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The Clinton Chronicle Vol. 65 — No. 29 Clinton, S. C. c Thursday, July 16,1964 Dr. Keisler Is Interim Three Units Going Up Pastor of Lutheran Church To Break Ground Friday For New College Buildings The Torrington Co. Expresses Thanks To Local Citizens Ground-breaking ceremonies to launch Presbyterian College’s largest construction program in history will be held Friday at the site of three proposed new buildings to cost $1,695,023. President Marc C. Weersing . . will preside over the brief, in- The Clinton Beanngs Plant of formal program schedu[M f ’ r 12 The Torrington Comany held an n0 on. Dr. Marshall W. Brown, “Appreciation Dinner” at the — Torrington Gives $20,000 To Hospital derway to raise the $20,000 balance in Robert B. Wassung, manager of the Clinton Bearing^ Plant of The Torring ton Company, is shown here at right as he presents a check for $20,000 to Ryan F. Lawson, chairman of the Board of Directors of Bailey Memorial Hospital. The gift will be applied to the building fund in the recently announced $450,- 000 expansion program of the hospital, to be financed with a grant of $800,000 in Hill-Burton federal funds and $150,- 000 raised locally. The Torrington Company gift brings the local funds up to $130,000, the other $110,00 having come from sources not yet announced. Efforts are now un local funds. The expansion plans call for exten sion of the west wing of the hospital and construction of a new south wing. Baker and Gill of Florence are archi tects for the building program which is scheduled to begin late in 1964. The hospital, which was opened in October of 1962, has a 52-bed capacity. Lawson said the number of beds which will be added in the expansion program . has not been determined but profession al and service areas were designed into the original structure to support a 100- bed hospital.—Yarborough Photo. At the service on next Sunday morning, Dr. E. Bryan Keisler will preach his first sermon as interim pastor of St. John’s Luth eran Church. He succeeds the Rev. J. Gordon Feery. He and Mrs. Keisler are occupying the church parsonage at 100 Cleve land Street. Dr. Keisler comes to St. John’s with a wide and varied experi ence as an outstanding Lutheran pastor, educator, author, and speaker. He is a native of Lex ington County, having received his high school education there. He is a 1920 graduate of Lenoir Rhyne College. Subsequent de grees include B. D., Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia; M. A., Wofford Col lege; S. T. M., Whittenburg Uni versity, Springfield, Ohio; S.T.D., Temple University, Philadelphia; honorary D. D., Lenoir Rhyne. Dr. Keisler was ordained into the Lutheran ministry by the former Synod of Georgia and he was the ( j ean 0 f Lutheran adjacent * t *5 es -P astor ‘ Theological Seminary presidents ate was at the historic Ebenezer of n s in thlg and — Parish, Rincon, Ga. He was field m Canada of the Daniel Construction Co., Dr. Keisler has been a mem ber of the Kiwanis Club in four Hotel Mary Musgrove on Wed nesday evening, July 8. Guests at the dinner included many promi nent citizens of Clinton who have Revival In Progress At LeesviKe Church ^ Revival services are now in president emeritus of PC, will deliver special remarks for the occasion, and ground will be broken by Trustee Chairman Robert M. Vance of Clinton and James L. Bruce of Cornelia, Ga., chairman of the trustee building committee. The public is cordially invited to attend these ceremonies mark ing the start of work on a new science hall, dining hall, and PC’s first women’s dormitory. The letting of contracts for these structures was announced only DR. KEISLER leadership of Dr. Keisler, grew in stature and favor. The student body increased almost 400 per cent; the budget more than 600 per cent; the physical plant more than 1000 per cent. At retirement ton’s installation successful. Laurens- R. T. Dunlap, executive direc- Hlf™ Church locat or of The Torrington Co., and ^ton Road. Services are held his wife, D. E. Lewis, general ?J ?0 ° witlr P™** 1, meeting at manager of the Bearings Dfris- County 4-H Boys, Gris To Vie for State Honors parents are missionary for this Synod for three years (1924-1927), organiz ing congregations in St. Augus tine and Daytona Beach, Florida. Later pastorates include St. John’s Lutheran Church, Spar tanburg (1927-1931); Church of the Redeemer, Newberry (1931- 1946) during which time he was on leave for some three years to serve as chaplain in the army. He served as part-time professor The appointment of Dr. Robert 0 f Bible at Newberry College A. Stebbins as associate profes- (1939-1942); was chaplain and sor of sociology at Presbyterian professor of Bible at Carthage College, replacing the retiring College, Carthage, 111. (1946- Dr. Edouard Patte, was announ- 1947). From there he went to ced today by Dean Joseph M. Central Lutheran Theological Dr. Stebbins Named To College Faculty ion of The Torrington Co., and his wife, flew from Torrington, Conn., to be present at the din ner. Also included were principals and the Davis Mechanical Co., the Laurens County legislative "TV *' 1 7:delegation, and staff members of ,Ute, and in five dKferent chibs the aimon Be>rlngs p 1>n , their wives. Following the dinner a brief speaking program was arranged. Mr. Dunlap reviewed some of the early negotiations with the city for the establishment of the Clin- „ , .. . . . .. ton Bearings Plant. Robert M. is cordially Invited to hear him Va prelldent of cilnton-Lydia as he conduct, the service each CotWn dlscusMd ^ ^ Sunday morning. 7:30. Rev. George C. Howell, a former pastor, and present pastor of the Cameron-Bethle- hem charge of the Southern begin immediately to meet the deadline of September, 1965, set for their completion. Individual costs of the air-conditioned, Georgian colonial style buildings amount to $746,760 for the science building, $478,420 for the dormi tory and $432,843 for the dining hall, with $37,000 earmarked for since 1926, being a past-president of the Newberry Club. The local congregation of St. John’s, located on Haimpton Ave nue, feels quite fortunate to have this distinguished minister as sume its pastorate. The public Methodist Church, is the visit- contingencies and other equip- ing speaker. Homecoming will be held on Sunday, July 19. A picnic lunch will be served following the morning worship service at 11:00 All friends, relatives, for mer pastors and members are invited to attend the Sunday services. First Cotton Boll From Workman Farm The season’s first cotton boll, brought to The Chronicle office Thirteen boys and fifteen girls. 1, Mountville all 4-H club members from Lau- Mr. and Mrs rent County, will leave on Mon- Mary Easterlin of Clinton will Q^yg Seminary (then Western Semin- day for Clemson University to enter her project in breads Dr. Patte, who came to PC in ary), Fremont, Nebraska, as enter statewide compeUtion on demonstration by making yeast 1947 will become professor emer- professor of pracUcal theology, their records. Judging .Cvltl.. rolls. Sereh S.™ el» of Otahm Pr “‘ d * , “ and projects. has chosen dairy foods demon- The boys will be accompanied *tration as her activity. She will . _ give her demonstration using by R. J. Bennett, Associate Coun- ^ <ry products Carolyn Emery ty Agent, and H. L. Eason, As- ^ Clinton enters two groups slstant County Agent. Miss Myrt- while at Clemson, dress revue ice Taylor and Miss Marie Hag- and leadership. She and Libby ler will accompoft, the glrU .t- *»*» win both mod.l In th* tending. Calvin Robertson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Robertson, Frank Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hill, Mike Wickham, son of Taylor fashion show. Carolyn Ball, Sherry Bishop, Patsy Brown ,and Nancy Chas tain will represent the group in talent. They will present their “Beatle Pantomime” act. Also 1949 and in 1950 was elected and also will continue to teach president. He held that office un- two courses in fine arts. He or- til his recent retirement, ganized the sociology depwt- Dr KeUier has spoken in one ment shortly after Jofolng the capa city or another in more than faculty and developed it into a twenty college, seminary and programof major concentration, ^^ty campuses. He has Robert Stebblas, who will as- ^ ^ who’s Who in eume Ms Mw position In Septem- since 1938. He has writ- ber, recenfiy received Ms PhD ten a number of articles, pamph- de * ree “* 8< >ciolp8y from the | ets an( j booklets, mostly on the University of Minnesota. A na- Lutheran Church . na tive of Rhinelander, Wise., he earned his BA from Macalester College in 1961 and his master’s Central Seminary, under the Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Wickham, attending will be Betty Cole of from Minnesota a year later. He Will Diamond Rings and Gene Smith of Thornwell Cross Hill as vice-president of put ^ slx months of active duty a . 11 ^ will represent Laurens County at the County 4-H Council. with the U. S. Army in 1966. namilfOn Jewelers Clemson in Uvestock judging. The Laurens County Home Dean Gettys said Dr. Stebbins Mrs. Elizabeth Shirey, of This group will Judge beef cattle Demonstration Council will assist come g to Presbyterian College Whitmire, won the $280 Princess and swine and sheep. The win- with part of the expenses for highly recommended by the pro- diamond ring given recently by attend State 4-H ( etaon under whom he has Hamiton’s Jewelers during their — I studied. While pursuing his doc- merger sale. Mrs. Shirey holds Steve Wright, son or Mr. and toral studies, he has worked a position with the Home Ser- Mrs. C. A. Wright, Riley Fillin- p ar t-time as a statistical re- vice Finance Company here, game of Thornwell, Calvin Rob- gearc her for Family and Child- Winner of the $180 Princess prison and Ronald Avinger, son j-en’g Service of Minneapolis. His diamond ring given by Hamil- of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Avinger master’s thesis was published in ton’s to the lucky 1964 graduate of Enoree will represent Laurens ^ ( ggue 0 f “Proceedings of The of Clinton High was Miss Dianne demonstration will be Mary Hipp ( - :ounty ^ Judging. The win- Minnesota Academy of Science.” Sexton of Joanna, of Cross Hill. She will siv# a nin S team in the state contest for good corporate relation, be- Mond , y cnne (rom farm of Hugh B. Workman of the Hopewell section. of the state contest will re- members to S. C. In the con- Club Week test at CMcago in November. Libby Taylor will attend in clothing and her sister Barbara’s project is safety. They are daughters of H. Y. Taylor of Route 1, Laurens. In clothing give a demonstration on “Even Hem- wil L^® ive “ expen8e pald ^ lines ” She Is the daughter of to Oklahoma to represent S. C. Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Hipp. Pam * ** land Judging con- Watt will attend State Club Week test - on her electric project. Her par ents are Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Watt of Route 1, Ware Shoals. Sue Simpson has entomology as her project and is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Simp son of Cross Hill. Elizabeth Woods has foods and nutrition as The Laurens County 4-H dairy judging team will be made up oi the following boys: Frank Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Brown of the Bailey Community, and Jack Marlar, son of Mr. and New Firm Gets Contract To Audit Books of County Walter D. Shepard Is Third Speaker At CaroD Fellowship World missions is the topic of the th'rd Sunday evening pro gram to be held at Camp Fellow ship this Sunday as part of Re ligious Emphasis Month activi ties being held there. The speaker is Walter D. Shep hard of Nashville, former mis sionary to the Congo, who will address the Lake Greenwood open-air service on the subject tween manufacturing companies and communities. Mr. Lewis also reviewed some of the early trips to Clinton and the successful ar- rangements that have been read# Third Game Last Night with the city. ■■■.— .n w— Buck Mickel, executive vice president of Daniel Construction Co., welcomed The Torrington Company as a good influence in Clinton and in the state of South Carolina and greeted the com pany as “felloW South Carolin ians’’. Robert B. Wassung, manager of the Clinton Bearings Plant, thanked many of file guests for their co-operation and help in getting both the Clinton Bearings Plant and the transferred fam ilies settled and welcomed in the community. At the conclusion of the pro gram Mr. Wassung presented Ryan F. Lawson, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Hospital District, with a ment. In' the Friday ceremonies, ground will be broken at one point—the northeast corner of the future women’s dormitory to be known as Clinton Hall. The name will honor the local community, which raised $317,000 toward this project during the 1962 capital funds campaign which produced more than $2,000,000 for Presby terian College. The architectural firm fog the three new buildings Is Six Asso ciates of Asheville, N. C., the general contractor is Tri angle Construction Company of Greenville. Clinton Legion Juniors Drop Two to Greenville If the Clinton Legion Juniors were to stay in the running in the district playoffs, it was to have been decided last night at Greenwood, where the third game of the series with Green ville was to have been played. (The Chronicle went to press be fore game time). Clinton lost the first two games across two in the first and one in the eighth. Two throwing errors and one base error by Clinton contributed to the Greenville win Tuesday. Tuesday night’s victory gave Greenville its 16th straight game in Legion play. They took the League VII championship with out a loss. Clinton got into the playoffs by annexing the championship of League VIII with a season re- Tuesday night, 3-1. In the event of a Clinton win Wednesday night, the fourth game of the series will be played tonight (Thursday) at Greenville. Doug Duffle, struck out 11 Clinton batters in his win at Clinton Monday night, and came back in relief in the eighth inn ing of Tuesday’s game to save it for the Greenvillians, after won the title in eight years. The annual audit of the books sentatives of u Columbia audit- of Laurens County Is now under- ing firm, which had made the way, according to Representa- Abercrombie, “Missions and the World Today.” The program will start at 8 p. m. fir8t L from 8 a. m. to . 9:50 a. m. and the second period in Fraser Chapel, and persons of from l0:ao a m tQ 12:20 ^ m all denominations are cordially The term will extend through invited to attend. August 21. Presiding over this Sunday eve- Students completed work on ning service will be the Rev. Ran. the first term of the PC summer current audit, but were told by d y Kowalski, pastor of the Ashe- gc hool on Wednesday, members of the delegation that ville Presbyterian Church. ~ check for $20,000 for the hospital of the best-of-five series, the district building fund, to be used opener at Clinton Monday night, cor d of 12 wins and three losses, in the recently announced expan- ^ and the second at Green vUle the first time a clinton team had sion program for Bailey Memor- *- ial Hospital. Registration For PC's Second Term Slated for Today Registration for the second term of Presbyterian College’s 1964 summer school will be held today (Thursday) beginning at 9 a. m. in the library. Classwork is scheduled to get 4 ui** a * * underway Friday morning, with Clinton hitters got to starter Tony audit for the past several years, appeared at the court house sev eral days ago to start on the The Mrs. H. E. Marlar, of the Green- „ „ r pond Community, Riley Fillin- ve Marshall W. her project and will give a dem- Same and Jimmy Smith of secretary of the legislative dele- onstration while at Clemson. She Thornwell Orphanage. The win- gallon. lives at Route 1, Owings, and la ^ ^ * tat * conte,t "Mr®- The audit is being made by the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. pre ,* en l 1 _ S 9' at National Elliott-Davis & Co., of Green- ^ ^ bten .warded the Religious EmphasU Month pro- M. 8. Woods. Mary Moore will Dairy show ^ Waterloo, Iowa, ville. . . th . gram, sponsored by South Caro- demonstrate her abUity at mak- 1116 L* 1 "*® 11 * County Uvestock The period to be covered by the * ° k ' A ^ lina Presbytery, has enjoyed un- Association will pay the expen- audit is the fiscal year ending “ ——» ses of the 4-H livestock judging June 30. team to Clemson. ^^ It Is understood that repre- King. With Clinton runners on first and second. Johnny Alexander lifted Duffle’s first pitch over the hightfield wall, but it curved foul at the last second. Clinton scored its one run in the sixth, while Greenville put ! a peach pie. She lives at Rt. Ministers Form V. County Association On Friday, July 10, a group of ministers met and organized the Laurens County Conservative Minister’s Association. The group formulated and adopted a con- stiution and by-laws which in cluded orthodox articles of faith which must be signed before any one may join. > Any pastor, evangelist, or mis sionary living or serving in Lau rens County is eligible for mem bership upon his signature of the articles of faith. Charter membership will re main open until the first annual meeting to be held in October. Anyone interested in joining should contact Rev. John Waters, pastor of Faith Baptist Church, telephone 964-42‘fr, Laurens or Rev. Legrand Adams, pastor of Lees ville Southern Methodist Church, telephone 094196, CUn- top. ^ IO. Waters was elected presl; dent of the Association an4 Mr.' was elected Rev. Jesi of .MamdO _ r Church, Clinton, was the first ehnrtar member th aOBHun to the said officers. Mr. Abercrombie intimated j, gua | guC cess since its inception that delay in delivering copies of g ix years ago. and the first two the audit last year had a bear- services conducted this July have ing in securing the new auditing been well-attended, firm. The upcoming speaker, Walter “We didn’t receive copies of Shephard, was an architect be- the audit until late In the year,” fore entering mission service in he said. 1947. He became principal of the “We expect a much earlier Central School for Missionaries’ completion of the work this Children in the Congo and the year,” Abercrombie stated. The county appropriation bill, passed at the recent session of the General Assembly, gives the legislative delegation authority to employ auditora for the ex amination of county hooka. architect for the entire area, de signing buildings as needed and supervising their construction. He currently serves with the Board of World Missions, Pres byterian Church, U. S., in Nash ville, Tenn. In this capacity, he Abercrombie stated that, in his is secretary for Africa, Europe opinion, the audit will show a and the Near East. n and Mr., - wzvCpOCQS, Car Burns On Highway 308 This Ford automobile wag found burning Monday night on Highway 806 north of the city near Sandy Springs Methodist Church. A passing motorist made a report to Clinton poUee about 11 o’clock. Highway Patsuknsa Billy Foster, of Laumt, who w K* spedto the some to S _ was registered in the name <tf Xeew Gflee of Woodruff. No further information was availafale here yesterday on how the fire started or the whereabouts of the driver.—Photo by Paul Quinton. surplus of “better than $40,000” hi county operations. Annual Tennis Tourney Slated To Begin July 27 The fourth annual Clinton city tennis tournament will be held this year beginning Monday, July Shephard is a native of New Orleans who received his educa tion at Tulane University, the University of Michigan and Aus tin Theological Seminary. The oldest of his five children, Wal ter Jr., will enter Presbyterian College in September. Holland Is Officer Food Retailers Assn. The annual convention of the 27. Matches will be played in the Food Retailers Association of In this 1 following divisions: men, ladies. South Carolina wUl be held July stiglto. , junior boys (19 and under) and 25-27 at the Jack Tar Poinsett *mw±Am.w\ girts (18 and undery Anyone interested in should cootatet Runs Sadler at Pharmacy or it Presbyterian College. Hotel in GreenvUle. Joe S. Holland, manager of the Piggly Wiggly store In Clinton, la a vice-presidant of the asso ciation and wtil attend part of the sessions. Kiwanians Celebrate Clinton’s oldest civic club, the Kiwanis Club, cele brated its 41st anniversary lost Thursday night with a talk by Dr. Dill D. Beckman, director of the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, and a birthday cake bedecked with 41 candles fen* the occas ion. Three principals ara pictured here with the cake, left to right: Ben Hay Hammet, Kiwanis Club presi dent; Dr. Beckman; sad D. B. Smith, chairman of the house and reception committee, who arranged for the cake. The Clinton Kiwanis Club received its charter on July 17,1923, through pnwentatibn by the Columbia group. At thAt tixnOr then wort only four Kiwanis clubs in the state, and ins intssnationsl organisation was only eight yean old.—Yarborough Photo. REV J. W. SPILLERS Calvary Baptist Churcti To Observe Homecoming Sunday Calvary Baptist Church will celebrate its second homecoming and sixtieth anniversary Sunday, July 19, during the morning wor ship service. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. L. R. Campbell, who was ordained by Calvary church» and now holds a pastorate in North Carolina. The occasion also commemor ates the 17th anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. J. W. Spill- ers, who came to the local church in 1947. During his pastorate, the present church plant with several enlargements was constructed. The budget now totals $47,Q0Q an nually. A native of Greenville County, Rev. Spillers received his edu cation in the public schoola, Clemson College; Furman Uni versity and New Ottoana Baptist Seminary. > In the pastorate* te 32 years, he served churches la Pickens, Spartanburg and An derson Counties before coming to Clinton. Members, former and friends are teytyed te and bring prepared h which will be following the service. v