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(Elintim Olltrontrb Vol. 62 — No. 26 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 29, 1961 Dobbins Takes Oath As Representative William ('. Dobbins, Jr., of Joanna and ( linton, is shown here as he took the oath of otfiee as a member of the South Caro lina House of Representatives from Laur ens County Monday morninK in Colum bia. He was named to the post to fiil a vacancy in a recent special gfeneral elec tion The ceremony took place in the of- Mills Take Week Off fice of 0. Frank Thornton, Secretary of State for South Carolina, in the Capitol Building. Left to right, giving the oath is Mr. Thornton, Mr. Dobbins, Mrs. Dobbins, and Harry C. Layton, of The Chronicle staff, who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Dobbins to Columbia for the event.— Photo by Tom Robertson of The State and The Columbia Record. New officers for the Clinton Lions Club wen at a meeting at Hotel Mary Musgrove, for terms beginning July 1. The installation ceremony was by Victor Chapman, of Anderson, former district governor. Above, left to right, front row: Mr. Chapman; L. N. Warren, president; Carlisle Neely, vice-president; George Cornelson, viee-presi- Lions Club Installs Officers installed Friday night dent; J. A. Orr, treasurer; Milford Smith and Harry Nettles, tail twisters; Phil Rogers, Lion Tamer. Back row; James L. Walker, Marion Lawson, O’Dell Freeman and Don Creighton, directors. Absent from the picture were T. Heath Copeland, vice-president, and Secretary Sarnie Pinson, who was away attending the International convention at Atlantic City.—Photo by Dan Yarlxtrough. eijo Clinton Business Houses To Close Day of July 4th Citizens federal To Pay Out $92,000 In id-Year Dividends Chronicle To Close Friday, June 30 Instead of closing on Tuesday, July 4, The Chronicle Publishing Co will not open on Friday, June 30, to give the employees a holi day, but will be open as usual Citizens Federal Savings and on Ssturday.^July 1 Loan Association of Clinton will Next week The Chronicle will be open as usual Clinton business houses gen establishments will also observe pay a mid year dividend totaling erally will take the day off Tues the holiday approximately $92,000, J Sloan day, July 4 i Clinton and Lydia Cotton Mills j Todd, managing officer, has an- Announcement has been made cl ° se Frida y' June at no “" ced by the Merchants Division of the mldnl Kht to give their employees The payments will be made on Chamber of Commerce. Carl H a week '* nation. Operations Friday, June 30. on investment Leonard, chairman, that reUil * ,,1 1 l r «umed Sunday night and savings accounts stores will cease operations f or Ju L 9. at 12 01 a. m , it was stat- I he dividend payments are g roun( j located on the Whitmire ed made at the rate of 4 per cent Joanna Cotton Mills will cease per annum. Mr Todd stated, and operations Saturday morning, were authorized at the June July 1, at the close of the third neet ng of the board of directors New Playground Is Open To The “ ’‘ The newly constructed play- the day. The regular Wednesday afternoon closing will also be ob served, he said In addition to retail stores, banks, offices, and other business shift, and will resume regula' work with the first shift Monday, July 10, Employees of the three mills will receive the week's vacation with pay, it was stated Other industrial plants ol the area have varying schedules for This evening (Thursday) the holidays, some closing for the 7 30 a youth rally will be held at churches in a local league. week and others only for the 4th Clinton and Lydia ^tills will oh •erve their annual day of ‘'fun ed and the li the Belleview Baptist Church Special singing will be enjoy and frolic” on Saturday morning from 9:30 to 12, at which time field and water activities will b^ be held and a film shown staged The public is invited to attend Speakers Announced For Religious Month At Camp Fellowship Speakers for the third annual Religious Emphasis Month pro gram to be conducted during July at Camp Fellowship, the assem bly ground on Lake Greenwood of the South Carolina Presbytery, have been announced by the Rev r ii . C J Hammett, of Greenwood rOllOWIfig I OUT chairman. The program will be spread through the month with a meet ing every Sunday night at 8l o’clock The first session will be Sun day, July 2, when the speaker will be the Rev Dr John Haddon, Leith, professor of Historical The ology at Union Theological Sem- 1 am ha ^ t0 have had the inarv, Richmond. Va His subject opportunity to visit California is Why a Southern Presbyterian 11 has made me reahze lhe « reat Church?” value of our own state ' Subsequent speakers staled M L. Outz, Laurens July 9—Rev Dr. Harry A pp County Agent, upon his return field, pastor of the First Presby-i from an Agri-Business Tour of ter i an Church, Atlanta, Ga . the Western state in company ‘ Our Progress In and Plans fori w| th a group of other South Caro- Evangelism.” linians, including eight others July 1ft—Rev. Dr, Hoyt Miller, i from Laurens County retired missionary to Africa, included in Mr Quiz's report Our Progress In and Plans for were these observations World Missions. Laurens County has the Sa July 23—Rev. Lawrence W.|, uda Kiver on ' on e side, the Bottoms, pastor of Grace Presby- E noree River on the other and poultry farm we visited were terian Church, Louisville, tittle River running through its ! $l'Llhh annually. Taxes were first Negro moderator of the t ; enter; an(1 alrnost all of our Presbytery of Louisville, ‘‘Our highway at the rear of the Amer ican Legion building is now open to the public payments The grounds have been top- totaled approximately soiled and settled and are now in good shape for bail games and various other types of recreation. The field was used this year by the Davidson Street home field for their Royal Ambassador base- at ball games. Also by several T'n • June dividend asl year $83,000 Youth Rally At Belleview Baptist The wooded area has been [cleared of undergrowth and put uivuuu^ pn snap- tttt campOuTs «nu pic- i Outz Tells of Operations Of Farmers in California will be by Marvin Deitz. After j nics Two large concrete tables the service a fellowship hour will i haVe been provided by the B & P. W Club and others will be placed in service at an early date The club is also planning to landscape the area The grounds are under the su pervision of the Clinton Play ground Commission Summer Sewing Classes Begin Summer sewing classes for I teen agers and adulu begun this week in the Home Young Clinton Boys Head For Texas; Get One Mile From Homes Two young Clinton boys, both about eight years old, put on their cowboy suits, big hats and boots and made a bee-line for Texas one day last week. I.anty Mimnaugh, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Mimnaugh, and Bobby Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith, were head ed in the right direction, when they stopped to eat. That proved to be their un doing. For about that time, Mrs. Mimnaugh, who had been look ing for the young travelers, spotted them about a mile out on the highway to Greenwood. She "roped them in” and re turned them to the home cor ral where they were restricted for a few days. They were well equipped for the trek—in the food line espe cially. Taking sandwiches from their homes, the tkOJ* augment ed their supplies at n neighbor hood grocery store with a can of pork and beans and oold drinks. They were sampling the beans when taken in tow. Young Woman Shot In Throat By Pistol, Said Will Lose Voice Elected To United Board T M Youngblood, Jr , of this ! city has been elected to the board of directors of the Carolinas s United at a meeting which he at tended in Charlotte on Thursday. ; Mr Youngblood has been active I in the Community Chest of Great er Clinton for the past several jyears Four others from Clinton who serve or. the board are Robert M. Vance, R Edward Ferguson, Mrs J B Hart and Claude A. Crocker Young People At PC For Conference Reduced From $250,00 County Officers Agree To Borrow $150,000 Laurens County will borrow However, Supervisor Furman $130,000 this week from the State E Thomason stated that the That' count >' w ‘ 1 * need $50,000 per month for county operations for I July, August and September and day afternoon at a meeting of expressed concern as to whether j the county legislative delegation i the county will have sufficient and the Board of County Com j income to operate on until tax | missioners in the court house I collections begin in the fall. Sinking Fund Commission action was determined late Mon- : The amount to be borrowed County Treasurer Allen Cole- was reduced from an expected man agreed that $13 5 qoo of the sum of $250,000. papers for which $150 ^ loan would balance his had already been made out and I b()oks for the year Presbyterian College plays were ready for the signatures of host this week to Presbyterian 1 the delegation and commission young people of Congaree Pres- 1 ers bytery assembled for their an nual Senior High Fellowship con ference Some 110 boys and girls are participating in the program, which began on Monday and will extend through Friday. It is un der the direction of the Rev. J. Sherwood Harvard, pastor of the Forest Lake Presbyterian Church of Columbia. This conference is the third church-sponsored program to be ! held on the PC campus during the past three weeks Approxi mately 120 young people attend- | ed the South Carolina Synod’s ! Leadership Training School here j the week of June 12. They were followed by several hundred Presbyterian womeh of the state participating in the Synodical Training School last week. And prior to the church meet- Irs. Linda Osborne McGee, , Economics young wife of Mike McGee, will ln ^ s ' again was the scene of department of Clinton High lose her voice as result of an ac- ac lon or 1 e ndustrial Man- Experiments completed Scho<ll under lhe instruction of crease We can put this gain on for seven or eight pounds of gram Experiments completed, SchQo| under lhe inslruct ion of cidental shot bv a 22 calibre pis | e T SO - n ,_ . 0 r':, that Mrs Harry A Boukn.ght Ml. .1 was stated here last week, ! Classes will lie held for teen M rs McGee is recovering in a j agers on Monday and Wednesday | Greenwood hospital, where she 1 VVe 9:30 to 11 30 d m Adult classes i was taken following the shoot- | convene on Tuesday and Thurs- j i n g, which, she told officers, was i day at the same hours. ' ! an accident cattle that are fed grain while on gra^s can be fattened for 16 cents per pound should take advantage of in South Carolina In California, hankers were lending i otton farmers $170 an agement Workshop put on by the South Carolina State Chamber of Commerce on June 8-9 The amount to be borrowed was reduced at the insistence of Rep resentative W C Dobbins, who that day became a member of the legislative delegation He took the oath of office Monday following his election on June 13 in a special general election. Dobbins maintained that the original sum of $250,000 was not needed at this time; that $150,- 000 would balance the county treasurer’s books on June 30, the close of the fiscal year; and that if more funds were needed at a later date the other $100,- 000 would be available. The sum to be borrowed will be repaid over a five-year period with proceeds of an increased tax levy. The levy for the full $250,000 loan had been estimated at five and a quarter mills. The $150,000 to be borrowed, it was stated, will pay off a $124,- 000 deficit for the past two years plus $10,000 in unpaid bills held in the office of the County Su pervisor. Twelve Attend acre lor production costs can produce cotton for less Properly taxes on a We Adult classes will include in structions on the Bishop method Mr and Mrs. McGee and Mr. and Mrs I^o Hornsby were re- Demonstration Council six-acre ^ , farms have running streams Progress In and Plans for Negro |magine what would happen if we July 30— Rev Dr. W McLeod ! had ‘° PUmp Water t0 eVery , mg thing in our area Frampton, Jr , pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Orange burg, “God’s Endowment.” "This is an outstanding group of church leaders and we are ex pecting that all churches of the Presbytery will each night," Mr Hammett said The program is sponsored bv the Religious Education Commit tee of South Carolina Presbytery. The Presbytery is composed of churches in Laurens. Newberry, Greenwood. Abbeville and McCor mick Counties That is what the farmers have to do in the California areas vis ited recently on the tour The areas were the San Joaquin Val nev, noted for cotton, dairy. much ° f POnStrUCtl ° n a h turain 8 from a fishing trip toi_ _ _ I Classes are sponsored by the r ake Creenwood on June 18 in jAf M J, 11 State Department of Education lhe Hornsby car The McGees VV OI1IPH AT jlfllf 1 fvIPPT and School District 56 and there were in the back seal and were W W VIIICII *** W is no charge for instrucUon. _ | handlinj , a pisto i when it dis- much higher because of public ifornia have made that state charged, the bullet striking Mrs services, water costs and welfare highly productive Respite great McGee in the throat programs handicaps. | The affair occurred at the ‘ convention of tbe Sout h Carolina We in the South have not yet I am happy to have had the southern edge of the city, realized the value of our natural | opportunity to visit California. It > The young woman was taken resources nor used them in the has made me realize the great to a local hospital, later being best manner The people of Cal-1 value of our own state. transferred to Greenwood. Twelve members of the Laurens Miss Vela Smith, Extension County Home Demonstration clothing specialist, directed the Council attended the 41st^ annual sbo w assisted by Miss Eleanor Echo of the Simplicity Pattern Dobbins pointed out that with $15,000 excess after balancing the books, plus a sum estimated at $22,000 expected to be received within the next few days from a state agency, and-other income during the coming months, the county may fare better than ex pected. The deficits, principally about $80,000 this year and $44,000 last T—r. were accounted far largely by payments by the county in connection with land purchases, utilities turnished and paving for new industries coming to the county recently. These sums have been paid for out of the county treasury, large ly by transfer of excess funds from the bond account. Treasur er Coleman said that he has ample funds on hand to pay all bonds.coming due this year. Only last week, $65,000 was transferred to pay for $48,909 in paving work done by Daniel Con struction Company at the Clin ton Bearing Plant of the Tor- rington Company and $12,500 to Ralph T. Wilson of Laurens for 141.44 acres of land adjoining the American Lava Company’s new plant north of Laurens. A simi lar payment to Wilson will be made next year, $25,000 being the price of the land. These amounts will clear up all industrial obligations of the county, it was stated, except $60,- 000 for a water line to the Bear ing Plant, which was financed by bank notes. Civitan Club Hears S. C. Defense Director A1 Thomas, of Columbia, dep- be represenetd 1 ^ 1 * 8 and alfalfa, and the Sa-| linas Valley, which grows let tuce, strawberries, celery and] other truck crops The temperature in the San j Joaquin Valley went as high as 115 degrees and would have parched the vegetables to a crisp if water were not constantly j pumped into the fields The an nual rainfall is 12 to 14 inches and that comes in the winter In the areas we visited, every crop, shrub, tree and lawn had to be watered But despite the problem of arid field supervisor, and local em-; ity, the California farmers, it Official Discusses Unemployment Compensation Changes D P Brissey, ol Columbia ployment service personnel met at the Hotel Mary Musgrove here Tuesday afternoon with the per sonnel directors of industrial plants of the area Mr Brissey explained changes in the South Carolina Unemploy ment Compensation law, point ing out a number of facts with which employers should acquaint themselves. At the close of the meeting An sel B. Godfrey, manager of the local Employment Service Office, stressed to the personnel direc tors the employment office place ment of persons for jobs and asked the cooperation of employ ers in helping get jobs for un employed workers was observed, operate at a much higher rate of efficiency than we do here in the South, They seem to take advantage of every op portunity that comes along In dairying we saw a high rate of efficiency. In Dairy City, where thousands of cows are milked, the average annual pro duction per caw was over 15,000 pounds of milk. This is due to expert management and high quality feed, both of which are needed in South Carolina But for some reason the beef cattle operations were not so ef ficient. It was costing farmers 26 cents for each pound of gain. Nine pounds of grain were re quired for each pound of in- Council at Winthrop College Rock Hill, last Tuesday, Wednes- Company day and Thursday Group discussions scheduled “L director ol the South Caro- Approximately 600 members at-1 during the three-day meeting i lln a Civil Detense program, an tendde the meeting at the state ; were: "Planning for the Years 1 D Pigg, Jr . of Laurens, coun woman's college. They came Ahead ’ led by Mrs. J. M. H Fitz- O’ c ' vd defense director, met on from every county in the state, gerald, chairman of the South Monday evening with members rperesenting an organization of Carolina Legislative Committee of the Civitan Club at Hotel Mary i some 11,000 members to Study Problems of Aging; ^' us 8rove. Those attendnig from Laurens i "Life Among European Famil- County were: Mrs. Roger Cab ies,” by Miss Margaret Fewell, bert, Cross Hlil-Mountville Club retired Home Agent and now liv- | Mrs C F Hutchinson, Gray ing in Camden, was another dis Court-Owings; Mrs. C, C Crad- cussion Her talk was illustrated dock, Barksdale - Narnie; Mrs with slides as she told of her vis- Guy Mahon, Creenpond; Mrs B its to Scotland. Holland. Den A Goodwin, Oak Grove: Miss mark, Germany. Austria, Switz Belle Patterson, Lanford; Mrs.jerland. and Italy; "Mental Arthur Childress and Mrs. Aylene Health — Everyones’ Responsibil- ] Pittman, Camak; Mrs. Ethel Wil- 1 ity.” by Miss Eleanor Collard, son, Shiloh; Mrs. T B. Sumerel.! South Carolina Mental Health Sandy Springs; and Mrs. N. A Commission, was the basis for Shouse and Mrs B VV. Cooper, another discussion ] Shady Grove Mr and Mrs W. H Faver, Jr., j out danger is serious over a wide Miss Myrtice Taylor. County ] conducted an educational train-) radius Home Demonstration Agent, at- ing meeting on getting individ- ! tended with the group |uals to partciipate and enjoy Laurens County received a red j group recreation. Mr. Faver is ribbon on the County Council re- studying at the Presbyterian port and also on the record book i School of Christian Education, On Thurslay morning. Mrs Richmond, Va , for a church vo-| Craddock, president of the Lau- cation Before going to Richmond rens County Council, conducted a he was assistant agricultural memorial service in memory of | economist at Clemson College departed members. She was as- The convention closed Thurs- sisted by Mrs. Sumerel. | day, shortly aftern noon following Mr Thomas told of the prep aration states have made in con junction with the federal govern ment for attack and pointed out diat South Carolina was one of the last to get federal aid for civil defense. Booklets of instruc tion on home protection and what to do in case of attack and how to combat fallout were distribut ed. He stressed the importance of protective measures against fall out even though an area itself is not a prime attrack target fail- Picnic Area On Legion Building Grounds Here is the camp-out and picnic area stone tables have been erected, a drive-in on the grounds of the American Legion area t conatructed and other improve- , .... , . . . . . . ments witl be made, including landscap- building on the Whitmire highway being jng The is open for U3e of the pub _ developed by the Business and Profes- . ij c . it adjoins a new playground recently sional Women’s Club of Clinton. Two developed.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. Mrs. Hutchinson represented Laurens County at the Wednesday night fashion show,in which spring and summer fashions, made and modeled by club wom en from 34 counties, were display ed and presented in the form of a playlet, “A Stroll Through the Park ” an address by Mrs. J. Homer Remsberg, area vice-president of Associated Country Women of the World, Middleton, Md. Mrs Remsberg spoke on "Change Is Not New,” which fit ted in with the convention theme. ‘‘Preparing for the Challenge of Change.” Win A Vacation Trip For Two Just register, nothing else to do. Fill in one of the entry blanks appearing in The Chonicle and re turn to the office. Drawing will be held Saturday morning, July 29. Trip includes three days and nights at a fa mous Myrtle Beach resort hotel or motel, plus two meals a day A special bonus of $40 will be given if the winner is already a subscriber to The Chronicle. Send in as many entry blanks as you wish