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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. ;
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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. *
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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