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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
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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
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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.