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Clinton Men at Annual Club Dinner
This group of Clinton men were
caught by the photographer enjoying
dinner last Thursday evening at the an
nual Laurens County inter-club barbe
cue at the fair grounds. Governor
Donald S. Russell was the speaker.
Left to right, they are Russell Cooper,
R. L. Paxico (standing), W. R. Ander
son, Goyne L. Simpson, Phil Rogers,
and Wyatt Ledford.—Photo by Eargle.
To Cost $1,100,000
PC Trustees Authorize
Start on Three Biddings
Presbyterian College trustees
have authorized the start of con
struction on three new buildings
simultaneously to be ready for
use by September, 1965, Presi
dent Marc C. Weersing announced
today.
He said $1,100,000 will be spent
to provide Presbyterian College
with a new science hall, new din
ing hall and its first women’s
dormitory. Construction bids will
be taken as soon as the architects
have completed detailed sketches
of the proposed buildings.
Board action came on recom
mendation of the trustee building
comnutte, and with sp^i.1 ern-, The ^ ^
Association will hold . turkey
000 for the women’s dormitory,
to be known as Clinton Hall. It
will be built to accommodate 120
girls. Cost of the new science hall
is estimated at $500,000. And the
new dining hall, with a maxi
mum capacity of 800, will cost
$300,000.
Robert M. Vance, Clinton bank
er-industrialist, serves as chair
man of the Presbyterian College
board of trustees. Its building
committee is headed by J. L.
Bruce of Cornelia, Ga.
Wild life Turkey
Shoot October 22
be sought as loans to help finance . .
the project. PC conducted a s
major capital funds campaign in
the South Carolina Synod last
year and secured subscriptions
totaling $1,000,000 for endowment
and plant additions. Payments
at John T. Young’s
Spring on October 22 from 1:00
p. m. to 5:00 p. m.
A turkey will be given away
to the holder of the lucky ticket
_ on October 22 as also on suc-
onthese pledges” thus fw "have 1 datMNovUandNov
2 Owhen turkey shoots will be
held. At the last shoot a rifle
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Vol. 64 — No. 41
Clinton, S. C, Thursday, October 17, 1963
reached $821,879, with $412,467 of
this earmarked for endowment
and $400,412 now in hand for
building purposes.
Dr. Weersing said the trustees
expect the remainder of the funds
pldeged fra* the buildiM-program
to be paid during the next two
years. They will explore no
source other than what can be
secured through the gifts of
friends.
All three of the new buildings
are to be air-conditioned and are
to continue the colonial Geor
gian architectural design of the
college facilities. Plans call for
erecting these new structures on
an east plaza, to be developed
in the same pattern as the pres
ent west plaza. The two avenues
of the east plaza will extend
across the campus area now
used for intramural and practice
athletic fields.
The three proposed buildings
were major objectives of PC’s
1962 development drive. The Clin
ton community subscribed $300,-
will also
ner.
be given to the win-
J. C. Thomas Named
Lieutenant-Governor
Of Kiwahis District
J. C. Thomas, Clinton business
man, has been named lieutenant-
governor of the Nineth Division,
Carolinas District, of Kiwanis In
ternational.
He was elected at the Carolinas
District convention held recenlty
in Durham, N. C., to serve over
a 13-county area of the South
Carolina Piedmont during 1964.
The Ninth Division encompasses
15 local Kiwanis clubs.
Thomas, the owner of J, C.
Thomas, Jewelers, in Clinton and
Joanna, has been a civic and re
ligious leader of his community
for many years. A- member of
the local Kiwanis Club here for
more than 20 years, he served as
its president in 1953 and has been
a member of the board of direc
tors on several occasions.
His civic activity also has in
cluded terms as president of the
Clinton Community Chest and of
the Chamber of Commerce, and
service on the board of trustees
of the Laurens County public
schools. He is past president of
the South Carolina Retail Jewel
ers Association.
J. C. Thomas is a deacon of the
Clinton First Baptist Church, Is
married and has three daugh
ters.
Quartet Opens Concert
Series Monday Evening
The Greenwich Quartet will ap
pear at Belk Auditorium at 8:15
Monday night, October 21, in the
first of a series of performances
in the Community Concert pro
grams for this winter.
The versatility of the Green
wich Quartet is widely known
ahd admired by music lovers
throughout the United States. The
quartet is. a group of young musi
cians who first played together
informally, and later emerged
into one of the most strikingly
interesting ensembles to appear
in many seasons.
The group is made up of Her
bert Rogers, pianist; Guy Lumia,
violinist; David Everhart, cellist,
and Myron Rosenblum, violinist
Their programs usually consist
of the piano quartets of Mozart,
Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven as
well as solo groups by each of
the four artists.
Following the Greenwich
Quartet wi(l be the Schola Can
tor um, Novetnber 6, and Whitte-
more and Lowe January 31. Sub
scribers to the Greenville Com
munity Concert series, which has
a reciprocal agreement with
Clinton, may hear the Royal
Philharmonic of London October
25.
Including $200 in Cosli
Prizes Galore in Merchants Drawing
Shoppers in the Clinton area
will get a windfall Saturday eve
ning at 6:45 when the drawing is
held for prizes in the Clinton Pro
gressive Merchants “Loyalty
Days” trade festival.
A total of 15 prizes will be
drawn for—and the promoters
state that drawings will continue
until someone produces a ticket
for each of the prises.
No winners were obtained in
the limited number of drawings
for each prize last week and last
week’s prizes will be added to
thoee scheduled for this week.
And what a bonanza they add
up to!
Heading the list are four $60
bills—two for this week and the
two held over from last week.
Also included are nine hams,
at Fairs
a here setting their
ley Fillin-
pune, left, Lb showing hi* Guernsey this week at the
Spartanburg fair, while Larry Cockrell, right, will en
ter hi* Hereford in the Lauraos County fair next wedk,
October 21-26. '
tfn at th* Uanaa County
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These Thornwell boy* ere shown here
htifers reedy for showing at two fairs,
left, is showing hi* Guernsey this
fair, while
held over from last week—plus
two watches listed to be given
away this week.
Shoppers in Clinton stores par
ticipating in the “Loyalty Days”
celebration will get all of the
prizes if they present match
ing numbered ticket stubs as
they are drawn from a box on
the parking lot of M. S. Bailey
& Son, Bankers, off W. Pitts St.
Saturday evening at 6:45. Ticket
holders must be present to win
the prizes.
Tickets may be secured from
all participating merchants.
The “Loyalty Days” celebra
tion began last week and will
continue until Dec. 21. The spon
soring merchants will offer hun
dreds of special bargains dur
ing the course of the fall selling
festival to show residents of the
city and surrounding areas their
appreciation for patronage ac
corded them over the years and
to encourage the trade of new
customers.
Two $50 bills will be given
away each week during the
course of the event. Other prizes
will change weekly and will in
clude two more watches, nine
more hams, two bicycles, a TV,
two hair dryers, two radios and
a TV chair.
Singled out for a salute and
statement of appreciation each
week will be schools, churches,
institutions, and industries of the
area. Two industriee Included
this week are C. W. Anderson
Hosiery Go. and the Clinton
Paper Box Co.
Participating merchants are
listed in an advertisement in fhe
Chronicle today. The promotion
is still open to any firm wishing
to partictpate, it
Merchants are requested to bring
their ty** r T*- to the parking
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Governor Reminds
Public Servants
Of Responsibilities
Public servants should not for
get “public office is a public
trust,” Gov. Donald S. Bussell
told approximately 400 Laurens
County civic club members
Thursday night. The occasion
was the annual county civic club
barbecue at the fair grounds.
Referring to the recent John
Profumo scandal in England,
the governor emphasized it is
‘vitally important that public
servants measure up to high
standards of integrity not only in
their private lives, but when they
discharge the duties of their
office.”
He said we are being told today
that this country is facing a
great crisis as Congress debates
tax and civil rights issues. Many
predict no action will be taken
this year. “We don’t want a gov
ernment that can act speedily,”
he said, “we could have that with
a Hitler.”
When governmental powers,
both executive and legislative,
were set up in the United States,
he said, “we were seeking free
dom . . . our constitution was not
designed to insure quick right of
minority ... it was set up to
accord that minority a right to
be heard.”
Regarding the proposed federal
tax cut, he said the national gov
ernment is now spending “almost
the same as when we were carry
ing the burden of a world war.”
He said the United States needs a
tax cut if it Is to grow, but he
said federal expenditures also
must be decreased If the reduc
tion is to be effective. He said
both the federal and state gov
ernments have a responsibility to
the taxpayer.
The chief executive concluded,
however, that he felt the country
will have, at all levels, a gov-
renment that will carry out pub
lic responsibilities and duties.”
The governor was introduced
by Allen Coleman, president of
the Laurens Kiwanis Club, host
for the event.
F. P. Thompson, superinten
dent of School District 55, offered
the Invocation.
The barbecue, a tradition here
for more than a decade, was pre
pared by Walter Lynch of Mount-
ville.
The Hickory Tavern Lions
Club will sponsor the barbecue
next year.
Presbyterian
Men's Session
Set For Tonigfit
The men’s organization of the
Clinton First Presbyterian
Church will open its fall season
this Thursday evening with a
stewardship training program in
preparation for the church’s an
nual Pre-Budget Every-Member
Canvass.
The meeting is scheduled for
7 p. m. in the recreation room of
the First Church.
Robert Hamer, visitation chair
man of the canvass, will be In
charge of the Thursday night
program. John H. Hunter serves
as canvass director and urges
full attendance at this important
session.
Area Nurses to Aid in Massive Oral Polio Vaccine Immunization
Registered nurses of this section will be out in
force on Oct. 27 to aid‘in administering the Sabin oral
polio vaccine to the thousands of men, women and chil
dren at schools of the distrct. They will be at every
designated school in the area, together with physicians
and others who will join in the huge undertaking to
wipe out polio. The local program has been well or
ganized and everything and everybody will be ready
to go on the appointed day.
Front row, left to right: Mrs. Charles Burnett, Mrs.
Margaret Merchant, Mrs. Onnie Chisholm, Mrs. Essie
Johnson, Miss Kitty Moseley, Mrs. Johnnie Haskins,
Mrs. Janie Workman; second row: Mrs. Mary Lamb,
Mrs. Ruby Gossett, Mrs. Grace Pearson, Mrs. Carolyn
Davidson, Mrs. Marion Nabors, Mrs. Kate Willard, Miss
Betty Watts, Mrs. Mrytle West; third row: Miss Peggy
Dunaway, Mrs. Jean Rivers, Mrs. Billie Campbell, Mrs.
Nell Haggert, Mrs. Nora Pigg.—Photo by Yarborough.
Blakely Is
Hospital Patient
W. B. Blakely, assistant chief
of police, is a patient at Bailey
Memorial Hospital following an
attack at his , home on Young
Drive Tuesday afternoon. Hi*
condition was reported as satis
factory by hospital attendants as
The Chronicle went to press.
Revival Services
To Begin Sunday At
Davidson St. Cfturdt
Davidson Street Baptist Church
will hold revival services begin-
ing Sunday, Oct. 20, and continu
ing through Saturday, Oct. 26,
according to an announcement by
the pastor, the Rev. M. Floyd
Hellams.
The Sunday services will begin
at 11:00 a. m. and 7:90 p. m. and
the remainder of the services
will begin each night at 7:30
o’clock, with the Rev. Glenn Mo*-
teller, pastor of the Union Baptist
Church of the Laurens Baptist
Association, as guest evangelist.
Mr. Mosteller is a graduate of
Furman University and South
eastern Baptist Theological Sem
inary. Before moving to his pres
ent pastorate he was pastor of
Central Baptist Church, Green
wood.
The public is cordially invited
to attend these special services.
Library To Close
For Concert
The Presbyterian College-Clin
ton Community Library will
close Monday evening at 8:00, it
has been announced by the libra
rian, Miss Marian Burts. The
library will close each evening at
8:00 p. m. when there is a pro
gram by the Clinton Community
Concert Association.
Community Chorus
Practice Tonight L
The Clinton Community Chorus
will hold a rehearsal tonight in
the Ladies Class Room of the
First Presbyterian Church, in
the main church building at 8
o'clock. All members are urged
to attend and bring a singing
friend.
Wesley Brotherhood
ladies Night Tuesday
The Wesley Brotherhood of
Broad Street Methodist Church
will have their annual Ladies
Night Tuesday at 7:30 in Hodges
Hall.
An entertaining program has
been planned for the evening.
AA's To Hove
Greenville Speaker
There will be a guest speaker
from Greenville at the regular
weekly meeting of the AAs to be
held Tuesday evening at 8 p. m.
These meetings are held at the
Health Center on Woodrow St.
Sundoy, Oct. 27, Is The Day
Oral Polio Vaccine Drive Set to Go
The massive campaign, re-1 sections of the county and 10 phasized. He pointed out that
cently announced, to immunize! other counties of the up-state, older persons, while less likely
against polio for every man, [on Sunday, Oct. 27, from 12 tQ t Uo are frequently
woman and child over the age noon to 8:00 p. m., at various „ . „ ’ . disea . e
of three months in Laurens ! schools in the section. They are
County will begin on Oct. 27 1 Clinton High School, Bell Street Therefore, he said, it is nec-
in the first of three “Stop Po- High School, Joanna School,
lio Sundays.” Woodson School (Joanna),
The campaign, under the Cross Hill School, and Midway
sponsorship of civic leubs of School (Cross Hill-Mountville).
the area, on the advice of the
County Fair Opens Gates
Monday for '63 Showing
All workers in the campaign
are requested to meet for a
training program at 4 p. m.
Sunday, October 20, at Clinton
High School Gymnasium, ac
cording to an announcement
made by Dr. James L. Walker,
local campaign chairman.
Laurens County Medical Soci
ety, seeks to reach 100 per
cent of the county population
with an oral polio vaccine de
veloped by Dr. Albert Sabin.
The Sabin oral poll* vaccine
has already been given to more
than 300 million people all over
the world.
According to Dr. James L.
Walker, chairman, and Dr.
Louis M. Stephens, co-chair
man, for School District 56, a
successful immunization pro
gram will mean that polio will
be permanently eliminated. Ev
ery person is urged to take
advantage of this opportunity to
remove the threat of this dread
disease forever.
The Sabin vaccine is licensed
by the U. S. Public Health Ser
vice. There are three types of
the vaccine, and the first will
be aministered in School Dis
trict 56, as well as in other
Doctors, nurses, and assist
ants will be stationed at each
school.
Two other dates for adminis
tering the two subsequent dose*
of the vaccine will be an
nounced, probably in December
and Jaunary.
“It is necessary that every
person take all three of the
vaccines,” Dr. Walker said,
since each vaccine immunizes
against a different one of the
three types of polio virus. Per
sons who have already had the
Salk vaccine must also take the
Sabin Vaccine, which is given
on a sugar cube, since the
Salk vaccine only immunizes—
and that temporarily—against
one type of polio virus.
essary to give these persons
the Sabin vaccine so they will
not unknowingly give polio to
others. Polio still hits many
persons in the United States, he
said. While the Salk vaccine
has reduced the number and
severity of polio cases, it has
by no means wiped out the
disease.
The steering committee chair
man pointed out that the Sabin
vaccine is perfectly safe for
any person to take. Even dia
betics, pregnant women, and
mildly ill persons can take this
vaccine—and should by all
means take it, he added.
A well-organized program for
administering the vaccine has
been worked out by the local
committee.
A nominal charge of 25 cents
will be made for each dose, to
help defray expenses, but it
was especially pointed out that
“All persons regardless of no one would be refused the
age should take the Sabin oral vaccine because of inability to
polio vaccine,” Dr. Walker em- [ pay.
Community Chest at 70% of Goal
A total of $15,259.25 was re
ported contributed and pledged
to the Clinton Community Chest
at a meeting held Tuesday at the
Hotel Mary Musgrove.
Stating that this represented
better than 70% of the goal of
$21,672.01, George H. Cornelson,
president, said the results were
extremely gratifying and urged
each solicitor to complete all
contacts and call-backs before
the next meeting on Tuesday,
October 29, at 9:30 a. m.
Mr. Cornelson advised that no
division is 100% complete, but
felt sure this goal would be ob
tained as a result of untiring ef
forts of workers and cooperation
of the public.
City Gets $57,840Sewer Work Grant
The City of Clinton has been
awarded a grant of $97,840 to
assist in financing the construc
tion of a waste stabilization pond
and interceptor sewer, according
to official notice received here
Monday.
First notice of the award came
from U. S. Representative Robert
T. Ashmore and Senators Strom
Thurmond and Olin D. Johnston,
who announced the grant Thurs
day by the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
i Total cost of the project is
estimated at $196,800.
The city recently sold a rev
enue bond issue of $125,000 to
apply toward the cost of the sew
er expansion program, which will
also include extensions in two
other sections of the city in addi
tion to the oxidation pond to be
built in an area southeast of the
city.
The bond issue, plus the federal
grant, make a total of $182,840.
If bids on the work are greater
than that, the excess will be paid
from surplus funds on hand, city
officials said.
The city expects to receive offi
cial notice of authorization to ac
cept bids on the work in probably
a week or ten days, it was stated,
and time required for the re
ceipt of bids probably will be
three weeks after that.
Work on the project should be
gin about Dec. 1, barring any
unforseen circustances, local offi
cials stated.
The annual Laurens County
Fair will open on October 21 for
a six-day run at the Laurens
County Fair Grounds on the Lau-
rens-Clinton highway.
The fourteenth annual exhibi
tion, managed by John G. Gat
lin, is sponsored by the Lauren*
Exchange Club.
Over $4,000.00 in premiums will
be given away during the week.
A new 1964 Ford will be given
away on Friday night, October
25; a pony and bridle will be
given away at 5:00 p. m. an Sat
urday, October 26.
Rides include: 2 Ferris Wheels,
merry go round, helicopter, new
zoom ride, roloplane, meteor,
scooter - coaster, tilt • a - wheel,
scramblek’, swingingym, 2 octo
puses (one with new hydraulic
control), flying coaster, loop-o-
plane, rock-o-plane, nev
naut and 7 to 10 Uddle rides
Shows are: Pun house, crazy
house, goon room,Dixie Lee Shor,
dub 21 Negro minstrel, with rack
’n’ roll, 2-headed woman, Cuban
grave robber, Congo Show, Min
dy Show.
white school day; Wednesday,
children free accompanied by
adult (adult 50c); Thursday col-
lored school day; Friday 1964
auto to be given away; Saturday,
pony given away.
Sam Power, Jr., is president of
the Laurens County,Fair; Rich
ard Shell is vice-president, ahd
Cary Moore serves as treasurer.
The Council of Laurens Garden
Clubs will also present a stand
ard flower show in conjunction
with the fair. The theme of the
show will be “Trends end Echoes
of Changing Times.”
Exhibits will include: farm
corps, beef cattle, dairy cattle,
junior show class, open show
classes and adult community ex
hibit*.
Also women's divisions In can
ned goods, cooksd foods, and
needlework; also a girls' division
In addition to the flower show.
Superintendents of departments
include: J. W. Tinsley, Lauren*,
field crape and horticulture; R.
L. Wickham and James Jacks,
dairy; Ryan V. Lawson, beef,
and T. Roy DeShlelds, Lanford,
Retd craps and bortieultare, jun
ior denartmsnt.
At Ersldne Anniversary Dinner Here Monday
These area chairmen and speaker
are shown at the dinner Monday evening
at Hotel Mary Musgrove in celebration
of the 125th anniversary of Brakine
College which attracted many alumni
and friends of the college. Left to tight,
front row, are Mm. Joe Simpson of
Whitmire; Miss Betty
Clinton area; Mr*. Margaret Blaktiy,
Lauren* chairman. Back row: Charles
Carlisle, business manager of the col
lege, speaker; Mrs. S. C. GamftireD, Gray
Court chairman; Beb Getty*, dis
trict chairman; and Mrs. Bsmt Shenty,
Newberry chairman.—Photo by Tar-
borough.