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Local Plants Honor 163 Employees
Cfinton-Lydia Mills President Robert
M. Vance presented 10-16-20 years con
tinuous service awards pins to 163 em
ployees last Friday evening at a dinner
held in their honor in the Thomwell din
ing hall. Three hundred and thirty-six
company-connected guests attended the
gala event The Gleemen, of Presbyte
rian College, entertained the group.
Three Lydia husband-wife teams
(above) were honored at the 9th annual
service a w ar d s banquet. President
Vance presented Anna and Grover Mc-
Invaille, left, 20-year pins; Mary and
Johnny Deyton 10-year pins; and Alice
and J. B. O’Shields, 20-year pins.
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Clinton, S. C, Thuursdoy March 12, 1964
For Clinton employee Darrell Foster,
the banquet turned into a family affair.
He received a 10-year pin, his father and
uncle, Harry and Paul Foster, received
20-year pins, and his brother-in-law,
William E. Heaton, received a 16-year
pin. All are Clinton employees. Above,
left to right, are William Heaton, Dar
rell Foster, President Vance, Harry Fos
ter, Paul Foster.—Photos by Yarbor
ough.
Budget Is Increased For
Gty Recreation Program
The scope of the City Recrea
tion Commission was enlarged
and financial support was in
creased from $6,000 to $8,000 by
City ' Council Friday riight at its
March meeting.
The enlargement was effected
13 Finalists To
Compete for PC
Founder's Awards
Thirteen finalists from three
states will visit the Presbyterian
College campus this weekend to
compete for Founder’s Scholar
ships ranging up to $5,600 each.
They will be entertained by
faculty members and student
leaders at a banquet on Friday
night, and will undergo further
testing and interviews by col
lege officials Saturday morning.
From this group of high school
scholars, as many as ten may be
selected for four-year grants to
begin as they enter the PC fresh
man class next fall. These Found
er’s Scholarships range from $1,-
200 up to $5,600 each for the four
years of study at Presbyterian
College. They are awarded on
the basis of intellect, leadership,
character and need.
Student Dean A. J. Thackston,
in announcing plans for the
Founder’s week-end, said eight of
tlje candidates are from South
Carolina high schools, three from
Georgia and two from North
Carolina. They were selected
from among scores of applicants
who entered the competition.
Blalock Appointed
To Hospital Board
Dr. George R. Blalock has been
appointed by Governor Russell as
a member df the Board of Direc
tors of Bailey Memorial Hospi
tal. His term will be for five
years, beginning March 12.
Dr. Blalock succeeds Dr. D. H.
McFaiden, whose term expired.
to give support to the “wildcat”
baseball program, which began
last year as an independent
movement with little flffihcial
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George Frady and Carl Leon
ard, leaders in the setup, appear
ed before council to request funds
for the purchase of equipment. \
It was explained that the pro
gram would reach hundreds of
boys who want to play baseball
and would not Be able to make
the team in the other regularly
organized little boys leagues.
They would continue to be under
the leadership of men interested
in their development and gorwth.
One block of South Holland
Street will be closed, from Fifth
Avenue to East Map’e Street, ac-
•co:'ding to resolution of council,
upon request of the board of
Robert M. Vance, chairman of
Ihe board, stated in a letter to
council that the closing was nec-
sssary for expansion plans under
way at the college. The street
crosses the college campus at
that point.
It was pointed out that the
street is a section of the State
Highway System, and it will be
necessary for council to request
the Laurens County legislative
delegation to introduce legisla
tor in the General Assembly en
abling the Highway Department
o return the street to the City of
Clinton.
Fire Chief W. C. Milam and
A~. Ustant Chief Mabry McCrary
were authorized to secure cost
figures for a proposed alarm
system for volunteer firemen.
They will appear at' a future
meeting of council.
Councilman S. A. Pitts, an em
ployee of the Seaboard Railroad,
stated that he had secured a gift
of two cabooses from the rail
road, one of which will be used
for Cub Scouts and the other to
Dixon Still Seeks
Ambulance Funds
Senator King Dixon is still
seeking to appropriate funds to
pay for ambulance service in
the Laurens area.
He introduced a bill in the
Senate last Thursday to author
ize payment of $1,350'he says
the county owes Bryan Craine,
ambulance operator, for ser
vices already performed.
An identical item in another
bill introduced by Dixon was
deleted in the House by Reps.
David Taylor and Marshall Ab
ercrombie of Laurens County.
They differ with the senator on
the ambulance service ques
tion.
Dixon agreed to the deletion
temporarily in the other bill so
that two other appropriations it
contained would pass. But he
pledged to introduce a new bill
containing only the ambulance
appropriation.
After Senate approval, the
local bill would go to the House
Chamber To Hear
Greenwood Men
On Zoning Problems
A dinner meeting of the full
membership of the Clinton
Chamber of Commerce is an
nounced for Tuesday, March 17,
at 7:30 p. m.
The meeting will be held at the
Mary Musgrove Hotel and is
Sponsored by the Civic Affairs
Committee, with Don Creighton
as chairman.
The speaker will be R. B. Cur
ry, Jr., a long time member of
the Planning and Zoning Commis
sion of the city of Greenwood.
Mr. Curry and his board have
been quite successful with zoning
and off-street parking plans in
their city recently, and Chairman
Creighton feels that their expe
rience can help Clinton citizens to
become more interested and in
formed on these subjects.
Mr. Curry will be accompanied
by Mayor Leary, City Manager
Atkinson, and Wells Henderson,
president of the G r e e n w o o d
Chamber of Commerce. The Clin
ton aldermen and mayor will be
guests at the club also.
Cards have been sent out to all
members of the Clinton club; and
Mr. Creighton urges all members
to come out to welcome our
guests and to hear a discussion
of how another city is success
fully dealing with problems that
confront our own city.
County Candidates
Announce for Posts
Three candidates had an
nounced for the office of Sher
iff of Laurens County up to
noon Tuesday, and qualifica
tion of candidates for other
posts continued during the
week.
Matching the n u m b e r for
Sheriff Were three who had an
nounced for County Commis
sioner, Two are to be elected
for that office.
Two candidates had qualified
for the House of Representa
tives, where two are to be
elected.
The post of magistrate at Jo
anna also has drawn two an
nounced candidates.
Up to Tuesday only one can
didate each had qualified for
State Senate, Clerk of Court,
Coroner, Magistrate at Clinton,
Laurens, Cross Hill, Dials, and
Youngs Townships.
The books for qualification
are open daily at the office of
Forest Lawn Cemetery, just
east of Laurens on the Clinton
highway, with Mrs. Claude
brunk Driving Leads In
City Court Fines for Feb.
Persons driving under the in
fluence of intoxicants led in
payments of fines to the city
treasury during the month of
February, according to the
monthly report of the police
department of city council.
The' fines were levied in Re-
where Taylor and Abercrombie * n charger Hours
would have to approve it.
be placed oiT city property on
Gary Street near the utility plant
as a Tandhiark. The cars, which
are being replaced by the rail
road, will arrive here within the
next few weeks.
School Bus Damaged
This school bus, driven by W. C. Cot
at Bell Street High School, was badly damaged March
3 at 7:30 a. m. when it turned over five miles off High
way 72 north of Clinton. Eighteen students were in
the bus, none of whom suffered serious injuries, It was
stated.—Photo by Bill Quarles.
DR. GEORGE F. MacLEOD
Former Moderator
Church of Scotland
To Speak at College
A past moderator of the Churc
of Scotland General Assembly
will speak to the Presbyterian
College student body on next
Wednesday morning in Belk Au
ditorium.
He is the Very Reverend
George F. MacLeod, who served
as moderator in 1957-58 and who
is currently addressing college
audiences as a Danforth Visiting
Lecturer. The public is cordially
invited to this 10:00 a. mi pro
gram.
Dr. MacLeod will speak on the
Iona Community he founded in
1938 to restore the ruined Abbey
at Iona, regarded as the cradle
of Scotland’s Christianity. The
Abbey was taken over by the
Benedictines and twice destroyed
by pirates in its first centuries.
It nevertheless became the cen
ter of Scotland’s Christianity,
and the burial place of its kings
until the Reformation, when the
Abbey was pillaged and its com
munity dispersed. Burial ground
attached to the Abbey contains
the graves of 50 Ccottish kings
among them Macbeth, villian of
Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Dr. MacLeod, a graduate of Ox
ford and Edinburgh universities,
was the first Presbyterian minis
ter to preach in St. Paul’s Ca
thedral, London, since the eigh
teenth century.
DR. FRANK A. ROSE
Alabama U. Head
To Deliver Address
At College Program
University of Alabama Presi
dent Frank A. Rose will deliver
the main address at the inaugu
ration of Dr. Marc C. Weersing
as president of Presbyterian Col
lege on May 5, PC Trustee Chair
man Robert M. Vance announced
today.
Dr. Rose will give the inaugur
al spteech of the program tenta
tively scheduled for 2:45 p. m. in
Belk Auditorium. Vance sa i d
other leaders in the educational
and rdigtov* also wilL par
ticipate
Dr. Frank Rose has served as
president of the University of
Alabama since 1958 and in this
capacity has become recognized
among the South’s outstanding
young educators. He went to that
position from Transylvania Col
lege. where he had been president
from 1951 to 1958.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Transylvania, he received a bach
e’or of divinity degree from
Transylvania Seminary and is a
minister of the Christian Church.
He has done additional graduate
study at the University of London
and has received honorary de
grees from 5 universities and col-;
corder’s Court, presided over
by Recorder Henry M. Young.
Fines totaling $400 per paid
by four of this group, while
two others were sentenced to
30 days each on the public
works.
Forty-seven persons arrested
for drunkenness were assess
ed $392 and 360 days. Two cas
es were suspended.
Eighteen were taken in for
speeding and reckless driving,
one case was suspended, and
the others paid $313.
Two were found guilty of
violating liquor laws and were
evied on for $300,
Seven persons were arrested
for fighting, one was given 30
days, and the others paid $125.
Other charges and fines
were: Gambling, 6, $112; dam
aging public or private proper
ty. 2, $117; disorderly conduct,
7. $79 and 60 days; operating
auto without driver’s license,
2, $37; petty larceny, 2, $34;
other offenses, 2, 60 days; tak
en in for investigation or on
suspicion and released, 9. Fif
ty-nine violators of parking |
laws paid $29.35.
Total fines for the month
were $1,938.35.
from 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. and
2:30 to 5 p. m. The books will
close Monday at 12 noon.
Following is the list of candi
dates who have qualified:
State Senate—King Dixon, in
cumbent.
House of Representatives—J.
C. League, David S. Taylor (in
cumbent).
Clerk of Court—Walter E.
Dunlap, incumbent.
Sheriff—R. Eugene Johnson
(incumbent), Leonard G.
Bragg, Leroy (Bud) Keeble.
Coroner—Marshall N. Press-
ley, incumbent.
County Commissioner — Paul
S. O’Dell and George M. Pen-
land, incumbents, and Paul
Brown.
Magistrate at Clinton —
Charles T. (Buddy) Oakley.
Magistrate at Joanna—Der-
rill Bozard, incumbent, and R.
C. Wilkie.
Other Magistrates; Laurens,
Mrs. Lucille M. Watts; Cross
Hill, J W. Scurry; Dials, C. M.
Curry; ¥wp, Clauds a. Pat-4-
ton.
Magistrate Bozard
Seeks Reelection
. Derrill Bozard has announced
for reelection as Magistrate of
Hunter Township at Joanna.
He is a textile employee at Jo
anna Cotton Mills Company, and
has been Magistrate for four
years.
Damaged In Collision
This automobile, owned and driven by Richard Rice
of Laurens, was badly damaged Friday at 5:00 a. m.
when it was in collision with another, driven by Annie
Belljof Tribble St., Clinton, on Highway 76 at the west
ern edge of the city. Highway Patrolman J. E. Poole,
who investigated, said he charged Annie Bell with fail
ing to yield the right of way. entering the highway
from a side street without stopping. Rice had a pas
senger in his car, James Roland Knight of Laurens.
All three parties were taken to Bailey Memorial Hos
pital, treated, and relased, it was stated.—Photo by
Paul Quinton.
Camp Fires Observing
54fh Anniversary
This Sunday morning more
than 500 Clinton Camp Fire
Girls, with their leaders and
other volunteer workers will
attend church in full dress cos
tume, and will sit as groups
in their individual churches.
This event is one of many
planned in celebration of the
54th anniversary of the Nation
al Organization, March 15-21.
Community Concert Drive
To Close Next Saturday
The Clinton Community Con- duced Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Taylor,
who presented a musical pro
gram during the evening.
Mrs. Sherrill urged workers to
contact prospective members
early in the week and to turn in
their kits no later than noon, on
Saturday, March 14.
Membership tickets are $7.50
cert Association’s annual mem
bership campaign went into its
final phase this week with a din
ner for workers at the Mary
Musgrove Hotel Monday night.
The drive is set to close at noon
Saturday
The kick-off meeting began a 1 for adults and $3.00 for students.
campaign to enlist new members ^ d f ditiona ! * 00 for adults
,. , . , , , $1.00 for students is necessary to
wh ch is continuing from head-! hear {{he Greenville concerts .
quarters at the hotel, open Irom Greenwood and Anderson attrac-
9:00 a. m. until 11:30 a m.. and tions may be heard at no extra
2:00 until 4.00 daily through to-1 charge.
morrow, and 9:00 until 12:00 Sat- j
urday. Membership in the asso-1
On March v 17 all members | Ration will be closed for the year I
will attend school in full dress gt 1‘2 no nmm Saturday, accord-
costume. mg~h> Mrs Frank Sherrill, drive
College
The Clinton Council of Camp
Fire Girls, Inc., is an agency
of the Clinton Community
Chest.
Friday, Saturday
Presbyterian netters will take
chairman.
Signed lo appear during the
1984-05 season at Belk Auditori- j
um here are the Chicago Little
Symphony, the American Jazz i opening service on their own 1964
Ensemble anri the Revelers Male tennis schedule and start ^ pe
Quartet. If enough memberships ■ .
; are raised, a bonus attraction, s PnOg sports season when they
Folk Singers Evelyn and Bob entertain the University of Penn-
Beers. will be presented in con- ( sylvania squad in a two-match
The Laurens County Library cert, probably in April. Mrs. 1 engagement this Friday and Sat-
will participate in the Junior Sherrill said. urday.
Intern program sonsored by During Monday night s dinner Another tennis match also is
the state library board. This meeting, Mrs. Mary Wallace, the scheduled for the Clinton courts
will be the fifth year which the New York field representative in the week ahead. The Blue Hose
county library has taken part for Community Concerts. Inc., i under Coach Gordon Warden will
in the project. talked before the group of work-! play host to the University of
Applications from junior and ers, reminding them of the aims South Carolina next Wednesday
Junior Intern Program
Sponsored By ~
Library Board
The Junio: Chamber nf; senior high school students and work of the assocation here afternoon
Commerce named him one of the a “B’ average and also j and through jut the country. . Presbyterian golfers, m e a h-
“ten outstanding young men of from college students who are Dr. R. H. Dawson, president ol .vhile, will travel to Columbia to
the United States” in 1955, and interested in library work will the local association, presided aUtee off in their first* match of
he w as elected to the Souths Hall f* received until March 30, the : the meeting Mrs. Henderson the year next Tuesday against
of Fame for the Living in 1960. closing date. Pitts, dinner chairman, intro- j South Carolina. >
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CLINTON HIGH DEVILETTES
Kneeling, left to right: Belinda Leonard, Peggy
Grady, Carol Shealy, Nancy Stump, Linda Culbertson,
Marilyn Sease.
Standing: Coach Herman Jackson, Kathy Smith,
Mary Nettles, Linda Tiller, Sandra Huggins, Sandra
Marse, Betty Black, Irene Vaughn, Dianne Pitts, Cyn
thia Boyle.—Yarborough Photo.
CHS Girls Are Runners-up in AA Loop
The Clinton High School Red
Devilettes, after finishing the
season with one of the best re
cords in the school’s history, 7-10,
came home, with the runnerup
trophy in the Eastern AA Con
ference Tournament.
In the first-round game, the
Clinton High girls set a record
for the most points scored when
they defeated Winnsboro, 72-57.
The Devilettes were led by Linda
Tiller, Mary Nettles, and Sandra
Huggins with 25, 25, and 20 points
respectively. Winnsboro was led
by Bolware with 29 points.
In the second-round Clinton
met the number one seeded Ches
ter team. Chester led at the end
of the first quarter, 12-11; but ton was led in scoring by Hug-
at half Clinton held a 23-19 lead. g in s and Nettles with 15 and 11
During the third quarter Chester! ^
regained the lead at 31-29, but
Clinton fought back and won the
game, 39-35. Clinton again hold
a well-balanced scoring attack
with Tiller, Huggins, and Nettles
each scoring 13 points. The
guards, Rene Vaughn, Kathy
Smith, Dianne Smith, and Belin
da Leonard, played one of their
best games of the season in hold
ing Pearson to 12 points.
In the finals. Woodruff led
throughout the game in defeat
ing Clinton, 40-30. Woodruff held
a five point lead most of the
game, but extended it to ten
points in the final minutes. Cl in-
Woodruff
was led by Rentz with 17 points.
Woodruff went on to win the
State AA Conference Champion
ship.
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Lions Club Program
On Distance Dialing
The Lions Club program Fri
day evening will feature direct
distance dialing, according to
club officials.
D. H. Martin, manager of the
Clinton office of Southern Bell
Telephone Co., will present the
program, which will tell of the
new service to be instituted
in the Clinton area on March 22.
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