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Vol. 65 — No. 10 Clinton, S. C., Thursday, March 5, 1964 Machinery, Ambulance Funds Are Bogged Down Truman Leopard, Roy Ginn and Mrs. Susie Banks (left to right) received en graved watches and jeweled pins from President Robert M. Vance (right) last Friday night upon being inducted into the “Old Timers Club” of Clinton-Lydia Mills. The three employees had com pleted 25 years of continuous service -Lydia “Old Timers Club” with the mills during the year and be came eligible for membership in the club, which now numbers 152 members. The plaque shown is an “expression of appreciation” presented to Mr. Vance by members of the club last year upon his admission to the group.—Photo by Yar borough. PC Board of Trustees In Two-Day Meet Here Presbyterian College trustees Tuesday adopted a record bud get for the next fiscal year, gave final approval to new building plans and named four persons to receive honorary degrees at the 1964 commencement exercis es. The governing board, in two- day session here for its regular March meeting, adopted the bud get report designating $1,289,- 555.50 to cover operation^ for the 1964-65 fiscal year. It compares to a budget of $1,100,006 for the current year, with much of the increase earmarked for faculty salary adjustments. Acting on its building commit tee report, the board decided to move forward immediately with construction of a new science building, dining hall and PC’s first women’s dormitory. Detail ed plans of the architect are to be placed in the hands of con tractors around April 1, and it is hoped a contract for the three buildings can be let by May 15. The new structures, to be built simultaneously on a newly form ed east plaza, are scheduled to be completed in time for the school year starting in Septem ber, 1965. \ Four honorary doctor of divin ity degrees will be awarded at the May 31 commencement exer cises. according to another ac tion of the Presbyterian College trustees. They will go to these ministers: The Rev. James Edward Gra ham, PC alumnus who serves as pastor of the Second Presbyter ian Church of Charleston; the Rev, David Lee Williamson, an other PC alumnus who has been a missionary to Brazil for the past 36 years; the Rev. Benson Sloan, pastor of the First Presby terian Church of Union and mod erator-elect of the South Caro lina Synod; and the Rev. George H. Smith, executive- secretary of church extension for Atlanta Presbytery. The board also completed re vision .of the college by-laws as part of the general self-study now being made of all areas of the PC program, and approved an enabling act to provide certain charter changes after submission to the controlling Synods of Geor gia and South Carolina. Among other actions of the trustees during this meeting, they authorized renovation work on Smythe Dormitory to be x done during the summer months., gave official approval for PC to apply for membership in the Carolinas Conference, heard reports from administrative offi cers, and re-elected these offi cers of the board: Robert M. Vance of Clinton, chairman; the Rev. Eugene T. -Wilson of Atlan ta, vice-chairman; and J. F. Ja cobs, Sr., of Clinton, secretary. Demo Committee Sets Fees, Adopts Budget Entry fees for candidates were set and a budget adopted by the County Democratic Executive Committee at a mee^ing-immedi- ately following tne county con vention in Laurens Monday Morning. Entry books for the qualifica tion of candidates to enter the primaries opened for a two-week period, closing at 12 noon on Monday, March 16. Candidates will sign pledges and pay their fees to the party secretary on the second floor of the court house in Laurens. Mrs. Caroline B. Coleman was reelected secretary, but she will not be available for service dur ing the next two weeks. Her duties will be performed by Mrs. Claude Cook, vice-chairman of the party, who consented to aid Mrs. Colemna during the period for qualification of candidates. Mrs. Coleman has a position with Whitten Village which pre cludes her rendering this service during that time. Candidates fees for qualifying for entry in the primaries were set at three and” one-half per cent of the respective salaries paid during the two or four-year terms. The fees are: State Senate, $252, minimum $125. House of Representatives: $252, minimum $100. Clerk of Court: $730, minimum $275. Sheriff: $730, minimum $275. Coroner: $336, minimum $125. County Commissioners: $U0, minimum $80. MAGISTRATES: Laurens Township: $410, mini mum $150. Clinton: $320, minimum $125. Joanna:' $45, minimum $20. Clinton-Lydia Mills To Present Awards Continuous service awards pins will be presented to 164 Clinton and Lydia Mills em ployees Friday evening by President Robert M. Vance at the ninth annual banquet, for 10, 15 and 20 years employees, in the Thornwell dining hall. The “Gleemen” of Presby terian College, will provide musical entertainment. Company Vice-President J. B. Templeton will serve as toastmaster. Dinner music will be by Mrs. Eva B. Land, organist. Mayor Cornwall WUi Run For Reelection Mayor J. J. “Peck” Cornwall stated early this week that he will be a candidate to succeed himself in the City Democratic primary to be held in May. Cornwall is completing his first two-year term as the city’s chief executive. .He was nomi nated in the 1962 primary and assumed office in September of that year. • 1 • ' National Piano Guild Scheduled Next Week The National Piano Guild will be held in Clinton beginning March 11 through March 14. Mrs. Eva Land’s pupils will be auditioning at the community building. Mrs. Robert Black’s students will audition at her home on Calvert Avenue. The Guild judge will be Mrs. Eugene Johnson of Moor®sville, N. C. Some 65 students are expected to perform during the event. Laurens County Supervisor Furman E. Thomason and Com missioners Paul O’Dell and George Penland will not get $50,- 000 with which to buy road build ing equipment nor will Bryan Craine, Laurens ambulance ser vice operator, get $1,350 claimed to be owed to him by the coun ty. That was the prospect this week as Senator King Dixon and House members Marshall Aber crombie and David Taylor were at loggerheads over two bills in the General Assembly, one intro duced in the Senate by Dixon and the other introduced in the House jointly by House members. Dixon pronounced both appro priations “dead as a mackerel.” The House delegation has ve toed state Senator King Dixon’s allocation of $1,350 for support of an ambulance service in upper Laurens County. The senator said he would merely try again for the mon ey, which he said the county owes the ambulance service. House members Abercrombie and Taylor amended Dixon’s bill, striking out $1,350 designated for payment to Craine. The House members agreed to Dixon’s other allocations from the county’s unappropriated surplus funds. These were $8,000 for the Coun ty Library, $4,000 for the County Planning and Development Com mission and $1,000 for the sher iff’s department. The bill, as amended, got third reading in the House last Tuesday and went to the Senate Wednes day where Dixon concurred with the delegation. The senator said he would go along with the change but would introduce another bill in quest Dials, Cross Hill, Jacks, Scuf- fletown, Sullivan, Waterloo and Youngs Townships—same as Jo anna. THE BUDGET Box managers pay, mileage, two primaries $2,400 Executive committee meetings, 3 at $200 each $600 Secretarial service, two primaries $175 Preparing and receiving ballot boxes $150 Printing and mimeographing $420 Telephone and postage $70 Rental of public address system $120 Contingent fund $50 $3,965 Less estimated revenue from State Committee $200 $3,785 of the $1,350 and “hope they (the Laurens-House members) will go along.” “We owe the ambulance ser vice,” Dixon said, promising ef forts to ge’t the money. Dixon announced he would block Set^pe action on a Lau rens House bill designating $50,- 000 from surplus funds for road building equipment. “It’s dead as a mackerel,” the senator said. Rep. Taylor served notice he would bottle up Dixon’s meas ure calling for a referendum on a $150,000 bond issue for a three- pronged program, including road building and establishment of a rescue squad. “I’m going to study it until after the session is over," Tay lor said. “We don’t need it.” The senator expressed little surprise over Taylor’s plans to stop the bill in the House. “It’s dead as a mackerel, too,” he cpmmented. Taylor’s objection to the ref erendum is based on a feeling that the county has the neces sary money to carry out Dixon’s program without floating bonds. Taylor said he would not agree to use of county "funds to support the ambulance service until rec ommendations made by a citi zens study committee are carried out. Taylor said he refused to sign the initial claim of $450 for the ambulance service, but that Dix- son said Rep. Abercrombie did. He said, however, that his House colleague has since declined to go along on the claim. Craine has been providing am bulance service on the strength of the senator’s original promise that money would be made avail able for it, Taylor said. fiA County Democratic Officers Ejected Monday pliigl These are the officers elected Mon day at the convention of the Laurens County Democratic Party at the court house in Laurens. Left to right, they Phinney Elected Chairman are George L. Phinney, chairman; Mrs. Claude Cook, vice-chairman; R. L. Plaxico, executive committeeman ^ Mrs. Caroline B.i Coleman, secretary. Democrats of County Elect Officials, Name Delegates R. P. WILDER W. R. ANDERSON Wilder to Take New Post • . - . • ' * y > As Supt on August 1st Presented lions Club Award Robert B. Wassung» (second from right) is shown here as he received the “Citizen of the year” award Friday night at a meeting of the Lions Club. In the photo are Bembert Truluck, who introduced Mr. Waesung, Mrs. Wassung, Mr. Wassung, and Sarnie Pinson, presi dent of the club, who made the presen tation. Mr. Wassung, manager of the Clinton Bearings Plant of The Torring- ton Company, received the award for service to .the Yarborough. wn ixjrapany, received his leadership in and community.—Photo by Robert P. Wilder will become superintendent of Laurens Coun ty School District 56 on August 1, according to announcement by James Von Hollen, chairman of the board of trustees. The board last week announced the resignation of W. R. Ander son, who had served in the post since 1945. Mr. Anderson will re tire. Wilder has served continuously as principal of Clinton High School since 1944. He had served a previous term during 1942-43, when he went to Brevard Junior College for 'a year’s service* in 1943-44. Wilder is a native of Woodruff, attended the Woodruff schools, and was graduated from Furman University ni 1931, where he star red in football. He was a mem ber of the Furman coaching staff for the 1931-32 session, before going to Rossville, Ga., as teach er and coach, 1932-34. The follow ing year he was at Simpsonville, and first came to Clinton High as teacher and coach in 1935. During the 1941-42 session he was principal at Winnsboro. At the beginning of the 1961-62 session, upon the retirement of G. N. Foy, Wilder was made assistant superintendent of the district schools as well as prin cipal of the high school. In 1942 he was awarded a master’s degree by the Univer sity of South Carolina. He has also done graduate work at the Universiyt of Alabama and Duke Universltiy. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, having served as a direc tor. He is trustee and deacon in the First Baptist Church. He was president of the Laurens County Education Association during the 1953-54 term and presi dent of the State High School League, 1966-57. Mr. and Mrs. Wilder, also a teacher in the local school sys tem, are the parents of two chil dren, Don, manager editor of the Shelby (N. C.> Star, and Mrs. Richard Gasque (Delle), who teaches in Greenwood. Anderson first became connect ed with the Clinton schools in 1928, serving as principal of the high school and teacher of math ematics and science until 1939. He was superintendent of the Woodruff schools from 1939 to 1945, when he returned to Clinton as superintendent. When the schools were reorganized in 1952, Anderson became superintendent of District 56, which includes schools in the lower section of Laurens County, of which Clinton High is the center. Anderson is a native of Laur ens County, a son of the late Rev. and Mrs. .W. Ray Anderson. He received his AB degree from Presbyterian College in 1923 and his MA in education from Emory University in 1931. He served as high school prin cipal, teacher and coach at Lu- veme (Ala.) High School for two years, 1923-25. Returning to Clin ton. he was in the mercantile business with his uncle, the late George W. Bailey, from 1925 to 1928, returning that year to the school room, and since that time rendering a service of 30 years to the CUnton schools. Professionally, he has served on many county and state educa tion boards and commissions and is presently on the board of direc tors of the South Carolina Asso ciation of School Administrators. R3.)eht,lcneP He is a member of and former president of the Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He has served as clerk, treasur er, member of the board of dea cons, Sunday School superinten- ednt and teacher for 30 years of the men’s Bible class of the First Baptist Church. Anderson is listed in “Who’s Who in American Education.” Mr. and Mrs. Anderson make their home on W. Walnut St. They haws one daughter, Mrs. George Everett, of Thomasville, Ga. George L. Phinney, of Laurens, was named as chairman of the Laurens County Democratic Par ty at the biennial convention at the court house in Laurens Mon day morning/ , He succeeds R. L. Plaxico, of Clinton, who has served in the post for the past ten years and who'did not offer for reelection. Plaxico was named as the county’s member of the State Executive Committee, succeed ing Phinney, who served for the past two years. Reelected as county party vice- chairman was Mrs. Claude Cook, of Laurens, and also re-named as party secretary was Mrs. Caroline B. Coleman, of Laurens. Plaxico and Mrs. Coleman were named as temporary presi dent and secretary of the con- Four Candidates File For County Oifices Four candidates filed for nom- 1 ination to county offices in the June Democratic primary when, books opened Monday after a 1 meeting of the County Demo-1 cratic executive committeemen. Sen. King Dixon of Laurens,' completing his first four-year term, was the first to qualify. i Also filing was David S. Tay lor, seeking a second two-year term in the State House of Rep- j resentatives. A newcomer to < politics*. J^C. League, also an-j nouncqjHor the House. Sheriff R. Eugene Johnson will | offer for a second four year term. • Oakley Announces For Clinton Magistrate Charles T. “Buddy” Oakley, of j 101 Henry St., well-known ser-1 vice station operator and long: time resident of Clinton, has an- j nounced his candidacy for Mag istrate of. Hunter Township at Clinton. “Buddy,” as he is popularly known, is a member of Calvary Baptist Church, a graduate of Clinton High School, and holds the rank of first lieutenant in the army reserve. Buddy is married to the former Miss Christine Powers. They have two children, Susie, ,6. and Tommy, 4. vention while organization got underway and were later voted as permanent officers of the con vention. The convention elected 12 dele gates to the state convention which meets in Columbia March 25 at 11 a. m. They are R. L. Plaxico, Joe B. Medlock, Mar shall W. Abercrombie, T. David Sloan, Justin A. Bridges, W. C. Dobbins, J. Hewlette Wasson, Mrs. Claude Cook, David S. Tay lor, George L. Phinney, J. G. League, and Mrs. Caroline Cole man. Ten alternates named were: J. C. Godsey, George H. Young, A. M. McWhirter, King Dixon, Sam Williams, J. H. Sullivan, A. B. Culbertson, E. F. Coggins, M. T. Motes, J. J. Clark. The convention was opened with prayer by Rev. J. C. Rice of Poplar Springs. Appointed as members of the credentials committee were: Jus tin A. Bridges. M. J. Simpson and Roy L. Harris. The resolutions committee was composed of W. T. Bolt, T. David Sloan and Joe W. Shealy. Mr. Shealy, delegate from Cross Hill, moved that a stand ing vote of thanks be extended to Mr. Plaxico for his 10-year service as county chairman. Mr. Plaxico, in a short speech, thanked the Democrats of the county for their confidence and trust over the years and the co operation received from every source. Only one resolution was adopt ed by the convention. Presenj^d by the Hopewell Club, it denoun ced the civil rights bill pending in the U. S. Senate and endorsed the efforts of Southern Senators to defeat the bill. Another resolution, submitted by Laurens Ward 3 Club, and not approved by the resolutions committee, was read by A. B. Culbertson of that club. The res olution requested the convention to go on record in favor of the “Democrats running their own primaries and letting other par ties do the’ same” by enforcing the present primary voting oath as enacted by the General As sembly. A motion to bring the resolu tion before the convention was tabled. County Republicans Attack the Democrats Laurens—Laurens County Re publicans at their convention here Monday heard a vigorous attack on the present Democratic ad ministration’s budget and foreign aid program by Mrs. Norman Armitage of Spartanburg, presi dent of the State Federated Wom en’s Republican Clubs. The former vice-chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party said $1 of every three of the national debt was incurred because of the foreign aid pro gram. She termed the budget ‘full of gimmicks” and said the “big deal” in Washington should be called a “fast deal.” She chided the policies of Lyn don B. Johnson who, she saidr claims “to have something in that 10-gallon hat for everyone.” Elected county chairman at the—convention w a s Niles E. Hanna pf Rt. 1, Enorefe, who was filling the post in an unex pired term. First vice-chair- i man will be Raymond Campbell of Clinton, and second vice- chairman will be Furman Ott of Laurens. Ted Anderson of Lau rens was elected secretary. David Meyers, a Joanna manu facturing firm executive, will serve as state executive com mitteeman. Delegates went on record as supporting Senator Barry Gold- water in his bid for the presiden tial nomination, and in a second resolution authorized the use of the convention method to nomi- t nate candidates during the cur rent election year and “at any ! time prior to the statutory reor ganization.” " Named as delegates to the state convention were: j . Hanna, Ott. Meyers, Lewis Cranford. Hugh Jacobs, Michael Turner. J. B. Cooley, William Jacobs, W. H. Finley, Raymond Campbell, W. E. Bramlett and 1 Dr. Lou Stokes. Church Leaders Confer with Moderator Pictured above are officers and or ganizational leaders of the Providence Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church who participated in conferences with Dr. Charles R. Younts, moderator of the A. R. P. General Synod, during his visit with the Clinton Church Monday. They are, left to right: Dr. K. Nblon Carter, \ ' ' clerk of the Session; James P. Sloan, moderator pro tern of the Session; Dr. Younts; Mrs. A. B. Blakely, president of the Woman’s Society; MarvinJL Tur ner, chairman of the Board of and Lowry M. Wilson, retiring of the Board Yarborough. T. 'V