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DE. C. DARBY FULTON DR. FRED POAG To Lounch PC Compaign ¥ Synod-Wide Convocation Scheduled Here for Friday <S ' • . ^ A full program on Oiirstian: the Presbyterian College robed higber education, featurln* ad '^oi r . ^, D , r _ E .? ou * r<1 die«e* by two ouUUndla* Pre-1 P»U«. DrPoog wm clo«tb.^ byteriaulewlere. awaiUbuiidredS;«^ «>tb his talk on ChrisUan of South Carolinians expected to higher education, tateod the Synod-wide convoca-j Both of the featured speakers tion at Presbyterian CoUege this are well-known leaders of the Pridny 'Southern Presbyterian Church. Gas Authority To Construct $90,000 Line Around Clinton The Ciinton-Newberry Gas Authority has awarded a con tract for construction of an eight- inch line that will by-pass Clin ton. according to an announce ment yesterday by Wyman M. Shealy, general manager. The line will be approximately five miles in length, and will cost about )00.000. M. D. Smith Con struction Co., of Winder. Ga.. is the contractor and work is che- duled to start in April. The new line will leave the pre sent transmission line from Foun tain Inn to Newberry at a point west of Clinton, ver off toward Lydia Mills and rejoin the main line at a point between Clinton and Joanna. The Clinton-New berry Authori ty gets its gas from Transconti nental Gas Corporation via a con nection with Transco’s cross country pipeline from Texas to New York at a point near Foun tain Inn. ■-R- . Vol. 63 — No. 12 Ointon, S. C, Thursday* March 22,1962 Reservations from ministers enH lay men and women indicate all areas of the state will be rep resented at this major function of PC’s current development pro gram. A number will participate in the all-day activities. Dr. C. Darby Fulton, PC alum nus who recently retired as execu Dr. Fulton, a former moderator of the Presbyterian General As sembly, ter SO years Board of a foreign only last fall af- n charge of the General Solicitors To Report On PC Camornn Tonloht The first report meeting for gen eral solicitation teams, seeking to raise $300,000 for Presbyterian College in the Clinton area, will be held tonight (Thursday). Although scheduled for the PC dining hall, this session is not a dinner meeting—the hour of 8: IS p.m. being set for those workers attending the Kiwanis Club meet ing earlier. A second report, this one in the form of a dinner affair, will be held next Tuesday night in the college dining hall. It’s set for 7:15 p.m. Highlight of the past week on I the local campaign front was a — —• The new line, Mr. Shealy said, r * ce P tion held in Belk Auditorium will give better service to custom-1 ,ast Frid ay evening. Tom Addi* ers in Joanna and Newberry soa » cempaign co-chairman, wel- through increased pressure. It f OITie< ^ those attending. The Pres will also give increased capacity to supply gas for any contemplat ed expansion in the Newberry area and for industries that may locate along the right-of-way. Mr. Shealy said the Authority is now serving 4,815 customers in Clinton, Joanna and Newberry, Missions. He was j’ncluding six cotton mills, Whit- himself for ten Village, and the new Torring- ton Bearings Plent near CUnton. ear^ prior to joining the office of this agency. Af- eight year; central ter receiving his BA from Presby Uve-wentary of the Board of t*rl.r,Colkg.io mi. borycolved “ , :his master’s from the University Church US, will give the high light address of the morning ses sion which starts at 10:90. The afternoon session, beginning at 3:15 immediately after a special luncheon, will feature a talk by Dr. Fred Poag, pastor of New Or leans’ St. Charles Avenue Presby terian Church. Registration is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. in the loggia of Belk Auditorium. The morning session will be presided over by Robot M. Vance, CUnton banker- industrialist who serves as cam- afternoon session, by Mrs. Rex Josey of Manning, synod women’s leader. After opening remarks by Dr. I. M. Bagnal of Bennettsville, chairman of the campaign execu tive committee. Dr. C. Newman Faulconer, jMstor of tbe .Greeh- viUe First Presbyterian Church, will lead the morning devotional. Dr. Marc Weersing, pastor of the Spartanburg First Presbyterian Chinch will speak on the Synod’s responsibility, and PC President Marshall W. Brown will introduce Dr. Fulton. The latter’s address will cover the service rendered by Presbyterian CoUege to the church. The afternoon devotional will be conducted by Dr. W. McLeod Frampton, pastor of the Orange burg First Presbyterian Church. After three musical selections by of South Carolina and his BD de gree from Columbia Theological Seminary. Dr. Poag had a most effective ministry at Columbia’s Shandon Presbyterian Church for nine years, prior to moving to his pre sent New Orleans pulpit. He went to Columbia in 1960 from the pas torate of the Second Church of Alexandria, Va., and previously had served the Richmond Second Church, first as an assistant and then as pastor after finishing Union Seminary there. Timmerman, Wilkes To Get Ford Awards Two salesmen on the staff of Baldwin Motor Co., CUnton, wUl be presented Ford Motor Com pany’s 900-500 Club awards at a banquet honoring Ford dealership car and truck salesmen of 1961 ’n the Charlotte Ford sales dis trict. The salesmen are E. M. Tim merman and Dessie Wilkes, and the dinner wiU be held Saturday in Charlotte. The awards are presented for excellent retail sales perform ance. byterian College robed choir ren dered three musical selections, and President MarshaU W. Brown introduced the principal speaker, Dr. John McSween. The latter spoke eloquently to the group on what PC means to CUnton and the church. As reported in The Cronicle last week, the initial efforts of the special gifts committee under co- chairmen George Cornel son and R. Edward Ferguson, Jr, had produced $115,000 from the CUn ton area as of March 19. Parents and Friend* See Clinton High Senior* Off to Washington Annual Inspection Of College ROTC Unit Scheduled April 3 Lt. Col. Richard W. Ulrich, Professor of MiUUry Science at Presbyterian College, announced today that the annual federal in spection of the PC ROTC Battal ion will be held this year on April 9. He stated that Colonel Reed of Wake Forsat College and Colonel Wade of Furman University, will head the inspection team. They will be on the campus aU day and will inspect the classroom pro- in the morning. Clinton-Lydia Mills To Fete 'Old Timers' Friday The seventh annual meeting oftfrey, Sr., J. R. Hamrick, Victor Clinton-Lydia MiUs ’’Old Timers” W. Mattox, ElUe Mae Butler, Mel- ClubwiU be held Friday evening vin A. Seay, L. Berry TrammeU, aT t’UB 3’Clock in the Thorawefl’ Johnnie D. Butler, J. W. dining hall. One hundred and thirty-eight men and women with continuous service records of 25 years and over, comprise membership of the club and wUl be guests of honor at the gathering. r , Dode Phillips, of Due West, WiU address the group. For 16 new members of the club, Friday’s gathering wiU be their first meeting with their fel low ‘‘Old Timers” of CUnton-Ly- dia, as that many have completed their twenty-fifth year of continu ous service with the company during the past year. Theee six teen new members include: Clinton MiU: James R. God- Nurses To Meet At Whitten Village Trained nurses of the 9th dis trict will meet Tuesday, March 27. at the Whitten VUlage Pa rents Club buUding. Dr. Dan White, an assistant to the super intendent, wiU talk on “Rehabili tation.” AU graduate nurses are invited. This is a portion of the huge group of pareiits and friends of members of the Clinton High Schoof Senior Class who were on hand to see the class off to Washing ton Sunday night on their annual trip. After spending the week sightseeing in the national capital, they will return eary Sunday morning on the Seaboard ‘‘Comet.’* (See story in this issue, “Around Clinton High).—Photo by Dan Yarborough. County Has Ten Forest Fires in Feb. -T««i-4oi»sL.JIi^„._Qccu|Ted__ Laurens County during February, according to a report of the S. C. Commission of Forestry. The Ores burned s total of 65.8 acres. Since the beginning of the fiscal year last July 1, the county has had $$ forest fires, which burned a total of $09.9 PC Giving Program Seh New Record Annual giving set another new record at Presbyterian College In 1061 with $65,254.75 contributed to this program, the final report showed today. A total of 1,180 alumni and friends participated in the project designed to supplement the funds for current operating expenses of the college. The record* show 28 percent alumni participation as 801 form er students gave $39,492.96 for an average gift of $46.90. Rounding out the figures. 940 friends donat ed $20,578.00, and 39 non-alumni parents of students presently at tending PC added $5,194.02. AH of. these figures represent substantial Four Without Opposition 13 Candidates Qualify for Primaries and 5:00 they will inspect the tire ROTC unit at the afternoon drill ceremonies. This will be fol lowed by a review parade held on Johnson football field. The inspec tion tour will conclude their tour with the parade and win leave the campus at 5:00. Midway Theatre To Reopen March 30 Announcement has been made that the Midway Drive-In theatre and concession stand will reopen March 90 under new manage ment, using the same theatre per sonnel. H. W. Kilpatrick, who has been named temporary man ager, states that the people of the Clinton and surrounding area will be admitted free opening night. An annoucement of the manage ment change and schedule will be published in next week’s issue of The Chronicle. Sonny DuBose Signs With Pittsburgh Team Sonney Dubose of standoat on the lege football team last faH, has a contract to play as a with the Pittsburgh Meyers Named To Dubose will be used etthsr i guard or defensive mid is 0-1 and W. B. Littleton, Murray W. Adams, CUnton C. West and May- field Copeland. Lydia Mill: Rex C. Harris, Al ma Harvey, J. T. Lanford, and Rola B. Patterson. President Robert M. Vance will present toeach of the Incoming members an engraved watch and a jeweled 25-year service award pin. Two Youths Charged In Assault On Girl Two youths have been charged with rape in connection with an aUeged assault on a 15-year-old Laurens County girl, Sheriff R. Eugene Johnson said Saturday. The youths, Jerry Rook, 19, of Laurens, and Jerry DiUeshaw, 17, of CUnton, were charged in war rants issued by Magistrate Sam H. McCrary and signed by Sheriff Johnson. They were released on $2,000 bond each, set by Circuit Judge Steve C. Griffith at Newberry. Sheriff Johnson said the aUeged isault occurred near CUnton shortly before midnight. Tuesday, March IS. The sheriff said that a phy sician’s report of his examination of the girl Indicated that she had been molested. Officers arrested the two youths the day after the alleged incident, the sheriff said. They remained in the Laurens County jail until their release on bond Saturday af ternoon. David R. Meyers of was appointed last week by Gov ernor Rollings as a member of the Bailey Memorial Usopital Board of Directors for Laurens County, his term to expire in 1957. Mr. Meyers becomes Joanna’s representative on the board, suc ceeding J. B. Hart who declined reappointment following Us mov ing his residence to Clinton. Mr. Meyers is a graduate of Clemson CoUege and the Institute of Textile Technology, Charlottes ville, Va. He is aesfotsirf super intendent in charge of yarn manufacturing at Joanna Cotton Mills. ?.; * . ••V • • (.•’’’ijif f&*¥''*1*1 Blalocks A National DC H. Francis Blalock of Sunshine Cleaners and Mrs. Blalock have been spending several days fids week In Chicago, DL, whore they this tlooal Dry The trip was mads by Chariotte and they plan to Education Group To Meet in Columbia „ Members of the Council of Dele gates of the South Carolina Edu cation Association, meeting in Co lumbia March 22 at the tfaw of the association’s annual conven tion, wm decide whether to in crease the number of executive board districts, to make other changes in the constitution and to increase the dues from $7 to $10 a yar. Members of the Codncil from Laurens County are: H. A. Lynch, H. J. Boyd, Gray Geurt; J. A. Elmore, E. B Herman L. LOSES SISTER Funeral services were conduct ed Monday afternoon in Newber ry for Mrs. D. E. Halfacre, sis ter of Mrs. W. C. Baldwin of this city. The former Mary Emma McD- waia, Mrs Halfacre was a native of Abbeville County, but had made her home In Newberry for a number of ymn. She Increases over the 1960 totals which found 1,122 con tributors giving $5$,200.91. The 1961 effort marked the third straight year of new records on the annual giving front. A further breakdown of last year's results discloped these facts: the tlvtng phase totaled $43,318.05, with $4, 257 of this earmarked for the Wal ter Johnson Club. Gifts made di rectly to the Johnson Club came to $21,936.10, so that the overall total for this organisation at the close of 1961 stood at $36,198.10. The importance of this program to the operation of Presbyterian College is emphasised by the con sideration that $65,254.75 Is the equivalent of annual return on an investment of more than $1,900,- 000 figured at 5 percent Or. Jeans Retires As Brigadier General Dr. James G. Jeanes, of Ly man, has been placed on the re tired list of the S. C. National Guard at hli own request and has been promoted to the rank of brigadier general of the Army Medical Corps. Dr. Jeanes, a general praction- er, and a native of Clinton, served in the Dutch West Indies and tbs European Theater during World War II. MedtockNwMd To ANSEL B. GODFREY C. of C. Directors Elect Godfrey As President For Yeor Ansel B. Godfrey was elected president of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce for the coming year at a meeting of the board of di rectors on Tuesday morning. Mr. Godfrey, who is manager of the local South Carolina Employment Service Office, will begin his du ties April 1. John L. Mimnaugh, retiring president, will serve as second vice-president. Others elected at this time were T. M. Youngblood, Jr., first vice-president; A. A. Ramage, Jr., rteasurer; H. L. Eichelberger, executive vice-pres ident. Wicomo Group Honors Leader Honoring their leader, Miss Margaret Blakely, members of the Wicama Camp Fire group gave a party recently in appre ciation of her two years service. Miss Blakely was presented a corsage and a shower of other gifts. Games were enjoyed dur ing the evening. The girl* served refreshments which they had planned themselves Fire Destroys u . Home at Lydia Fire destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith on Willow Street In the Lydia Mills com munity early last Thursday night. The call was received about 7:15 p. m. and when CUnton vol unteer firemen arrived the bouse wav beyond saving. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were away at the time and no personal prop erty was saved. Tjjjr- Board of Elections Laurens — Joe B. Medleck of Laurens has been appointed com missioner of elections for Laurens County, it was announced here Endowment |Tffl!gr TRr. Wedlock said he had received a letter from Gov. Er nest Hollings dated'March Id to- forming him of the appointment. Mr. Medlock will fill a vacancy created when George Phinney re signed following his election as state executive committeemaa at the Laurens County Democratic convention. Other members of the commis sion are James D. Was sen af Hickory Tavern, and G. N. Foy of Joanna. Services Yesterday For Claude Malpass Claude Malpass, 85, well known barber, died Monday night at a local hospital after a short illness. He was a native of Rock HU1 and had lived in CUnton moat of his life. He was a son of the late John Warren and Annie Ewings Malpass. He attended the Davidson Street Baptist Church. Surviving art his wife. Mrs. Louise Whitlock Malpass; two brothers, Harvey Malpass of CUn ton and Char Us Malpass of Char leston; one sister, Mrs. Mary Laurens County have a field of 11 candidates from which to choose occupants for nine county offices in the June Democratic primaries ym time tor QtuuincMjon ok candidate* expired Monday at Four incumbent county officiate are without opposition la their bid for re-election. They are Allen D. Coleman, treasurer; Miss Jen nie V. Culbertson, auditor; J. Hewlett* Wasson, probate judge; and J. Leroy Burns, supertaten dent of education. The four candidates that have filed with Mrs. secretary, for the two He are Hubert Graydon. CF LEADER* MEET There will be a meeting of Camp Fire leaders Tuesday eve ning. March 27. at 7:10 at the Camp Fire Hut. At Hompton Aye. School City Democratic Club To Reorganize Tuesday beat; William C. Dobbin*, bent; and David 8. Taylor Qualifying for the poet are Furman E. incumbent, and Bennie B. Blakley. former supervisor. Richbourg of Ccaumbia; hli *»P-'Marshall Abtrirrombie, mother, Mrs. John W. Malpass of Columbia and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conduct ed Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the Davidson Street Baptist Church by Bev. .Qyde W. Peterson and Rev. J. W. SpUiers, Burial was in Calvary Cemetery Pallbearers were Leonard M. White, Jo* Wilbanks. Jos Holland, W. L. Godfrey, Johnny Adair, Bill Campbell, Murray W. Adams and Johnny M. Hatton. Penland. incumbent. Pm* g. Odell, incumbent, and That Paul Brown ClinloB High Wins Season’s Opener Pitcher Dickie Watts 11. allowed only two U scored twice himself as Clinton to a 188 Woodsid* In a gams calted at the of Qve Innings beaanse af The CUnton City Democratic Club wil hold Its reorganlMtlonal meeting Tuesday night at 7:90 at the Hampton Avenue School. The club will elect officers, in cluding an executive committee, to set machinery in motion far a city Democratic primary eteo- tion to nominate a mayor and tea councilman. Officers to be elected at Tues day’s meeting are a president, vice-president, secretary-trsaaur- •r and an executive committee man from each of the six wards. Also to be determined are the dates for the two primaries. Present officers and committee men are: Roy Hottsdaw, presi dent, and Leaman D. Jones, see- ertary-treasurer. A sucoesssF will have to be named for G. W. Hol lingsworth. vice-presktent (de ceased). Committeemen: J. J. Clark, ward one; V. P. Adair, ward two; L. Ray Pitts, ward three; Milford Smith, ward four; Joel Cox, ward five; E. P. Taylor, ward six. The dates for the primaries probably wUl be set for late May, prior to the county and state elec tion* to be held in June, with toe general election coming sometime in August. Hurricane Church To Build Home For Pastor, C. E. Russell Ground breaking ceremonies were held on Wednesday, March 14, for a pastorium for Hurricane Watts also led his team eft bat collecting a double and a Clinton scored In It for CUnton and the Ellen Woodside M (4) ( (I), Doora mooring Vdluntoor Workors Whitttn Village the Whitten VUk*s Tuesday af the large number In I Speakers for toe Pat O’Neil, director af service in tin Grenville, and T. D president of toe Auxiliary of The property for building was given by A. L. Neighbors and is a short distance from the church, whkB te Mcitod tfbditt five ntftes northeast of CUnton off the Jo anna highway. Construction on the six-room brick structure. was begun this week by the contractor, Joe H. Bond*. When completed it will be occupied by the Rev. C. E.RueseU and Mrs. Russell of Clearwater Mr. Russell has accepted a call as full time pastor at Hurricane. Members of tbs building com mittee are Cecil Scogin, chairman William Gastiey, W, T. Scogin, Alien Young. Mason Simpson, Mrs. Odus Young and Mrs. J. W. Caldwell ASK DONATIONS of food. Slow fkhfrts On Holy Land at Mrs. J. H. Hodges In Hodgn anniversary of service toe had hem vtetttng. Robert M. Vance (eft), president of Clinton-Lydia Cotton Mills, is shown with two of the 188 employees %f the mills who were presented gold service pins on reaching thfer 10th, 16th or 20th of service with the mills. They sne A. M. Shumate, Jr. ing the Lydia employees, and Evans Lever, representing the CUnton employ ees. The occasion was a dinner honoring the targe group held Friday in the Thora- wett dining hail—Photo by Dsn Ysr- gfLitnaatosSifliv' ■ ■ '.-v?- oorougn. niturc. or money ered by the BiUy Willard Bays’ Club of H.O. who lost everything by fire tost Mr. <• ■ 'va Viiie - igwaite 111 ' ; At tot Sunday, March 3k at Methodist Church Mr. Marvin Turnsr wiU ton and talk on their visit to lie EMy The general public as wsR as members of the congregation ore invited to W.E. Brill Thursday by the State of two rest