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i i HP The Clinton Chronicle Vol. 67 — No. IB Clinton, S. C, Thursday, March 31, 1966 Forest Fire Rages In Cross Hill Area Awarded Joanna Service Pins Registration Board To Be In Session The Registration Board of Laurens County will be in At press time last night, a session at Baldwin Motor forest fire which began Wed? Company on April 12 and at nesday afternoon about 3:00 Clinton Mills Community o’clock, was still raging, hav- Center the 13(h. Hours for ing destroyed some 150 acres the sessions will be 9 a. m. of timber land south of til noon and from 1 p. m. to Mountville on State Highway 5 p. m., 560 between Mountville and Cross Hill, near Mudlick Creek. The property destroyed, said Forester Morris B. Sey mour, with Catawba Timber Co.,’ who was the first to ar rive at the scene, was that of West Virginia Pulp and Pa- At Community Building City Democratic Club To Reorganize Monday T. M. Boyce (left) and J. service pins during March Shealy, W. P. Crawford, E. I)er an< ^ Ja ke Rasor. The A. Whitsel, Lila Gresham. years—J. P. E. Holsonback receive con- were: gratulations from General Twenty-five „ .. , , TI _ ^ T _ „ , x i.r t, w */r land . Harry Senn, G. L. ^Bo- Supenntendent E. W. Rob- Morgan. , land w p Kinardi w t erts, Jr., on completion of Twenty years — Alda Rae Wooten, Erskine Lindsay, 33 years of continuous ser- Price, Demsey IVJorris, Char- Runette Banks. vice at the Joanna Plant of lie Simpson, F. D. Bodie, Ten yearss—T. E. Morris ? r ^ Scystated | hat J 10 , 111 ' Greenwood Mills. James Sanders, Mildred and J. H. Fulmer. Other employees receiving Norris,. D. A. Madden, C. C. Five years—David Booker cause of the fire was .not Fifteen years—W. C. Cope- ^ nown - Only one home was de stroyed by the fire, that of a colored occupant, whose name was not known. Forest- juries had occurred and that foresters from other paper companies and state rangers had arrived with equipment to control the fire. Roads In County To Be Surfaced Awarding of a $109,905 contract . for road work in Laurens County was an nounced this week, by the fj c ' a t,j on 0 f the traffic island State Highway Department, at the end of S. Broad Street The contract was awarded between Highways 56 and 72, to Wham Construction Co., Traffic Island At South End of City To Be Laitdscaped Plans are in the making for landscaping and beauti- PC and Harvard To Meet in Tennis Monday, Tuesday Presbyerian College have one of their biggest challenges of the 1966 season The Clinton City Democrat- Present officers are Roy ic Club will hold Its biennial Holtzclaw, president; L. -S. reorganizational meeting Reddeck, who died during Monday night at the Com- the past year, served as vice* munity Building, Clinton Mill, president; and Jones. will at 7:30, according to Leaman Committeemen are: J. J. D. Jones, secretary-treasur- Clark, ward one; V. ParttS cr. Adflir wflrd two* L. Rdy The club will elect officers, puts,’ ward three; Milford when they entertain Harvard including an executive com- Smith, ward four; Joel Cox, in two tennis matches here mittee, to set machinery in W ard five; E P. Taylor, next Monday and Tuesday. motion for a city Democratic wa rd six. The matches are scheduled primary to nominate a may- The dates for the primaries to start at 2:00 p. m. each or and six counclime'n. probably Will be set for late day on Callaway Courts, and Officers to be elected are May, with the general elec- the public is invited to attend, a president, vice-president, tion coming sometime in Au- The Blue Hose are led this secretary-treasurer, and an gust, year by Bob Harris, South executive eommi 11 e e m a n Carolina’s best and one of from each of the six wards, the South’s top college play- Also to be determined are ers, and by Pete Collins. the dates for ( two primaries. J. ROBERT COX Cox Is Chairman Of Merchants Unit J. Robert Cox is the new Named by Lions Club Citizen of the Year Title Goes to J. B. Templeton Easter Services Planned in City Joseph Bee Templeton, local textile executive, has ; Inc., of Anderson, on the y e n ow Jessamine Garden basis of a low bid, according Q u k Commerce for the fiscal year to S. N. Pearman, Chief . beginning April 1. Highway Commissioner. Bids ^ ^ direction of c , ub Mr . C ox is owner of Cox Lions Club > is ^ award entered ranged as high as mcmbcrs and the ^ oject will Home and Auto supply, Inc. based th e religious pro- be financed by the Gulf Oil j-jp jc member of the First f^ssuonal, and civic contri- TS “^“e r M — a„ d U,c K, » way 76 Bypass, 5.2 miles of wanis Club. Mr . Templeton, a Clin- mile^n na so!/t l h h r a a r„li 1 n » tWs <!"» sponsor such a pro- C " x a""ounccd the follow- Urn Mills vice president, 9.4 miles on South Carolina . ,, .. Brehmer said committee chairmen to has been active in church, 56 and one mile of secondary J lWork has been und(?r way s(?rvp during the year: clean . community and youth work for sometime leading up to Up and Beautification, Carl | <n more tban a Q uar l- er °f completion of preliminary Leonard; Parking and Traf- a a nf Clint™ he plans, and residents are look- f . w „ . * " a y ye o 1 Llinton, he ing forward to the beautifi- • • • > • attended local schools and Brehmer, president of the according to Mrs. Judson c h a irman of the Merchants been named Clinton’s Citi zen of the Year for 1966. The selection, sponsored each year by the Clinton Division of the Chamber of Last of Concert Series a total of 16.9 Road S-3, miles. The contract calls for re surfacing wih hot laid as phaltic concrete. • ... . . Dance Duo to Present Performance Tuesday Registration For New First Graders Slated For Friday * Pre-school registration for cation of the south entrance tivc Affairs< c - Thomas ; is a graduate of Clinton to the city.” ' Promotions and Special High School and Clemson J. B. TEMPLETON The Kiwanis Club and the Clinton - Joanna Ministerial Association have announced plans for community services in celebration of Easter next v/eek. j On Good Friday, April 8, a three-hour-long service will be held from 12 o’clock noon until 3 o’clock, divided into 30-minute sections. Seven dif ferent ministers will lead the r ^ service, based on the 7 last words of Christ on the Cross. Worshippers may come on the hour and the half-hour and remain for as many of the sections of the service as they wish. This service will 1 be held in the First Baptist Church. ‘>t On Easter Sunday„ a Sun rise service sponsored joint ly by the Kiwanis Club and the Ministerial Association will be held on Johnson Field at Presbyteran College. Spec ial music is being planned, to be announced nevt week, and the preacher for the service will be the Rev. J. H. Darr, Holy Week Services At Broad St. Church High School and Clemson Events, D. B. Smith; Educa- University. His textile • , J —. , , - . , uas to r of the First Rantist tion, Joe S. Holland; Welcome career includes manae-erial Church. In October of last ^ stor . ot . first Baptist Newcomers, Mrs. R. P. Ha- SfonTw^fh tKSs year he headed the sue- chur 'h Clinton, mer; Publicity, Mrs. Naomi u 0 Vton Mills Greenwood cessful Billy Graham’s Various churches of the Seymour; Holidays and Store jyuug Brandon Corpora- “Restless Ones”, a youth p il y ar f planning services to * Pre-school registration for Holy Week services will be* Hours, I Mac Adair; Christ- tiorTand Abnev"Mills!For emphasis program in the be conducted in their sanctu- children who will enter the gin Sunday evening at 7:30 mas Parade, Charles Buice; p as j. jg years he has Clinton and Joanna c com- aries on Thursday night, commemorating the Last arrest and crucifixion. The public is urged to par ticipate in as many of these services as possible. lirst grade next fall will be a t Broad Street Methodist Christmas Street Decorations, as vice'^rpssiHpnt of munity. conducted between the hours Church and continue through Mrs. P. M. Moore; Christmas ‘ ^ p f a mem ber and former Su PP er of the L® 1,11 with His The classical and the pop- two have toured together of 9 a.m. and 12 noon Friday, Thursday evening. The pas- Project, W. C. Baldwin; Fi- MUls ^ u 11 « lor ^ muun director of the Clinton K i- d ‘ sci P les . Bnd His subgequent uiar of the dance will be abroad and have received April in a11 Momentary tor, the Rev. E. W. Rogers nance, Ed Perry. Active in the Blue Ridge wanis Club, he currently presented at Belk Auditori- excellent reviews from crit- Laurens County w ho will bring the messages Each chairman is request- Council of Boy Scouts of serves on the Technical urn at 8:15 p. m., April 5, ics throughout the World. School District,No.. 56. will use as his theme “I Walk- e d to call a meeting of his America for more than 20 Advisory Committee of the fnhen Colleen Corkre and Next Tuesday’s dance pro- In order to. enter School a ed: Today (Where Jesus Walk- committee to make plans and is presently serv- Institute of Textile Tech- ijjicbael Maule appear in a gram is a demanding one, child must be six years old cd,” j,, recommendations to be pre* j n £ as a member of the nology in Charlottesville, performance entitled ‘JTwo with | both artists on stage on nf before November 1. Sundaiy evening he will use sented to the group for ap- codnc ii’ s executive board. Va. Lutherans Slate Go Dancing.” much of the evening. Narra- Parents are asked to bring as his topic, ‘‘Back To Beth- proval at the next meeting. For many years he has He is an active member S De rj a | Serviep<; This will be the final con- tor for the program is Miss their childs birth certificate, any”; on Monday evening Meetings of members of the b een instrumental in form- of the Southern Textile Jcrvites cert in the current series, Helen Dayton, an actress if possible. State law also re- ‘‘Weeping Over Wrong”; Merchants Division are held j ng an( i directing youth Association and formerly In observance of Christ’s and a bonus for the more wh o has appeared on the auires that a child be vaccin- Tuesday evening “Arguments on the second Tuesday of each a thletic teams and leagues served as chairman of the last Wdek upon , carth in the than 100 new members who “Patty Duke Show,” '‘‘The ated against smallpox before About Authority” and Wed- month at Hotel Mary Mus- mup a fhletic field at Poin- South Carolina Division. P ? sh - st - John ’s Lutheran nesday, “Religion And Relax- grove at 10 a.m. bought tickets for the 1966-67 Trials of O’Brien,” and “The entering school. , Nurses.” She also appears in if it is impossible for any ation”. The service on Thurs- season. During the evening, ballots theater Productions, and is a child to enroll at -the above day will end with the sacra- [Wj cat j on Services — ” . time, narents should contact m ent of Holy Communion, at ^cuiluiiun jciviics lor new board members will of ^ assa r College, time, parents should contact - Ai. D i’ i r'U L be distributed to adult tick- She holds a roasters degree the principal of the school of v 'hich time his topic will be Af Baptist Church et holders who will choose from Columbia University. their choice nr t-h-cc” relacemcnts for outgoing members of the board. The afhletic field at Poin- — sett Mills in Greenville is Among his other mem- w eek service each P e C v e _ named in his ^tonor for berships are the Clinton ni next w . s u n d a v his contributions to youth Chamber of Commerce, the through FHHav ’hoginnino L and athletics in the great- Lakeside Country Club and CO nSina of r u t f„ « er Greenville area. Much Piedmont Club ot Spar, hymns afreldtoVtam the historic Passion History and The combined talents of Mr. Maule and Miss Corkre add up to many achieve ments. The two met while she was appearing in Broad way’s “My Fair Lady,” and Muralist to Lecture, Do Mural at College Internationally known mur- ar ens ne mess . , Special dedicatory services of his benevolent health tanhurg. Special music by the choir are being planned at the and educational assistance He is married to the an aonronriate meditation tW will be rendered at each ser- First B apt j s t Church for to the youth in the Clin- former Sara McCarley of Dr. E. B. Keisler interim vice under the direction of Apr ji 17 The program which ton area has been done Whitmire. They have two p as tor. Mrs. Ronald Burnside, choir wiU carry the same theme anonymously. aughters, Mrs. D. L. on Thursday evening the director ^and^ Mrs. James for bo t b moming and eve- Mr. Templeton is an eld- Mann (Ann) of Lake Holy Communion will be ad- ning services will include out er in the Presbyterian Wales, Fla., and Mrs. R. ministered. On each of the of town speakers, the pastor, Church and active in the L. McLendon (Miriam) of other evenings the briefer or- Pitts, organist. they later formed their own abs t uirico Schettini will visit concert program. Both were .. ,, u i i ^ ' . ... • , u t the Presbyterian College trained in classical ballet and Mr. Maule has become c 'ampus through next week, a well-known choreographer, lecturing on his art form and He also has danced with executing a mural that will Maria Tallchief, Dame Alicia reman in possession of the Markova, Alexandra Dani lova, and in several com panies including the New college. On next Wednesday, he will York City Ballet Metro‘poli- Kive a public lecture * il,us - , tk city a _ u trated by color slides, on the tan Opera and Jerome Rob- bj t .. Asdcc1s of Rome bins' "Ballet USA" in which IrZ he was the princtpal male prinls ^ p holosraphs .., It dancer. He has been guest ig scheduled for 10;00 a m art,st _^ ltb the , Amen ^ an in Belk Auditorium, and the Ballet Theater and a number lJubhc is invited of foreign ballet groups, as well as television shohs, in cuding the Bell Telephone Hour. Broadway audiences have Florida Negro Fined For Starting Fire A Florida Negro hobo plead ed guilty in magistrate’s court here Friday to setting a fire Thursday which burned five acres of land beside a rail road track three miles west of Clinton. The man, James Edward Green of Tallahassee, was charged with carelessly set ting a fire. He was sentenced by Magistrate James Cope land to pay $25 or serve 30 days. Green was arrested Thurs day after a trainman told Clinton police he saw the Ne- the Rev. J. H. Darr states. work of the Men of the Macon, Ga. „ , . , , ULRICO SCHETTINI Schettini is appearing at PC as the 1966 Newton G. then, he has shown in galler- gro light a cigarette and drop Hardie Memorial Lecturer ies at London and N,ewcas- a match into a patch of grass while on a ten-week tour of tie, Paris, and at the Contem- which caught fire. . campuses in all parts of the porary Art Society in Sydney, The trainman, W. H. Poole seen Msis Corkre jn several United sta t e s. An Italian in Australia. He has shown for of Greenwood, testified that shows and she has frequent- his early ^ he abandoned the first time in America Green tried unsuccessfully ly appeard on television. The lcgal studies at 16 to d e d icate the exhibition “Trends in Wa- to put out the fire and that as himself completely to his art. tercolor Today” at Brooklyn the train started ot move the On (JSC Honor List R® Studied in Paris under a Museum. In addition to these Negro boarded an empty box- French Government Scholar- showings, he .has executed car . Students from the Clinton jp 1957, a year* later re- commissions in fresco, tern- area earning listing on the t urned to Rome under the pera and encaustic for sev- DTA** T 0 Meet academic honor roll for the fj rs t Roberto ‘Fasola Scholar- eral public and private build- . fall semester at the Univer- and then took up resi- ings. On April IZMl slty of South Carolina in- de nce in London as the best In addition to hearing The rgeular meeting of the elude: environment for the calm de- Schettini lecture, Presbyteri- Hampton Avenue Parent- All “A” grades—Samuel F. velopment of his work. an College students will have Teacher Association, sched- Morris of Clinton, < sopho- The young artist began a the opportunity to follow his uled for April 5, has been re- more, and Sandra A. Mer- new series of 100 drawings work process as he executes' scheduled for April 12, due to chant of Kinards, junior. sailed “Lettbrs for an "ideal the special mural for PC. The a conflict with the Commun- Others were Mark King of Alphabet” in 1958, and his artist also proposes an infer- ity Concert Association, ac- Clinton, and Terry J. Mer- progress toward recognition mal conversation on the com- cording to an announcement chant of Kinards, boht fresh- was accelerated by three position of images and the made by the president, Mrs. .men. grbup hi Italy. Su>ct theory of oinctincntdi cuiorcj LtwL Huy. Local Camp Fire Girls See Governor 4 Governor Robert E. McNair, left is shown receiving a box of Camp Fire Candy from Jenny Rice./ Oth ers in the picture (left to right) are Mary Roberta, Leggy Locklear, and Laura Nye. As part of Birthday Week the group visited in the gov ernor’s office and capitol building last Thursday. The group was oc- companied to Columbia by Mrs. Earl Riqfc. der of vespers will be used. An offering will be received only on Thursday evening.- Dr. Keisler states that while naturally the services are provided primarily for the devotional life of the members of his congregation, both he and the congregation have been genuinely delighted hereftofor to welcome visitors at similar srvices and that the public is cordially invited to worship at St'. John’s next week or at any other time. Supper and Film Scheduled Sunday A film, “Conversion Plus,” will be shown at Epworth Methodist Church, Joanna, Sunday night, following a family night covered dish supper which will begin at 6:00 o’clock. The event is sponsored by the Commission on Evange lism, Mrs. J. L. Abrams, chairman. » - Thornwell Racks Up 111 Points in M««t Thornwell scored HI points to sweep to victory in a way high school track here Friday over burg Day School, Ni and Lockhart. Other scores were burg Day, 16, Ninety 4U and Lockhart 8.