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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
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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
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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!
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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
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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%.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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COLLARDS, bunch 19c
SWEET POTATOES, lb. 5c
BANANAS, lb 10c
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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
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