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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Clinton, S. C^ Thursday, December 31, 1965
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FARMS and FOLKS
P t ' By L. C. HAMILTON
Clefnxon College Extension Information Specialist
(Editor’s note: T. W. Mor
gan, a guest writer for this
week's Farms and Folks, de
scribes a reawakening of the
community spirit in rural South
Carolina. L. C. Hamilton will
be back next week.)
By Thee. W. Morgan,
Clem sen University
Associate Director of Extension
Rural communities, organized
under their own leadership to
carry out planned programs of
community development, are
making a great contribution to
the shaping of the future of rural
South Carolina.
In over 400 rural communities
these organizations perform the
functions of chambers of com
merce, city councils and devel
opment boards.
When our pipneer forefathers,
reached this vast, strange land,
they settled in communities.
They did this to provide protec
tion, to be able to maintain
churches and schools and to help
each other with work in time of
trouble.
Many of these original com
munities still exist, bearing the
same names given to them by
the early settlers. Some have
grown into cities and towns and
some have disappeared. How
ever, the great majority still re
main as rural communities.
Throughout the years, these ru
ral communities have developed
and kept alive the ideals and
standards that have made our
country strong. Many of our
Great civil, military and re
ligious leaders have come from
these communities. Today the
majority of people in South Caro
line live in rural communities.
Consequently, it is for the best
interest of our future strength
and well-being that we preserve
the rural community as a unit in
our society.
Many of the changes that have
taken place in the present cen
tury, and which we count as pro
gress, have made it hard for ru
ral communities to survive as
centers of interest and activities
of rural people. Improved roads,
automobiles, consolidation of ru
ral schools, growth of industrial
employment giving rise to part-
time farming and more rural
non-farm people, all have tend
ed to weaken rural conynunities
by moving the interests and ac
tivities of the people toward lar
ger and more urban centers.
In many cases there has been
a loss of community spirit and
pride and a lessening of com
munity activity. The general ap
pearances of communities has
gone down. Farm and home im
provements have lagged and the
general community welfare has
suffered.
The Community Development
Program has been the answer to
this problem in many South
Carolina communities. Here ru
ral communities organize under
their own leadership, take stock
of their community problems and
needs and plan and carry out
their own program of commun
ity development and improve
ment.
Once the people of a commun
ity organize and learn that by
working together they can ac
complish things they thought im
possible, there is not much limit
to what they can get done.
Throughout South Carolina ru
ral community centers have been
built. Many abandoned rural
school houses have been acquir
ed by the community clubs and
converted to community centers.
Recreation programs and fa
cilities have been provided for
young people. Four-H Clubs,
scout troups and other youth or
ganizations and activities have
been sponsored. Churches have
been improved, and church and
Sunday school attendance has
gone up.
, Central garbage dumps have
been provided away from the
public eye. Eyesores and unde
sirable places have removed.
Community programs of boll
weevil and other pest control
have been carried out. Farms
and farming programs have ben-
efitted. Marketing facilities for
farm and, home products have
been established Farm and ru
ral non-farm homes have been
painted and landscaped, and in
many cases water and tele
phones added.
These and many other accom-
p'ishments have been chalked up
by South Carolina rural people
in over 400 community develop
ment clubs, and they are still go
ing strong.
Each year these communities
raise their sights and set up new
goals and objectives in keeping
with a rapidly^ changing rural
life. Many communities are now
working toward rural water sys
tems, and rural industries to pro
vide more employment, rural
fire control, facilities, expanded
recreational facilities, rural zon
ing, additional marketing facili
ties and many others.
Community development clubs
hold regular meetings < at their
respective community centers,
often with a supper together and
a program of information and
recreation. Consequently,
through working and playing to
gether, they are realizing that in
addition to their material accom
plishments some of the greatest
values of their program are re
alized in the spirit of cooperation,
fellowship and good will that is
being developed.
Rural South Carolina is richer
because of the program of com
munity development clubs. May
their number increase. ,
New Regulations
For Restaurants
Consult
John
L.
Mimnaugh
about this questfou:
“I have secured surety
bonds from your agency
to guarantee completion
of my store building, and
fidelity bonds covering;
my employees. Do you
also supply license
bonds?”
BAILEY AGENCY
M. S. Bailey A Son, Bankers, Building
Dial Day 833-0681 — Night and Sunday 833-0323
Telephone
Talk
By
D. H. MARTIN
Your Telephone
Clinton television viewers are invited to watch
the first Bell Telephone Hour of the Near Tear
on Tuesday, January 5, at 10:00 P. 1L, on NBOTV.
Nanette Fabray, star of movies and Broadway, will
serve as hostess to a vary interesting cast, includ
ing the composer of some of our best-loved music,
Duke Ellington. The Duke and his band will ap
pear to perform from his list of favorites, which
includes “Mood Indigo.'" Others on the program
include Richard Tucker (opera), Ludne Amara
(opera), Andre Prokovsky and Melissa Hayden
(ballet), Jack Cassidy and Barbara Cook (Broad
way stars).
If you notice something mis
sing from your favorite restau
rant during the next six months,
there is a reason.
“Those familiar. A, B or C
grades displayed by eating es
tablishments for years are being
taken down,” Marvin E. Roy
ster and Von A Long Jr., sani
tarians of the Laurens County
Health Department, announced
this week, “but,only temporari
ly.” *
Their absence until July 1 is
due to new food service regula
tions being put into effect by the
S. C. State Board of Health, Mr.
Royster and Mr. Long pointed
out. The regulations were adopt
ed recently because of the in
creasing incidence of foodborne
illnesses in South Carolina,
which caused three deaths and
affected more than 900 persons
during 1063 alone. The regula
tions went into effect on Decem
ber 16.
The new regulations, based on
U. S. Public Health Service rec
ommendations, will put increas
ed emphasis upon safer food
handling and food protection and
will employ a demerit point sys
tem to be used by state and
county sanitarians in inspection
and grading restaurants and oth
er eating establishments.
“Under the previous regula
tions,” Mr. Royster and Mr.
Long explained, “a Grade B es
tablishment was just as sanitary
as a Grade A establishment, and
the difference was simply due to
a dificiency In the structure or
equipment. The new grades,
which will be displayed starting
in July, will be based on a more
positive evaluation of the estab
lishment's sanitary procedures
and protection of-food from can-
lamination. ”
County sanitarians are work
ing closely with owners and op
erators of food service establish
ments to assist them in advising
their personnel about the new re
quirements and training th»w> tn
sanitary methods of food hand
ling and protection.
’The regulations have been
adopted to protect the public’s
” the sanitarians empha-
Dr. Gladys Smith wick
Passes In Charlotte
Charlotte, N. C. — Dr. Laura
Gladys Smithwick, 66, recently
of the Presbyterian Mission Hos
pital at Bulaps, Republic of the
Congo, died *n a Charlotte Hos
pital Monday morning.
A memorial service will be
held at the Morrison Chapel of
Covenant Presbyterian Church
in Charlotte at 3:00 p. m., Wew-
nesday.
Before going to the Congo as
a missionary, Dr. Smithwick
graduated from Oxford College
and the Medical College of the
University of Virginia. After her
formal education she went to
China as a medical missionary.
At the outbreak of the Japan-
China conflict in 1S39, she came
back to the United States and
then went to Belgium to study
French, and from there went to
the Congo.
In 1961 she was appointed by
the Board of World Missions of
the Presbyterian Church and
was assigned to the general
practice of medicine and clinical
work in the Belgian Congo.
Dr. Smithwick's services in the
the mission field was sponsored
partially by the First Presbyte
rian Church of Clinton.
Surviving are three sisters,
Mrs. George Dew of Sanford,
N. C., Mrs. Herndon Dew of
Lancaster, and Mrs. Grover
Grisom of Henderson, N. C.,
and two brothers, James Smith
wick of Vadien, Miss., and Joel
Smithwick of Chester.
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Bnak of Clin
ton will be held in the offices
of the Bank on Tuesday, Janu
ary 12, 1966, at 4:00 p. m.
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CARD OF THANKS
We would like to express our
heartfelt thanks to our friends
and neighbors and especially the
Hurricane and Lydia Baptist
congregations for the many
nesses shown us at the death of
our husband and father. Every
thing done was so greatly appre
ciated May God Mess you.
MRS. W. E. ELLIS
Too Late To Classify
LOST—Christmas Eve in shop
ping area, key ring, with car
keys and several smaller keys.
Any information call Chronicle.
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FOR RENT — 3-bedroom brick
home on West Centennial St.
Available Jan. 1. Call Murphey
Timmerman, 833-1060. D31-lc'
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SALE PRINTED THIS AD
IN A LOCAL PAPER:
“Further information on
prices and merchandise may
be obtained by telephone. A
special lion has been installed
for this purpose.”
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RECENTLY WE HEARD ABOUT A TELEPHONE
REPAIRMAN who had been up a pole doing some work
on a telephone line. When he started to climb down the
pole he saw a large ferocious dog waiting for him on the
ground. The man didn’t panicTJust climbed back up,
hooked onto a fine and called the police on his test set.
An officer came, pulled the menacing Rover away, and
the pbo^e man climbed down in safety. This is just an
other example of how people get help quickly, easily with
their telephone!
• • * • •
HOW OBSERVANT ARE YOU? Try to draw a tele
phone dial from memory, including all the finger holes,
numbers and letters. Probably can't do it on the first try;
most people can't Fortunately, we don’t have to trust to
memory when it comes to making phone calls. The phone
book is a great source, not just of phone numbers, but of
all sorts of valuable information like area codes, details
on how to make special kinds of calls and. of course,
those wonderful Yellow Pages! Why not take time now to
get familiar with your telephone's best friend?
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9W W.
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1964 DECEMBER 1964
BETWEEN THE YEARS" SALE
Savn 50% and mornl Savings you cnn*t gnt In 1965
Tmmnndoua discounts throughout tho storo.
. listod bnlow mo just'n fnw of tho UNBELIEV
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LIVING ROOM
TABLES
BEDDING
DINING ROOM
ODDS-N-ENDS
BED ROOM
SALE NOW
IN PROGRESS
DINETTES
x Ends Thursday
9 Doc 31st
LAMPS
CHAIRS
CARPET & RUGS
ACCESSORIES
APPLIANCES
WAS
189.95
WAS
199.95
<&
WERE
219.95
WAS
1 219.95
WAS
239.95
WERE
119.95
WAS
69.50
WERE
39.95
WAS
89.95
WERE
8995
WAS
69.95
WERE
79.95
WERE
49.95
French Provincial NOW
SOFA $100
Beige Upholstery
Traditional NOW
SOFA $100
Beige Nylon Jacquard
2, T-Cushion Quilted NOW
SOFAS $110
Poly Dacron Cushions
Sofa during the day . NOW
SLIDA BED... $120
with foam mattress
Super-soft Southern
Cross
NOW
$160
NOW
Hida-Bed ..
Sofa by Day
2 only Leather
CLUB CHAIRS $60
Green Upholstered NOW
CLUB CHAIRS $35
6 only occasional NOW
French Chairs $20
1 only barrel back
CHAIR
4 traditional
ROCKERS ..
Solid Mahogany
Green occasional
CHAIR
Brown Plastic NOW
CLUB CHAIR.. $45
6 only Danish NOW
SOFAS $25
without arms
Early American NOW
SOFA $100
Gold upholstery
Early American NOW
SOFA $150
100” long, tweed uphol.
6 only Berkline swivel NOW
ROCKERS .... $45
Gold, Beige upholstery
2 Green Club NOW
CHAIRS $35
Attractive Club NOW
CHAIR $40
WERE 2 only Contem P° rar y NOW
WAS
89.95
WERE
49.95
WAS
189.95
WAS
279.95
WERE
89.95
WERE
69.50
WAS
79.95
$40
NOW
$45
NOW
$50
WAS
39.95
One Red French
CHAIR ...
4 Traditional
^ ROCKERS
2 French Floral
NOW
$35
NOW
$40
2 French NOW
CHAIRS $25
Shrimp Color
WAS
NOW
.... $20
NOW
.... $30
Damaged French NOW
^ CHAIR $20
WA< , Early American Beige NOW
CLUB CHAIR . $45
Group 4x6 NOW
ThrowRugs ....$5
89.95
WERE
14.95
by Mohawk k
Wunda Weve
WAS
279.95
NOW
4 piece Danish
WALNUT BEDROOM SUITE ..$16<
wac Saphire Modern Double NOW
Dresser, Chest, Bookcase Bed $15<
289.95
Stereos
Appliances
Magic Chef
GasRanges
BEDROOMS by
CRAFTIQUE
All pieces ere true Chippendale In every
detail with graduated size. Drawers ere In
laid beaded molding around each drawer
6 Drawer
CHEST..$130
Mirror and Double
WAS
199.00
Kohler Campbell
Pianos
Hoover or G.E.
Vacuums
k Seigler
Bedding
bAVE A LOT
COMPANY
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