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4 ; ■ Community Concert Campaign Opens The annual membership campaign of the Clinton Community Concert Asso ciation got underway Monday at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Leaders in the drive are shown here as they gathered for the initial session. Left to right, they are: Dick Jarvis, representative of the New York booking agency: Mrs. James Von H o 11 e n , membership chairman; Mrs. Frank Sherrill, membership co-chair man; and Mrs. L. S. Hay, secretary of the association. The campaign will end Saturday at noon.—Photo by Dan Yar borough. 1964 Budget Is $21,672.01 Community Chest Drive Is Underway (Elinton Vol. 34 — No. 39 Clinton, S. C. # Thursday, October 3, 1963 Local Concert Members May Hear Other Programs At Community Chest Kickoff Tuesday George Macdonald (left) of Anderson, member of the executive committee of the Carolinas United Community Ser vices, was "guest speaker Tuesday morn ing when the Community Chest of Clin ton kicked off its general campaign for funds for 1964. Solicitors are now busy making their colls. The advance gifts committee began its work earlier. This year’s budget is $21,672.01. At right in the photo is G. Edward Campbell, campaign chairman, who in troduced Mr. Macdonald. Photo by Dan Yarborough. Dote Is October 27 Committees Are Named For Polio Immunization Kick-off for the annual drive of the Community Chest of great er Clinton was held Tuesday morning at Hotel Mary Mus grove. Advance Gifts Chairman Reese H. Young reported $8700 contri buted in his division. This report is not complete, he stated. G. Edward Campbell, cam paign chairman, presided at the coffee meeting on Tuesday morn ing. Campbell introduced George Macdonald, of Anderson, mem- bo* of the executive committee of the Carolinas United Com munity Services. Macdonald gave information on the process involved in arriving at a quota for all agencies on both national and state levels, and the amount of each community's fair-share of the agencies’ budget. George H. Com el son, president of the Community Chest, ex pressed appreciation to the work- 4901 for their efforts in leading 1 TEeJFWeib secure $21,872.01. Past campaign chairmen and members of the board were re cognized. Tuesday was the kick-off for the commercial, residential, In- stitutions-schools and industrial divisions. Mrs. R. E. Wysor, III, at the marimba and accompanied by Mrs. Harry Y. McSween at the piano, delighted the group with a medley of southern composi tions. A report meeting is set for Tuesday, October 8, at 9:30 at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Revival Services At Duncan Creek Revival services will begin at Duncan's Creek Presbyterian Church Monday evening, October 7, and continue through October 11, at 7:30 o’clock each evening. The guefct speaker will be Dr. Robert Bankhead, pastor of the Rocky Springs Presbyterian Church. County Farm Bureau Has Session Tonight Laurens County Farm Bureau will kick off its annual member ship drive with a meeting tonight (Thursday) at the Toastee Grill in Laurens. C. R. Workman, membership chairman for the 1963 drive, said this year’s goal should surpass the 1963 membership quota of 325 members. Laurens County Farm Bureau has been recognized as a "quota buster” county at the South Carolina Farm BBureau conven tion during the past three years. Membership workers will again try to place this county on the honor list at the 1963 state con- ventionvention to be held in Greenville in November. Approximately 20 membership workers are expected to partici pate in this year’s drive. Community Chorus To Meet Oct. tO The first meeting of the Clin ton Community Chorus will be held Thursday evening, October 10, at 8 o’clock in the First Pres byterian Church Recreation Hall. The chorus is open to all in terested singers. Clinton High School Red Devils go to North Augusta Friday night for their fifth game of the season. The next four games will be on the road, with the Red Devils not returning to the home field until Nov. 1. After the North Augusta game Friday, they will meet Lexing ton, Union and Winnsboro on Oct. 11, 18 and 25th, respectively. The local team is still seeking to break into the win column, Revival Services At Beflview Church The BeUview Baptist Church, Route 1, Laurens, will be engag ed in revival meetings October 7-13. The Rev. L. R. Campbell, a former resident of this city, now pastor of the Riverside Baptist Church in Merry Hill, N.C., will be the guest speaker. Rev. J. B. Abercrombie, pas tor of Bellview Church, will be in charge of the song services. The public is invited to attend these services at 7:30 each even ing. Polio Vaccine Workers to Meet At Armory Tonight Dr. James L. Walker, chair man of the polio vaccine cam paign for the section embracing School District 56, announces a meeting of all the workers of the six feeding stations will be held tonight (Thursday) at the Armory at 8 o’clock. It is urged that aU workers attend this training session. The six feeding stations will be Clinton High School, Bell Street, Jo anna School, Woodson, Midway and Cross Hill schools. having lost their first four starts to York, Rock Hill, Abbeville and Chester. CHESTER WINS 27-14 The Clinton High School Red Devils were downed, 27-14 Friday in a conference football game with the Chester Cyclones In Wilder Stadium. The Cyclones started a long drive in the opening period, marching from their 10 all the way for the score. Guy Davis, halfback, ran over from the two. Jim Leitner added the point. Again in the second quarter, Chester started another long drive, this time from their own 29. Leitner ran for 49 yards and the score. Gene Bigger, 245-pound fullback, ran the extra point After the third quarter kick off, Leitner and Co. moved the ball to the 5 of Clinton. There, Leitner ran another TD. John McCay kicked the point. After Clinton bogged down at their 45, and had to kick, Chester started an 88-yard march, which led up to a 10-yeard TD run by Bigger. The kick for point failed. The The closest the Red Devils came to paydirt in the first half came in the second quarter when they were at the Chester 41. They did not penetrate Chester’s territory in the third quarer. Clinton’s defense took heart in the final quarter as they did not allow Chester in their territory. Then the Red Devils’ offense started. A recovered fumble by Bobby Johnson gave Clinton the ball. Jack McKittrick ripped off 15 yards in three successive plays. Harold Culbertson moved for nine. Then, Bobby Haskins drove to the 4 with a beautiful run of 27 yards. After a penalty moved the ball to the 2, McKit trick rammed over for the first Clinton score. Phil Rogers kick ed the extra point. With about 1:30 showing on the clock, Has kins, McKittrick, and Culbert son moved the ball down to the 1, where McKittrick again scor ed. It was again a kick by Ro gers which accounted for the ex tra point. Sharing the limelight on de fense for Clinton was tackle Ma rion Freeman and guard Elbert Ride. Clinton Community Concert goers this season will have the opportunity to hear thirteen per formances by some of the most famous artists in the United Sates today. The Clinton series, alone, offers three and possibly four attrac tions this year, and its reciprocal agreement with Anderson, Green wood and Greenville will give ticket holders the chance to hear ten other concerts including Metropolitan Opera baritone Theodor Uppmann, tonight in the Greenwood High School Au ditorium. Season tickets, at $7.00 for adults and $3.00 for children, are being sold this week by workers headquartered at the Mary Mus grove Hotel. Holders may use their Clinton tickets at Anderson and Greenwood, and for $4.00 more the Greenville series is open to Clinton members. Their schedule includes the Royal Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of London, Mantovani, the American Ballet Theater, and Birgit Nilsson. Greenwood offers Mr. Uppmann, Richard Cass, pianist, and the Philharmonic Hungarian Symphony Orchestra. Artists appearing at Anderson are Jerome Hines, bass; Archer and Gile, folk singers and Jean Casadesus, pianist. The Clinton program, already announced, offers the Schola Can- torum, a world renowned choral Two rewards totaling $6,000 have been offered for informa tion leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayer of Mrs. Beaufort Campbell Bridges, bru tally stabbed to death and blud geoned August 23 in a Clinton law office. Her husband, Justin A. Brid ges, Laurens attorney and form er legislator, in whose Clinton office Mrs. Bcidges assisted, has offered $5,00(rof the amount. The other $1,000 has been offered by Laurens County. The body of Mrs. Bridges, 45, was found by her husband during a search he began when she did not arrive at their home in Lau rens at the end of the business day. In the five weeks since then, the slaying has been under in tense investigation by Clinton police, Laurens County Sheriff R. Eugene Johnson and agents of the State Law Enforcement Di vision. Numbers of suspects have been questioned but Sheriff Johnson said Monday night that none now are being held. The suspects have included several Negro men and it has been revealed that hair of “Negroid origin” waz found on analysis made by in vestigators. No weapon apparent ly has been found. College Fees To Be Raised Next Year Presbyterian College will in crease Us fees by $180 with the start of the 1964-65 session next September, President Marc C. Weersing announced today. Notice of the hike in total charges from the present $1,395 per year to $1,575 was given to parents of the current student body in a letter from the presi dent last week. The announce ment came one year ahead of the date set for the increase and ex plained the reasons for it. Dr. Weersing said in his letter that "the continued advance in operating costa will necessitate a revised schedule which will add each semester $60 for tuition, $12.50 for room rent, $12.50 for board and $5 for general fees. Thus, with the start of the 1964- 65 session next September, a day student will pay $450 a semester, and resident students will pay $787.50 a semester for tuition, room, board and general fees.” He added: "We sincerely regret having to increase fees, but we are con vinced that you as parents expect Presbyterian College to maintain a high quality of training for our young people. This is possible only by meeting the mounting costs of faculty salaries, and of equipment and facilities which insure first-ratp instructions and a broad program of campus ac tivity.” Bags Doer Mike Shealy, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wyman Shealy, Jr., of Orangeburg, killed a 6- point deer while on a recent hunt with Ms father near Cope. group; Whittemore and Lowe, a popular piano team, and the Greenwich Quartet. A possible fourth attraction may be announ ced at the end of the current membership drive. Richard Jarvis of New York, the Community Concert represen tative, told drive workers and officers at a dinner meeting Mon day night that the United States is having a “culurai explosion”. He said this country is leading the world in arts in general, not ing that there are 1,200 symphony orchestras, and 750 opera com panies in America, and 42 million people who consistently play a musical instrument. Community Concert Associations, alone, put on 3,000 concerts a year all over the country, he said. Mrs. James Von Hollen, mem bership drive chairman, urged campaign workers to have their reports in by today. Jarvis and other workers will be at the hotel from 9-12 a. m. and 2 until 4 p. m. today and tomorrow to re ceive subscriptions to the mem bership drive. The headquarters telephone number is 833-1272, and interested persons are invited to call for information, Mrs. Von Hollen said. The drive ends at 12 noon on Saturday and board members will meet afterwards to deter mine the prospects for a fourth concert this season, according to Dr. R. H. Dawson, president. Medical findings read at an inquest into the death of Mrs. Bridges showed that she died of repeated stabbings, although she also was brutally beaten with some blunt instrument. Bridges announced his $5,000 reward offer Monday through Sheriff Johnson, Clinton Police Chief B. B. Ballard and Chief J. P. Strom of SLED. It would be payable, he said, to "any person” providing in formation that led tiTfrrest and conviction. Such information should be tendered to Chief Bal lard, Sheriff Johnson or Chief Strom. The reward offered by the county was made Tuesday fol lowing a meeting of the county legislative delegation composed of Senator King Dixon and Rep resentatives Marshall Abercrom bie and David S. Taylor. Revival Services Slated at Calvary Revival services will be con ducted at Calvary Baptist Church October 6-13. Rev. Wyatt Gar rett, pastor of Southern Bleach- ery Baptist Church, Taylors, will lead the services. Music will i be under the direction of Mrs.; Joe Land, and the church choir. Rev. J. W. Spillers is the pas tor. and he extends an invitation to the public to attend these ser vices. This revival marks he end of sixteen years that the present pastor has served Calvary Church During this time the church has gone through five building programs, and a total expenditure of $409,000. 970 people have united with the church, and the membership has grown from 383 to 750. The Davidson Street Baptist Church was organized as a mission from Calvary Church. Calvary is one of the largest if not the largest church of any denomination in Clinton, and is one of the leading churches of Laurent County. County Books Open For Tax Collections County tax books are now open for the collection of 1963 taxes, Treasurer Allen D. Coleman stat ed early this week. The assessed valuation of prop erty in the county took a jump this year, totaling $15,063,850 as compared with $14,493,060 for last year. The amount to be collected by the treasurer totals $1,100,316.72, according to Coleman. Number of imUviduals, busi nesses and corporations to re ceive tax notices is 22,021, com pared with 21,851 for last year. Wofford Alumni To Meet Here Oct. 15 The Laurens-Newberry Area Chapter of the Wofford College Alumni Association will hold its annual fall meeting at 7:30 p. m., j October 15, at Vernon’s Restaur ant, located on South Broad Street (at City Limits), Clinton. Edward Greene, Director of Development, and Keller Cogs well, Director of Alumni Affairs, will represent the College. Fea ture event for the evening will be a program in which the re cently adopted ten-year plan of Wofford will be discussed. The president of the chapter, J. Henderson Pitts, has announ ced that this meeting will be a ladies’ night affair. AU Wofford alumni in the area, which in- ! eludes Laurens and Newberry Counties, are invited to attend. Underdogs for the third straight week, the Presbyterian Blue Hose will entertain powerful East Carolina here this Satur day night in an effort to continue to upset the power-rating experts. Kickoff is scheduled for 8 p. m. for this game at which more than 1,000 young people wUl be present as PC guests for "Pres byterian Youth Day.” The visiting Pirates, with vic tories over Wake Forest and Wofford already Dying from their banner, are rated as fav orites by three-to-four touch downs. However, it hardly im presses the Presbyterian College team, vhich overthrew similar odds in whipping Frederick Col lege and then holding the am bitious Lenoir Rhyne eleven to a single touchdown advantage. Committee heads have been named to plan the mass oral polio immunization drive which it scheduled to begin October 27, according to Dr. James L. Walk er, chairman of the drive for School District 56. The first of three doses of the Sabin oral vaccine will be given all residents of this area between the hours of noon and 6 p. m. at the following places on October 27: Clinton High School, the Arm ory, Joanna School, Woodson School, Cross HU1 School, and Midway School. Dr. Louis M. Stephens is co- chairman of the campaign in the local district, which is to coin cide with simUar drives in other areas of the county and also in 10 other counties. Dr. Walker, Dr. Stephens, Marvin G. Gault, Jr., Samie M. Pinson, Earl C. Rice, and Fred N. Crawford, Jr., are members of the steering com mittee. Dr. Dossey H. McFadden and Harry Y. McSween are co-chair men of the finance and purchas ing committee; Dr. R. M. Fuller and Claude A. Crocker head the pubUcity committee; Dr. George R. Blalock and Rufus E. Sadler, supply and distribution; Dr. E. N. Sullivan and George B. Brock- enbrough, records and surveil lance; Dr. James Macdonald and W. R. Anderson, Jr., site selec- That latter game, played in driving rain on a soggy field here last Saturday night, ended in an unimpressive 0-7 win for Lenoir Rhyne. Two defensive lapses by the Blue Hose in the first six minutes of play made the differ ence in the ball game. After a 42-yard punt return by Wingback Brennan Elliott to the PC 19, Bear Tailback Craig Wardlaw swung wide around his right end to go the remaining distance for the touchdown. Tackle Marion Kirby converted, and that wrap ped up the scoring for the night. The rain kept most of the game a defensive punting duel, and PC never did seriously threaten, al though Tackle Frank King re covered a fumble on the Lenoir Rhyne 29-yard line late in the final quarter. This opportunity bogged down on the 19. tion, and Dr. Delmar O. Rhame and Mrs. C. E. Burnett, man power. A part of an eleven-county pro gram designed to eradicate polio, the local campaign is under the sponsorship of civic clubs on the advice of the Laurens County Medical Society. All citizens three months old and over are urged to report to the nearest feeding station October 27 during the hours designated. The stations are to be staffed by qualified medical personnel, with one of the eight doctors in the community on duty at all times during the hours specified. The Sabin vaccine is to be offer ed at the feeding stations on cubes of sugar in paper cups. There will be a donation of 25 cents requested per dose, it was pointed out earlier by Dr. Walker. This fund is to be used to meet expenses incurred by the program. It has also been stress ed that no one will be refused the oral vaccine because of inability to pay the fee. The mass oral polio immuni zation October 27 will use one of three types of Sabin vaccine, with the second and third feed ings to be offered at dates to be announced later. Bombers Are Using Clinton Area As Target Approach Clinton residents, hearing und seeing bombers overhead, might think they’re stragglers from Swiftstrike. They’re not. Starting Monday, B-52 and B- 47 jet bombers have been flying simulated missions around n train at Lancaster. The approach route from Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina, is just south of Clinton. The Radar Bomb Scoring Ex press, as the train is called, is part of the Strategic Air Com mand’s training program to maintain the effectiveness proficiency of its crews. Crews from bases all over the Lancaster area until Dec. 22. By changing the train’s location every 90 days, the crews are pre sented with the problem of find ing and bombing targets in all kinds of terrain. Tucked away on a railroad sid ing, the 18-car train presents a strange spectacle. Half of the railroad cars have antennae pointing skyward, and the others are dining cars, sleeping cars and lounges. County Inter-Club x Barbecue Oct. 10 Governor Donald S. Russell will be the speaker on Thursday, Oct. 10, at the annual Laurens County inter-Club barbecue. The affair will be staged at the county fairgrounds, just off Highway 76 between Clinton and Laurens, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The Laurens Kiwanis Club will be host this year and Ki* wanians Furman Thomason and Billy Patterson are chairmen of the committee on arrangements. AH members of civic and ser vice clubs in the county art in vited, as well as others interest ed end friends of the county fair,, it was stated by Allan D. Cols man, presideaf of tile Laarena Club. ; / *^311 Coast Line Freight Cars Derailed Shorn above are demoliahod care of an outbound Atlantic Coast Line freight train which derailed Sun day morning at 6:45 near Waterloo. Twenty-five of the 88 cars went off the track. The engineer was C. H. Allen of Augusta, Ga* and the conductor was C. C. Whilden. Cause of the wreck Is unknown. More than 800 feet of track was tom up. TVains were re-routed by way of Clinton and Greenwood over Seaboard tracks antfl the damaged line could be repaired. — Photos by Motse. * mmm * Women of the Church Officers Officers of the Women of the Church \ South Carolina Presbytery attending ie 64th annual meeting Thursday at e First Presbyterian Church are seen right, the; ere. Left emxdeton, Laurens, historian; Mrs. _ . Donnald, Laurens, vice-president; ■ r »rt, Kinards, treasur- ._/eneon, Abbeville, re- ; and Mrs. Kelly Waits, they are: Mrs. Frank is Mrs. T. J. er; Mrs. J. cording sec Joanna, prestden is Mrs. Watts Davis, Clinton, correspond ing secretary.—Photo by Dan Yarbor- ottugfa. \ Clinton Meets N. Augusta Offer $6,000 Rewards For Mrs. Bridges' Slayer PC-East Carolina Game Here on Saturday Night