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REV. JOHN D. HENDERSON REV. HEBERT G. WARDLAW MAJ. GEN. A. B GODFREY
South Miami, Fla. Atlanta. Ga. Clinton
To Receive Honorary Degrees
These three alumni of Presbyterian
College will be awarded honorary degrees
at the college’s graduation exercises Sun
day afternoon. The degree of doctor of
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Vol. 62 — No. 22
Clinton, S. fc., Thursday, June 1, 1961
Clinton s New Plant Is Torrington Subsidiary
140,000 Sq. Ft. Unit Is Part of World-Wide Organization
Bearings
divinity will go to the Rev. Mr. Henderson
and the Rev. Mr. Wardlaw, while Gen.
Godfrey will receive the doctor of laws
degree. The service will take place in Belk
Auditorium on the campus at 4:15 p.m.
Morning, Afternoon Services
College Finals In One-Day
Program
Presbyterian College will James Goddard Monroe. Jr.
award 116 baccalaureate degrees j I.atta
and three honorary degrees at its' Doris Juanita Stephens Nelson,
8 0th commencement exercises j Gray Court
this Sunday ! William Curtis Nichols. Jr ,
In presenting its entire gradu-1 Greenville
ation program as a one-day af William S
lair this year for the first time,, ville, Va
PC will hold the baccalaureate Thomas C
service at 11:00 a m and the William H
final commencemment exercises Va
at 4:15 p m Both are scheduled Jimmy G
TB Annual Report
Goes To Citizens
Norman. Ill, Dan
Ott, Bowman
Pattee. Richmond,
Peck Decatur, Ga
William Eugene Piephoff. At
lanta. Ga
Joseph Michael Pracht, Green
wood
Jerry Ross Puckett Kannapo
Rhymer, Spartan-
for air conditioned Belk audito
rium. with the public cordially
invited to attend
The Rev Hubert G Wardlaw.
pastor of Atlanta’s Rock Spring
Presbyterian Church, and one of ij s , N C.
three PC alumni slated to receive Richard W
an honorary degree, will preach burg
the Sunday morning baccalaure- Lawton Dantzler Rice, Kinston,
ate sermon N C
That afternoon, a distinguished John Kountz Roberts, III. Dan
Presbyterian business leader will ville, Va
deliver the commencement ad- Frances Doris
dress to the departing seniors He Laurens
is Dr Edward D Grant, head ol William C Schofill, Fort Val-
the Grant Chemical Company, ley, Ga
and the Grant-I^ehr Corporation Frederick Pearsall Smith, Wil-
of Baton Rouge. La , who served mington. N C
for 32 years as an administrator Robert Elton Smith. Jr Allan
of the Presbyterian Church, US ta. Ga
Honorary degrees will go to Thomas Marshall Spratt Fred
these three Presbyterian College ericksburg, Va
alumni as part of the Sunday James Wilburn Townsend, Ben-
afternoon program the Rev
John D Henderson, pastor of the
Riviera Presbyterian Church of
South Miami, Fla., and Wardlaw,
troth doctor of divinity; and Maj.
Gen. Ansel B Godfrey of Clinton,
commander of the 51st Infantry
Divsiion, Army National Guard,
doctor of laws
CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES
Bachelor of Arts
Donald Melvin Abee, Green
ville
Lionel Demming Bass, Jr ,
Charlotte, N C
William T Benton. Chamblee,
(la
William Pinckney Betchman.
Summerton
Arthur I. e m 1 y Blackwelder
Charlotte, \ C
Harvey Franklin Blanchard,
Fayeteville, N. C
David Thomas Borland, Atlan
ta. Ga
Edward D u B o s e Brailsford,
Charleston
Donald Edward Bridges, Deca
tur, Ga
Charles Vincent Brown. Green-
vile
Jimmy Taylor Campbell, Ow-
mgs.
Martin Faust Chitty, Denmark
Dougald Neil Clark, Jr . Fay
etteville, N C
Robert Louis Corley, Clinton
Donald Thomas Dunlap. Jr ,
Charlotte, N C
Rohe Neil Eshbaugh, Louis
ville, Ky
Jr . Ben
nettsville
Evin Carter Varner
nettsville
Jon W Vastine, Danville, Pa
Benjamin Blakeney Vincent
Danville. Va.- . —
The activities of the Laurens
County Tuberculosis Association
was reviewed in the annual re
port for the year ending March
31 The report was mailed to 480
persons including directors, phy
sicians. nurses, ministers and
other interested individuals
In order to reach its final goal
of the eradication of tuberculosis,
important objectives of the As
sociation are to develop commu
nity and individual concern
In trying to stimulate commu
nity interest in the eradication of
Estes Salyer, tuberculosis, the Association
works through physicians, board
and staff members, clubs, news
papers, radio and television sta
lions to get their tuberculosis
story to the public
Increased individual concern
is encouraged by stressing regu
lar checkups (including chest X-
ray or tuberculin test) by the
family physicians The coopera
tion of the patient receiving treat
ment and the understanding of
his family so they will assist in
| the treatment are also necessary
i All As»ociat»M* activities are
Air View of Torrington Bearing Facility on Old Clinton-Laurens Road
Here is a view of the almost-completed multi-million
dollar plant on the old Clinton-Laurens road of C B
Metals, Inc., which is announced today is a unit of The
Torrington Company, of Torrington, Connecticut. This
company is one of the country’s well-known manufactur
ing concerns with plants in several sections of the U. S„
as well as in Canada, England, Germany and Italy. The
huge building has lieen under construction for the past
year and production is expected to get underway in mid
summer. The plant is situated on a 160-acre site, with
plenty of space for expansion. The present unit can fur
nish employment for about 250 people, men and women,
company officials state. Workers will be added as fast as
they can be trained. Daniel Construction Co., of Green
ville is the contractor.—Photo by Dan Yarborough.
Grace Infinger Walker, Ander-! financed by the Christmas Seal
son. ! campaign which totaled $8,
Norma Jean Weisner. Laurens 056.76 for I960
Bobby Ansel Wesley, Marion
L Wayne Wiggins, Fort Mill
Robert William W'dkes, Jr .
Duncan
Bachelor of Science
Charles Evans Alford, Char
lotte, N C.
Robert H Almon, Fort Valley,
Ga
Paul Oscar Ard Jr , Atlanta.
Ga
William W Aycock. Winston-
Salem, N C
Michael Forrest Brown. Atlan
ta. Ga
Robert A Brown, Fort Mill
Fred Davis Clark, Laurens
Charles Harrison Clayton, Ma
rietta Ga
Thomas Albert Collins. Page-
land
John Edward Cornwell. 111.
Blackstock
Williams C Dobbins. Joanna
Walter Patrick Dorn. Jr , An
derson
Wilbur Simonton Douglas,
Blackstock
Ralph Anders Dunham, Tam
pa, Fla
Frank A1 Forbes, Decatur, Ga.
John Wesley Gibson, Summer-
A colored slide program show
ing Laurens County citizens at
work for the TB Association is
PC Reunion To
Feature Weekend
Summer Camp Dates
Are Announced For
Local Reserve Unit
Capt Sarnie M Pinson, Com
manding Officer of Company
“C," 1st Battle Group, 322nd
Infahtry. has been informed that
attenr summer
McClellan, Ala-
Scores of Presbyterian College
alumni will return to the campus
this Saturday afternoon for PC’s
second annual springtime Alum
ni ReurlTbn
They will stage reunions for 16 \iis unit will
classes of yesteryear, participate j cam p al p> ort
in an Alumni Institute and as- , .
. . . . bama from 13 to 27 August
semble for an evening banquet 1
spotlighting a missionary alum- Capt Pinson also announced
nus with 41 years of service in the ! ^bat he still has vacancies for
available for clubs and orgamza-j Congo those young men who desire to
lions Arrangements for the pro- i Registration is set for 2:00 p. enlist in the unit and attend
gram may be made by calling or m It will be followed at 3:00 p. summer camp This period of
writing the Association office m by a program on newsworthy active duty will provide train-
Latin America, conducted by ing and take up a little of that
STUDY AT I.. S. E. John Glover, PC’s Oxford-trained summer slack time Last year
Miss Martha Wilson, who is as-| associate professor of Romance 5 local men elected to take this
sistant librarian at the Parker languages who spent a number of training by enlisting prior to
High School, will leave next week i years in South America. completion of high school and
PC PREP for alumni children being
123 Get Diplomas at High
School's Closing Service
The 1961 commencement pro- j compassion on all men every-
gram of Clinton High School | w here ”
m The commencement season be-1
came to a close Monday evening _ . j
' j ; gan Tuesday morning, the 23rd.
when 123 members of the gradu- class day exercises The | ^ ^
ating class received diplomas speakers were Nancy Neighbors, manldactuTTng a n7 office'space*
and certificates. Marvin Sanders. Lonnie Famed, ^ p , ant site with railroad sjd .
This was the largest class ever anci Wa yne Morgan, who gave the CO vers approximately 160
to graduate from the local j c ^ ass prophecy, will, and
school history
.j,, Announcement was made that
The exercises were held in the .. , , ,
. , ... . i the annual class gift to the school
school auditorium and were at- . _r . .
, . . . ,, . f was a $300 fund to be used in
tended bv an overflow crowd of . .
, , , . . enlarging the seating eapacitv of
parents and friends , , ” . , '
Wilder Field on the school cam-
Speakers wree the scholastic j pus
leaders ot the class, and the class \ number of awards were pre
C B Metals, Inc., Clinton’s
newest industry, has announc
ed that effective July 1, it will
operate as The Clinton Bear
ings Plant of The Torrington
Company, Torrington, Conn.,
its parent organization.
The Clinton Bearings Plant
represents a long range expan
sion to better serve customers
with a second complete source of
supply for Torrington bearings.
Initial production will include
needle bearings and needle roll
ers for the automotive, farm ma
chinery, outboard engine, power
tool and many other industries
using anti friction bearings The
plant now approaching comple
tion is expected to begin limited
production in mid-summer and
increase to full capacity as rap
idly as employees are trained
The Torrington Company, serv
ing industry since 1866 and
among the top 600 American com
panics, operates plants in Con
necticut, Massachusetts, Indiana
and South Carolina, with 27 sales
offices and warehouses in other
I states. The company also has
1 plants in Canada, England, Ger
many and Italy.
Principal products are anti-
| friction bearings, knitting ma
| chine and sewing machine need-
j les, rotary swaging machines,
i precision metal parts, spokes and
1 nipples
Milton E Berglund, president
; of The Torrington Company, said
f “The new bearing plant in Clin
ton is part of the company’s con-
i tinuing expansion program It
will enable us to develop an ad
ditional manufacturing unit to
serve our diversified domestic
markets.’’ Mr. Berglund further
explained that “The move will a!
low the company to expand its
domestic production of needle
bearings and needle rollers. We
confidently expect the neeurt will
be an increase in over-all demand
for these products."
The modern, single-story plant
contains 140,000 square feet of
Eunice Grover Fallaw, III, Rock lon
Hill
Richard Ellis Faulkner, Hen
derson, N C
Anson Darnell Faust, Rich-
burg
Otto Walter Ferrene. Jr , Max-
ton. N C
John Donald Fowler. Green
ville
Carlisle Patrick Griffin. Jr ,
Eufaula, Ala
Candler Carithers Harper,
Clover
Lewis Blake Haynie, Sr Bel
ton
Courtney Frischkorn Hender-
Ute, Richmond, Va
Edsel Ray Hiatt, Mt Airy. N
C
Robert White Hodge, Mullins
William M Hope, Atlanta. Ga
Edward D Johnson, Clinton
John Ronald Kay, Anderson
Wayne Donald Kay, Anderson
Howard Sellers Worrell Kurtz,
Rockingham. N C
Marion Barnwell Lee. Jr ,
Hemingway
James Harper Leighton, Jr ,
Clinton
Jerry B Leslie, Central
William Marion Littlefield.
Woodruff
Harry G r u v e r McDonnold.
Asheville, N. C
Hexie Key McDonnold, Ashe
ville, N. C
John William McIntosh, Cayce
William P McKinnon, Hamp
ton
Daniel Rutherford McQueen,
Mullins
Brenda Gay Maddox, Spartan
burg.
Charles M Malpass, Clinton.
Leroy Melvin Madrazo, Lau
rens
Martha McMillian Glasure
Clinton
Wayne Edward Godfrey
Mill
Herbert Veal Hammett. Jr..
Hogansville, Ga
William F Haselden. Clinton
William Franklin Hatchett.
College Park, Ga
Hal Hill Henderson. Bath
Albert Toy Hinson, Jr . Ches
ter
Robert Nelson Jeanes. Easley
William Hobson Jeter Jr Un
ion
for two months study at Louis
iana State University, Baton
Rouge She will be working to
ward an MS degree in library
science
Miss Wilson was here for the
eek-end with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Lowrey M. Wilson be
fore going to Louisiana
Co. D, 118th Inf.
To Meet Saturday
Company D, 118th Infantry of
the 30th Division, will hold their
annual reunion at Hotel Mary
Musgrove here on Saturday,
June 3
All members of the company
and their wives are invited to at-
Fort lenfl A business meeting will be
held in the afternoon and a six
over eight years of age also is
scheduled to get underway at 3:00 gram . I try
p m to offer the youngsters an W Emory, Rt. 3, Clinton, Mack
entertaining six - hour program A Nabcrs, 74 Calhoun St., Joan-
while their parents enjoy the na, Mack W. Campbell, Moore-
other activities. head Drive, Joanna. Lyman D
deferred until later, for President Patsy Williams, presi- sen t ed , as follows:
dent, introduced the theme. Old English “C”
acres, and is located between
Clinton and Laurens. The steel-
truss brick wall structure is air-
conditioned and humidity con
trolled
This complete production plant
has the latest materials handling
i equipment Entirely self-suffi
cient, it will produce all tooling
for work on rec iuired for its operation. The
plant design readily permits fu
First official get-together for! Frady, 220 Kitson St., Green
entry on the six months pro-.,.,.,, ^ - —
These men were Billy What 1 an VVe Do For ° ur Coun ' The Sentinel, the school newspa
' try” Replies were given to in- |>e r and The Clintonian, the a n- ture ex P anslon
elude the following areas, “As nual. to Bill Wilson. Louise Mr Berglund said a study was
Students," “As Family Mem- Speake. Dorothy Staton, Elaine ln| L ate(i 18 months ago to deter
Revis Philip mlne future manufacturing needs
Goss. Elizabeth *’ s f lowe< l a substantial expan
bers," and “As Christians," by 1 Smith, Donnie
three students who were tied for King Janice
the
o'clock dinner will be served
j Rushton Parker, of Spartan
burg, is president: Murff Sum-
erel. Florida, vice president;
Lewis H Bagwell. Clinton, sec
retary treasurer
^ , , , , , ^ ... „ — salutatory honor. Jimmy-
classes holding special reunions, wood, and Dewey VV Higgins. Johnsnn Mlm , Martin and Jim .
will be held at 4 30 p. m These 103 Davis St., Laurens. Mack m]e 0rr respectlve | v and . As
reunion classes are 1901, 1911,: Campbell, Billy W Emory, and | citizens - by J]m s , oan va | edic .
1917, 1918, 1919. 1920, 1936, 1937 Dewey W Higgins has since, torian of the class
1938, 1951, 1955, 1956. 1957, 1958. 1 reenlisted in the Regular Army „ , , , . .
„ n H iqsu -,-1 ,, , ,, u c u i Presentation of diplomas to
and 1959 Ihose who will be High School „ , . K
tHpv alsr. u.ili cit tnnothor n . . . members of the class was bv W
l ney also will sit together as a seniors next year, or not now in
High School but desire to at
summer camp, and wish ! der assislant su( *. rmtendent
to enlist under this program, are
encouraged to contact Capt Pin
son or visit your local Army
Reserve Center
group at the 6:30 p m alumni
banquet at which Dr Hoyt Miller
will receive the 1961 alumni Gold
P award and will deliver the
main address on the Congo situa-
ation
The annual meeting of the Pres
byterian College Alumni Associa
tion is to be held at 5:30 p. m.
immediately prior to the banquet Manufacturers Group
TO PAWLEY’S James G Ferguson of Laurens,
Misses Louise Speake and Tre-jwas elected president Wednesday
cie Davis left yesterday for Paw-! of the Glass Manufacturers Insti-
Anderson, superintendent of
. , School District 56. and R P Wil-
tend
Mr Wilder announced winners
of several scholarships and
awards.
The prelude, processional and
recesional piano music was
Joanne Todd
Singing of the alma mater by
the class closed the service.
The Baccalaureate Service
The baccalaureate service was
Glover. Linda Corley, Trecie Da-1 slon 01 existing facilities would
vis. Nancy Neighbors. Jimmy ^ needed by 1964 to accomodate
Johnson. Mimi Martin, Patsy the predicted sales
Wilkie. Jimmie Sloan. William Further analysis of the propos-
Brooks Owens. Joanne Todd, e d expansion, the domestic and
Marvin Sanders, and Jimmy Orr. 1 foreign competitive situation, and
DAR Good Citizenship Award customer reluctance to purchase
Louise Speake from a single-source supplier, in
Phi Beta Kappa Certificate— fluenced the decision to expand
Jim Sloan with a new plant geographically
Danforth Foundation Certifi- separated from existing bearing
iate and Book—William Brooks manufacturing facilities. This
Owens and Joanne Todd was considered vital to maintain
Betty Crocker Award—Louise Torrington’s position as the ma
Laurens Man Heads
by S|>eake
National Guild of Piano Teach
ers Award- -Linda Corley
Former Laurens
Woman Is Cited
A former Laurens w oman who l
James Mack Kolb. 111. Sumter has j.pven signal service to church
leyS I 8 . 1 *"!.?;!!!," ?! y ‘ U, _ e _ i ". S tf. Si " n at While Sulphur wide union 11 servicem the audito
rium, with the sermon being de-
Rev John Rivers,
of All Saints Episcopal Church
employed during the summer Springs. W Va
months leaving tomorrow to The vice-president of the Lau- bvered by the
join them will be Misses Eliza- rens Glass Works, Inc , was
beth Glover and Nancy Neigh- named at the national organiza-
bors. Dion’s annual meeting
jor supplier of drawn cup needle
bearings throughout industry.
Robert B Wassung, former as
sistant superintendent at the
I Broad Street bearings plant in
Torrington, Conn . is plant man
ager Alexander R Hamilton,
formerly associated with the
company's South Carolina Pied
College cadets is an mont-Oconee Needle Plant in Wal
by the ROTC depart halla. is plant superintendent
and state was cited Sunday at
Columbia College commencement
exercises
She was Mrs Thomas .1 Black-
well of Miami. Fla Columbia
George Henry Longshore, New
berry
Douglas Charles McDougald
Jr , Anderson
Edgar Myers McGee. Char
lotte. N C alumnae and noted poet, who ad-
George H McGirt. Maxton N dressed members of the graduat-
C mg class
Patrick Donehoo Malone. At- Born in Laurens, Mrs Black-
lanta, Ga i well is the former Harriet Gray
Thomas Clinton Middleton, i she is the author of a collection!
Clinton 0 f poems as well as a biography
Gordon Simkins Mobley 111. ol her mother, Mary Montgom-
Jacksonville Reach. Fla e ry Dunklin Gray
John R Moorer, Jr , Dorches-] Her poetry has appeared in
ter J several national magazines, in
John Ellis Parker, Walterboro j several large newspapers and in
Orion Rolston Perrell, Wax- other periodicals.
haw. N. C.
I^evins Ernest Redd, Columbia
Marianne Scheele, Clinton
Louis Michael Schneider. Deca
tur, Ga
Maurice Edward Schwartz
Laurinburg, N. C.
James William Sease, Clinton
Bascom Arnold Sharp, Chester
Harold Simmons, Clinton.
Emmett Britton Spann, Me
Rae. Ga
(Continued next column)
Gordon Lambert Stanley, Jr.,
Rock Hill.
Albert T Stephenson. Augusta,
Ga
Charles Franklin Walker, En-
oree
Julian Edward Wells, North
Augusta
Alvin Merrill Whitmire, Clin
ton
Harry John Wilkinson, Jr.,
Clemson
Supt Anderson preside over the
program, and several pastors of
city churches had parts on the
program
Jimmy Orr member of the
graduating class, gave the music
for the prelude, processional, re
cessional. and the two hymns
Military Awards
At PC Announced
The presentation of nine mill
tary awards to outstanding Pres
byterian
nounced
ment adjutant. Capt. Jospeh J
Scott
These recipients, cited for their
service within the PC battle
group during the 1960-61 session,
include:
Department of the Army Rib
Banks, Citizens Federal
To Close on June 3
The Bank of Clinton, M. S Bai
ley and Son, Bankers, and the
Citizens Federal Savings and
bon — Robert P Piephoff of Loan Assocoation will close on
The girls' clee club v-inir (,ret ‘ rnille Maurice R Stevens of Saturday, June 3, tor a holiday
numbers Orangeburg; and DuPont Smith jn observance of Jefferson Davis’
of Decatur. Ga : Association of birthday
the U S. Army Medal—Robert
F Beddingfield of Columbia: PATTES LEAVE
Robert E. Wysor. III. Medal to First Lieutenant Chris Patte
the best-drilled freshman—James SP®" 1 a week with his Parents,
R. Fitzpatrick of Atlanta: Rifle Dr and Mrs Edouard Patte, af-
Team High Score Medal—Rollin ter completion of the spring se
ll Butler of Orlando, Fla.; Re- mester at the University of Ala-
serve Officers Association of b ama Graduate School He ac-
South Carolina Medal—William eompanied them to the Green
H DuBose of Sumter; Scabbard viUe airport today where they
and Blade Medal to best-drilled enplaned for New York City and
self-interests, but when we accept cadet-Clifton R Saverance of Europe
Christs invitation to -Follow n.^in^o.,-
numbers
The Rev Mr Rivers told the
i young graduates that school
j years are a training ground to
educate one for an adequate pur
pose in life “Who Am I. What
Am I To Do, What Am I To
Be?—these are your questions.’
he stated. Christianity, he said
! gives us fredom to hope, to pray
and lends purpose to life
“We are like slaves to our own
REV. HEBERT G. WARDLAW
Atlanta. Ga.
DR. EDWARD D. GRANT
Baton Rouge. La.
Commencement Speakers
The Rev. Mr. Wardlaw will preach the baccalaureate
sermon Sunday at the 11 a.m. service of Presbyterian
College commencement. Dr. Grapt will deliver the ad
dress to the graduates at exercises at 4:15 p.m. Both
services will be held in Belk Auditorium.
Me' former things have passed
away, we are saved in order to
serve all mankind Through!
Christianity you can serve your
fellowmen. wherever you are you
can find your purpose, which is
to serve others in Christ.
“Christ,’’ Mr. Rivers said,
“has no body on earth but yours,
no hands but yours, no eyes but
yours to look with Christian
Hemingway; and Sons of the
American Revolution Medal to
Paul D Woodall of Whiteville. N
C
MOVE TO ATLANTA
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Greene and
daughter, Eleanor, and the for
mer’s mother, Mrs. J. J. Greene,
left the past week for Atlanta,
Ga , where they will make their
home
LOSES SISTER
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Gary
Holcomb sympathize with them
in the recent death of the for
mer’s sister, Mrs. Ben (Nancy
Holcomb) Nix, of Virginia Beach,
Va Mrs. Nix was a native of
Union and funeral services were
held at the Unity Methodist
Church with interment in Sardis
Cemetery