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I 1 Church Softball League Gets Set The city church softball lea gue was reorganized Monday night and plans were made for an eight-team league. The schedule will begin on Vol. 65 — No. 14 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, April 2, 1964 Winning School Bus Drivers Janet Lawsoif (center), Clinton High School bus driver, was the winner of the Road-E-0 conducted here last Wednesday, the first girl to win the event in the history of the competition. She will represent Clinton High School in the state contest. Her teammates will be Jerry Coker (left) and Sammy Wham.—Photo by Paul Quinton. May 4 and end on July 31. Each Will play d schedule b games. David Word, paymaster of Lydia Cotton Mills, was elected president of the league, with "Buzz” Tedards, personnel di rector of Torrington, vice-presi dent. Teams represented at the meeting were. First Presbyter- j ian* Lydia Baptist, Calvary Bap tist, First Baptist, Broad Street Methodist, Davidson Street Bap tist, Lydia Pentecostal, with Holly Grove and Bailey Metho dist combining to form a team. Officers and managers will meet again Monday night at 7 o’clock at Clinton Mill Commun ity Building to discuss rules and schedule. « T a £|Lt. Gov. McNair Tells Local Group Of South Carolina’s Booming Economy At Hompton Ave. School City Democratic Club To Reorganize Tuesday The Clinton City Democratic Club will hold its biennial re- organizational meeting Tues day night at Hampton Avenue School at 7:30, according to Leaman D. Jones, secretary- treasurer. The club will elect officers, including an executive commit tee, to set machinery in motion for a city Democratic primary i? 1 f JOHN C1ARDI Literary and TV Personality To Speak at College John Ciardi, nationally promi nent literary and television fig ure, will speak to the Presby terian College student body next Wednesday morning. This latest program of the college's 1963-64 fine arts series is scheduled for 10 a. m. in Belk Auditorium, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Ciardi has served as poetry editor of The Saturday Review since 195S and has written a number of books on the subject. He is director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and former host of the CBS television net- weekly show "Accent.” A native of Boston, with de grees from Tufts College and the University of Michigan, John Ciardi has served as an English professor on the faculties of Har vard and Rutgers. He was for merly president of the National College English Association. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his worics and is a favorite lecturer among colleges and universities of this country. His latest book is entitled “Dia logue With An Audience”, and earlier books include "Poems: Homeward to America,” "Other Skies. In the Stoneworks”, and such children’s publications as "The Man WhdSang the Sillies, "The Reason for the and "John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan. ” His hook “How Does a Poem Mean?” is now used as a college introductory text to the study of poetry. I , ■ Plans Being Made For Summer Camp Period The entire Clinton Council of Campfire Girls summer camp will be held this year during the week of May 31, at Camp Green ville, located in upper Green ville County. Registration will begin in the near future and all members are urged to make plans to attend. This year trained personnel will be on hand to supervise classes in swimming, archery, crafts, canoeing, tennis, music, nature study, and out door liv ing. The summer camp is largely supported by the proceeds made by the Campfire Girts Candy Sale which will take place nl the near future. i i At Drapery Clinic Mrs. Dessie Jean Roberts, of Lawson Furniture Co., Joanna, recently attended a two-day dra pery sales dink: and decorating school in Salisbury, N. C. to nominate a mayor and six councilmen. Officers to be elected are a president,'- -vice-president, sec retary-treasurer, and an execu tive committeeman from each of the six wards. Also to be determined are the dates for two primaries. Present officers are: Roy Holtzclaw, president; L. S. Reddeck, Jr., vice-president; and Jones. Commiteemen are: J. J. Clark, ward one; V. P. Adair, ward two; L. Ray Pitts, ward three; Milford Smith, ward four; Joel Cox, ward five; and E. P. Taylor, ward six. The dates for the primaries probably will be set for late May, prior to the county elec tions to be held on June 9, with the city general election coming sometime in August. $80,000 Goal For PC Program A record goal of $80,000 has been set for Presbyterian Col lege’s 1964 annual giving pro gram now getting underway. Alumni Association President Tom Addison of Clinton announ ced today. He said the program is being headed by Dr. J. Edward Gra ham, president-elect of the PC Alumni Association, and Sam Cornwell of Charlotte, vice- president of the group. They serve as campaign co-chairmen. The objective for this year re presents an increase of almost $14,000 over the $66,478 raised in 1963, the largest amount yet to be contributed to annual giving by PC alumni and friends. Funds given to this source are used primarily to help underwrite cur rent operating expenses of the college and include designations for academic scholarships, sal ary increases, departmental im provements and the Walter Johnson Club alumni athletic or ganization. Ferguson To Attend Conference At Duke R. E. Ferguson, Jr., partner and general manager of Indus trial Supply Co., Clinton Busi ness firm, is one of 75 civic, professional, educational, busi ness and industrial leaders from nine Southeastern states who will participate in the Regional Am erican Assembly March 12-15 at Duke University, Durham, N. C. An annual affair, the confer ence includes discussions, con ferences and seminars on a wide range of topics relating to ccr- questions, trends and events. Janel Lawson Wins SchoolBus Road-E-0 Janet Lawson, president of the CHS Transportation Club, won the Clinton High School Bus Road-E-0 last Wednesday to be come the first girl ever to take first-place honors since the com petition began. Placing second was Sammy Wham; while Jerry Coker took third place honors. These three drivers will repre sent CHS as a team in the State Road-E-0 in Columbia May 1 and 2. On the team Janet will be the driver; Sammy, the front patrolman; and Jerry, the rear patrolman. If this team wins first place in the State competition, it will be the th rd year that Clinton High Transportation Club members have brought home the first p’ace trophies. The local talent contest, which was entered by ten regular driv ers, consisted of a road test and a skill test, in which not only the drivers’ ability to handle a bus was graded but also their know ledge of safe driving regulations and procedure. In the road test the individual drivers are graded by a State Highway Patro’man in much the same way a person is graded on an automobile license road test. In the skill test each driver ma neuvers a forty-eight capacity bus through an obstacle course of wooden stanchions, metal drums, and rubber balls. The driver with the most near ly perfect performance on both parts of the contest was declar ed the winner. MountviNe Grange To Sponsor Chicken Stew The Mountville Grange will sponsor a chicken stew Satur day evening, April 4, at the Grange Hall. Serving will be gin at 6:00 p. m., and continue as long as necessary. A. J. Finley is chairman of the supper committee and the stew will be cooked by John Simmons, W. R. and Furman Garrett. Tickets may be secured from the Grange members and will be available at the door. Clinton Girl Wins District Spelling Bee Janice Corrine Pitts, sixth pupil of Clinton’s Martha Dendy Elementary School, was the win ner of the District 4 spelling bee. The event, held on March 23 at Fountain Inn, included spel lers from schools in Greenville, Spartanburg, Union and Laurens Counties. Lt. Gov. Robert E. McNair gave an optimistic report on "The South Carolina Economy— Its Progress and Prospects” to the Clinton Kiwanis Club last Thursday night. He spoke to a group which in cluded as special guests mem bers of the county legislative delegation and of the city gov ernment. McNair said that during the past five years over one billion dollars has been invested in this state in , new and expanded plants, creating thousands of new jobs. He pointed out that since 1947, more than 55,000 net jobs have been added to our manufacturing establishments. While employment in textile mill products has remained fair ly stable during this time, the largest increases in manufactur ing employment have occurred in apparel and other finished products, chemicals and allied products, primary and fabricat ed metals as well as machinery and instruments. McNair added: “Evidence of the trend to di versified manufacturing is« in dicated by the fact that today, South Carolinians are producing live importance,in the total dur ing the 1929-1962 period.” This change, he said, has helped to move South Carolina’s | per capita income from $270 in 1929 ( 33 percent of the national average) to $1,545 in 1962 (65 per cent of the natiorfal average). McNair quoted ether figures to show that South Carolina had ranked among the top ten states in rates of increase during the 1950-60 decade in number of tele phones, television sets, beef cat tle, per capita personal income, median family income. He add ed: "The economic development which has . created these ad vances* has not occurred acci dentally. South Carolina has nat ural drawing cards—available and productive labor—trainable and willing to work, plentiful wa ter, excellent climate, growing markets, geographic location, good sports and a good trans portation network. But there has been planning and motivation. Many people and organizations have worked long hours to help bring about these changes.” McNair also pointed to the progress made in public educa- wrist watches, hand tools, ro- tion, among the institutions of tary calculators, slide projec tors, steel sheets, automobile grills, airplane parts, chemicals, dolls, and capacitors, as ex amples. The average South Carolinian senses the importance of such diversified skills to our state. Today, we seek to estab lish diversified industry which can provide employment for our people.” McNair underscored the im portance of the textile industry, which still produced 56 per cent of all manufacturing employ ment in 1962. He quoted figures of the commerce department ranking South Carolina first in the production of cotton broad woven goods (with 2.8 billion of the nation’s 6.5 billion yards), second in woolen and worsted woven goods, and second in man-made fibre broad woven goods. The lieutenant governor noted that agriculture remains a valu able economic mainstay (al though in 1962 a total of 178,000 farm empoyees produced cash receipts 2V4 times as great as the 422,600 produced in 1924). but _ he dramatized South Carolina’s transition from a predominantly agricultural state to a more in dustrial-commercial economy in these words: ‘In 1929, income from farm ing amounted to $109 million. This was 27 percent of our in come. This increased to $237 mil lion in 1962. but the larger fig- Lt. Gov. Tells of State’s Eoconomic Progress higher learning and in the post high school technical education program. He said: "We must continue and in crease our educational efforts on all fronts at all levels. Educa tion is the key to our future. ! Strong minds, not strong backs, will be needed in the 20th and 21st centuries. The dollars spent! on education will bring the great est returns of any dollars we can spend. "We must continue our efforts to acquire expanding industry and to develop even more locally owned businesses. We must fol low a course which maintains the health of our important tex tile industry. We must attempt to develop even more prosperous agriculture for those farmers who remain on the farm. "We must move forward with wisdom and courage. Our peo ple deserve it. The modern world demands it.” Part of S. Holland St. To Be Closed^ Lt. Gov. Robert E. McNair is welcom ed as he arrived to speak to the Clinton Kiwanis Club Thursday nifrht at Mary Musgrove Hotel. From left are R. L. Plaxico, past presdent of the club; Mc Nair; Ben Hay Hammet, president of the club, who introduced the speaker; and J. Henderson Pitts, also a past president. The lieutenant governor spoke on the economic progres of South Carolina, gating the importance of the textile industry* and the rate of diversi fication in industry.—Photo by Dan Yarborough. Hampton Avenue and Providence i District 56 to Issue Bonds To Replace Two Schools ' A portion of South Holland Street will be removed from the state highway system under a bill to be introduced in the State Senate today by Senator King Dixon. The section to be removed bi sects the campus of Prosbyter- ian College from Fifth Avenue ure was only 8 percent of our to East Maple Street, and under civilian income in that year, provisions of the bill, the City During the same period (1929 1 of Clinton is authorized to close 1962), incomes from manufac-! that part of the street. The dis- turing increased from $92 mil-1 tance is approximately equal to lioh to $1,051 million and be- two city blocks. came 36 percent of the total in 1962. Incomes from construction, trade, finance, and government have also increased their rela- Proposed early construction of new buildings in that area by the college necessitates closing of the street, it was stated. Clinton High School Bond To Give Concert on Friday ThomweD Key Chib Contributes ThornwelTs Key Club if making contributions of $25 each to three school libraries in the city, the sec ond of which is shown above. Dan Brock (left), presi dent of the dub, presents a check for $25 to Horace Smith, prindpal of the M. S. Bailey Elementary School. Last week a similar check was given to the Thornwell School library, and on Friday the gift will he presented to the Hampton Avenue School library. The dub is making the contributons from proceeds of a candy sale conducted during February. The Clinton High School Band will present its annual spring concert Friday evening at 8 o’clock in the high school audi torium. Tickets may be purchas ed from band members or at the door. The program will include a DR. WEERSING Laurens, Newberry PC Alumni, Ladies Plan Dinner Meet Presbyterian College alumni of Laur-ens and Newberry coun ties will hold a ladies’ night spring dinner meeting in the PC dining hall next Monday night. They will hear an address by Dr. Marc C. Weersing, president of the college, and a report on the athletic program by Coach Cally Gault. The dinner is set for 7:30 p. m. Monday at $1.50 per plate. Persons planning to attend are urged fo make their reservations by April 4 by returning the re servations card enclosed in the mail announcement or by calling the college alumni office or din ing hall. Rites Yesterday For Mrs. Jones Mrs. Catherine Wyman Jones, 86, widow bf Dr. F. Dudley Jones, died suddenly Monday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles Raynal, at Clemson. She was a native of Hampton County, but lived here many years. For the past few years, she lived at Clemson with her daughter. Her parents were the late Holbrook and Clara Vincent Wyman. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Surviving are five daughters. Mrs. Louise J. DuBose of Co lumbia, Mrs. Edward (Rosalie) Brailsford of Clinton, Mrs. D. H. (Catherine) McFadden of Clin ton, Mrs. Richard (Margaret) Syre of Freemont, Neb., and Mrs. Laetitia Raynal of Clem son; two sons, Dr. Dudley Jones Jr., of Biloxi, Miss., and Dr. Parker Jones of Beaufort; 19 grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren. Funeral services were conduc ted Wednesday at 5 p. m. at the First Presbyterian Church by Dr. William Redd Turner. Bur ial was in Rosemont Cemetery. Grandsons were pallbearers. variety of musical selections ranging from classical to popu lar music. Also featured on the program will be the Junior High School band and the Devilaires, who will entertain with various dance selections as well as a few popular numbers. Optimistic about the concert, Harry Bouknight, band director, said, "The band members have worked especially hard the past few weeks to make this concert+w a success; and judging from their enthusiasm, I feel it will be our best yet . ” The band recently received a superior rating at the District Music Festival, which waft the highest received by any band participating. For this achievement, the band is eligible to participate in the State Music Festival at Furman University, April 17 and 18. Midway Drive-In Under New Management Oscar M. Swain has taken over the management of the Midway Drive-In Theater near here and has the theater run ning on full schuedle, it has been announced. Mr. Swain previously managed the Twin Drive-In in Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the largest drive-ins in the United States. His family is now ocupying the former R. D. Nance home near the theater. Mrs. Swain and their two children, Mary Ann, 17, and Jimmie, 14, have been making their home in Athens, Tenn. Mr. Swain has been active In civic afairs. He is a Shriner and Mason. They are Metho dists. Chamber Directors To Meet April 7 Francis Blalock, president of the Chamber of Commerce, an nounces that the Board of Di rectors meeting, originally sche duled for a later date, will be held on Tuesday, April 7 at 10 a. m. at Hotel-Mary Musgrove. At this time new officers will be elected. City No. 2 Precinct Site lor Voting Changed to Armory The voting place ' for the Clinton No* 2 Precinct has been changed by the S. C. Leg islature, according to copies of the bill received here last week. The site for voting in future elections for voters living smith of the Seaboard Rail road will be at the Armory on South Broad Street. Precinct headquarters in recent years have been at the Hampton Avenue School. Voters in the area within the city limits will henceforth use the Armory for city elections, as will those in and beyond the city limits for county, state and national elections. The change was made, ac cording to Charles H. Johnson, Democratic precinct executive committeeman, in order to re lieve many voters of the diffi culty of negotiating high steps at the school entrance. Payne On Week's New York Seminar Horace Payne of Clinton is participating in a week-long marketing seminar in New York as part of his business and economic training at St. An drews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, N. C. The seminar includes tours and instruction at banks, busi ness firms, advertising agencies, stock brokerage firms, etc. Payne, a senior, is the son of Mrs. H. D. Payne of Clinton 1 and the late Mr. Payne. Clemson Chib Officers Above are officers of the Laurens County Clemson Club elected at a meeting here Tuesday night at Hotel Mary Musgrove. They are, from left, Harry E. Bolick, IH, president; Geter Glenn of Laurens, vice-president; and T. Heath Copeland of Clinton, re-elected secretary- treasurer. Attending were President and Mrs. R. C. Edwards, with Dr.Edwarda as the principal speaker, who told of the progress of Celmson; R. R. Ritchie, chairman of the athletic board, and Mrs. Ritchie; Gene Willimon, Clemson athletic busness manager, and Mrs. WiDimon; and approxmateiy 126 Clemson alumni and friends.—Photo by Dim Yarborougm. \ ! Preliminary steps will be tak- ! on today to replace two elemen- j tary school buildings in the | Clinton area. Scheduled for replacement' are I the Hampton Avenue Elemen- 1 tary school and Providence Elementary School at Lydia Mill, according to a bill to be | introduced in the South Carolina Senate today (Thursday) by senator King Dixon. The bill also provides for j "oanital improvements and other j facilities within the district.” \ The primary provision in the ' hill states that,"the board (of trustees) is authorized to issue and sell general obligation bonds of the district (without the ne cessity of holding an election) in an amount not to exceed the constitutional limit.” Section 1 of the bill states,’ "The General Assembly finds that facilities are needed in Lau rens County School District 56 to replace Hampton Avenue Elementary School and Provi dence Elementary School and for capital improvements and other lacilities within the dis trict, and has determined to per mit the board of trustees of the district to construct and equip such facilities with the proceeds of the bonds authorized by this act.” The board of trustees has not released any statement as their plans for future construction of school facilities in the district. It is known that the school dis trict owns a large site in the southern section of the city just off Highway 72, and it is presum ed that the new elementary school will be built on that site. Likewise, it is presumed that the school to replace Providence will be built in the Lydia com munity. After authorizing the board of trustees to issue and sell the bonds, and setting up legal pro visions relating to the sisuance and sale. Section 14 states, "No action other than that prescrib ed in this act need be taken to effect the issuance of the bonds herein authorized nor shall the board be required to obtain the approval of any public agency to any action taken pursuant to the authorizations of this act, other than to have the Laurens County attorney advise and pre pare the issuance of the bonds.” Jane Milam Named Class President Jane Milam, of Clinton, ri»» ing sophomore at Coker College, Hartsville, has been elected president of her class for the coming academic year. A 1963 graduate of Clinton High School, she is the daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Milam, Jr. „ * Water Off Sunday In Clinton Mill Area Water will be off Sunday, Ap ril 5, in the Clinton Mill Gouk munity between the hours of i:W a. m. and 7:00 a. m. it hat stated by officials of tha This is necesary in change one of the the water which is modern izattonimtflt 3 vice. ■Kal I