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for Sewer Extensions City To Sell $125,000 Bond Issue on July 26th The City of Clinton will offer for sale July 26 an issue of $125,- 000 in revenue bonds, the pro ceeds of which will be used to build an outfall line and two oc- cidation ponds, plus a pumping station, to serve the southeastern section of the city, and the ex tension of sewer service to three other points in the city. Notice of the public sale was advertised in newspapers Mon day, and bids by financial hous es will be opened at 12 o’clock noon on Friday, July 26. Accep tance or rejection of the bids will be accomplished by 2:00 p. m. The city’s Bond Commission met Friday afternoon and en dorsed the issuance and sale of the bonds, and City Council met immediately afterward and pass ed the necessary bond ordinance and resolution authorizing adver tisement for sale of the bonds. The bonds will mature annual ly 1979, with $5,000 maturing each year, 1964 through 1970, and $10,000 each year 1971 through 1979. Interest will be paid semi annually, June 1 and December 1. A cushion fund payment of 10 per cent of each year’s amount payable will be added eaeb year, and the accumulations will per mit final payment of bonds and interest more than a year earlier than the scheduled date. The call date for outstanding bonds is 1971, at 2Vi per cent pen alty. These are additional bonds is sued on a parity with combined utility system “revenue bonds series of 1957, which were rated at “A’^bonds by Moody’s Invest or’s Service. Construction of the outfall line will begin at a point on Calvert Avenue, extending approximate ly 10,000 or 11,000 feet to a site on the Job Simpson estate property southeast of the city where a 40- acre site was bought several . All-Stars Trumph Over Calvary In Saturday Soflball weeks ago. Surveys are prac tically complete and securing^ of rights-of-way will proceed imme diately. Plans and specifications from the engineers, Lockwood Greene Co., of Spartanburg, are expect ed to be received by August 1. Bids on the project will be re ceived as shortly thereafter as possible. Other areas to receive sewer service under the expansion pro gram include Bond St.-N. Bell St. and adjoining sections, Gary St. and 1 , end of S. Bell St., and Oak St. from W. Centennial to Gary St. The Bond Commission's com posed of Robert M. Vance, Rob- art P. Hamer and J. Sloan Todd. Council members are Boyd Holtzcalw, S. A. Pitts, Harry C. Layton, L. W. Cooper, George W. Bagwell and James C. Craine. PC Summer School Registration Set For Second Term Registration for Presbyterian College’s second .term of the 1963 summer school is scheduled for today (Thursday), July 1$. Class- wqrk begins on Friday. Tuesday, July 23, is the last day for changes of courses and registration. The second half of the total 11- week summer school will extend through August 23. Eighteen courses are offered in nine de partments: Bible, biology, chem istry, economics, education, Eng lish, history, mathematics and Spanish. Game Wardens At Training. School Laurens County* Game War dens I. V. Burdette, Sidney A. Lee and Garvin B. O’Dell recent ly attended the tenth annual law enforcement training school of. the Wildlife Resources Depart ment. A three-day session was held at the University of South Carolina. The program included talks, lectures and demonstrations of various phases of game warden activity. A banquet was attended by Governor and Mrs. Russell, of ficials of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, members of the Wildlife Resources Commission City Power To Be Off Sunday Morning For One-Hour Period All areas of the city served by the municipal power lines will be without electricity Sun day morning, July 21, from 8:36 to 9:39, it is stated by Richard Gredler, superintendent of the city utilities system. The interruption is made nec essary to permit replacement of equipment at the main sub station by Duke Power Com pany workmen. All preliminary work will be completed earlier, Gredler said, and the short interruption, pos sibly for less than an hour, will be utilized in making the new connections. Vol. 64 — No. 29 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 18, 1963 Commissioners Control County Funds In a special double-header on Saturday, Calvary Baptist Church, winner of the Clinton Church Softball League cham- qnd department employees pionship, went down in defeat to an All-Star squad. i , ' jV - Scores stood at 3-0 and 7-1. Pitchers were Ert Jacks of Lydia in the 3-0 game and Claude Howe of the First Baptist team in the 7-1 itlt. Some 500 persons attended the special event. The Church League players gathered for a chicken stew fol lowing the game, prepared by Joe Davenport and Junior Ma bry. No games have been scheduled next week due to the Dixie Youth Tournament to be played in Clin ton. For the final week of the regu lar season, standings tallying through July 15 were: Team Calvary 19 Bailey Methodist First Baptist Broad St. Methodist Lydia Presbyterian >. Davidson Won Loot 2 - 11 9. 11 10 _ 11 10 — 10 10 10 12 6 14 -5 * 16 Holly Grove . 5 Former Resident Passes In Carlisle Mrs. Edith Mosely Roper, 88, died at the home of a daugh ter, Mrs. C. A. Jeter in Carlisle Saturday after a short illness. Mrs. Roper was the widow of Dr. John-Caswell Roper, former pastor of Broad Street Methodist Church, who died in 1958. Mrs. Roper had been active in the UDC and the DAR and had held office in each organization. Surviving in addition to her daughter, are three sons, Sheldon M. Roper of Lincolnton, N. C.; Rufus C. Roper of Raleigh, N. C.; Julian W. Roper of Newport News, Va.; 14 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday at the Carlisle Metho dist Church with interment in Sunnyside Cemetery in Orange burg. Week-Long Services Sef Af Leesville Leesville Southern Methn<uut Church has scheduled revival set vices beginning Sunday, July 21, and continuing through Sunday, July 28. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ County Men Off On Agri-Business Tour Of Wisconsin Points Robert M. Vance, president, and G. L. Simpson, cashier of M. S. Bailey A Son, Bankers, of Clinton, Hance Finley, dairyman of Mountville, and M. L. Outz County Agent, left Monday on an agri-business tour of Wisconsin sponsored by the South Carolina Bankers Association. They will be among a large group who will visit the Univer sity of Wisconsin and the Experi ment Station at the university to observe swine, beef cattle, poul try and dairy facihtiesr included on the tour will be the American Breeders Service, one of the old est and the largest artificial) breeding organizations' in the U. S- The famous Green Bay Hol stein herd is on the list of vis its. This herd for many years has enjoyed a reputation of de- vedoping some of the outstanding sires of the breed. Friday night, the group is scheduled to see the Milwaukee Braves in a baseball game. M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers, the Bank of Clinton, and this Pal metto Bank, Laurens, are spon soring participation in the tour by representatives from this county. Chamber Endorsement Given Drop-Out Drive “Young people must be better nformed to enter the complex world of today,” Claude Crocker told the Clinton Chamber of Com merce Tuesday in an education committee report. The Chamber endorsed Donald Russell’s crash public rela tions program slated for next month to combat the state’s dropout problem. The action took place at a general membership meeting at the Mary Musgrove Hotel. Chamber president Francis Bla lock presided. Crocker, public relations direc tor of CUnton-Lydia Mills told the group the “matter of school dropouts is more thpn a problem for parents.” He said it was a social and economic problem which in time would also become a political problem. As the dropout rate increases, Crocker said, “it will touch the pocketbook of everyone in this room.” Welfare rolls will grow when youth is unable to find jobs' on farms and in industry, he said. Following Crocker’s talk, Chamber members voted unani mously to back Governor Rus sell’s program. James Von Hollen, of the in dustrial promotion committee, also appeared, suggesting that all industrial sites, of 30 to 40 acres be cataloged in the Chamber of Commerce office The Chamber pledged support to the Junior Chamber of Com merce in its continuing efforts to expand the city limits. Jaycee Charles H. Johnson said a petition for annexation of an area southwest of the city limits has been turned over to the city council for action. Revival Begins Sunday At Langston Baptist Langston Baptist Church, Route 1, Clinton, has scheduled a revival beginning July 21 through July 26. Services will be held Services will be held each eve-1 each evening at 7:80 p.m. ning at 7:48. The minister, Rev. H. J. Huch- int, win be assisted by the Rev. Paul K. Holland of Hemingway. The public is invited to attend the revival at the Leesville church which is located just off the eld Laurens-Clinton highway. Rev. John Turner, minister of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, will be the speaker. Rev. Claude Bishop is pastor of the church Mrs. T. B Sumer si of Laurens will lead the singing. is the oldest Baptist Opinions Restrain Legislators i' : The Laurens County Board of Commissioners shall control ex penditures listed in the budget or appropriation bill of the county. That was determined as the re j suit of two opinions handed down last week by the South Carolina Attorney General and the Lau rens County Attorney. Both opinions came in reply to requests from two different sources, and both ruled as invalid sections of the county appropria tion bill which would vest con- of expenditures ln':‘a maior- ity of the legislative delegation, ’ expenditures^ inculding the Senator.” One request for an opinion or iginated with David S. Taylor, a member of the legislative del egation that enacted the bill in the General Assembly. He is reported to have stated, imeffect, that he and Representative Mar shall Abercrombie were opposed to the phraseology in the bill and •agreed to it only to prevent the county from having no supply bill at .all. Under terms of the bill, Sen ator King Dixon would have veto power over expenditures by pro viding that he be a part of the majority. » The other request for a ruling was by the Board of Commis sioners who sought a clarifica tion of apparently contradictory provisions in the appropriation bill, also relating to control of Bridge To Be Featured in Advertising Campaign This Seaboard Railroad bridge over Little River near' Clinton will be fea tured in a national advertising campaign by the Portland Cement Association, because of its unusual construction. Concrete is not usually used in building railroad bridges, which makes this struc ture of much interest. Underpinning, su perstructure, and even cross ties are made of concrete. Rails are bolted to ties. .This photo of the bridge, built more than a year ago, was made this week by Dan Yarborough, Clinton pho tographer, for the Portland Cement As sociation in Chicago. Commissioners and Legislators Meet Wednesday in Cordial Atmosphere Supervisor Furman E. Thoma son, chairman of the County Board of Commissioners, called a meeting of that group on Wed nesday morning in his office. The county delegation and treasurer were present by invita tion at the meeting that was marked by its cordial atmos phere. Ralph T. Wilson, county attorney, was also present. Wilson ruled on request of Thomason that the Supervisor had the authority to draw on the county contingent fund on the authority of the Board of Com missioners, without consulting the delegation. Senator King Dixon and Repre sentative David S. Taylor ac cepted the ruling as final. Rep resentative Marshall Abercrom bie said he “wanted to see” ev ery claim against the fund be fore it was paid. Later, in connection with anoth er remark, Thomason said the claims have been and will con tinue to be on file in his office every Monday morning before each board meetnig, for inspec tion. Dixon, after hearing Wilson’s opinion, stated, “That is it. There is no room for discussion and I shall not put my name on any future claims.” Thomason, in opening the meeting, had said it was called for “discussion of the contingent fund.” Thomason announced that in Lawson Honored As Top S. C. Retailer Claude M. Lawson of Lawson Furniture Co., Joanna, was voted the top retail dealer in South Carolina for 1963 by the Southern Retail Furniture Association at the summer furniture market In High Point, N. C., last week. The award was presented with the cooperation of Furniture South magazine. The presentation took place during a hotpitality dinner and dance, sponsored by the High Point Furniture Club at the Shrine Club. Charlie Crotts, president of the High Point club, served as mas ter of ceremonies. He presented three representatives from the salesmen’s association who, in turn, made the award presenta tion. Jim War lick made the presen tation to Lawson. Of the winners—one was from both Carolinas and Virginia— Crotts said, “We feel they have done the most to uphold the standards of their trade, help their fellow workers, and last but certainly not least, have treated the wholesale furniture salesmen In the most fair and decent man- nar.*’ Mrs. Lawson rad daughter, El len, accompanied Lawson to High Point and were present for the award. Rfiome Enters Marine Corps Richard A. Rhamc, son of Dr. and Mrs. D. O. Rhame, has en listed in the U. S. Marine Corps and will be enrolled in the Avia tion Cadet program, which is available to those who have com pleted at least two years of col lege. Mr. Rhame left for Pensacola, Fla., yesterday where he will un dergo flight training for approxi mately 18 months, as an aviatian cadet, and will be commissioned and designated as an aviator up on successful completion of the program. Vehicle Drivers Get Suspensions During June the driver licenses of 1,904 South Carolinians were suspended by the Highway De partment under various provi sions of the state traffic laws. Of those whose licenses were with drawn, 27 were resident of Lau- renS County. On the state level, the greatest number of suspensions, 1,021 were for failure to meet, liability insurance (safety responsibility) requirements of state laws. Driv ing under the Influence of intox- icante resulted In 435 withdraw als. Withdrawals under the point system totaled 162. Seventy-two suspensions were tor reckless driving convictions and 214 were for' other convictions. Department action resulted ia suspension of the licenses of 181 out of state motorists. view of the situation, he would not hold the delegation to its commitment to appropriate part of the estimated surplus as of June 30 this year for road ma chinery and court house repairs. He said he would leave it to the “conscience” of the delegation to provide the necessary funds at the next session of the legisla ture. He warned,, however, that he eould do no more blacktopping of roads this summer beyond minor repairs. Gault Joins Staff At Piggly Wiggly Clarence “Sonny” Gault has been named market manager at Piggly Wiggly super-market, it was announced this week by Joe Holland, manager. Gault has been connected with Winn-Dixie for seven years. A native of Union, he, his wife and two children live in the Small wood Development. He is a mem ber of the Hurricane ' Baptist Church. Gary Taylor and Irby Holland are also members of the Piggly Wiggly market staff. Bock To School Night In Joanna August 20 Back to School Night in Reedy River Association will be held at the Joanna Club House on Milton Road in Joanna on Tuesday, Au gust 20 at 7:30 p.m. Back to School Night is sponsored by the Training Unions within the Asso ciation. Over 275 intermediates, young people, leaders and pas tors of local churches are expect ed to attend. Cheerleadet-s and representa tives of bands from Newberry High School, Mid Carolina, Clin ton High, and Whitmire High are expected td participate on the program. Dr. Charles W. Singer, Latvian Baptist Minister from California, will speak on “World Condi tions.” Dr. Singer was pastor of Liepaja Jelgava Baptist churches before Latvia was tak en by the Communists. He and his family were under the Com munists for a year in the Baltic States. They lived under the Nazi regime for three and one- half years in Latvia and one year in Germany and Austria. When Germany collapsed the family was put in Displaced persons camps where they lived four and one-half years. While there, Dr. Singer preached to American Army personnel and organized three Latvian Displaced Persons Baptist churohes. Choir Clinic Set At Calvary Baptist A communities church choir clinic will be held for young people, ages 4 through 18, in both Clinton and Lydia Mills communities. Classes are scheduled at Cal vary Baptist Church from 8:30 a. m. to 11:30 a. m., beginning July.22 and ending July 26. There will be classes in the ory, music appreciation, voice techniques and chorus. The only charges made will for work sheets and a musi cal writing book. Fulton Speaker At Camp Fellowship South Carolina Presbytery’s fifth annual Religious Emphasis Month goes into its third session Sunday night when C. Darby Fulton will speak at Camp Fel lowship, Lake Greenwood, at 8:00 p. m. Educated at Presbyterian Col lege, the University of South Carolina, Columbia Theological Seminary .and Princeton Theo logical Seminary, Fulton is Pro fessor of Missions .at Columbia Seminary. A former moderator of the Presbyterian Church, U. S., he has served as Executive Secre tary of the Board of World Mis sions for thirty years. Smyrna Presbyterian Church will he responsible for parking at the Sunday evening event. Ware Shoals First Presbyterian Church will supply ushers, with Ave leigh Church of Newberry con tributing the choir and flowers from W’ay side of Laurens. The annual series will end on July 28 when Marc C. Weersing, president-elect of Presbyterian College, is scheduled to speak. The public is invited to attend. RESIDENT LOSES BROTHER Word has been received by R. A. Steer of this city of the death of his brother, Dr. C. L. Steer, which occurred Saturday eve ning at his home in Lima, Ohio. Funeral services were held Tues day in Lima. Dixie Youth Tourney Is Slated For Monday Clinton will be the scene of the • Dixie Youth Baseball tournament for the Western Division, district two, opening Monday afternoon at 2:00 p. m? at the local park on the Presbyterian College campus. The tourney will bring teams from Greenwood, Ware Shoals, Abbeville, Saluda, Laurens, and Ridge Springs-Monetta to Clin ton. Tournament action will extend through Saturday, July 27. Ware Shoals and Greenwood’s Nationals will appear in the first game at 2:00 p. m., Monday. The second game at 4:00 p. m. will be between Abbeville and Saluda; at six o’clock Greenwood’s Americans will meet Laurens. Home team Clinton will end the day when they meet Ridge Springs at 8:00 p. m. that eve ning. . On Tuesday the losers of the first and second games will play at 2:00 p. m. The losers of games three and four will play at 4:00 p. m. Winning teams will always 'be playing the six and eight o’clock games. Chosen to represent Clinton by Wallace Patterson and Sam Ow ens were: Ben Hammet, Gary Campbell, Tim Power, Buzz Ted- ards, Matthew King, Chris Adair, III, Tommy Motes, Ronald Pat terson, Joe Lawson, Stan Elrod, Bill Willard, Wayne Avinger, Jer ry Watts, Lynn Evans, Danny Whitmore and Steve Rikard. A small admission will be charged at the games to help de fray tournament expenses. Members of the Palmetto All- Stars will be named next week. Skeet Shoot By Wildlife Association The regular monthly meeting of the Laurens County Wildlife Association will be held Tuesday, July 23 at John T. Young’s Spring. Supper will be served af ter the meeting. There will also be a skeet shoot before the meeting starting at four o’clock. The public is invit ed. The Board of Commissioners’ request was directed to County Attorney Ralph T. Wilson, who replied that legislators’ control of budgeted expenditures violated Section 14, Article 1, of the South Carolina Constitution, which pro vides for separate and distinct legislative, executive and judicial powers. He also cited S. C. Su preme Court decisions in support of his opinion Members of the Board of Com missioners are Supervisor Fur man E. Thomason, Paul S. O’ Dell and George M. Penland. The same section of the Con stitution was cited by the Attor ney General’s office as invali dating still other delegation con trol of supply bill expenditures. Control by the legislators, with a majority to include the Sen ator, had been provided for con tingent fund expenditures, pay ment of the county attorney, pay ment for auditing of the county’s books, and for transfer of any surplus from the county’s gen eral fund. The attorney general’ office specifically termed those provi sions of the appropriation bill in valid. Representative Taylor said the opinions should assure the Coun ty Board of Commissioners full control of expenditures listed in the budget, and that there was no reason why the Commission ers should not go ahead and pay [ $2,707.62 in unpaid claims from i last year out of the $10,000 con tingent fund provided ip the cur rent year’s budget. The commis sioners were waiting for delega tion approval on payment of the bills. Also apparently involved by the rulings is an estimated surplus of $48,000 from last' year’s gen eral fund. || One section of the appropria tion bill stated that “no claim against Laurens County shall be paid until it has had the approv al in writing of the county super visor and at least one of the two county commissioners." Fur ther on, in the same section, it was stated, “all claims must be signed by the supervisor and the two county commissioners.” Two sections of the bill provid ed for the expenditure of certain funds of the cQUpty “only upon direction of a majority of the Laurens County Legislative Del egation, including the Senator.” Special Meeting Called Supervisor Furman E. Thom ason, chairman of the Board of Commissioners, early in the week called a special meeting of the board for yesterday (Wednesday) at 10 a.m., and invited the legis lative delegation for a discussion of the issue as to which body con trols budgeted expenditures in the 1963-’64 appropriation bill. Also asked to attend were County Attorney Wilson and Treasurer Allen D. Coleman. fines In Municipal Court For June Total $1,823.70 VISIT MRS. WILDER Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Wilder and daughter Sarah and Michael Moore of McCormick, with Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Maher of Spar tanburg spent Sunday with Mrs. J. B. Wilder. it t GUEST OF EVDf VARNER Mark Braswell of Gainesville, Florida is the house guest of Evln Varner at his home on Cleveland Street. Persons arrested in Clinton during the month of June for drunk driving, speeding and reck less driving, drunkenness, and carrying concealed weapons were the chief offenders and contrib uted heavily in fines for the peri od, according to the monthly re port of the police department to city council. Fines tor 1 the month totaled $1,823.70, and 87 arrests were made. The offenders appeared In municipal court before Recorder Henry M. Young. Six persons arrested for driv ing under the influence of intox icants and they were assess* $305 and 89 days; 80 speeding and reckless drivers paid $333; 31 taken in for drunkenness were levied on for $302.20 and 150 days; for carrying concealed weapons, three paid $247. Other offenses and fines and sentences were: Operating auto without driver’s license, 3, $152; disorderly con duct, 2, $117; / violating liquor laws, 2, $100 and 30 days; petty larceny, 3, $104 and 30 days; violating trespassing law, 1, $27; gambling, 5,2 suspended, $24 and 30 days; fighting, 2, 1 suspended, $17. Nine persons wore taken in for investigation or on suspicion and released. Violators of parking laws, 101, Renovation Pragram At Laurens Hosprtal Nearing Completion Laurens — A major portion St 1 he extensive renovation pew- gram in prograss at Lauzras District Hospital for more than a year has been completed. Renovation was begun In the spring of 1962, shortly after ded ication of a new $360,000 wing. The first project in the longrange renovation plan was for com plete remodeling and moderniz ation ofjtfie kitchen. Improvements in the west wing include redecoration of rooms and halls, reconditioning of fur niture, and installation of new tils flooring. Col. Charles G. Cooper, hospi tal administrator, said material for drapes and carpeting for the east wing lounge had been do nated by local manufacturers. Redecoration in the nursery will include new flooring »i»«f painting. Already in use Is ra isolette, a specialised that war bought with from the Fred Medlock Fuad for Infart and Child Care, indi vidual contributions, and a $88$ donation from the hospital aux iliary. Col. /Cooper there is iterial on brad a J^^al library that