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-•r- ( Me <4 ««!»! mtm : i tk% : ' : ^Swi • <• ■ m Frederick WoKe To Tell of Famous Brother Thomas tttlintmi (tthronitlr Community Chest Passes Goal Campaign Chairman G. Edward Campbell (on lad der) here gives the thermometer an assist as it shows Community Chest contributions and pledges have ex ceeded the goal of $21,672.01. The final report gives a total of $22,268.51. Looking on from the ground are Chest President George H. Corhelson, Calvin Cooper, and T. M. Youngblood, leaders in the campaign.—Photo by Yarborough. 17,894 Get First Vaccine Officials said Sunday at the end of the “make-up feeding” for those who had missed the first “Stop Polio” Sunday, October 27 that 17,894 School District 56 Texas Professor To Speak On __ Church History Professor Haskell Monroe of Texas A&M University will speak at Presbyterian College this Fri day night on the subject “South Carolina and the Division of the Presbyterian Church in the Uni ted States in 1861.” He will address members of Historia, PC’s newly formed his tory study club, at 8 p. m. in the Douglas House assembly room. The public is cordially in vited to attend. Dr. Monroe, one of the nation’s most outstanding young Civil War scholars, is the author of several books and articles, in cluding a volume in the Confed erate centennial series entitled “Yankees a’ Cornin’ ”. His his- tofy of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederacy is soon to be published by Princeton Univer sity Press. Along with Dr. Thomas L. Connelly, chairman of the Presbyterian College history department, Dr. Monroe is on the editorial staff of the Jefferson Davis Foundation, engaged in editing Jefferson Davis’ papers. He comes to PC from Asheville, N. C., where he is delivering a paper at the Southern Historical Association meeting. In his Friday evening talk here. Professor Monroe plans to emphasize the work of James H. Thom well in the secession move ment, and the role of the South Carolina Synod and the maga zine “Southern Presbyterian”. residents have been immunized with Type I of the Sabin oral vac cine. Dr. James L. Walker, Steer ing Committee Chariman of the immunization drives, reported some 545 people attended the two make-up clinics held in the Clin ton High School and Bell Street High School Gymnasium Novem- INj> t Dr. Walker announced today that if there were any who have not yet received vaccine, a limit ed supply will be available thru the local doctors in their offices on the same basis as it was thru the clinics through Saturday, November 9. The next “Stop Polio” Sunday will be December 8 when clinics will be opened in the same loca tions throughout the School Dis trict, and the third and last dose will be given on January 12. Royal Ambassador Week Is Observed The Reedy River Association will climax National Royal Am bassador Week, Nov. 3-9, with a Royal Ambasador program Sat urday, Nov. 9, at the Hurricane Baptist Church. Beginning at 4 o’clock confer ences will be held, followed with supper at 5:30. The evening pro gram will begin at 6:30, with Ralph Tedards as guest speaker. Youth Bowling Team Wins From §reenviHe The Youth Bowling Team won a match game against a Green ville group Saturday evening. High scorer for Clinton with 484 points was Bill Bishop. Other members of the team were Mike Osbourne, Jerry Coker, Delmar Lawson and Joel Whitsel. A return match will be played at the Palmetto Lanes In Clinton Saturday evening at 7 o’clock. A. brother’a^xiew of Thomas Wolfe, late author who wrote “Look Homeward, Angel” and other novels, will be given to the Presbyterian College student body next Monday by Frederick Wolfe. The talk is scheduled for 10 a. m. in Belk Auditorium, and the public is cordially invited to attend. > - Frederick Wolfe, a retired sales executive of Spartanburg, has spoken on numerous occas- sions to college groups about his famous brother. He is the closest surviving relative of Thonfas Wolfe, the Asheville, N. Canative who is recognized among the great novelists of American lit erature. In addition to his 10 a. m. pres entation of interesting facts about his brother, Thomas Wolfe will remain after the program further—discussion with se lected English classes and others who may wish to attend. Hugh Dowdle To Speak To Clinton B&PW Club Hugh Dowdle of Columbia, as sistant State Conservationist, will be the guest speaker Tues day evening, November 12, at a dinner meeting of the B. and P. W. Club to be held at 7:30 p. m. in the ball room of the Mary Mus grove Hotel. Mr. Dowdle will discuss water resources in our state and in Lau rens County. He will be intro duced by J. D. O’Dell, Laurens County Conservationist. Brown Speaks At Anniversary Event On Tuesday, Dr. Marshall W. Brown, recently retired presi dent of Presbyterian College and moderator of the Synod of South Carolina, presided over the af ternoon program of the 175th an niversary celebration of the founding of the Presbyterian Sy nod of the Carolines in 1788. The meeting was held in the historic Center Presbyterian Church of Mount Mourne, N. C., 20 miles north of Charlotte. A special feature of the day was the honoring of the original churches of the synod, 44 of which were in the Presbytery of South Carolina (the Presbytery at that time included the entire state). Vol. 64 — No. 44 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 7, 1963 Gov. and Mrs. Russell Are Guests at Whitten Village A-.’ ^ ~ ■■ ' i > * m v."- Brown Gets Service Award Dr. MdirshalKWr' Brown, who retired as _ of Presbyterian College last August, was ^presented 1968 Alumni Service Award by the PC Alumni A elation at Homecoming Saturday in recognition of years of service to the institution as teacher, dean i president. He is pictured hoe at left receiving the award from Tom Addison, Clinton business ‘ president-elect of the Alumni ough Photo. ■') Wm Dr. Spears To Speak At Broad St. Church Dr. R. Wright Spears, presi dent of Columbia College, will be the guest speaker Sunday at the 11:00 a. m. worship hour at Broad Street Methodist Church. Hf will speak on the subject, “Changing Life’s Skyline.” Dr. Spears is known to many In this area, having visited at Broad Street Church on previous occasions. Members and friends of the church are invited (b hear his message Sunday. Four $50 Bills Are Offered Did you get a $50 bill last Saturday? If not, come back this week— it may be your night. Four of them are to be offer ed in this week’s drawing of tic kets by Clinton merchants. All you have to do is produce a cor responding stub of a numbered ticket. And you get the tickets from the merchants listed in a half-page advertisement appear ing in today’s paper. The merchants would like to give away all four of the bills, but if no response is forthcom ing when any of the four num bers are called, those not claim ed will be held over for next week. „ In addition, nine picnic hams are to be given away. So, get your tickets and be present at the drawing Saturday night at the parking lot of M. S. Bailey A Son, Bankers, on W. Pitts St Clinton’s merchants will be happy to help you be a winner! ; Mildred Suber won a $80 bill last week—three other potential winners were not present. And Alvin Gilmer and Ronald Pacp each took home a watch. Miss CHS Patsy Henderson, Clinton High School senior, was crown ed Miss CHS Friday night at a “Canteen” held in the school gym. The crowning was sched uled to take place during the half of the Clinton-Newberry game, which was rained out and postponed to Monday. Patsy, a petite blonde, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fowler of 408 Caldwell S.t PC Gridmen Meet Furman Saturday Presbyterian gridmen will in vade Furman this Saturday af temoon as 14-point underdogs in quest of their second win of the rapidly fading football season. The Blue Hose will answer the 2:0 p. m. kickoff whistle with a 1-5-1 record thus far. They go against a Furman team whose current 6-2 mark stands out among the best posted by that institution. Coach Cally Gault saw his PC squad drop another tough one 6-21, against Wofford here last week-end. The Hosemen outgain- ed the Terries by 261 total yards to 247, but two brief defensive lapses in the secondary permit ted a pair of quick touchdown passes in the opening quarter. That wrapped up the ball game. The outlook for next Saturday finds Furman boasting a top passer of its own in quarterback Danny Donovan. Presbyterian, on the other hand, is to be with out the services of one of its leading ball-carriers following an injury suffered by fullback Jim my Elliott last week-end. fm “v"' -•/ WSim About 800 persons crowded into the Whitten Village School auditorium here Sunday to hear Gov. and Mrs. Donald Russell, who were special guests at a meeting of the Whitten Village Barents Club. Calling America a nation ‘truly of heart,” the governor' declared ^that nowhere is that expressed better than through an institution such as Whitten Village. He said institutions ‘don’t just develop ... they, grow because someone had an nterest in " t h a t institution. Someone loved and gave it their life and talent.”' Gov. Russell referred to Dr. B. O. Whitten as “a man who has given his heart and soul” to Whitten Village. Paying trib ute to Dr. Whitten’s labors in he field of service, the govern or said he was sure that what the superintendent had accom plished at Whitten Village could not have been done “without the love and cooperation of the parents.” R. L. Plaxico, chairman of the Whitten Village Board of Trustees, introduced Gov. and Mrs. Russell. The state’s first lady said, I’m inspired and blessed to be here today with the staff, chil dren and parents of Whitten Village.” Governor Russell, speaking briefly, said he was “happy to participate in a state government thdt supports and maintains an institution such as this.” J. Curtis Young of Anderson, president of the Parents Club, presided at the meeting, in troducing Dr. Whitten and Dr. R. B. Suber, assistant superin tendent, who recognized the staff members. Also appearing on the program were R. B. Robinson of Lancaster, vice- president of the club, and Mrs Mary L. Spann of Anderson, secretary-treasurer. W. B. Timmerman, director of training, presented a group of Whitten Village children in a musical program. A 300- voice chorus, made up of boys and girls of the academic school group, presented a med ley of patriotoc • songs,"and 1 group from The Circle enter tained with folk dances. At the conclusion of the pro gram, Gov. and Mrs. Russell joined Whitten Village officials and their wives, officers of the Parents Club, and Mr. Plaxico in , greeting members of the club in the lobby of the build ing. Lunch was s e r v e B at the Whitten Village cafeteria, with some parents gathering at the Club House to share picnic lunches with their children. Membership in the club now is approximately 3,000. m ■Mi mm i ■ xm At Whitten Village Sunday Shown here at the semi-annual meet ing of the Parents Club of Whitten Vil lage Sunday when Governor and Mrs. Donald Russell were guests are, left to right, Dr. R. B. Suber, assistant super intendent; R. L. Plaxico, Clintdn, chair man of the board; Mrs. Russell, Dr. B. O. Whitten, superintendent; and Gov. Russell.—Photo by Yarborough. $22,268.51 Contributed, Pledged 1964 Community Chest Exceeds Goal Merchants To Meet Tuesday Mornirig The Clinton Merchants will hold a meeting Tuesday morning Nov. 12 at 10 a.m. in the Forum room of the Bank of Clinton as announced by Charles Buice, chairman. Post Office To Be Closed Veterans Day The local post office will be closed Monday, November 11, in observance of Veterans’ Day. W. D. Adair, postmaster, states that there will be no window or car rier service on that date. Sewing Classes To Begin November 11 A beginner or intermediate sew ing class will begin November 11 from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. and will continue thru December 16, at the Clinton High School Home Economics r Department. If enough people are interest ed, a tailoring class will begin on January 20 thru April 20. If interested in either of the classes, contact Mrs. Harry Bouknight at 833-2475. There will be no charge for either of the classes as they are sponsored by the school and the State Department of Education. Camp Fire Leaders Have Training Session There will be a meeting of all Camp Fire leaders Sunday eve ning, Nov. 10, at 7:30 at the Camp Fire Hut for a training session. At this time Rev. Julian Weis- ner will instruct games. It is urgent that all leaders of each district attend. County Farm Bureau Names Officer Slate T. J. Copeland was re-elected president of the Laurens County Farm Bureau at the annual meet ing held Thursday night at the Laurens High School cafeteria. Other officers elected to serve from Dec. 1 to Nov. 30, 1964 were: R. L. Wickham, vice-presi dent; Mrs. Agnes Bailey, secre tary-treasurer. C. R. Workman was named state director to re present the county. Directors at large are Hugh B. Workman and L. B. Stoddard. Township directors are: Cross Hill, Carp Crisp and Hance Fin ley; Hunter, W. P. Dickson and Harmon Bedenbaugh; Jacks, David T. Pitts and C. W. Ander son; Laurens, J. Herman Power and Robert Burns; Sullivan, Fred Pitts and James Wasson; Waterloo, Niles C. Clark and J. L. Fennell; Youngs, James Mar tin and Willie Lomas; Scuffle- town, W. T. Blakely and S. B. Fleming.,, ■ A. B. Blakely Is Elected Street Superintendent A. B. (Gus) Blakely is the new superintendent of streets for the city of Clinton. He was unanimously elected to the post Friday evening at the regular November meeting of city council and began his duties Monday morning. He succeeds Tom Carter, who held the position for a number of years and resigned recently because of ill health. Blakely, a well known Clinton construction man, will supervise the maintenance of all streets in Commissioners Again Pass Up Claims Three claims on the contingent fund controlled by the Board of Commissioners and passed over in previous sessions were again passed over at the board's Tues day session. They were for am bulance services and repairs to the court house roof, both filed by the secretary of the county delegation. The ambulance claims, two in number, were filed in behalf of Craine Ambulance Service of Laurens, one for $450 and one for $150. They were for ambu lance services rendered for Ap ril, May, June and July. A simi lar claim for $450 for services rendered during the first three months of the year was paid by the board at its April meeting on the signed approval of two men$ bers of the delegation, Sen. King Dixon and Rep. Marshall Aber crombie, which action was re ported for the first time and ex clusively by this paper. The second and unpaid $450 claim was reported at the jury meeting of the board by Super visor Furman E. Thomason and probably would have been paid by the board if it hatf followed the precedent set on the first $450 claim, except that it bore only the signature of one mem ber of the delegation. Sen. Dix on, and as reported by the super visor, the contingent fund had run out of money anyway. The claim for $150 for August was also submitted to the board at the September meeting with out the approval signature of Rep. Abercrombie or Rep. David 9- Taylor, the third member of the delegation. Under the 190-81 county sup ply bill claims on the contingent fund could not be paid by the board except on the written ap proval of a majority of the dele gation, including the senator. The same provision in the 1963- 64 bill was made ineffective in a legal opinion by the state at torney general.) * No grounds for the $150 month ly claim, described in some newspaper reports as a subsidy, have ever been set forth by the Craine Ambulance Service, Su pervisor Thomason has said on several occasions. A widely cir culated report that payment for the service was part of an agree ment entered into last December between Sen. Dixon and Rep. Marshall Abercrombie has been denied by Rep. Abercrombie. According to newspaper re ports, Dixon and Abercrombie were appointed at a public meet ing held in Laurens last Decem ber to set up a private corpora tion to raise a fund by public subscription to subsidize the Craine company for operating an ambulance service.) The other claim, amounting to $1,450, was the one authorized by the delegation for repairing the court house roof in Septem ber and submitted at the Octo ber meetnig of the board at that meeting. County Attorney Ralph T. Wilson stated that under the law the authority of repairing the court house rested in the hands of the board but that, un der the circumstances, he would advise the payment of the claim If requested by the delegation. Supervisor Thomason announ ced that the board was in receipt of a unanimously signed letter from the delegation requesting that the claim be paid. There was no formal announcement by members of the board as to why they were still undecided on the payment of the claim, but re marks made during the session created the impression that they thought the claim was too high or out of proportion to what the supervisor had previously claim ed he could do it for with convict labor. Supervisor Thomason said, “In asmuch as the Board of County Commissioners has been unable to agree on the payment of the claim at this time, if the legis lative delegation passes special legislation (or puts it in the sup ply bill), I will recommend that the bill be paid.” Commissioners Paul O’Dell and George Penland agreed with the statement. Commissioner O’Dell said that among his reasons for not being willing to pay the claim was that he thought the county did not receive dollar for dollar value for the work done. Supervisor Thomason stated that under a ruling by the S. C. attorney general, payment of claims by the Commissioners must be by unanimous vote, or signatures, and that is the policy being followed by the Commis sioners. The supervisor told the board that he had received no written approval from Sen. Dixon of his request for use of $60,000 of the purported surplus of $77,000 ta the 1962-63 county operating fund for the purchase of heavy road equipment. At that meeting he said he had already iWetved ap proval of the plan from the two members of the House. the city, the collection of garbage and the operation of the new sanitary landfill recently put into operation off Highway 308 north of town. The street force is com posed of about 20 men. Council agreed to divert sewer age and other waste from C. W. Anderson Hosiery .Co. and Can ada Dry Beverages to a new line to eliminate objectionable odors in the northeastern section of the city. Council directed that a survey be made of the electrical system in order to plan for new construc tion of city lines in several areas and to erect additional mercury vapor lights in certain sections of East and West Carolina Ave. Also a pickup truck will be trad ed and a radio installed in an other for the utilities depart ment. Veterans Day To Be Observed On Nov. 11 Veterans Day will be observed by the local Ameri can Legion Auxiliary by placing wreaths on veterans’ graves in cemeteries, and flags will be flown in front of stores. Pastors are being asked to re member both dead and living veterans in prayers on Nov. 10. The goal for the 1963-1964 Clin ton Community Chest has been exceeded by $596.50, to date, re ported Ed Campbell, campaign chairman. Although a total of $22,268.51, or 105 per cent, has been collect ed, or pledged, there are sev eral “cards” still outstanding and should be turned in before the final report is made on No vember 12, he asid. On this date awards will be made for the untiring efforts of those who contributed their time to make this drive a success. The meeting is scheduled to be held at 9:30 a. m. in the ballroom of the Hotel Mary Musgrove. Division totals reported were: Advance Gifts, $9,137.50; Com mercial, $1,131.50; Out-of-Town, $170.00; Residential, $1,734.33; Clinton High School, $195.00; Providence, $29.00; Bailey, $96.- 00; Hampton Avenue, $38.00; Junior High, $28.00; Martha Dendy Elementary, $100.00; Ball Street High, $87.50; Presbyterian College, $600.56; Thornwell, $271.- 50; Whitten Village, $527.65; and Industrial, $8,121.53 Jurors Drawn For Criminal Court The following jurors were drawn to serve during the one- week term of criminal court scheduled to begin in Laurens Monday morning: J. B. Snelgrove, Frank C. Sherrill, C. A. Holland, William O. Taylor, Wallace F. Power, James B. Parkman, Dewey Lawrence, all of Clinton. Robert C. Riser, Emory Moore, Leroy Couch, James K. Waits, all of Joanna. J. I. Burgess, A. R. Wham, Ed. H. Crews, William H. Jef- ford, Jr., David E. Kennedy, James H. McClellan, all of Lau rens. Joel B. Robinson of Long Branch, Charles M. Coker of Lydia Mill, and Robert Mer chant of Hopewell. R. T. Roper, L. H. Childress, and Paul Yarborough of Jones’ Store. Ray Adair and John Henry Norris of Gray Court; Erstine Hellams of Maddens; Thomas W Campbell of Trinity Ridge; Raymond R Owens of Hickory Tavern; Robert W Davis of Narnie; Jesse L. Poole of Pleasant Mound; Ralph Os borne of Youngs; David Tum- blin of Hickory Tavern; Joe R. Martin of Ora; Eldon H. Smith of Shiloh; Roy A. Hous ton of Owings; and Luther T. Culbertson of Poplar Srpnigs. wm u Hm t House Bums Thursday t r Shown btirtiirlff forfoosly is a tenant boose on the League Dairy place»west of the city, which waa de stroyed about 6:00 p. m. last Thursday. Occupants were James Gary and hie wife.—Photo by Paul Quin- tdn. . ~