greece Army Recruit Kay mom E. Mc- kutrick recently was assigned to the 565lh Traosportatton Company at Fort •Story. Va. McKittnck entered the army last November and received basic train ing at Fort Jackson. The 23 year-oM soldier son of Mr and Mrs Gc-orge W McKittrick Route l. Cross Hill, is a 1955 grad uate of Clinton High School • • • Army Specialist Four Marvin M (Continued on page 10) s Winners Announced In WCTU Bible Contest The following winners were an nounced in a recent Bible contest sponsored by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Beil Street elementary school: Brenda Taylor, Stafford Johnson. Mae Frances Car- wile. and Amelia Pyles Each stu dent was presented a silver dollar Vassor Teacher To Address Group Here On April 28 Chemistry will receive the main emphasis at ,a Presbyterian College dinner to winch select high school teacher" and students of the area are invited n April 28. President Marshall W Brown anounced today Dr H Marjorie Crawford, pro fe.vmr of chemistry at \a»ar Col leue. and prominent in the field of organic chemistry, will be the main speaker of the occasion It is sched uled for fhe Presbyterian College dining hal! President Brown said invitations have bee nc_y torn fed 'o the heads of high school chemistry depart menu of die area and through them to their most outstanding chemistry students The program is sponsored jointly by the PC chemistry department, headed by Dr k N Carter, and the student science club. i , r' i < March Fires Burn 247 Acres In County Forest fires in Laurens County uuring March burned a total of 217 6 acres, according to a report by the S C. State Commission of Forestry Thirteen fires were re ported ; Each fire burned an average of 19 acres. . The foul acreage for March compares with 271.6 acres burned during the previous eight months since July l 1959, by 24 fires / •