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The Clinton Chronicle
Vol. 65 — No. 30
Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 23, 1964
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DR. VERNON S. BROYLES
College Giving
Program Stands
At $31,733 Mark
Presbyterian College’s annual
giving program moved toward
the mid-way mark today in its
quest for a record $80,000 from
alumni and friends during 1964.
President Marc C. Weersing
reported $31,733.33 subscribed to
this program to date from 657
contributors, a pace well ahead
of last year at this time. PC an
nual giving established a new
record of $66,478 in 1963, and the
1964 goal represents an increase
of approximately 20 percent.
Of the $31,733.33 given thus
far, the living Endowment has
been designated to receive $22,-
803.21, and the Walter Johnson
Club, $8,930.21. The Johnson Club
total breaks down to $4,325.12
sent through Living Endow
ment channels and $4,605 sent
directly.
President Weersing said the
annual giving program, as part
of PC’s total fund-raising effort,
is directed primarily for funds to
help meet current operating ex
penses. Its mounting success in
recent years, he said, is a source
of real strength to Presbyterian
College.
The minister of one of Atlan
ta’s leading Presbyterian church
es will preach at Camp Fellow
ship next Sunday night to bring
to a close the sixth annual Re
ligious Emphasis Month services
held there during July.
He is Dr. Vernon S. Broyles,
Jr., pastor of Atlanta’s North
Avenue Presbyterian Church
since 1954 and a leader of the
Presbyterian Church, U. S.
The service is scheduled for 8
p. m. in open-air Fraser Chapel
on the bahks of Lake Greenwood.
Persons of all denominations are
cordially invited to attend this
service which concludes one of
the most successful series of the
six-year program. It is sponsored
by the Christian Education Com
mittee of South Carolina Presby
tery.
Dr. Broyles was born in Rog-
ersville. Term., and spent his
boyhood in Mobile, Ala. He re
ceived his education at Davidson
College, Union Theological Sem
inary in Richmond, from which
he earned both his BD and THD
degrees, and has done addition
al post-graduate work at the Uni
versity of Tubingen, Germany.
He began his ministry at the
Waddell Memorial Presbyterian
Church of Rapidan, Va., in 1980,
moved to the Canton (Miss.)
Church for seven years and then
to the North Avenue Church of
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Dining Hall
College Initiates Largest Construction Program in History
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Bailey Memorial
Methodist Church
Has New Pastor
The Rev. J. Thomas Miller,
AUanta (IMl-SOy He left to wort h „ a!sum6d Ws daUe , „
for the General Assembly as ’ , _
executive secretary of the Board P astor of Ba,le y Memorial Meth-
of Church Extension in 1950 but odist Church, folowing a con-
returned to the North Avenue ference change in June,
pulpit four years later. The Rev. Mr. Miller is mar-
Dr. Broyles serves as chair- ried t0 the former Miss Patricia
man of the board of trustees of Seifert of Spartanburg, and they
Westminster Schools in AUanta have four chUdren, Mike, Jeff,
and is a trustee of Rabun Gap- Steve, and Lisa.
Nachoochee School In Rabun \ renovation program is in
Gap, Ga. progress at Bailey Memorial
Church, with work on the sanc
tuary soon to be completed. The
Men’s Class recently painted
their classroom and followed the
work with a fish fry supper.
Sears Transfers
Gore to Conway
Carl Gore, manager of the
Sears sales office in Clinton for
four years, has been transferred
to a similar post at Conway.
Mr. Gore and his family will
move to Conway the latter part
of the month.
' Assistant Manager William
Van Ness has been named to
manage the Clinton office. He
will be assisted by Robert C. , ... . . . _
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Adult Sewing
Classes To
Start Tuesday
Registration for adult sewing
Science Hall, Dining Hall,
Dormitory Now Underway
Presbyterian College broke Vance of Clinton and James L.
ground last Friday on its largest Bruce of Cornelia, Ga., chair-
construction program in history,
a $1,695,023 project to erect three
new buildings by September,
1965.
And even while the earth was
being turned officially at the
site of the future women’s dorm
itory, to be known as Clinton
Hall, bulldozers and other equip-
man of the trustee building com
mittee.
The program also included an
opening prayer by Academic
Dean Joseph M. Gettys and the
closing prayer by the Rev. Ar
thur Martin, executive secretary
of the Synod of South Carolina.
All three buildings are to be
ment began work on basement built simultaneously, to meet the
excavations of the new dining completion deadline looming just
hall to rise directly across a
planned east plaza from the
dormitory. Work on the science
building, to be located at the
head of the plaza, will begin in
the near future.
Leaders in Ceremonies Friday
representative.
Wardens Attend
Columbia School
The annual school for game
wardens of the Wildlife Resour
ces Department was held in Co
lumbia last week with biologists,
hatchery personnel and other
employes also attending.
Attending from Laurens Coun
ty were Game Wardens I. V.
Burdette, S. A. Lee and G. B.
O’Dell. a .
Tuesday morning, July 28, in the
home economics class at Clinton
High School. Teen-age girls, over
13 years of age, may register at
9:00 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing.
Adult classes will be held from
9:00 until 11:00 a. m., Tuesdays
and Thursdays, and teenage
classes from 9:00 until 11:00 a.
m., Mondays and Wednesdays.
Mrs. Harry Bouknight is instruc
tor for the courses, which are
free, and sponsored by the
school and state department of
education.
Leading participants in the ground
breaking ceremonies at Presbyterian
College last Friday are pictured, left to
right: President Marc C. Weersing;
Trustee Chairman Robert M. Vance of
Clinton, and James L. Bruce of Cornelia,
Ga., chairman of the trustee building
committee, who shared shovel duties;
Dr. Marshall W. Brown, president
emeritus; Academic Dean Joseph M.
Gettys; and the Rev. Arthur Martin of
Columbia, executive secretary of the Sy
nod of South Carolina.—Photo by Yar
borough.
A small ^roup of approximate
ly 100 special friends gathered
for the brief, informal cere
monies at noon Friday. Presi
dent Marc C. Weersing presided
over the program and read a
verse of scripture. Remarks by
Dr. Brown touched on the long
tradition of women studying at
PC as day students and on the
1962 capital funds drive which
produced more than $2,000,000
to help underwrite the present
consturction and other develop
ments.
over one year away. They will
follow the Georgian colonial ar
chitectural style of the campus
and will be air-conditioned
throughout. The individual costs
are listed as $746,760 for the
science building, $478,429 for the
dormitory and $432,843 for the
dining hall.
County Republicans Make
Plans at Meeting Here
Ike Rev. R. A. Pickett
Pickett Is New
Pastor at Joanna
The Rev. Ross Alan Pickett has
assumed his duties as pastor of
Epworth Methodist Church, Jo-
La urens County Republicans
initiated plans for a fund rais
ing dinner and heard a challenge
from R. Cooper White, Jr
Mr. Pickett received his A. B.
degree at Mill saps College,
Jackson, Miss., and his bachelor
of divinity degree at Southern
Methodist University. Dallas,
Ikxas.
He was admitted to the Louisi
ana conference in 1946 and
transferred to the South Caro
lina conference in 1968 where he
has served the Columbia circuit,
Dorchester Avenue Methodist
Church, Charleston; and St.
James and Eureka Churches at
Chester before coming to Jo-
Greenville, Fourth Congressional e ral election.
District GOP chairman, to “car- Announcement was made that
ry Laurens County for Gold- former Congressman Walter
water” at an enthusiastic meet- Judd of Minnesota will speak at
ing Tuesday night at the Clinton a party meeting in Greenville on
Mills Community House, attend- Sept. 11.
ed by 50 men and women.
County Chairman Niles Han
na, of Enoree, presided over the
session and presented a revised
budget for the state party or
ganisation.
R. P. Smith of Clinton was
Thornwell
Is Willed
$380,000
Greenville—Gifts of $380,000
each to Thornwell Presbyterian
Children’s Home at Clinton
and Connie Maxwell (Baptist)
Home at Greenwood were left
by Louis B. McDaniel, Green,
villian, who was buried here
Monday.
Announcement of the be
quests was made, which were
provided in an equal division
of his estate, at the meeting
yesterday of Enoree Presby
tery at Reedy River Baptist
Church.
Named on the arrangement, “ r “ c “ l , e 1 '“t «
committee for the county dinner Greenvll e In ^
years represented Collier’s
magazine in this territory. In
1928, he entered the real estate
and rental business in Green
ville, in which he was engaged
for many years.
Library Story
Hour To End
This Week
The earth was turned at the
young’s people library at Pres- northeast corn er of the proposed
byterian College is a branch of dormitory. Handling the shovels
the Laurens County library.
Hours are 2:30 to 5:00 Mon
day through Friday, and 8:30 to
12:00 noon Saturday, Mrs. Gray
said.
in this symboUc activity were
two members of the PC board of
trustees who have taken a lead
in the current building program
—Trustee Chairman Robert M.
be open in the court house in
Laurens Aug. 3-15 and Sept. 6,
7, 8 for registration of voters
who need certificates for parti-
of cipation in the November gen-
The children’s and young peo
ple’s library at Presbyterian
CoUege will conclude its weekly
story hour from 10:00-11:00
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Story hour was. begun six
weeks ago under the direction of
Mrs. James S. Gray and her as
sistants, Mrs. George Cornel son,
Mrs. Joe Holland, Mrs. James
Von Hollen. Mrs. William Can
non, Mrs. Richard Adams and
Miss Susan Turner.
Mrs. Phil Huff, Laurens Coun
ty librarian, said this week that
the vacation-time story hour had
been succesful and a large num
ber of children had attended
each session. The children and
Clinton Area Man Drowns
In Farm Pond Near Here
JOHN S. GLOVER
Glover to Speak
were Smith, Furman Ott and Ted
Anderson of Laurens. ~ ’—-
Mr. White, who told of experi
ences as a delegate at the re
cent Republican convention in
A 31-year-old Clinton area
Negro drowned in a farm pond
off Secondary Highway 260 about
nine miles south of here Monday
morning as he fished with two
companions.
Laurens County Sheriff R. Eu
gene Johnson identified the vic
tim as Oscar Lee Hill of the
Greenwood Highway near here.
Sheriff Johnson said Hill’s two
companions, Joseph Bowers of
Rt. 1, Clinton, and Oscar Lee
Coleman of the Airport Road,
told him the trio had been fish
ing at a pond on the Hayne B.
less than an
On South Carolina
feet from shore, the two wit
nesses told officers. . | _ i ■ a j 4
Both non-swimmers, they said At KlWRIlK MpPl
pushed a log out to Hill which "I 1 •vCI
he barely touched before he went
down.
The three were employed at
Clinton Milling Co. and were off
Monday for the fishing expedi
tion.
Deputy Sheriff Arthur Dun
away located the body shortly
before noon in the pond, less
than half an acre in size. Assist
ing were Deputy Joe Jones,
state highway patrolmen and
volunteers.
Mr. Pickett is married to the
former Miss Agnes Ruff Brooks
of Winns boro, and they have an
11-year old son, Leroy Alan.
He replaces the Rev. J. Her
bert Thomas, who has moved to
Greenville.
Clinton Tennis
Toumey Begins
At PC Monday
The fourth annual Clinton City
Tennis tournament is scheduled
to begin Monday at the Presby
terian College courts, with
matches in the following divis
ions: men, ladies, junior boys
and girls (If and under); sin
gles, doubles and mixed'doubles.
Players interested in entering
should contact Rufus K. Sadler,
Mias Amelia Nichols, or Dodge
Frederick at Presbyterian Col
lege.
A small entrance fee will be
made to cover the ooet of troph
ies and tennis balls tarnishsd for
each match.
named county finance chair- San Francisco. He stated, ‘Tt is
man,, and Mrs. Smith outlined my belief this might be the last
the organization for the county opportunity we will have to vote Presbyterian Church.
Republican women’s dub, stat- for a conservative government.”
ing that the next meeting is The Republican party, he said,
slated for July 30 at *7:80 p. m., has the candidates and the plat-
at the Community Center. form. “Our goal is to elect a
Smith stated that the c o u n t y true conservative to the presiden-
Registration Board office would cy of the United States.”
COLEMAN REUNION
The descendants of the late
Matilda and Absalom Coleman Workman farm
will hold a reunion at Camp Fel- hour when Hill waded into the
lowship July 26. Dinner will be water to retrieve a cork
served at 1 o’clock, and those at- his line snapped.
tending are asked to bring a pic- Hill aparently stepped into view the body but did not sche-
Magistrate Sam McCrary, act- ,, * . ’
- JL i- the years he spent in Brazil
’Explosive South America’ will
be the topic when John S. Glover,
associate professor of romance
languages at Presbyterian Col
lege, addresses the Clinton Ki-
wanis Club at its final July meet
ing tonight.
The meeting is set for the
usual time of 7 p. m. at the Mary
Musgrove Hotel.
Glover gained a first-hand
knowledge of S. America during
as
.(tor tog tor <Wy Coroaer Marihall repreKnta u va , Brlttoh
Pressley, empapeled a jury to
V but
He was a member of Fourth ^ lunch and swee t ene< i tea. water over his head about 29 dule an inquest.
m., Saturday, July 81.
Dr. Robert L. Lynn
To Join College
Biology Department
Dr. Robert T. Lynn, whose
grandfather was president of
Thornwell Orphanage for many
years and whose father attended
Presbyterian College, will join
the PC faculty this fall as asso
ciate professor of biology.
In making the announcement
today, Academic Dean Joseph
M. Gettys said Dr. Lynn will
make the third man in the biol
ogy department headed by Dr.
Alex Stump. Carl J. Freeman
serves here as an instructor.
Robert Lynn comes to Presby
terian from the faculty of Emory
and Henry College, where he has
taught for the past year. A na
tive of Texas, he received both
his BA and MA degrees from
^ ^ . Florida State and his PhD in
Passing Cars Cause Wreck Z
This tractor-trailer of the Hactahee TVanaporta- one child.
tJon Co., overturned at 8:80 a. m* Saturday, on Inter- The new PC professor is the
state 86 near the Hwy. 72 interchaat* Edward Grady grandson of Dr. L. Ross Lynn,
Shealy of Florence, driver, stated that two can passed president of Thornwell from 1918
him at high spend and cut back into Us lane too quick- to 1943, and the soo of Dr. R
ly. He applied brakes and the track jecknifed and Matthew Lynn, PC ahmws of
overturned, he said. Photo show* cargo being true- the class of 1994 who ssrss as
ferred to another track. Highway Patrolman Clyde • pastor of the Midland (Tex.)
Collins investigated.—Photo by Paul Quinton. First Presbyterian Church.
Scene Where Man Drowned Monday
ton where Oscar Lee Hill, 81-year-old
Negro, was drowned Monday morning
while on a fishing trip.—Photo by Paul
>— a.
VIUlfltML
Law enforcement officers and vol
unteers are shown here at a pond on
the Hayne B. Workman farm near Clin-
business firm. He has continued
to keep well-informed about
Latin American developments
and makes an interesting presen
tation about this complicated
area which is now so crucial to
U. S. diplomacy.
A native of England, John
Glover was educated at Oxford
University, from which he was
graduated with honors in lan
guages. He has been a resident
of Clinton since 1947.
143 Phones Added
In Clinton, Joanna
Local Southern Bell Manager
D. H. Martin said this week that
143 additional telephones have
been added to the Clinton and
Joanna exchanges since January
1, bringing orders for new serv
ice during the first six months
of 1964 up over what was anti
cipated late last year.
Nearly 14,000 have been added
in the state as a whole. He pre
dicts that this rate of growth will
continue “at least through the
rest of the year.”
“Before the year is over South
ern Bell will have spent a
ord $28 million in its
tion program in the state to
vide facilities for net
and to further improve
service,” Mr. Martin said. Ha
added that over $&J milltow wll
have been spsat la tha Bitu
burg district by the sad of tha