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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
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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