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Riles on Friday For George W. Copeland George Watts Copeland, 81, died Tuesday night in the Ri- kard Nursing Home at Lexing ton. He had be^n in declining health about six months. He was a native of Laurens County, son of the late John Holland and He The Clinton Chronicle 4 Vd. 66 — No. 49 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, December 9, 1965 To Be Unveiled Sunday af Joanna The 11 am- service Sunday lived in Clinton the past 80 years and was a member of the ARP Church and a former member of the Masons and the Clinton Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Copeland was cashier of the old First National Bank of Clinton and later for many at Epworth Methodist Church at years was treasurer of the Clin- Joanna will feature the unveil- tan Production Credit Associa- ing of a brush oU portrait of tion until his retirement. Surviving are his. wife Mrs. John T * Gaskins » local preacher Ethel Jones Copeland, and one 111 the S™ 01 Carolina Methodist son, George T. Copeland, and a Conference, number of nieces and nephews. The portrait and service will Funeral servces will be held be a tribute to the long and Friday at 2:30 p. m. a tthe ARP faithful service to Epworth Church, conducted by the Rev. Church by Mr. Gaskins. Appre- Zeb Williams and the Rev. P. L. ciation on behalf of the congre- Grier of Laurens. gation will be spoken by Hack Burial will be in Rosemont Prater, church lay leader. Cemetery. Miss Kittie M. Moseley, chair- The family is at the home at man of the Commission on 203 Nbrth Adair Street. Christian Social Concerns, will unveil the portrait. P/imI C An #/»;A In addition to Mr. Gaskins Lorol bervcie Sunday himself, several of his chUdren By College Choir have been and are active in var- Scheduled for 5 P. M. iZch hMM ^ work ‘ n ““ A Christmas Carol Service will On Dec. 11, Mr. Gaskins will be presented by the Presbyter- observe his 88th birthday, ian College choir this Sunday afternoon (Dec. 12) in Belk Au ditorium on the PC campus. It is schedttled to start at 8 p. m., and the public is cordially invited to attend Gaskins Portrait BrrWhjtten Awarded Honorary Degree 1 „ N. - V. College Dedicates Two Buildings At Dedication of Greenville Hall Local Farm Bureau Hits 345 Membership The South Carolina Fai'm Bur- A number of Greenville resisdents were in Clinton.Friday for services ded icating Greenville Hall, the’ new dining facility at Presbyterian College, funds for which were largely contributed by in Greenville. From left, are Dr. Marc C. The 34-voiced mixed choir Will eau closed out its membership ’ fiends of-the college and Presbyterians present a program of special y ear on Nov. 30 with an a],l Christmas music in conjunction time high of 24,001 farm family with selected readings of Scrip- members. Laurens County Farm ture pertinent to the Christmas Bureau made a substantial con- story. tribution to this record by reach- Professor Charles Gaines, di- big its membership quota of 348. rector of the choir, announc- “This has been a year of great ed that music selected for the achievements in Farm Bureau,” service will come from compos- sa *d County President T. J. ers and sources from the 16th Copeland, “and the high interest century to the present day He m our organization could have said several carol arrangements been borne out in no better way will be included in the service, than by, reaching this all-time and the audience will be invited high membership.” to participate in the singing of “This is especially significant carols. Some of the music will since for the past several years be accompanied by guitar, per- the number of farmers has been cussion, trumpet and organ, and declining at a rapid rate,” he several anthems will be sung continued Weersing.) president of the col’ege; R. M. Vance, of Clinton, chairman of the col lege Board of Trustees; Buck Mickel, president of Daniel Construction Co.; Dr. Newman Faulconer, pastor of Green ville’s First Presbyterian Church; and Malcolm P. Niven, Greenville indus trialist. without accompaniment. Winning Floats in Above are the floats that won the first three places in Clinton's Christmas parade last Thursday, according to decision of the judges. At top is the entry of Whit ten Village, first; center, Broad St. Methodist Church, second; lower photo. Church of God of Prophecy, third. Other winners were: Freshman Class of Presbyte rian College, fourth; First Baptist Church, fifth; Ki- wanis Club, sixth; First Presbyterian Church, seventh. —Photos by Dan Yarborough. PC Annual Gifts Program Now Stands at $73,615 The Presbyterian College An- in making the announcement, nual Giving program moved pointed out the $85,000 objective closer to its goal today, with represents the largest total yet $73,615.61 reported thus far for sought by this PC program. It Prnmntinn the 1966 efforts. compares to the $77,518 produced RCCeivCS rrOniOilOll COL. IVEY The annual state conventldh held in Charleston recently was attended by six members from Laurens county. This was the largest number to attend a state convention from the county in recent years. The American Farm Bureau Convention will be held in Chi- 4** cago on Dec. 12-16 and a large ^ group of South Carolina mem bers is expected to attend. Mn. Agnes Bailey, secretary of the Laurens County unit, will travel with the group by chartered bus. Sidelights of the tour will Include visits to Detroit and Niagara Falls. The delegation will leave from Columbia on Dec. 10 and return Dec. 19. At Home On Leave First Lletutenant Cliff Me- Kittrick, who received his pro motion to that rank Friday, is at home on leave from the Do minican Republic where he is stationed with an artillery unit At College Convocation Sunday Afternoon PartMpating in exercises in Belk Auditorium Sunday afternoon when ded ication services were held for Clinton Hall, the first women’s dormitory at Presbyterian College, and an honorary degree was conferred uppon Dr. B. O. Whitten, recently retired superintendent of Whitten Village, a state institution here, were the platform participants (above) in the convocation. From left, iroift row—Dr. Marc C. Weersing, president of,the college; Dr. Whitten; Governor Robert E. McNair, speaker for the occasion; and Robert M. Vance, of Clinton, chairman of the col lege Board of Trustees, who presided and conferred the degree; back row— the Rev. Alfred L. Bixler, pastor of Clin ton’s First Presbyterian Church; Dr. Marshall W. Brown, president-emeritus of the college; T. E. Addison, former president of the college alumni associ ation and leader in the raising of funds for Clinton Hall, who presented the building to the college;-the Rev. J. H. Darr, pastor of Clinton’s First Baptist Church; and the Rev. Dr. W. Redd Tur ner, pastor-emeritus of the First Pres byterian Church, who led the litany of dedication.—Photos by Dan Yarborough. President Marc C. Weening, in the record campaign of last year. He said the 1965 pace is well ahead of any previous year at this date. Of the $73,615.61 given to date, $56,249.11 has been earmarked for Living Endowment purposes, including $7,727 for the Walter Johnson Club. Another $17,366.50 has been sent directly to the Johnson Club, bringing the to tal for this alumni athletic or ganization to $25,093.50. Annual Giving is a program conducted each year among the alumni and friends of Presby- Lt. Col. Benjamin F. Ivey, from the 82nd Airborne Division j n Concert Season was promoted to that rank on November II. Col. Ivey la cur rently on duty in South Viet Nam where he serves as an advisor with a Vietnamese unit. Mrs. Ivey, the former Mary Kent Wysar, and child ren are making their home here while Lt. Col. Ivey Is away. Legion Auxiliary To Help In Gift Shop The local chapter of the Amer- of Ft. Bragg, N. C. He expects to return to the Dominican Re public following his leave. Lt. McKittrick, a West Point gradu ate, is a son of K. W. McKittrick and the late Mrs. McKittrick. He has been on active duty the past 18 months. Orchestra San Pietro To Give Concert Here Dec. 13 Lions Club to Host CHS Football Team At Friday Night Meet terian College for gifts to supple- lean Legion Auxiliary will take ment the current operating bud- part in the Christmas Gift Shop get of the college. RICHARD V. BODMER Bodmer Transfers To Clinton Plant Of Torrington Co. Three Laborers Added to Street Dept. B^Council at the Veterans Hospital in Co lumbia Tuesday, December 14, from 9:30 a. m. to 1:00 p. m. Members who wish to assist in this project are asked to call Mrs. Earl Workman as soon as possible so that transportation may be arranged. Miss Willard Named The addition of three laborers C*... u.- to the street department to hand- ^Udent Ot The Month le the growing work load was Miss Juanita Willard, daugh- authorized by City Council at its ter of Mr. and Mrs. John Willard Dec. meeting Friday night De- of Rt. 1, Clinton, was selected Richard V. Bodmer has Join- partment Superintendent A. B. student of the month by the fe ed the Clinton Bearings Plant of Blakely will employ the men culty of Cecil’s Business Cot the Torrington Company as man- immediately, it was stated. lege, Spartanburg, ufacturing manager. He is a na- aijo voted to withhold She was selected on the basis tive of Albany, W. Ya. and a g Qr present it approval of the scholarship, leadership, at* proposed purchase of the Joan- tendance, cooperation and school HnfSh Ar 09 utilltle * «yrt«n from the *P ir *t. Y nlte l!Ji tate * NaVal Academy at Joanna Community Corporation. . Annapolis. Broad Street for Its entire Davidson Circles After completion of seven length was designated as a no- \a/ aa L Pro war years active service with the parking area for tractor-trailer TTCC * rruyer Navy on endaers, aircraft car- trucks, except for and A week of prayer was held riers and submarines, he joined unloading. Inst week at the Davidson the Torrington Company in 1965 The mayor was authorized to Street Baptist Church. The Orchestra San Pietro of Na ples, Italy, will perform at 8:15 p. m., Dec. 13, at Belk Audi torium in the season’s first of fering by the Community Con cert Association. This is the fourth year the Na ples orchestra has appeared in the United States where it is re turning to fill 80 engagements, many of them repeat perform ances. The ensemble has also been signed to recording con tract by Decca Records. Orchestra San Pietro is an outgrowth of a development in contemporary music, the virtu oso chamber orchestra. It has received rave reviews in this country and Canada where it has toured extensively, as well as in the music capitals of Eu rope. w Renata Ruotolo, its conductor and musical director, founded RENATA RUOTOLO Conductor Hundreds of campus vistton* including the governor and oth er state dignitaries, joined Pres byterian College in the dadica- tion of two new buildings and the honoring of Dr. B. O. Whit ten during the past week-end. Governor Robert E. McNair spoke at the Sunday afternoon dedication of Clinton Hall wom en’s dormitory. It also served as the occasion for awarding Dr. Whitten an honorary doctor of humanities degree. The program dedicating Greenville Dining Hall last Fri day morning drew Buck Mickel, president of Daniel Cnostruction Company, as the principal speaker. Senator Edgar Brown, leader protem of the South Carolina Senate, and State House of Rep resentatives Speaker Sol Blatt were among the some 800 per sons who assembled in Belk Au ditorium for the Sunday pro gram. Governor McNair praised PC’s 25-year development pro gram and added: “The face of the college changed dramatically in th#> first decade of the program. No wonder of the college is looking forward to fulfillment of thsi program in the centennial year 1980.” He said “Clinton Hall standa, as a monument to the renewed educational commitment that can be felt and observed throughout our region.” And he pointed out that small Christian schools provide a source of de velopment for the values needed by young people in a society which measure in terms of ma terial worth. Acknowledging the presence of Dr. Whitten, who recently re tired as superintendent of Whit ten Village, Governor McNair said: “The honorary degree you are awarding Dr. Whitten quently expresses the principles to which your college is dedicat ed in its contribution to the ad vancement of learning. Because of Dr. Whitten’s perseverance and devotion, the Whitten Vil lage of today is a far cry from the institution that was termed a place of weeds, briars, deso lation and damnation in the early years of its operation.” The large audience, sprinkled with state legislators and other dignitaries, gave a standing ovation to the 79-year-old doctor as he came to the rostrum to accept the degree presented by PC president Marc C. Weersing and Robert M. Vance, chairman of the board of trustees. The citation pointed to Dr. Whitten V'pioneer efforts in the field of mental health” as a “Christian servant of the people of South Carolina. His tender loving care to the thousands of slowlearning children over a pe riod of 47 years has caused the people to rise up and call him A special salute to the 1965 blessed. His work is perpetuated Ointon High football team, the in their hearts and in the In- coachine staff cheerleaders and stituiton ^ named for him.” coaching staff cneerieaders and other participantg ^ the Sun _ chaperones will be the feature day afternoon program were: of the Clinton Lions Club meet- the Reverend Joseph H. Darr, ing Friday evening when they pastor of the Clinton First Bap- will be guests of the club. list church, invocation; Dr. Speakers for the occasion will Marshall W. Brown, president be Coach Cally Gault and Coach emeritus of PC, introduction of- Billy Tiller of the Presbyterian Governor McNair; Thomas E. College staff. Addison, past president of the Also guests of the club will be PC Alumni Association, a talk other members of the Presby- on the $500,000 gift of Clinton terian College coaching staff. Hall by the local community; The session will held at Hotel Dr. W. Redd Turner, pastor Mary Musgrove, beginning at emeritus of the Clinton First 7:00 p.m. Presbyterian Church, litany of dedication; and the Reverend rhiirrh Offirorc Alfred L. Bixler, pastor of the l~nurcn yrncers Clinton First Presbyterian To Be Installed Church, prayer of dedication . . an d benediction. At the service next Sunday Last Frjd morning a ^ morning in St. John’s Lutheran of GreenviUe area friends joine 5 Church the following newly elect- Presbyterian CoUege students In ed members of the church coun- the formal ^cation of Green- Cll ^ W i n ! >< L 8 d 10 8erve ® ville Dining HaU. Buck Mickel’s period of three years: Mrs. F. address on ‘Industry and Edu- WMfctl Hits Iwke In Srine Bowl Same Joel Whitsel, Clinton High the 1965-66 season will be by Richard Cross and Doris Yar- ick, vocal soloists, January 11. as a project engineer. He held execute an easement with Dun- program was sponsored by the School halfback who partidpat- Lutheran Church this position until 1900 when ha can Cre6k Watershed for the church circles, and each,night ed as a member of the South D , , u a. was appointed asstataat super- construction of a dam just abovt a special offering was taken Carolina team' in the Shrine r ICdgCS NOW At Intendent of the company’! the city’s water pumping station for the Lottie Moon Christmas Bowl game at Charlotte Satur- riw era Of) ki nr L Broad Street Plant in Torring- on the erode to store a certain ofrerina. The goal of $300 wps <*ay, lived up to' the expecta- / '^‘ rT,ou i pL • ttmif of r»i>f and coaches. He It was announced.in last Sun- DTOOd jTTGGi v^nOli scored two touchdowns for the day’s bulletin at St John’s Luth- p rp . pn f f'nntntn winning South Carolinians, who eran Church that the pledges to 10 rYWIir v*anrara defeated North Carolina 31-27. the building fund of that con- “The Lord Emmanuel,” the orchestra, a group of 92 ac- A ~ i- . , M. Boland, Wyman M. Shealy, rat inn in cwh” ■ -■ computed instrumentalists. His •'■e*. «««*"> »'“>“■> and Walter A. Sigman, Jr. teh rcmartable purpose was to create a virtuoso Jj as selected a program em- They w ji] assume their duties in k..,.. y,... « e i ds durine the ensemble capable of doing Jua- bracin ^ n ? us !5 l 7 rom a P erio(Is on January 1. They ewere elect- Das , an years He said the trett tice to a rich repertory of mas- f nd j ch “ l . s -,™ s 1 “ as ”? th :ed to succeed John M. Fulmer, £dav in i,Ules .™th^? terpieces written especially for hired soloists will be the flutist Shelton J. Rimer and J. V. Stil- Du | 0 a nd oaoer ’ metals and small group, but which have a "<! _ well, Jr. The latter were In- Xdc“s iTtow’art h£e ^ been neglected In an age that Admission to the Community eligible, according to the church tomated nlanta with a minimum puts emphasis upon the solo ar- Concert program is by member- constitution, to succeed them- ^ m ac hine tenders And ha tis land the massive symphony ship Uchet only. Mrs. Frank S ei V es. “IJ"? " orchestra. Sherrill is president of the as- Dr. E. B. Keisler, interim pas- “There is nothing wrong with For the Clinton concert next sociation, and Col. A. J. Thack- tor of the congregation, will word automate*as it applies st< ™ is concert chairman. preach next Sunday morning on, t o the South and particular^ to The seoond performance of “The BewUdering Christ”. th e r*mHn„. Kiwonis Club Gives $500 For CHS Tennis Courts The Clinton Kiwanis Club re- the Caro Linas and Georgia. Wi are running out of valuable la bor and as we want to coathwa to expand and to raise wages for a better living, we can do this only through technology and education.” The youthful Daniel a cently presented to Clinton High said . “It is imperative that ton. Conn. amount of water for sse by tbs reached. In 1962, ha was transferred to city. Also, anthorlsatlon was superintendent of the Thrust given to secure optfcms on ad- Dron-ln For Busing Division and eamplo ditional land In the area. a'rvp-m ryr wcovclJ — — ■ ■ —■--- ■ ■ ___ j ^ shop, a position he has held in- An ordinance was adopted to SeiHOT Citizens Whitsel was used mostly to gregation for 1966 had, as of Christmas cantata by Robert School officials a check for 500, Carobna and other states with til his current appointment at allow trains to operate at a The Extension Department of make the required yardage on noon last Friday, reached a Graham, will be presented by the money being the proceeds of ^^°rk law retain this meed limit of IB mOu an hoar the First Baptist Church of Jo* the crucial third down, general* total of $17,554.80. The minimum the adult choir of Broad Street the Kiwanis pancake supper freedom. We* do not beUevo a Mr. Bodmer woQ joia the CHn- until anglnu pan tha last street anna will have a ly sweeping wide. goal of the. congregation was Methodist Church on Sunday which was held Oct. 29 at the - sho f ld ** compelled bp ton Bearings Plant staff fan crossing at tha eastern and drop-in for senior citizens Sun- The South Carolina coaches $10,000. Shelton J. Rimer direct- evening, December 19, at 7:30. school prior to the Clinton High- time around the first of tha year western limits of the city. ' day, December 12, between 1:00 chow to play a ground game, ed the appeal. Narrator will be Miss Mickey Newberry football game. a we told to the and win alternate hit time bo- Coundl voted to praaent a and 4:80 in the church social and fans did not get to see any Officials of the congregation Rogers, and soloists Rev. E. W. The funds ere to be used to * rtgb to Torrington Christmas gift of H6 to such halt AU retired citizens of the of Whitsei’s pass racopttona and report that some of the mam- Rogers, Mrs. Ronald Burnside rid in the cost of constructing [ o^ly wy to you that the ^— his Connactt- emptoyea of tha etty, payable Joanna community art cordlaly flashy downfleld runs for which berf have already began pay- *&£ Mrs. FrankJUmage. .^* w t * nni * coart * ** the 8 P ( ConUnwdoopage qp*** Dec. Iff. Invited. he is r«trwiw ing on their next year’s pledges. The public Is Invited. school.