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■w<_ f f W : '.' A, R. P. Church Purchase* Manse Vol. 64 — No. 28 V Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 11, 1963 Ferguson Purchases Abattoir Property Brown To, Speak To S. C. Broadcasters The Clinton Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has purchased a home on S. Adair Street to be used as. a home for the minister of the church. The home wee bought from Mr. and Mrs. Abit Alexander, who are building a new home on the same street. The present pastor of the church, Dr. C. B. Betts, has resigned effective in Septem ber, and he and Mrs. Betts will continue to occupy their home on E. Walnut St. —Photo by Dan Yarborough. Dr.CB. Pastor of A. R. P. Church Dr. C. Bynum Betts, for 38 years pastor of Clinton’s Asso- date Reformed Presbyterian Church, has resigned his post effective the second Sabbath in September. This year also completes his 50th year as a minster. He has submitted his resigna tion to the congregation and the Presbytery has been requested to dissolve the pastoral relation existing between him and the local congregation. Upon retirement from the ac tive pastorate, Dr. Betts stated that he will serve as supply pastor on occasion for other churches. A committee from the church rill make plans to call a new minister at an early date, it is stated. Dr. and Mrs. Betts will con tinue to reside in Clinton, occu pying their home on East Wal nut Street. Dr. Betts will leave a thriving church organization and a mod em and adequate physical plant. The brick sanctuary and educational building on South Broad Street was erected in 1961 and two additional rooms were added to the educational building in 1962, all of which has been paid iar. The congregation recently purchased a modem brick resi dence on South Adair Street, near the church, to be used as a manse for their new pastor. The congregation several years ago built a church house for use of members at Bon- clarken the summer assembly grounds of the denomination at Flat Rock, near Hendersonville, N. C. Dr. Betts comes from a fam ily of churchmen, boasting of no less than ten ministers in his immediate family, including a grandfather and two uncles in the Associate Reformed Presby terian Church, three cousins in the Southern Presbyterian Church, and three cousins in the Methodist Church. Dr. Betts was bora March 7, 1889. His father was Charles Bowen Betts, Jr., and his moth er was Florida Bynum Betts. In infancy, he was baptized by his grandfather, Dr. C. B. Betts, Sr. He grew up in Rock Hill, graduating from the high school there, entering Erskine College at Due West in 1907, and gradu ated with the AB degree in 1911 He entered Erskine Theological Seminary that fall and gradu ated in the spring of 1913. Ers kine College conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1941. Licensed and ordained by the First Presbytery in the Spring of 1913, he became pastor of the congregation at Troy in Green wood County, serving until 1925. In September, 1925, he accepted a call to Providence Church at Clinton and has served here continuously here since then Dr. Betts has had wide expe rience in his Presbytery and Synod, including membership on the Board of Foreign Mis sions, Board of Christian Edu cation, Board of Bondarken, Committee o n Publications, Trustee of Synod, Committee to Study the Nature, the Mis sion, and the Message of the Church. He was director of Christian Education 1937-1943, during which time the Prayer Calendar was started, the Pri mary and Junior Quarterly were started, promoted the ob servance of Bible Mastery and World Wide Communion in the denomination. He was vice- moderator of the Synod in 1925, preaching the sermon for the moderator in 1926. He was a' member of the Committee to re vise the Constitution of the As sociate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Dr. Betts has held evangelis tic meetings in many churches, at Erskine College, and has given a number of addresses at Bondarken. He was the 1946 Synod’s preacher, giving a se ries of devotional talks. In the mr ifR-iV?- -r DR. C. BYNUM BETTS Presbytery he has been* modera tor twice and served on numer ous committees. Dr. Betts is married to the former Miss Mary Ruth Cope land of Clinton, daughter of Mrs. Ruth Simpson Copeland and the late Adolphus Miles Copeland. Mrs. Betts is a gradu ate of Winthrop College, and served as a missionary of thej United • Presbyterian Church in I India, 1922-24. On account of se rious injuries from a fall she had to return home. Locally, 'Dr. Betts has entered into the civic, cultural and re ligious life of the community. He has been a member and president of the Clinton Minis terial Association, formerly a member and president of the Kiwanis Club, in addition to a busy life as leader of an active, growing church group. The Providence Church was organized in 1836 and had a church building about two miles west of Clinton. In 1903 the con gregation constructed a new biulding in Clinton, on the site presently occupied by.the Bank of Clinton, which continued to be the church home until the present building on South Broad Street was occupied. The old building was sold to All Saints Episcopal Church congregation, moved and re built on Calvert Avenue. Dr. Carter Teaches At Vanderbilt U. Dr. K. Nolon Carter, chairman of the Presbyterian College chemistry department, is serving again this summer as a visiting professor at Vanderbilt Univer sity. Dr .Carter, who has headed the PC department since 1951, will teach organic chemistry in both sessions of the Vanderbilt sum mer school, extending through August 24. This year marks the fourth summer he has served on the Vanderbilt summer school faculty. Charles Ryan Named To Whitten Position Charles W. Ryan has joined the Psychology Department of Whit ten Village as a staff psycholo gist, according to announcement by Dr. B. O. Whitten, superin tendent. Ryan began his duties on July J. A native of Montague, Texas, Ryan received his B.S. degree and has completed work for the M.S. degree from North Texas State University, Denton, Texas. Before coming to Whitten Vil lage, Ryan had trained at Wichi ta Falls State Hospital, Texas, and also served as a Staff Psy chologist there for one year. He was on the staff of the Big Spring State Hospital at Big Spring, Texas, and came to Whit ten Village from the Mississippi State Hospital at Whitfield, Mis sissippi. He is a member of Phi Kappa Sigma, national social fraternity and Psi Chi, national honor so ciety in psychology. He served In the U.S. Armed Forces with the 449th Armored Division during the Berlin Crisis and is presently in reserve status. Ryan, with his wife, the for mer Miss Ann Smith of Belzoni, Miss., are making their resi dence at Whitten Village. Dr. Marshall W. Brown, presi dent of Presbyterian College, will Ownership of the city abbatoir I be one of the featured partici- property this week passed to Irby pants at the annual meeting of W. Ferguson for a sum of $1,000, the South Carolina Broadcasters under a contract made by the Association at Myrtle Beach next City and Mr. Ferguson in 1953. Monday and Tuesday. Under the lO^ear agreement, He is scheduled to present the Mr. Ferguson had maintained association’s-1963 scholarship, a abbatoir service for the commun- $300 grant made each year to as- ity and he now becomes owner sist a South Carolina young per- of the property" Council directed son in financing a college educa- that the mayor and city clerk tion. Dr. Brown, who serves as execute the necessary deed. chairman of „the scholarship Council agreed to purchase a committee, is an honorary mem dusting machine for eradication b* r of th e state broadcasters’ of insects, to be attached to a city group. Both President and Mrs. tractor. Brown will be guests for the two- Council agreed to accept a deed | held at ® cean for a 40-ft. street connecting Horne and Caldwell Streets fromi x li la . James E. Anderson, provided v»OUIT Or Honor Monday that Mr. Anderson meets the re- The Boy Scouts of America will quirements of city ordinances. hold a Court of Honor at St. Council agreed to purchase 40 James Methodist Church in acres of land adjoining the city’s I Wettsville Monday, July 15, at new garbage disposal area from 7:30 P- m Ral P h (Buzz) Tedards R. G. Hairston. It was noted that 1 18 *** advancement chairman the city may sell a like acreage off the original tract that may be | unsuitable for disposal opera tions for the same amount of I $100 per acre. Russ Emerson and other mem-1 bers of the Jaycees rpesented pe titions for annexation of an area south of College View. The lists! ■ 4r? 'VT "*»*«**. \ Ms l"' m * - -m ■ * •• ' • H l v Wilson County Attorney By Legislative Group Ralph T. Wilson, Laurens at- of property owners and signers I torney, has been re-appointed at- of the petition are being reviewed torney for Laurens County, for a by Cecil E. White, city attorney, term covering the 1963-64 year. The July meeting of council Notice of the appointment came was held last Friday night, pre- in a letter to Mr Wilson signed sided over by Mayor J. J. Corn- b y ^ three members of the wall, with all members present: count y Iegislative delegation and Boyd Holtzclaw, S. A. Pitts, Har- dated July 1. ry C. Layton, Lynn W. Cooper Minutes of the first meeting of George W. Bagwell and James C. the y ear of the Countj U Craine. | sioners on January 8, contained a notation that Mr. Wilson was appointed as County Attorney by Commisioners (presumably for the calendar year of 1963). The appointment of Mr. Wilson by the delegation is for the fiscal Bill Poole. Rout. 3, Laurens, I ?’ ear 1 ‘"1 o «il^ nu,n g until next June 30- months later than for the ap pointment by- the—Commission ers. ^ Expansion Underway at Torrington Plant Poole Will Attend '63 Forestry Camp will represent Laurens County at the seventeenth annual Boy’s For estry Camp, according to Lau rens County Ranger Tom Hill of the S. C. State Commission of Forestry. Poole will enjoy varied and in- An extensive expansion program, costing several hundred thousand dol lars, is in progress at the Clinton Bear ings plant of the Torrington Company. Extensions totaling approximately 63,- 000 square feet are being added to both ends of the building. A raw materials storehouse and finished goods warehouse, 110 by 390 feet (upper photo) is nearing northern end the structural steel is erected and the roof is installed on a 20,000 square foot addition that will be used for relocating equipment and im proving floor layout and product flow. It will be completed in late September or early October. Daniel Construction Company, which built the original build ing, occupied in July, 1961, is doing the construction work on the additions. nrkm nl n t Amrblnvfl tyiati q nrl wnm- 1 A 11\? yiCMlv PUipiUJ O CFl/V/ IltYTlt WvTtxl'* end.—Photos by Dan Yarborough. Wilson Is Promoted To First Lieutenant Lowry M. Wilson, Jr., of Clin ton, was promoted to first lieu tenant in late May while serving with the 94th Ordnance Company at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. Lieutenant Wilson, who is shop officer of the company, entered the Army in 1961. He is a gradu ate of Clinton High School and of Clemson College. His wife, Ruth, is with him at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Morning Devotions Schedule Is Given The following speakers will ap pear in the morning devotional series conducted over radio sta tion WPCC at 8:45 a. nr. wa * days: Rev. J. Richard McAllister, July 8-12; Rev. John W. Warren, July 15-19;, Rev. Webster Curry, July 22-26; and Rev. I. H. Webb, July 29-August 2. The aeries is a project of the Ttianw Ministerial Asso ciation. Dr. Rose To Speak At Camp Fellowship Presbyterian Series Dr. Ben Lacy Rose, contribu- ing editor of the Presbyterian Survey, will be the second speak er in a series during Religious mphasis Month sponsored by the South Carolina Presbytery. Dr. Rose will speak on July 14 at 8:00 p. m. at Camp Fellow ship, Lake Greenwood. His subject will be “The Minis ter’s Task.” / Born in FayetteyiHe, N. C., lose was educated at Davidson College and Union Theological Seminary. He has served church es in North Carolina and Virginia and is Professor of Homiletics, J n i o n Theological Seminary, Richmond. Rocky Springs Church will be n charge of parking at the July 14 service; Grace Covenant will >e responsible for ushering and lowers; while Laurens First Presbyterian Church will furnish the choir. The series, now in Its fifth year, will continue throughout July, with C. Darby Fulton, for mer moderator of the Presbyte rian Church, U. S., scheduled for July 21, and Marc C. Weersing, president-elect of Presbyterian College, appearing on July 28. The County Attorney, in pre vious years, has been named by the Commissioners. .. . . , This year, the county appropri- J" w c * mp U«on bill, » puud b. th. 0«- f ° , UHJMHE: Un* Assembly, provides tor the ing AugQst 3-10 »s e Ho..! ot the . ppoint ment ot the County Attor- Forestry Commission. my ,. by ^ Laurens County Leg- A total of 94 boys have an op- islative Delegation, including the portunity to attend Boys’ Forest-1 Senator ry Camp each year. In addition to 24 FFA boys and 24 4-H boys, one boy is' selected by each of the 46 County Rangers in the state. Instruction will include many phases of forest management, wildlife management, timber har vesting and utilization, forest fire prevention and control and forest recreational development. Church League Ball Standings Are Given Clinton Church Softball League standings as of July 9 show Cal vary Baptist on top and clinch ing the league championship by a wide margin. Action in the league has only a week to go before playoffs are scheduled. The league standings look like his: Team W L Calvary Baptist 17 2 Bailey Methodist 10 8 Broad St. Meth 10 9 Lydia —— 9 9 Frst Presbyterian 8 10 First Baptist • 7 10 Davidson St. 6 11 Holly Grove : 5 13 CHy Streets To Go Into Highway System The City of Clinton this week requested the State Highway De partment, through the county legislative delegation, to take over for maintenance several city streets. Included also was a request to connect two drain pipes and fill in an area at the corner of Calvert Avenue and Liberty St / Streets requested for mainte nance by the Highway Depart ment are: Jefferson St. from Sloan to Elizabeth; Airport Road from West Main to North Ball Ext.; Pine Street from South Broad to Chestnut; Spruce Street from Cedar back Into Pins; West Calltoun from South Broad to Ca- ; Cedar Street from West Cal- Letter Contest End Is Set For July 25 > The fourth and final letter con test, sponsored by The Clinton Chronicle in conjunction with the Shop-At-Home page, will end on July 25. It will be the last chance for someone in the Clinton area to win $25,000 in merchandise certi ficates by simplying writing a card or letter to The Chronicle, telling why they like to tiade at home. A panel of judges will select the winner from entries received at The Chronicle by the July 25 date. Why don’t you enter today? There is an additional oppor tunity to win. Read the Shop-At- Home page as it appears in The Chronicle. Among the ads, you might find your name* entitling you to a free pass to The Broad way Theatre in Clinton. And Shop-At-Home page tells you of the many fine products and services offered by outstand ing local merchants, and how to save by trading right here at home. Surprise Stop Finds Templetons Guests Waycross Welcome " Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Templeton’ of Clinton were on their way to v i s t their grandchildren in Lake Wales, Fla., recently, when they found themselves caught in a “neighborly noose”, In Way- cross, Georgia’s “Welcome World” project. Sponsored by the civic clubs of Waycross, the city’s hospitality I tradictions^ program was introduced to thej Templetons by a policeman who stopped the Clintonians as they entered the city. After being convinced that they were not being arrested, the Tem pletons were taken to a motel where they spent the night as guests of the Owens. They were interviewed by the local radio and newspaper. Gifts to the Clinton couple in cluded a sport jacket, cigars, honey, pecans, candy, a first aid kit, soft drinks, long-distance tel- phone call, a tank of gas and sev eral free meals. All were donat ed by Waycross industries and merchants. Templeton, vice president of Lydia and Clinton Cotton Mills, and his wife responded to the Wel come World project by describing it as a “Thrilling experience” and a “wonderful idea”, accord ing to an article that appeared in the Waycross Journal-Herald. Two Rulings Being Asked V 1 • On Laurens County Bill Laurens—Two legal opinions i sioners is comprised of Paul S. are being sought in connection O’Dell, George M. Penland, and with the Laurens County supply County Supervisor Furman hill. The county attorney has been requested by county commission ers for an opinion over what commissioners say may be “con- Calvary Meets All-Stars In Special Saturday Game Calvary Baptist Church, win- Presbyterian ner of the Clinton Church Softball League championship, will maet all-star team composed of players from the other seven teams in the league on Saturday, July 13, at 7:30 p. m. The game will be played at the Florida Street softball field. ~ Three players have been chos en from each team to form the all-star squad. D. C. Whitman, manager of second-place Bailey Memorial Methodist Church, will manage the all-stars. Hall King is manager of the Calvary team. A supper will be held following the game for all players in the program. Joe Davenport and John Mabry will prepdre the meal. At the supper, the managers will discuss plans for the tmpnnd- ing playoffs. Contributions. at the all-star game will go to defray expenses of the supper. Members of the all-star squad include: Lydia—Mdvin Ballsy, J. B. Vanderford, and Ert Jacks; First Baptist —CSandt Hows, Buzz Tedards and Robbia Har ris; B r o a d Street Methodist— — Heyward Tum- Oxner and Tom hum to. Highway. 72; Calvsrt Jimmie BrazwelL Russ Ave. from Holland to liberty. son, and Harman Jackson; First blin, Dewey Stallworth. Also, Davidson Street—Wallace Patterson, Alan Trammell, and Leonard White; Holly Grove- Rocky Norris, Doug Norris, and Charlie Moore; Bailey Methodist Boots Fuller, Barry Whitman, and Bobby Thomas. Members of the champion Cal vary team include: Charles Kin- ard, Tom Brown, Jr., Tom Brown, Sr., Herbert Fallaw, Hardrock McGinnis, Earl McEl- hannon and Ellis Winn. Others are Pat Lowe, Truman Owens, Fred Satterfield, Phil King, Sam Owens, Maxie Davis, Edgar Ballew, Mike Cannon and Frank Lee. Joanna $couts To Appear On Television Cub Scout Pack 75, Joanna, will appear on “Monty’s Micky Mouse Club” on W S B C -T V, Greenville on Wednesday, July 17 at 4:80 p.m. Accompaning the youngsters to Greenville for their television ap pearance will be Harmon Hur rah, Mrs. J. B. Johnson, Mrs. J B. rniton and Mrs. Thelma Banks. Dr. Hollis L. Cate To Join PC Faculty Dr. Hollis L. Cate will join the Presbyterian. College faculty this fall as an associate profes sor of English, Academic Dean Joseph M. Gettys announced to day. Dr. Cate, who received his un dergraduate training at PC and was graduated in 1951, has been teaching for the past two years at Northeast Louisiana State Col- HoUis Cate earned his Ph.D. in English, majoring in American literature, from the University of Georgia in 1961. He previously had received his master’s from Georgia in 1957 after two years of high school teaching. During his four years at Pres byterian, Cate was active in the ROTC program. In football and track, and was elected vice-presi dent of both his sophomore and senior classes. He served for two years an an officer in the U. S Army after finishing PC. A native of Brunswick, Ga., he is married and has four children. He plans to move to Clinton around mid-August, after com pleting his present teaching as signment in the Northeast Louisi ana summer school. Converse Dean's List Has Ointon Student Barbara Eichelberger of Clin ton, was recognized for scholas- Monday, Representative David S. Taylor requested an opinion from the State Attorney General on the constitutionality of several sections of the bill. Rep. Taylor said he had stated before and still contends that the delegation has attempted to as sume too much executive and ad ministrative authority. “I feel since some question has been raised about the supply bill that we should have a complete ruling/’ Rip. Taylor said. County commissioners have re quested a ruling from County At torney Ralph Wilson on two sec tions, stating that one section provides that the supervisor and one county commisioner must approve all claims against the county and another section gives the delegation authority to spend some $10,000, provided the sena tor approves. Rep. Marshall Abercrombie said Monday things would con tinue as they have in the past regardless of any ruling.” Laurens County Senator King Dixon said he had no comment. Rep. Taylor said he lelt the delegation exceeded its authority in at least four sections of the supply bill by giving certain du ties to itself. He said he felt at least four sections were not constitutional and he wanted the opinion of the attorney general. He said he had originally agreed to the supply bill with the four sections written as they were for had he not done so, the county would have had no supply bill. The bill came under question during the recent session of the egislature when Senator Dixon included sections which in effect gave him veto power. The sec tions required a majority vote, including that of the senator. Requirement that the senator be included in any majority vote would give him veto power. < The Board of County Commls- tic achievement during the ond semester of the 1982-51 ses sion at Converse College. Daughter of Mrs. Hugh Eich elberger, the eras named to the Dean’s List. She js a rising sophomore aft Converse First PC Term , Coses Wednesday The First term of Presbyterian College’s 1953 summer school will close next Wednesday, but the pace will continue wjth the second term without missing a beat. Registration for the second session is scheduled for Thurs day morning, July 18. The second half of the total 11-week summer school will ex tend through August 23. During this period, 18 courses will be offered in these nine depart- raents: Bible, biology; chemistry, economics, education, English, history, mathematics, and Span ish. Thomason. County Attorney Wilson said he will probably have a ruling on the commissioners’ request Thursday or Friday. Early this week, no ruling had been received from County At torney Wilson, but indications were that a reply to the request of the Commissioners would be forthcoming later in the week. The Board of Commissioners, at a meeting Tuesday morning, had on hand $2,500 in claims against the county brought over from the fiscal year which ended June 30 tha^will have to be paid out of funds provided in the new appropriation bill. None of them, the Commissioners stated, have the necessary signatures of a ma jority of the county legislative delegation. Consequently, they pointed out, the claims cannot be cleared for payment. Membership Meeting Is Set By Chamber A general membership coffee meeting has been schedule^ by the Clinton Chamber of Com merce for July 10 at 10:00 a. m. at the Hotel Mary Musgrove. All members of the Chamber of Commerce are urged to attend the meeting which will feature a discussion of many items. Mem bers will be asked to suggest top ics and also comment on other areas, such as civic affairs, zon ing, annexation, legislative af fairs, education, city beautifica tion and others. Just published by the Cham ber of Commerce is a Buyer's Guide, listing all firms and indi viduals belonging to the cham ber. Their products and services are given in the guide. The publi cation has been distributed to all members and will be given to newcomers and sent in answer to requests. Clinton “ " Goes To Erskine Position Mrs. Edward Wills has been appointed field representative of Erskine College, J. M. Lesesne, Erskine President, has announc ed. The former Miss Elizabeth (Betty) Tribble of^Clinton, Mrs. Wills received her BA. degree from Erskine. Following har graduation, she was society edi tor of the Greenwood Index-Jour nal for two years. Later she was on the editorial staff of the Spar tanburg Herald for four yeare. From 1956- 62 she assisted her husband in the establielunecx, operation, and management of The Journal, weekly newspaper and printing business in WU- liamston. She assumed responsibility lor the management of the badness from her hnshfusd’s death In IM until its sale earlier this year. i\