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Sit? dUmimt (Eltroutrk Vol. 62 — No. 27 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 6,1961 Brownie Scouts At Camp In Joanna This was a daily scene as the seventy- seven Brownies from Smut troops in Laurens, Wattsville and Joanna ojxmed their week-ion? activiteis with the cere mony of raisin? the fla?. The annual dav camp held at the Joanna Foundation pic nic shelter in Joanna ran from June It) throu?h June 23. Seventy-seven Brownies enrolled and there was a record of perfect attendance for the entire group. Mrs. J. Richard Noble of Laurens served as camp counselor. Assisting her were Mrs. Helen Landis, executive direc tor of Star Fort Girl Scout Council of Greenwood, and the following volunteer workers: Mrs. Ralph Waldrep, Mrs. Rob ert Haynes, Mrs. Marian Cook, Mrs. Dew ey Parks, Mrs. Rol>ert Putnam, Mi's. Sam Wallace, Mrs. David Roper, and Mrs. Hen ry L. Eason, all of laiurens; and Lanky Lon?, Jerry Lewis, Lunette Frazier, Major Cobb, Mrs. Beo Abrams, Mrs. Bernice Kinard, Mrs. Frances Warner, Carolyn Lon?, of Joanna, and Miss Barbara Rob erts of Clinton. Laurens Man Killed When Johnson Retires By Train on Trestle From Postal Service Laurens William Ray Seay. l mother, are two daughters, Mrs 63. was killed instantly about 2 50 Allen Wilson of Holland. Ohio; and Mrs Ruth Malov of Loraine Air Force Base. Me : two broth ers. Elmer Seay and David Seay, both of Laurens, four sisters, Mrs Clyde Bolt. Mrs Pete Can- ford. Mrs Dora Fowler and Miss Lora Seay, all of Laurens; and eight grandchildren Miss Honno Assumes Education Post At p m , Saturday, when he was struck by a train on a trestle across East Main street Assistant Police Chief .! M Barrett said the train engineer. F M Ouattlebaum of Columbia, told him that Mr Seay appeared to "freeze' with his arms up raised as the diesel locomotive approac hed him The engineer told officers that Presbyterian Church he was traveling about 20 miles an hour at the tune of the acci dent and was unable to stop the three-engine freight in time to avoid striking the victim Mr yuattlebaum said that be fore 'freezing" between the tracks, Mr Seay "looked as if he was going to jump from the tres tle and then seemed to turn back and stop m the middle of the track " Apparently the onlv witnesses to the accident were the three trainmen riding in the lead loco motive ol the Columbia, Newber ry & I*aurens (CN4L) Railway train. They were Mr Quattle- baum, Frank Scott, fireman, and C E Cannon, brakeman The train traveled the length of the three locomotive units and Dr. Fifield To Speak At Service Sunday At Camp Fellowship Dr. Harrv A Fifield. pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Atlanta, Ga . w ill lie the speaker Sunday night in tiie second of a ! series of July "Religious Empha sis Month" services at Camp Fel- ! lowship on Lake Greenwood The first of the series last Sun- j day presented Dr John Haddon j Leith, professor of historical the ; ology at Union Theological Semi nary, Richmond, Va He spoke on "Why a Southern Presbvterian Church'’" Dr Fifield's subject will be "Our Progress In and Plans for Evangelism" The program is sponsored by the Religious Education Commit tee of South Carolina Presbytery. The Presbytery includes Presby terian churches in Laurens. New berry, Greenwood, Abbeville and McCormick Counties Other speakers and their sub jects will be- July 16—Dr A Hoyt Miller, re tired missionary of Athens, Ga., ( "Our Progress in and Plans for World Missions.” July 23 — Rev Lawrence W Bottoms, first Negro moderator of the Presbytery of Louisville j and recipient of the 1960 Disting-1 uished Service Award from Gene va College, "Our Progress in and Plans for Negro Work ” Julv 30 — Dr W McLeod — Air View Shows Work On Bailey Memorial Hospital This view from the air ?ives some idea of the size of Bailey Memorial Hospital, on which construction is un derway on a 15-acre site south of the city limits on High way 56. Considerable work has been done on the project since this photo was made. These first floor wings ex tending in three directions will house all service areas of the hospital, including receiving, emergency, operating rooms, X-ray, laboratories, kitchen, dining, storage, etc., with all patients’ rooms and wards being on the second floor, and served by elevators. Additions can be made to the initial 504>ed capacity without disrupting existing facilities. The hospital will serve the Clinton-Joanna- Mountville area of the county. — Photo by Dan Yar borough. Frampton, Jr., former pastor in; several South Carolina cities and Three Clinton Cadets former moderator of the Synod of _ . a c d South Carolina. "God's Endow- TQ10 At Port DTOQQ ment ” Three Clinton cadets are cur-1 Programs are designed “to ex- rently undergoing six weeks of j Laurens County Library Bookmobile Schedule Week of July 10-13 Monday — Moore home, Tom First 1961 Deaths amine intensively and thoughtful-1 ROTC summer camp training atjBalle home, Frank Bobo home, ly the reasons for the existence | Fort Bragg. N. C Sumter Martin home. Coker J. KARL JOHNSON J Karl Johnson, Clinton native, of our church, and to see the du- They are James W Sease. re ties and responsibilities we have," j c e n t graduate of Presbyterian home, Nell Cook home, Sloan \ home. Chappell home, Garrett " stated the Rev C. J Hammett, of College; Harry H. Nettles, rising line 15, altei 41 ^ (; reenwoo( j chairman of the senior at Presbyterian; and j ^ orne ’ R a l mer 1’a t t o n home, sponsoring committee Wayne J l^wis, of Thornwell, [ Tucker home Tuesday—Robinson home, Rid dle home, Macdonald home, Ful ler home. Fanning home, Poole MISS HANNA Miss Doris Hanna began her du retired eliective years of postal service His re tirement ended one of the longest. All programs begin at 8 00 p | rising senior at Clemson College. if not the longest career in the 1 '” ! u P" n successful completion of ... ! summer camp and graduation department, on record in Laurens n j i i r\ • i .,, , , i Randolph Davis, Jr. from college, they will be award- L , ( ouiil v ^ < j ed commissions as second lieuten-1 ^ ome ' Arnold home, Benjamin Origmallv appointed citv car Promoted 10 LlCUtCnont ants in the U S Army Reserve ! home, Irwin home rier wlien delivery service started Thomas Randolph Davis, Jr., Wednesday - Whitten Village, in Clinton in 1914, he transferred 23, whose parents live on Rt 3. j C r0 $s Hill Rural ! Circle, Pitts home. Shady Grove [ to postal clerk cent sears he has »« ,oon-! rlrst Jleutenant in r,<,rTnanv wherel V - arr,er JUO . I Thursday - Frances Wood ev order clerk Two Youths Killed, Two Injured in County Wreck in 1945 During re- Clinton, recently was promoted to first lieutenant in Germany where Corner JOD Upen ias seive as mon he js a mem foer of the 11th Ar-! Cross Hill—An examination fori home, Johnny Davis home, Bal- mored Cavaly Regiment Irom January, 1912, to June, 1914. seven boxcars bevond the point of the accident, according to ties as director of Christian edu Chief Barrett cation at the First Presbyterian Mr Seay, a retired textile em Church on July 1 ployee, was a native of Newport, Miss Hanna, a native ol Dallas Tenn and a World War I vet Texas, received her master’s de eran He lived at 203 Creamer gree from the P r e s b y t e ri a n His retirement ended approxi- St Laurens School of Christian Education malely 61 >ears ol total father son Investigating in addition to Richmond. Va , in May service Chief Barrett, were Capt R N She was awarded a bachelor of Mf Johnson will be presented Williams. Police Officer W I* arts degree from Austin College a certdicate ol commendation Robertson and Sheriff R Eugene (Texasl Last summer she served signed by Postmaster General Johnson as director of Christian eductaion Day as a token of appreciation for Mr Seav was a son of Mrs at a Tampa. Fla .church bis 47 years of service His long Mary Strange Seav and the late Miss Hanna succeeds Mrs Jo- career was marked by courteous, J P Sea> He was a member of seph H Gettys. who has resigned friendly and helpful service to the Central Methodist Church from the (Hisition after Surviving, in addition to his four years of work (lie late Cannon Lieutenant Davis, assigned to was a rural carrier i the Howitzer Battery of the regl- His father Johnson, was a from the Clinton office lor 14 menl ' s Lirst Reconnaissance , ,, , , , Squadron, entered the army in years, and Mr Johnson served as . .... , . , , • November, 1959, and arrived substitute carrier for his lather at Cross Hill will be open for ac ceptance of applications until July 25, according to an an nouncement by the U S. Civil Service Commission overseas in April, 1960 Applicants must take a written The lieutenant is a 1955 gradu test and must have resided with- ate of Clinton High School and a'in the delivery area of the office 1959 grdauate of the University of for one year before the dosing Tennessee, noxville He is a mem-1 date of the examination They rural carrier for the post office | en ti ne home, C D Wood home, Laurens County's first fatal highway accident for the year claimed two lives Friday night and injured two others Killed in the on-car accident on a secondary road in the upper part of the county were Earl Lane, Jr., 19, and Bobby Gene Carlton, 24. Injured were Jerry Rhodes and Russell Layton, both in their late teens All were from Woodruff in Spartanburg County. ently traveling at a high rate of speed, hit the right side of the road and jumped a culvert. It sideswiped one tree, ripping away the car's right side, then crashed into a second. All four boys were tossed from the car, which was reduced to a mass of wreckage The accident occurred about 9:30 p. m. near Curry’s Lake, a recreation area in the Gray Court area off Highway 101. The bodies of Lane and Carlton Madden home Bookmobile Librarians are Rhodes, said to have been the i were taken to the Lanford-Boyter driver of the car, was transferred Mortuary in Woodruff. Miss Claude Gray and Mrs. Carl from the l.aurens County hospital Highway Patrol Corporal Gra- ' dy Jones of Laurens, said the highway accident was the first to Teague to a hospital in Woodruff He was but persons who have passed the sa 'd 1° be in a critical condition j c i a i m a iif e j n Laurens County age of 70 may be considered only for temporary renewable appoint ments of one year with head injuries, but was ex pected to recover Layton was taken to a Spartan- Information about the exam burg hospital and was reported in her o( Lambda Chi Alpha frater-j must have reached their 18th j ination and instructions for filing good condition He suffered ai nity His wife, Ann, is with him birthday on the closing date, in Germany. | There is no maximum age limit, may be obtained at the Cross Hill broken arm and other injuries post office Authorities said the car, appar- almost those on his route and to those with whom he came in contact in the office Children Return to Town That 'Adopted' Mother in '49 Greenville Pageant this year The last highway fa tality was on Christmas Eve. Joanna Girl Is 'Miss Clinton' In By Mrs. G. N. Fay in his home Joanna, named for The Chronicle Offers Week-End at the Beach Wouldn’t you like to s|>end three wonderful days and nights at Myrtle Beach—where the gentle surf and the sun-warmed sand ate yours to enjoy! Plus restful com fort at hotel or motel—and delicious food to your order! All that is yours absolutely free if your name is drawn Saturday, July 29, in The Chronicle’s “Beach Vacation for Two” promotion. All you have to do is fill in one of the coupons that appears in an advertisement elsewhere in this imper headed “Vacation for Two.” This is a good thing if we ever saw one — but it is available only if you register. It may be you. Joanna—Joanna and Francisco the town which opened its heart James Alvarado are paying a to “Miss^ Ruth,” is nine years Mr and Mrs Johnson reside at second visit to the town which in of age and is a member of the 311 South Woodrow Street They 1949 "adopted" their mother, then fourth grade at the same school, have two children. J Karl. Jr , a Miss Ruth Biruta Podrats, and; Both children play the piano and professor at Clemson College, and which still claims tier as one of sing a daughter, Mrs liuv Bryant i Us best loved absentee citizens Mrs Alvarado was born in Jel- (Joani of Darlington The townfolk of the community ! gava, Latvia She studied lang- have taken the two < hildren into uages in England for a year, and PltfS Produces First their hearts just as they did the j then entered Mount Herman Bible s- p. ^q lonely Latvian “displaced” wo ! and Missionary Training College L-OffOn DlOOm Ut je0S0rii man 12 years ago when she was in London After graduation, David T Pitts, of the Shady in need of friends and employ-} Miss Podrats returned to Latvia Grove section, won the distinction ment to help crowd out mem-j and entered into the service of the of producing t h e first cotton ories of years spent in a labor Latvian Faith Mission She at bloom of the 1961 season camp in Czechoslovakia tended services held by an Ameri He brought a bloom to The Frankie James, named for the can chaplain, the Rev Mr Mitch- Chronicle office Tuesday mor- Rev James B Mitchell, who was ning, July 4 largely responsible for bringing Mr Pitts is one of the relaUvely! Mrs Alvarado to Joanna (and few cotton farmers left In Lau- for Frank Ph:ilips of Joanna) is rens County .compared with for- ten He is in the fifth grade in mer years, and is consistently an Galveston, Texas, public school, early fall of 1949, the Joanna min- "early bird" in bringing his crop where one of his favorite sub- ister received word through a to the blooming stage jects is Spanish, which is spoken friend that Miss Ruth Podrats ell, a Baptist minister from Jo anna She served as interpreter for the chaplain, and was later brought to America by the Church World Service In the was in this country as a displaced person At that time she was broken in health and the task of rehabilitating herself in a new country was so difficult that she was almost ready to return to Europe The Joanna church, one of the first in the state—if not in the South—to sponsor displaced per sons, acted promptly in order to beat the deadline of deportation and wired money for transporta tion from New York to South Carolina She arrived on October the scene of an international wed ding, the principals being a Lat -vian bride, a Mexican bride groom, a Cuban best man—Angel Aquiiers (Furman University stu dent at the time) and an Ameri-1 can minister Representing Clinton in the South Carolina beauty pageant this week in Greenville is Ift-year- oid Miss Eugenia Byars, “Miss Clinton’’ for 1961. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joanna and Frankie are guests} Walter E. Byars of Joanna, she ol the Rev Mr Mitchell and Mrs 'was accompanied to Greenville Mitchell m the Baptist church by her mther on Tuesday for the parsonage On a visit to the of preliminary events before the of fice of Joanna Cotton Mills, ! «cial pageant judging and acUvi- young Frankie thanked Walter D® 8 began last night. Regnery, vice-president of Joanna Miss Byars was sponsored by Western Mills Company and gen the Joanna Woman’s Club in the 2, which was home-coming dayjeral manager of the Joanna Cot-! Miss Clinton event staged in at the local church She was ton Mills Company, for having March by the Junior Chamber of showered with money, clothes, befriended his wother when she: Commerce and the Jaycee-Ettes and attention, and was given shel-j was a refugee. * ter by the Baptist minister and The occasion for the first visit his wife. of the Alvarado children to Jo- ft was while serving in a school j anna was in 1954 when their pa- of Missions in the upper part of rents were in this part of the the state that Miss Podrats met country and came to Joanna to Rev M Alvarado In the course take part in a special program of time the Joanna church was at the Baptist church Awarded first place in the talent division with a soprano solo, she was chosen winner from a field of eleven girls competing in the local contest. A graduate of Clinton High School in June, she plans to at tend Winthrop College in the fall. Scenes At Clinton And Lydia Mills As They Celebrated The Fourth These .scenes are typical of the events that took place Saturday when CHnton aid Lydia Mills celebrated the Fourth of July. Field and water contests filled a morning schedule before residents of the two communities took off for a week’s vacation. In the photo at left, boys and girls are teamed up for a race holding a potato between their faces. The team of Ijoyu second from right, Chuck Lever and Jimmy Smith, were the winners. In the cen ter, Donald Vanderford of Lydia, is shown as he caught and held a greasy pig. (He didn’t get the pig, but won another prize). The photo at right shows Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watts (first couple right and left) who were the winners, in an egg throwing contest. As the eggs were caught, the couples would move further back. The win ners were the last couple remaining with their egg un- . broken.—Photos by Truman Owens.