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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, April 21, 1960
Thornwell Model
Among the sixteen models ap
pearing in the Thornwell FHA
fashion show Thursday night in
the diniitg hall was Janice John
son. She wears a white crease
resistant cotton dress.
She will represent Thorn well's
Chapter at the district fashion
show in Anderson April 30
Henry C. Young
Ware Shoals — Henry Clinton
Young. 80. of Ware Shoals, died Fri
day at a Creonwood hospital after
a short illness.
He was a native of Laurens Coun
ty .a son of the late Robert H and
Caroline Lockwood Young He was
a member of the Ware Shoals Pres-
byterian Church and the W. 0. W.
Before retirement he was engaged in
textile work
Surviving'are a sister. Miss Lutie
Young, of the home; and a brother,
Carlos L Young of Falmouth, Mass
Funeral services were conducted
Saturday at the First Presbyterian
Church at 4 W p m by the Rev
John AshenfeMer and the Rev. Har
ry Fraser Bunal was in Lisbon
Presbyterian Church cemetery near
Mount ville
Laurens Man Gets
t
Medal For Saving
I Fellow Employee
Laurens—Edsel Culbertson of the
L.nir ns Ffec tric Co-tip was honored
b\ fellow employees and guests at
a banquet Thursday night at which
Time he was presented the National
Safety Council President's Modal for
(he saying of a human life
Henry Fans, manager of the Lau
rens Electric Co-Op, presided at the
banquet and recognized special
guests. J
Mr Culbertson was credited with
having saved the life of J. O. Hedge-
path last August 13 Mr Hedgepath
came in contact with a, high voltage
line northeast of Woodruff, and co
worker Culbertson came to his aid
administering pole-top resuscitation
The certificate which he also re
ceived from the National/Safety
Council was signed by How,ard Plye
president, and was presented to Mr
Culbertson by Hoyt Williams, safety
director of the South Carolina Elec
' trie Co-Op
Mr Williams said that this was
the first President's Modal awarded
a co-op employee in the state. “All
persons involved reacted'exactly the
! way they were supposed to have
This proves safety training is impor
tant." Mr Williams said
Mr. Culbertson was also presented
a certificate from the national Red
Cross by Howard Anderson, district
representative, from Greenville
Waldo Haley also awarded him a
bronze medal and life saving cer
tificate from the Lumberman's Mu
tual Casualty Co
AmonJ: special guests were Mrs.
Culbertson: Gordon Collins, coun
ty chairman of the American Red
Cross; and R O Benett, manager of
the South Carolina Electric Co-Op.
In receiving the honors, Mr. Cul
bertson said he accepted them in the
name of other.- wtio "had a hand" in
the ncident. J*. Hwjgepath said,
i deeply apprfealethi- occasion,
and it's goad to be here."
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Church of God Revival
Begins Sunday, April 24
The Elizabeth Street Church of
God will begin a revival Sunday,
April 24 with the Rev J. M. Daniel
as guest speaker Services will be
gin each evening a; 7:30
There will be special singing each
evening, with the Sunrise Trio and
Kirby Trio participating. All other
singers and the public are invited
to attend these service-
GETS FLORIDA MEDAL
Maj. (ion. .Mark \V. Lance (left). Adjutant General of.the State of
Florida, congratulates Maj. Gen. Ansel B. Godfrey, of Clinton, after
presenting him with the Florida Distinguished Service Medal at the
annual Florida National Guard Convention at St. Augustine. It is the
highest honor the state of Florida can bestow. Gen. Godfrey is com
mander of the 51st Infantry Division and part of the men are from
Florida.—(National Guard Photo).
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Bankers
Two Negroes Are
Charged In Attack -
Laurens—One Negro is charged
with rape and another with assault
with intent to ravish in connection
with an alleged attack on a 22-year-
old Negro woman near Laurens
early Sunday.
Robert Bell Little. 20, who is
charged with raping the woman in
a wooded area off highway 221
about four miles southwest of here,
is being held in the Laurens County
jail. Ifc bond was set at $1,500 by
, CircuirJudge Steve C. Griffith.
George Melvin Leake. 23, charged
with assault with int< m to ravish,
was released on $1,000 bond Monday
afternoon.
Little was arrested by Chief v Depu-
jty Wesley Fowler and Deputy W.
D Burns at the scene of the alleged
attack when the officers went there
after receiving a report that a wom
an was heard screaming in the
I vicinity.
The woman implicated Leake,
according to officers, and he was
arrested later in the day.
Officers. said that while Deputies
Fowle rand Burns were enroute to
the scene, two Negro boys came to
the sheriff's office and said that
they, the two men who are charged
and the woman drove to the "ATfe 'oF
the alleged attack together. The
boys said they bt-oame frightened
and escaped in the Tar. leaving the
three others behind
Thornwell Announces
1960 Football Schedule
j- So.* 2—C'olumb.a JV at Thorn-
well
Sept 9—Calhoun Fails at Thorn-
well. > ,
Sept. 16 — Thornwell it Hickmry
1 Tavern
Sept 23—Thornwell at Landrum
Sept StM-Thomwell at Lockhart.
Oct. 7—Chapin at Thornwell
Oct 13—Woodruff JY at Thorn-
I well.
Oct. 20—Greenwood JY at Thorn-
well.
Oct. 28—Thornwell at Ninety-Six
Nov 4—Ridge Springs-Monetta at
Thornwell
Nov 11—Thornwell at Irmo
Registrations Being
Taken For 1960-61
Joanna Kindergarten
Registrations are being taken for
1960-61 session of the Joanna Bap
tist Church Kindergarten. Children
who will be four years of age by
November 1 and five year olds may
be enrolled. Registration fee is $2.00
per child. Every child attending
i Kindergarten must have a small
pox vaccination unless a statement
> from the family physician is shown
stating the reason for not having
such.
Mrs. Cyril Abrams or Mrs. James
Mitchell may be contacted for fur-|
' ther information.
Census Enters Final
Phase On Saturday
Birth
GILLILAND
Mr and Mrs. Jack Gilliland of
Whitmire, formerly of Clinton, an
nounce the birth of a son, John
Knight, on April 18.
The 1960 census of population and
housing enters its final stage on
April 23 w hen a picked group of in-'
terviewers begins a "mopping up"
operation to complete the ten-year
inventory of the nation’s people and
their homes.
The interviewers are primainly
concerned with accounting for the,
"blue" household questionnaires*
...ftijich were left at every fourth
household during the first stage of
the census which started on April
1. A small number of persons have
failed to mail this report form to
the Census Bureau's district office.
Also, some of the report forms
which have been received have not
he n completely filled out.
The clean up" interviewers will
make personal visits to the house
holds from which report forms have
not been received and obtain the
answers to the census questions.
They will also seek, by telephone and
personal visits, the answers to ques-,
tions left blank or incorrectly an
swered in the report forms already
sent to the census office.
Thornwell Tops
Whitmire, 11-10
Gus Folk hit a triple in the last
half of the ninth inning here Tues
day to drive in three runs and give
Thornwell an 11-10 victory over
Whi.mire.
Gordon Timmons struck out 16
batters and gave up nine hits to
win the game. Timmons has chalk
ed in 58 strike outs in 30 innings,
rhornwell 320 210 003—U 12 5
Whitmire 102 010 402—10 9 6
Seven From County
Attend State IB Meet
Seven persons frofn Laurens Coun
ty attended the annual mec'VTng of
hte South Carolina Tuberculosis As
sociation on Apriu 6, according to
J. Allen Thompson. Jr. president
of the Laurens County TB Associa
tion. .
Dr. H McCleod Riggins, president
of the National Tuberculosis Asso
ciation, was the featured speaker.
Dr. Riggins, associate clinical pro
fessor of medicine, College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons. Columbia Uni
versity, New York, is a native of
Matthews, N. C.
He challenged the health depart
ments and the TB associations to
eliminate all sources of tuberculosis
infection by adequate treatment of
every person with active tubercu
losis and selected persons wKh in
active disease.
"With the eventual elimination of
tuberculosis as a public health prob
lem as our goal,” Dr. Riggins said,
“the| 2.700 state and Meal voluntary
tuberculosis associations affiliated
with the NTA work in close coope
ration with state and local health
departments.”
Those attending from Laurens
County included: Mrs. D. 0. Rhame,
Clirtton; Mrs. Sarah D. DeLoach,
Mrs. M. M. Teague, J. Leroy Burns,
Robert Riddle, Dr. A. A .Knight of
Laurens; and W. K. Waits of Joan
na.
Bookmobile Schedule
April 25 28
Monday — Cook home, Mason
home, Camak school, Rhett Martin
home.
T u e s,d a y — Providence school
Episcopal Kindergarten, Burdette
home, M. S. Bailey school, Miss
issippi Young home, Bishop home,
Sanders home. Brown home.
Wednesday — Mountville school,
Crisp home. Miss Lizzie Carter
home, B L Mitchell store. Cross
Hill school, Fennell home, Davis
home. Smith home.
Thursday — Gray Court-Owings
school, Owings Post Office, Gray
Curry home, Thompson home,
Hughes home, Wilson home, Maul
din home.
Mrs. Girl Teague, Laurens Coun
ty librarian.
FINAL SETTLEMENT
Take notice that on the 16th day
of May, 1960, I will render a final
account of my acts and doings as
Guardian of the estate of Emily
Frances Bailey in the office of the
Judge of Probate of Laurens Coun
ty, at 10 o’clock a. m. -and on the
same day will apply for a final
discharge from my trust as Guar
dian.
Any person indebted to said estate
is notified and required to make
payment on or before that date;
and all persons having claims
against said estate will present them
on or before said date, duly proven
or be forever barred.
OUIDA C. BAILEY
Guardian
April 15, 1960. 4t
Two Services At
Sacred Acres
The Sacred Acres Prayer Band
will meet at Sacred Acres Prayer
Grounds, iocated on the Ware-
Shoals-Waterloo Highway in the
Fork section oi Laurens County,
Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p. m. String
music and special singing will be a
feature of the service.
Rev. "Buddy” Tollison of Reedy
Grove Pentecostal Holiness Church
will preach.
There will be a Gospel singing
at Sacred Acres featuring Mitchell
Morse and Associate Singers of
Greenwood on Sunday, April 24, at
2:30.
All musicians and singers have a
special invitation and everyone is
invited to these two services.
Mrs. Emma Dial Gray
Dies At Gray Court
Gray Court — Mrs. Emma Dial
Gray, 94, lifelong resident of Laur
ens Co&nty and a member of one of
Gray Court’s earliest families, died
in a Laurens hospital at 12:30 p. m.
Monday. She had been in declining
health for several years and had
been seriously ill for two years.
She was a daughter of the late
Albert and Rebecca Barksdale Dial
and was a charter member of Gray
Court Methodist Church.
The town of Gray Court received
its name from the old homeplace
known as Gray’s Court.
She was educated at Staunton Fe
male Academy in Staunton, Va.
She was a life member of the Wom
an’s Missionary Society and during
her atcive years was associated
with many phases of church and
community affairs. Her husband,
R. L. Gray, died in 1932.
Surviving are four sons, R. Albert
Gray, of Greenville; Dr. Ellis B.
Gray, of Sebring, Fla.; Carroll D.
Gray, of Gray Court, and Robert
Lee Gray, of Laurens; two daugh
ters, M!rs. C. D. Gregory, of Lan
caster. and Miss Laura Gray, of
Gray Court'; 10 grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday at 11 a. m. at the Gray
Court Methodist Church by the Rev.
R. L. Brannan gnd Dr. F. C. Beach.
Burial was in the church cemetery.
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Continental Can
Woodlands Division
Creates New District
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T. W. Earle, vice-president of the
Continental Can Co., Inc., anounces
that effective April 1 the Clinton
CASH
area of the Woodlands Division was
transferred from the cotai!>any’s
Savannah distrit; their newly tre
ated Augusta district.
P. M. Muller, area forester, wW
continue with his work in managiyQ
the cpnpany’a lore A lands in Lau
rens, Union, Chester. Spartanbmg,,
Newberry, Fairfield, Saluda, Edge-
field, Gr ■enwcixf^Andorson. York,
Cherokee. AJobevilje and Aiken coun
ties.
Tk Cantincntal Can Company is
the succosor, by merger, of the Gair
Woodlands Corporation which has
operaitd in Uis sec.ion for several
years.
The company is now in the pro
cess of building a new. Bleach Kraft
Pulp and Paper Mill at Augusta
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Last Time Today April 21
ONCE MORE WITH FEELING
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Friday-Saturday April 22-23
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They’re out
A Story Of A Man and 300 Small Boys Brought Back
Because It Will Please A New Crowd Of Children
and Grown Ups
More Family Pictures Coming:
KILLERS OF KILLMANJARO (Jungle Adventure)
MA & PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI
KIDNAPPED (Robert Loais Stevenson’s)
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APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
Notice is hereby given that Bat
tery B, 107th AAA Association will
make application to the Secretary
of State of South Carolina on April
25 for a charter for the Association
as an eleemosynary corporation.
R. EUGENE JOHNSON,
B. F. WINGARD,
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JOANNA. S. C.
ELECT
JUSTIN A BRIDGES
TO THE
STATE SENATE
Here are some of the things that Justin A. Bridges
will wiork for if elected:
1. ADEQUATE PAY FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS. He
has advocated and supported increased compensation
for public school teachers during the six years that
he has served in the House of Representatives and fc
will continue to do so if elected to the Senate.
2. NEW INDUSTRY FOR LAURENS COUNTY. He
will work towards preparing Laurens County as a
potential site for new* industry. He was the author of
the bill creating the Laurens County Planning and
Devek>pment Commission which has been instrumen
tal in securing new industry for this county.
3. ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT. He believes that too
much of the taxpayers money is being spent for non-
essentials, especially in the State Government. He was
successful in passing legislation through the House
this year to re-activate the State Reorganization
Commission which was created to promote economy
in State Government.
4. A ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
5. RELOCATION OF HIGHWAY NO. 76 BETWEEN
LAURENS AND CLINTON.
6. A DIRECT ROUTE ACROSS LAKE GREENWOOD x
TO THE CHEMSTRAND PLANT IN GREENWOOD *
COUNTY: