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3T « I ij. 4; l^JL iz -L-.i’’— . Cliatoa, S. C M Thursday, January 30, 1964 > i THE CLINTON CHRONICLE r House Burns Saturday This house on Home Street, just off Ferguson, was destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon about 2:30. The house and furnishings were a complete loss. Own ed by Mrs. J. B. Wilder, the home was occupied by two Doi Negro families, Elizabeth Sheppard and Dora Cope land.—Quinton Photo. A Prince for Your Garden Invite a prince to your garden this winter—Richmondena Car- dinalis. Should your Latin be rusty, let me say he is not a dignitary of the church, but a prince among birds, the stately scarlet clad Cardinal, a visitor to brighten the browns and grays of winter—with song as well as color. Wintering birds demand a territory that must guarantee an adequate food supply. If there are plenty of weed seeds and berries in the vicinity and trees and shrubs for cover and roosting, the addition of a win ter feeding station .may decide THE EARLY BIRD! .Me******" Early birds get the worms, but there are big ger and better rewards for systematic savers! Get a headstart on a happy future by opening '** j* on account here today. Make a deposit every pay day and before you you know it, you’ll be well on your way to a new car, home, trip or education for the youngsters. Savings here now paying inter est at the rate of 3%. / - BANK OF CLINTON Z% Interest Paid On Savings Accounts Semi-Annually A Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation HOOTENANNYi USED CAR SALf! All makes, all models, all priced low to go! Buy 'em for#i song, folks, at our Used Car Hootenanny now! F.O.A.F. 1—19$3 For Gcdcocie Fordor 1—1963 Ford XL Conv. Coupe *1—1962 Ford Wagon, 9-Pass. Country Sedan — Red and ^ White. v„ 1—1961 Thunderbird Coupe. Black, Air Conditioned. 1—1901 Rambler Conv. Coupe. Red. 1—1962 Chev. Pickup — Red. 1— '59 GMC Pickup — Green. 2— Falcon Tudors, '61 and '62. t <• 1—1961 Plymouth Sedan. 3— Long Body Trucks —1957 Model*—2-Speed Axle. Baldwin Motor Company N. Broad St. CHntoo, 8. C. whether the Cardinal will be a regular patron of your garden. The blithe and bright spirited bird seems to seek association with human beings and our- civilization. He prefers bushy thickets, tangles and under growth of all kinds, in parks and gardens and albng the edges of woods and swampy streams. The Cardinal’s thick conical bill is well adapted for cracking the seeds of many of our common weeds. The Cardinal is surely one of the most beautiful birds in the world. His feathers glow with an intense brilliancy against the snow and the dark landscape of winter. Here’s a bird that suggests long flights from the tropics, yet the Car dinal is one of our most per manent residents, rarely wan dering more than a few miles from his birthplace. ^ Banding records show that he may remain in the same garden for breeding and win tering through several years. In the cold months, Cardinals are sociable creatures, gather ing in flocks fairly evenly di vided between males and fe males. Most pairs seem to re main mated at least during a year’s time, and these flocks apparently are composed chief ly of th young of the year. Us ually several to 25 individuals band together. ‘ Often Cardinals are the first to visit the feeder in the morn ing and the last to seek food at dusk. Sunflower seeds are undoubt edly their favorite winter food among the mixtures of wild bird seed. Cardinals also like melon and squash seeds, whole corn, mixed grains, canary seed and cracklings left from rending fat. They will eat bread, especially corn bread, as well as doughnuts and cheese. Vie sure there is shrubbery near the feeder, so ai to give cover for a quick retreat in case of danger. Early in the winter, the male Cardinal is not too amiable to ward the female, but he’s us ually quite tolerant of other song birds. Later in the winter, he gradually becomes friend lier, and you know friendship Car Hits Utility Pole FHA Committee In Meeting Here To PlanC •• This car smashed into a utility pole on N. Bell St. Saturday morning about 2 o’clock as it was being pushed by anothey car .during a heavy rain. A city crew was called but to repair the damage. The car was owned by James Lee Gary and was being driven by W. C. Conday, both of Route 3. They were being pushed by James Jeffries, driving a Buick. He left the accident scene and hasn t been seen since. City police officers Rufus Kng, Job Holland" and Chesley Richards were the investigating officers—Photo by Quinton. The Executive Committee of the Future Homemakers of America of District I held its planning meeting in the ballroom of the Mary Musgrove Hotel on Satur day. The purpose of this meeting was to plan all phases of the an nual FHA district convention to be held at the Recreation Center in Anderson on Saturday; April 4. The district president, Corise Holleman of O a k w a y High School, presided and conducted all the discussion and decisions concerning the district program, the fashion show, responsibilities of each officer, special features and the five-area judging meet ings. The group selected “FHA Lights the Way” as the theme for the convention with empha sis to be given to education, citi zenship, and democracy. The ob jectives for the current year have been “Launching Good Citizen ship Through Homemaking,” and also “You and Your Values.” Officers attending the meeting} included Carise Holleman, presi-1 dent, Oakway; Kathy Waldrop, vice - president, Carolina; Joan Dalton, 2nd vice-president, Pen dleton; Gail Ayers, secretary, Ellen Woodside; Gwen West, re porter, Ford; Pat Bryan, parliari mentarian, Westminster; Mar garet Kelley, chairman of proj- ect$, Pickens; Alva ,Taylor, chairr man of membership, Palmetto; j Janice Taylor, chairman of fi nance, Blue Ridge; Sue O’Dell, chairman of recreation, Clinton; state FHA officers in attendance were Andi Stroud, 2nd vice- presi- has been replaced by courtship when the prince presents a husked sunflower seed to his princess. As soon as the thickets and brambles turn green with young leaves Cardinals look for a secluded place to build their nest. They choose a dense thicket of honeysuckle vines, rose bushes, privet, wild graps, red cedar, blackberry canes or briars. Vine-covered stumps or a brush heap are also favored. The nest is usually placed within ten feet of the ground. /‘Red Birds” may spend two to three weeks building their first nest of the season—a loose-knit affair of twigs, strips of bark, leaves, stems, grass, roots, hair and rootlets. The male carries nest material to the female, and she does most of the actual building while he sings merrily and melodiously nearby. Three eggs are usually laid, and occasionally four. Color markings vary against a whit ish background, the eggs pro fusely spotted with shadings of brown on purple. The female incubates the eggs for twelve or thirteen-days while the male brings her food. Both male and female feed the fledglings which stay in the nest nine or ten days. As soon as the young are able to fly, the male takes full charge of their solo hop, feeding and pro tecting them for a month or more. dent, Clinton, and Carol Mershon, chairman of membership, Thom- well High School. While the father conducts the coming-out formalities, the fe male is busy with her second setting. Four settings a season is not uncommon, particularly in the Southern states. The late nests contain less material and are often carelessly built. The Cardinal’s joyous song is as remarkable as its color. Few birds can equal the sheer exuberance. of the red bird’s note and this is one of the few species in which the female sings as melodiously as the male, although her season o{ song is shorter. Most common to his reper toire are what sound like “what cheer” or “too weet” and “whee you,” repeated as a rick rolling whistle. The Car dinal’s call note is a sharp, abrupt “trink” or “tsip,” with such an exquisite combination of color and song it’s easy to see why the Cardinal was once a favorite cage bird. Tens of thousands of, them Were trap ped to be sold like canaries in pet shops, until the Audubon Law fortunately put an end to it. As a result, Cardinals are more numerous today than 50 years ago. Every farmer and gardener should be proud of this because of the feeding habits of the bird. About seventy per cent of their food is vegetable matter which consists of weed seeds. Animal food comprising almost a third which includes pests like cutworms, coddling moths, rose, potato and cucumber beetles, locust, plum and other scales, leaf hoppers and aph ids. (By Hazel Holcomb, con densed from an article by Mrs. Jeanne D. Walters, New York City.) SENSING THE NEWS cohservatives. They dragged out the Marxist concept of collective guilt, and sought to blame an en tire class of Americans. Guilt, ot course, is neyer collective, but al ways personal. This fundamental truth of the Christian faith was ignored by hundreds of speakers who should know better. But the “liberals” were trying to create a lynch mob atmosphere, and it was the conservatives against whom they wished to aerry out vigilante justice. F'ortunately, the country is waking to a realization of what has been taking place. Important journals have spoken out against the outrage of the “collective guilt” thesis. The fraud of the “liberals’ having attempted to lynch conservatives is being ex posed. But some vpices continue to spread untruths. The National Council of Churches, holding its general as sembly, provided a forum for speakers, in purporting to con demn hatred, gave forth with a hymn of hate. The most enven omed words were 1 used by NCC spokesmen who said that they were deploring hate. Alleging that they were repelled; by ex tremism, they resorted to the ugliest forms of verbal extrem ism and unwarranted condemna tion. * ill i IfC J§§ "* ! j *'£ Shriners Gather for Meeting This group of Shriners from Clinton and Laurens met here Friday afternoon to board a special bus that took them to Greenville for the annual meeting of He- jas Temple/ More members joined the group in Lau rens.—Photo by Quinton. v Laurens County Library ' x Bookmobile Schedule Week of Feb. 3-6 Hy Thurman Sensing Executive Vice-Prefideal Southern States Industrial Council In ^e New York press, writ ers have spent day after day at tempting to blacken the decent people of Dallas, Texas — one writer even referring to “Dallas words” as the equivalent of words of hate. It is shameful that the grief of the people for the President and his family should be per verted in this fashion. Tragedy was almost instantly turned into propaganda of the most vicious sort. THE TRUTH PERVERTED Almost as shocking as the tragic events of November 22nd is the perverted use which has been made of the nation’s grief by those commentators, preach ers and politicians who are seek ing td turn the murderous act of a Marxist into a violent cam paign against conservatives and against all those who opposed the New Frontier policies. A mam moth effort has been launched to cover up the fact of Lee Os wald’s communist background, to smear all Southerners and ex ponents of constitutional govern ment and to induce in decent citi zens a feeling of guilt. First to betray the truth was not Moscow but the United States’ own Voice of America, which within an hour of the President’s death gave the sug gestion to the listening world that “rightists” had killed Mr. Ken nedy. The Russian news agency Tass was not slow to capitalize on that suggestion. Soon com munist propaganda voices around the world were hammer ing at the theme that Southern “extremists” were responsible for Mr. Kennedy’s death. Even before the first facts were known, radio and television com mentators were assuming that the slaying was the work of right-wingers. When it was learn ed that the accused was as self- identified communist, the com mentators could hardly conceal their dismay. But the fact that Oswald was a Marxist and worker in behalf of the Fair Play for Cuba Commit tee did not deter those who were determined to find conservatives guilty of the crime. In an almost psychopathic turning away from the reality of a»Marxist*s respon sibility, a chorus of condemna tion of Texas, Dallas, the DaUas police. Southerners and Ameri can conservatives in general rose , from those who commented on the murder. A united band of ul tra-liberals did their best to bury the fact that the guilty party was a leftist. Moscow must be rejoicing at what tlje “liberals” have done, at the fuM-scale attack on the American character, on a city and a state, on law enforcement authorities and on those who defend the Constitution. But America surely will rise above this perversion of truth, this damning of the innocent. Good citizens will not be deluded. The lengths to which the “lib erals” will go to destroy their opposition will be exposed; it will backfire against them. Monday: George Moore home, Gray Court; Tom Balle home and Mrs. Frank Bobo, ( Rt. 2, Gray Court: Mrs. Covington home, Bethany Community, Miss Nell Cook home, David Garrett home, Palmer Patton home, S. E. Hea ton home, all of Rt. 2, Fountain Inn. Tuesday: Garlington St. school, Laurens; Barnes home, Rt. 1 Laurens; Charles Robertson home, Warrior Creek Communi ty; Shep Riddle home. Warrior Creek community; Maxcye Haun ter home and Tyler Macdonald home, Ora; G. B. Fuller home and Roy Poole home, Rt. 1, Lau rens; C. D. Benjamin home, Rt. 1, Clinton. , Wednesday: Clinton: Hampton Ave. School, Kindergarten of First Baptist Church, Kindergar-' ten of First Presbyterian Church, Whitten Village School and Cir cle, also Bldg. No. 9. Thursday: Hickory Tavern School; James Woods home, Johnny Davis home and Mrs. Anita Ballentine, all of Rt. 1, Ware Shoals. Pfc. Owens In Korea Maneuvers Army PFC. Flynn F. Owens, whose wife, Dollie,, lives at 62 Marion St., Joanna, and other members of the 7th Infantry Di vision took part in “Exercise Snow Storm” in Korea. The week-long field training maneuver, which ended January 18, was designed to test the di vision's ability to operate under Korean winter conditions and to measure the effect of extreme cold on men and equipment. AUDITOR'S NOTICE Jennie V. Culbertson, Laurens County Auditor, wishes to urge all taxpayers to make their property tax returns In her office before March 1. Miss Culbertson pointed out that it is absolutely necessary that returns be made on real and personal property, inchidr ing motor vehicles. The proper listing and paying of your taxes on your motor vehicles may save your driver’s Any change made in real estate during 1963—transfer of lands, new buildings and improvements on buildings, also any building destroyed by fire or removed for any other c« should be reported. It is also necessary that we have the correct mailing ad dress of all taxpayers, if you are to receive your tax notices at the proper time, saving yourself costs and penalties. We win be glad to assist you in every way that we can. SCHEDULE We wiU be at the following places on the dates indicated: January 30—Lydia Cotton MiOs—9:00 A. M. To 6:00 P. M. January 31—Clinton City HaU, 9:30 A. M. To 5:00 P. M. February 5—Joanna Mills—9:00 A. M. To 4:00 P. M. February 6—Joanna Mills, 4:30 P. M. To 7:30 P. M. February 7—Joanna Mills Store—1:00 £ M. To 5:00 P. M. Being unable to directly pin re sponsibility on conservatiyes the “liberals” in press and pulpit im mediately went to work to claim that anyone who opposed forced integration, high taxes, the U. N. or foreign give-aways had a hand in the assassination. “All are guilty,” said the ultra-liberals, meaning by “all” the body of FHA Officers in Session Here ua 10 TO 12 LB. LB. CURED HAMS [Whole or Naif] 39c n Harvest SALMON (Limit: One of the 3 Items with $5.00 or more order) SUGAR 5 Lbs. 49c IRBY’S 8-LB. BUCKET LARD $1.19 LACE TOILET SINGLE ROLL TISSUE 5c WHITE KING — 25 LBS. FLOUR $1.49 V—ru—«r EGGS, CEDAR ROCK GREEN BEANS WHITE . 3 doz. $1.19 2Vi CAN .. 19c 10 LBS. POTATOES . 29c DUKE'S MAYONNAISE 25c COLLARDS, bunch 19c SWEET POTATOES, lb. 5c BANANAS, lb 10c tomatoes,ib. ioc YELLOW ONIONS, 3 lbs. . 19c These officers of Future Homemak ers of America, District 1, met here at Hotel Mary Musgrove Saturday to plan their spring session. Front row, left to right: Kathy Waldrop, vice-president, Carolina High School; Sue O’Dell, chair man of recreation, Clinton; Gail Ayers, secretary. EQ^n Woodside; Margaret Kelley, chairman of projects, Pickens; Andi Stroud, State 2nd vice-president, Clinton; Corise Holleman, president, Oakway; Janice Taylor, chairman of fi nance, Blue Ridge; Gwent West, report er, Ford. Back now: Carol Mershon, State chairman of membership, Thornwell; Pat Br - _ . Pat Brian, parliamentarian, Westmins ter; Alva Taylor, chairman of member ship, Palmetto: Joan Dalton, 2nd\vice- president, Pendleton; Miss Evelyn Brown, district advisor, Oakway High School.—Yarborough Photo. BOLOGNA, 3 lb*. .. $1.00 MULLET SMOKED 3 LBS. SAUSAGE $1.00 Pish FAT BACK, lb. • • • v • LB. 12c 12c PITTS Vegetable Market EAST CAROLINA AVENUE OPEN 6 A. Bookmobile librarians are Mrs. Carl Teague and Miss Linda Schofield.