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Coroner^ Jury SoyrTT. v t .. i • %' _ ■•*.*'*■ * '■ Pressley Died From Wounds by Prathers County Fair Scheduled For October Showing , ■ l The Clinton Chronicle i The annual Laurens County Fair will again be held at the I county fair grounds October — — m } 24 through 29. “It is expected A coroner’s jury ruled here Marshall Pressley was Ralpl to be the largest and best fair FArAflfy RoarH Wednesday, July 13, that E. Crowder, 19, who said he wa yet,” fair officials stated. IwlWliy 1/00111 C. Pressley, 29, of Cross An- in the Prather car when thi Some changes will be made in ■ tti « chor, “came to his. death shooting occurred. the facilities at the grounds. K6VI6WS WOrKf June 27 as the result of gun- Crowder testified that hi Forty-eight shows and rides shot wounds inflicted by Ma- an d Randall Prather were a will be made available this planr Iai* VpAf con Prather and/or Randall a garage in Laurens whel year by Dell and Travers ' Prather.” Randall received a call tha Shows. Over $4,000 in prize The annual meeting of the Pressley was found dead Pressley was creating a dis* money will be given for ex- Laurens County Forestry on South Carolina Highway turbance at the P r a t h e ^ hibits and stock shows. Also Board was held recently to 56 about four miles north of home in Clinton. bicycles Will be given on two review the S. C. State Com- Clinton about 11:00 p. m., Crowder said he drove “school” days, as well as the mission of Forestry’s pro- June 27. His father-in-law, Randall to Clinton, but be- automobile customarily given gram in the county, accord- Macon Prather, 39, and Pra- fore going to the Prathet away on Friday night. ing to Legare M. Duke, dis- ther's son, Randall, 18, were home “we went by my .. The flower show will be trict forester of Newberry, charged with murder the house” because young Pra- held in the flower building, j Y . Martin was elected next day in warrants signed ther said he “wanted my sponsored by the Laurens c h a irman of the forestry by Laurens County Sheriff R. g U n.” Garden Clubs. The theme has board for the com j ng year Eugene Johnson. The Crowder youth testi- n °t been announced v but is Highlights of Forestry Com- Both men have been re- fi e d that Pressley was not expected to be forthcoming in mission act ivities and ac- leased from jail on $5,000 a t the Prather home when hi th® near future. bonds. a nd Randlal arrived. He said concession stands ^ , The only witness at the in- they returned Crowder’s gun haVe been done ®way with forestatton and forest man- quest conducted by Coroner to his home and then ate sup- and three new stands con- agernen t aS sistance programs per at the Prathers. structed to meet the U. S. durin g tHe past fiscal year Crowder testified that af- Health Department standards Of MrhU re LOHIfiS ter supper, one of the Pra- {or P u bllc eating establish- l/l. I ItUUIIC lUHIC) thers _ he S4id he cpuld nQt ments. Also new quarters for _ _ Ta ^aIIaAA in pall recall if it was the father or the caretaker have been been burned 82 9 g acre s. Smokers IU vUIICyC III rail son—said, “Let’s go to Crosk bUUt. ... accounted for 41% of all wild „ . Anrhnr ” ’ The fair will be under the Dr. George Morns McGuire An A c b° r - ^ . A direction of the Countv Fair f r 0 th county - will join the Presbyterian Cot- After driving to Cross An- co^mfssion with Joe Smith During the paSt fiscal year lege faculty this fall as an as- ch « r P a “»ng the house Commission, with Joe Smith, ^ , andoSvners received assis- sociate professor of ecluca- where Pressley lived, Crow- tance with forest management tion, Dean Joseph M. Gettys der said they were returning ary t ^ SUrer ' 9nd John Gat practices. In addition, over announced today CUnton when “we met m manager. •• ™ — - He comes to PC from Ashe- (Pressley) •'C o m i n g ville, N. C., where he has down tbe highway.” taught for the past several Crowder said they “didh’ years at David Millard High know h i m right off,” but School and in the evening Randall said, “There he is.” school at Asheville-Biltmore The eldqr Prather, Who wa* College. This past month, he driving, Crowder said, stop- received his doctorate in edu- ped the car and the two Pra- cation at Duke University. thers got out.. M• Vol. 67 —No. 29 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 21, 1966 complishments in forest fire prevention arid control, re- were given. In summarizing the fire control activities, it was noted that 73 wild fires Commnunity Chest Committee Hears Requests 224 thousand board feet of sawtimber and 567 cords of pulpwood were selectively marked for cutting. Over 1,093,450 trees were planted in Laurens County during the past planting season. Chicagd—A woman arrest- it was noted that Laurens naping last month of a six- County personnel presented ed in connection with the kid- 43 fire prevention programs week old Greenville, S. C„ to various groups in the coun- t Psychiatrist To Test Mrs. Isaac Members of the Budget and Admissions Com- mitete of the Community Chest are pictured here at a meeting Monday afternoon at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Participating agencies made reports and submitted requests for funds before the com mittee. From left are Bob Hanson; Edward Camp bell, who presented the request for funds for the Clinton Camp Fire Council, A. B. Godfrey, chair man of the committee; Jim Von Hollen and Calvin Cooper.—Photo by Yarborough. A native of Piketon, Ohio, “Macon fired and then E. . . McGuire earned his bachelor C.and Randy fired about the j.. has bee J 1 . °|’ dered exam- ty. of arts degree from Hamp- same time,” Crowdar testi- o ^ „! den-Sidney College in 1935 fied. “I laid down in the front and his master’s from Mont- seat,” he said. . Following a review of the U. S. District Judge Charles 1965.06 accomplishments, the D, : Simons, Jr., ordered that board discussed plans for the clair State College prior to “Right after the’shooUng I Hele u n , . L *! Clll .t Isaac ° f county for the 1966-67 fiscal completing his doctoral work glanced back and < saw &. C. £", 1Ca ,f 0 ’ g V 1 ? ,dna P‘ year. in curriculum and instruction running at an angle across .. e t0 an ,n " Members of the board pres at Duke. the road,” Crowdef said. He atit “ tlon for examination as C nt at the annual meeting Dr. McGuire has had broad said Pressley feU in i drive- t0 , ® r n m? c r !^ 1 condltion - were Elmore Bramlett, J. T. experience in private school way leading to a house. uage ons sgned the Hollingsworth and Earl W. education, having taught at An autopsy report said ^ ^ Abercrombie Revival Continues At Leesville Church Special revival services are continuing at Lecville South ern Methodist Church this week. Rev. Joseph Flood, pastor of the John’s Island and West Ashley Southern Methodist Churches, Charles ton, is guest speaker at the night services beginning at 8:00 o’clock. Rev. Legrand Adams, pas tor of the church, will be the QrOWUS -ifl CrCfik song leader. ^ Clintons New Industry Ascoe Felts, Inc. to Make Paper Industry Product Owings Dairyman Danville (Va.) Military Pressley “apparently d i ed wiiti a ^ Y V - Count y R * School, Randolph - Macon from multiple gunshot W ?. ma _ n _ S Fire Control Ranger Tom Hill, Assistant J. T. (Va.) Academy, Greenbrier wounds—12 in alt.” (W. Va.) Military School, • 1 . \ J ; >, served as headmaster of Tii.imnam mi la < Montrose School in Essex ? y Falls, N. J., and as dean of ElldorSad boys at AshevMle’s Ben Lip- n T pen School. While teaching By County Bar Alderson, W. Va., federal re- j ng formatory for women. Mrs. Isaac, a former Clin- tort, 3rC., school teacher, was Copt. Gartman attested in Chicago after a d„-L car identified on the kidnap BaCk ‘ rom V'etnam The public is invited. Gray Court A 50-year- tion’s largest producer of pa per makers’ dryer felts, will Ascoe Felts, Inc., a new step of major importance in company formed by the na- meeting the needs of South Carolina’s economy.” “One of Ascoe’s parent The annual homecoming old LaurensCounty dairyman establish its* manufactuing ^ in^ur ^ate/’ thc^over- u x will be held on Sunday, July and farmer drowned in Dur- and sa i es headquarters here, nor continued, “and I am cer ; attorney, Harold N. Morris. Hance and Districr Forester 24fc and Lncll < des 11,6 11:00 bin Creek near hefre about . The m^ti-million dollar As- tain that this latest venture She was transported^ to ^ the Duke ertso attended the meet- o clock service, as previously p m Thursday after he ap- C oe plant will employ approx- win prove equally rewarding announced parently had a heart attack imately 150 workers initially for both the company and our while swimming ‘ in the production of web felts people.” Whitten Employees Coroner Marshall Pressley for the paper industr y- The AstenHi11 currently oper- * in- - -p • 4 . ... j . . new facility will manufacture ates a dryer felt plant in Wal- Annuol Picnic Tomgtit wd tvo ^oodruff doctors a complete ]ine of web fdts terboro and maintains 0(hpr Whitten Village Employees n... both woven and needled. facilities in Philadelphia; Sa- Enghsh, Latin and political Laurens — The Laurens scene was traced to her. The Capt. Etric P. Gartman re- ril 7h“wm hnin He annual nir- science, ® . 88 ® p ° ac ® County Bar Association Wed- child, Kenneth Bryson, was cently returned from a year’s Broadus Cook Jr. of the Ow- Principal parent company 1cm, Oregon; and Quebec, football, track, basketball and nesday was the fourth county returned to his mother swimming at various times. bar to endorse former Gov. V mother. He is a member of Kappa George Bell Timmerman Jr. „ . . 4 Delta Pi national education for ^ llth circuit jutfgeghtp. Keisler Completes fraternity and other teacher Laurens is in the 8th cinSiH, I organizations. which adjoins .the lith. Thb LUtnerOII P»l$fO ; fy George McGinre is married Lexington, ^ jidgofirfld; Ekcept for ahy riocessary S r., 204 Caldwell St., while he and has three chWdreh. ’Tnef Newberry bar assbclatioti* slight revision of his mafuy-f was away., Mrs. Gartman is T al*^, ha^ ^ejl, their siipp<jft scHpt, arid pt^r; routine pre- the former Ahn Kin.k t pa?dor :wB|iifHwf» Dr - • nic this afternoon (July 21) Par- em ployees are invited to attend. Members are asked to note .. ^ the change in the time for the mother, Mrs. George N. King, meeting tour of duty in Vietnam where at 6; 3 0 0 , c , 0ck at the he distinguished himself by ents - Club H ouse. All earning the Bronze Star. Mrs. Gartman and two sons made their home with her are members of the PresbyteP ab rian Church. . Buzhardt of .SviHO Kefkferlhil cb^fileted . 1 • ' » 1 01 wa* elected the writing of'ttie part of His- Christmas In July by the last General Assembly tpry of the Lutheran Synod of C r L 0 J..UJ to the post, died . -last wee¥. itouth Cardipa which was as- Jtneuuieo Judge T. B. Greiieker ■ of Ai*Hed,to him several months On Sunday, July 27, at the morning, except Saturday, said C ook swam out into the d ‘ng complete control of hu- Mountville has bL>en a ’. Edgefield has announced he ago. 7 morning Divine Service, the through 1 " u ’ ‘ > ’ 7 **♦ - mMUv and tpmnpratiirp in all pp Lions Club to Tour Whitten Village Facilities Friday Members of the Lions Club will retire In NoverAb^r. ' r . Dr.' Keisler covered the pe- Bailey Memorial Methodist Clinton and Lydia Mill pools wiH make a tour of new facili- The 1967 >legtalai]ire . will 4!fbd ^frbm 1918 to 1962, the Church will have its “Christ- Classes ior different age ties at Whitten Village Friday elect Grenoker’s succ!iesSor;' ; Ufespah of tfce united Luther- mas in July Service.” The groups are being taught by night following the regular The lltfe- circuit includes -a«-Church in America. He public is invited to attend. life guards at each pool, scheduled meeting of the Lexington, Ssduda ahd McGb*- H*s not only traced the trends club. mick counties. and developments wfthin the 11 _ _ | A _ s The Laurens Bar Associa- synod itself but has also treat- 111161* |^I0IT160 AKSSOCICIXC tion in other business' Wed- e d the various auxiliary or- atfppif u/hif>h Pflimpd him to for new organization is Canada. Up to now, the corn- attack which caused h m o _ Hill Manufacturing Pany has. specialized in the ~ 1,0a Company of Philadelphia, Pa. manufacture of dryer feits h In e t C w 0 oHr.if? with°p k rrpw Associated with Asten-Hill are and dryer fabrics of all types, been to Woodruff with a crew y Agten & Cie Qf Be , lgium The new plant marks Asten- p Ufa „ P and Compagnie des Feutres Hill’s initial entry into the wet • re S R y if h«i oq rpnnrtpfi P 01 * 1, Papeteries et des Tissus lelt market in the United that when they came to the ,7 !, ~ a com bmation creek, Cook told them they of ,i OUr french irms. C jmmftnc M nmo/ i wbuld stop dnd “take a dip The t » ian * .^ U b f mpdern ’ b,mm0ns Name a t „ wash off the peach fusz - bmldthg located on ^ New Term Qn Barksdale told the coroner f 1 A cr ® ^ lte , T . a ., / 1 . u 1 n 1 yesterday, Wednesday morn- that onl he and Cook went Industrial Park. It will be air Hospital Board ing, and will continue each into tbe . water Barksdale conditioned throughout, inch,- John Simmons of said Cook swam out into the d ‘ng complete control of hu- Mountvm , but he remained near ’Vh" ^ a «h^r term as TL^wtamer* WaS n01 P 1 ™ hhs been desifined for J ™ rabel ; ° r ‘ h e ^ »' •«- a i^/d” other wit. ^r s i fr n \ n 7 hoX Ba " ey Mcmor,al nesses sald^C^caUjd out -ade Swimming Classes Now lii Progress Swimming classes began that he coroner said. He said Barks- modern available for Young People To Sponsor Bake Sale nesday, July 13, elected W. gariiiations of Synod, as well Paul Culbertson president to as the institutions thereof. . . , succeed the late Justin He states that the matter of .. _j_ e .J a l a o beld Bridges. T. David Sloan was jpi^blication is entirely in the elected vice president and hands of a committee and Saturday morning at 9:30 a. m ' c!5° nt Belk s Depart- R aymonc | Hill was reelected *hotiW be off the press with- ^ er Director of PC Athletics The promotion of Billy Til- 1960 Tangerine Bowl star and f eel °f water. r to associate athleUc di- f 0 r m e r professional San The coroner said an inquest J Kenneth ° n E l dale told him he was unable type operation, to reach the drowning man. , Construction, which w,ll s- The drowning occ urred !° w , for future expanslon - Wll! about seven miles from Cook’s be ^ n within the next few home in approximately eight week5 \ The plant should be ' m1 ’ r this by Governor R - E - McNair, upon recommendation of a majority of the members of the hospital board. Tte term will expire March in production in approximate- Mojor Moran Serves ment Store. The sale is spon sored by the young people of Bailey Memorial \Iethodist Church. date has not been set. Cotton Growers At Critical Stage secretary-treasurer. Bryan Is Named Purchasing Agent For Greenwood Mills professidhal ih the next several months. rector as P art of the realign- Francisco Forty-Niner quar- “"investigating” with Pressley has over 20 years experience The history will cover the ment in the Presbyterian Col- terback, arrives new to the W ere Sheriff R. Eugene John- ! n the paper-machine-clothing entire Synod from 1824, the lege football operation has PC staff next month. His pri- son and Sheriff s Lt. Wallace industry ’ has been appointed rom „ Vlt “. t . n . ai , n date of its organization, until been announced by Athletic mary football assignment will Abercrombie, the end of 1962. The volume 4 u ^ “ will also contain biographical D, £ ector CaHy . GaUlt sketches and congregational ki* lories. Km " eth J- Fry ‘ oe ' e -. wb ° Year in Vietnam Major Ray R. Moran re- ently returned from Vietnam general manager of the new after serving a year. While mary tootoall assignment wm . ' HMone °P er ation. His offices will be overseas he was awarded the be with the quarterbacks and located at the Clinton plant, Br °nze Star with an Oak Leaf as pass offense coach, and he resident ot Laurens county, , ,, ,, rincto^ capacuV^tm'^work^mTre also wlU serve as d<rector S ° n ° f the ' ate J ° hn Br ° adUS closely with ticket sales, the of , the sludent body intramu - and all company operations Cluster. and Lula Rice Cook, he was Walter Johnson Club, and wiH ra * P^°S^ arn nmil a member of Harmony Bap- will be under his from here. direction ^ lrs : Moran, the former Jean King, daughter of Mrs. “I would like to express my George N. King, Sr^and the waiver duiiuauu \^iuu, ami win ~ w . . , . .• . r’huvoVi wac a 1 wuuiu invc tu eAuress my ^ be in charge of equipment t ar y Gault . P ? iat . ed ° Ut 1 at hnr of WnnHmnn nf WnriH own appreciation and that of late Mr - with the chil - Thomas R. Bfyan of Green wood, has been named ptir- Clemson — Cotton farmers MStt” 8 agent for Greenwood Appointed D e in cnarge 01 . these four as i s t a nts have an ber of Woodmen of the World . -- , d . th h month C S Si Mmpa a gn Cri to Cal a t ve EdadWd* h^l^ PerVIS ° r ® f w“!h h “tdua" e ot W fMtMn”nt S™k’s°Da'ry 0Perated 'Ho S^finc y ;eoX^^Soa hU t h c,r fraitta/cottoa from la Col^ Laboratory coach .ad as chief recraiter “c^rtme^ 1 »ld Sa^ivtaTare hi, wife, Mr, » b ° ^ ^ creasing numbers of insects. Commerce. He has bee* em- Charlie Force has been ^ lUl iSS P lans are being made to in- Eunice Bragg Cook; two ^ ision tah ^ e Mayar Morris Is Named The Clemson Extension Cot- ployed by Greenwood Mills Mmed supervisor of the Jo- nf C pp U !l% pr A in S crease the number of physi- daughters, Mrs. Dan (Libby) t 6 ^° Un y , y 0mS iS ^ 0,716(3 . ton Committee this week since 1K1 ; anna Laboratory for Green f radpa( ® ° f PG ’ Tlller Jomed cal education offerings within Gray and Mrs. Dozier (Judy) e del ®8 alloa - Geor ge Sales Representative warn of the expected onset He serveU as offk . e manag- M1R s. vr,, e J^ n m p nn u,hiin th e department, for the bene- Brooks of Fountain Inn; two . Pbin T Aay apd * P ; Hamei ; of j. Allen Morris a graduate of boll weevil migration in the e r of the Ninety Six giants Force, 38, has been employ- h in „ f hi f t ’fit of men and women students brothers, William Cook of mpnt R f oun y eve op- Presbyterian College has coastal plains on July 24. Mi- from 19M until 1909 and was al the Joanna plant for the ‘ S A be 2,generally and as a means of Rock Hill and James W. Cook ® 1 been named sales reSreset gration of weevils in the Pied- 0 ffi ce manager of Old Math- P a *t ^ yeirs. His first work ppcnnndihilitipc nc heaH P r ovidnig better preparation of Fountain Inn; and‘a sister, . , e r Irne an ei, e r gy t a ti ve j n i be Carolinas for the mont is expected August 1. ews plants when he Wa, tie- was in the cloth room, but for “ K h n ead for those students who wiU Mrs. Clarence (Martha) Clay ^ ^ operatlons Adler Co , a dttSoTo^ Gov.' Robert E. McNair ! ngt ^ Induslrie s. according hailed the new plant as “a t0 Thomas s - Guggenheim, company president. ' Morris, formerly employ- by Rev. Carroll Caldwell and Smith Is Leadinq ment manager for Burlington Rev. Don Howell. Burial wiH ^ q Representative Industries - is 8 native of At- CVTO i/icuito WIIC1I IH? t.WM ICIC- — tnuac btUUtrULS WIIU Insect situation reports vated to the purchasing post t b® pa>t 14 y e* r *i he has been hanrfip in. enter the coaching field. from county agents also noted greater numbers of boll »> • j * worms and spider mites. De- KCVIVQl Services spit. th«e ‘i a s e c t explos- Af . L j $b#n CblKtti hjf the laboratory Commun.ity Chest Members tp Consider ball. He also will handle in tramurals in the fall and help in the coordination of stadium Dr. Keisler management and football pro- Brother of Greenville^ Funeral . services will be conducted Saturday at 4 p.m. at Harmony. Baptist Church gram sales. Musselman, a former Citadel basketball Samuel Joseph Keisler, 53, . , , t . . great, has been at PC since of Batesburg, died Sunday b e in the church cemetery morning in a Columbia hospit- Nixon, former Blue al after a month and a half Republican Woman ions,” committee members said damage could be held to Dr. William Redd Turner r e. a minimum if growers follow will conduct a revival crusadb Lnonge Ot rMOme the control recommendations, at the Lifcbon Presbyterian ;■ A membership meeting of lp63 - “We rre hearing of a few Church beginning Sunday the Community Chest will be J°e IHI BBBUPI RVHHBH HH growers who are still on a 7- with the morning worship.,set' h«4d on Tuesday, July 26, at Hose Player and 1963 gradu- of Jlness. He was a native of y kAeet Tnniflht day control schedule. This is vice at 11:00 a. m., arid con- 10:00 a. m. at Hotel Mary ate who joined the staff in Lexington County. 10 meer 1 on 'Bnr Hg a t 8 ; oo Musgrove. 1985 ’ wiR continue his duties Funeral servic the present situation,” an en- o’clock through ThursdriF. The purpose of the" meeting 88 end coach and head track ducted Monday tomologist observed. July 28. ,• il to consider’changing the coach. He has also been as- burg. The entomologists suggest- Mountville and . Wayside dame of the corporation from sl «ned the supervision of the Surivivors include his wife, tonight, Thursday, lanta, Ga., and is a former Milford Smith of Clinton, member of the U. S. Davis was New York Life Insurance Cup tennis team. Z Company’s leading agent in South Carolina during June, Soffboll Gama definitely often enough for tinning oneh at iM» Mu.gro.., Funeral eervtees were con- „* ^e;ing of th.~ Uuren, For ScOUtS Saturday at ed that in addition to making Presbyterian Churchfcs. a^ Community Chest to United lining room, and wdl share a daughter, two sisters, and o’clock at the home of Mrs. a ^Vl . ntn n applications every five days, uniting in these services. The Fund. with Bob Waters the major three brothers, one of whom Ted Anderson on 101 Over- " pr ® se ^ a “ v * ^ growers concentrate on get- pastor, the Rev. Paul W. Fite- A board meeting will be scouting burden and recruit-is Dr. E. Bryan Keisler, in- brook Drive in Laurens. i io ns Olub and^ American Bates- County Women’s Republican Club has been scheduled for the company’s Columbia gen- Cub Scouts and Boy 7:3 q eral office. who wish to partlcipa Mr. Smith, a New York Life softball game are bring their gloves to ietic field behind at ting good spray dust cover- Stevens, cordially Invites'the held immediately following to ‘"9 ia Georgia and Florida, terim pastor of St. John’s All members are urged to J aio " 8 01ub and 016 Andean an College Sati Boh Waters, Pieshyteriun’i Lutheran Cliurcn, Clinton, attend this business meeting. Li e« , o n * . ». m. age. public to atiendg set the goal for Uie yufar.