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I 3 a i % A t I 1* Vol. 69 — No. 7 Chronicle Clinton, S. C., Thursday, February 16) 1967 Alumni Director* Meet at College The board of directors of the Presbyterian College Alumni Asso ciation held its annual winter meet ing on the PC campus last Satur day. Thirteen of the 17 members were present, and they are pictured here during a pause in the session to make plans for the coming year. Left to right, seated—Walter Gos- nell of Spartanburg, past president; Billy Hagood of Easley, secretary; Robert Ellison of Greenville, vice- president; Sam Cornwell of Char- To Cost About $750,000 lotte, president; and Furman B. Pinson, Jr., of Greensboro, N. C., president - elect. Standing — Rev. Wyatt Aiken of Marietta, Georgia director; D. S. Blankenship of Co lumbia, South Carolina director; Bennett A. Brown of Augusta, Georgia director; John H. Hunter, Jr., of York, Henry M- Hay, Jr., of Mt. Pleasant, J. L. McLaughlin of Florence, and Ted Howie of Green ville, all South Carolina directors. —Yarborough Photo. Avenues Opening For t • ♦ New School in Clinton Miss Pennington Slates Art Exhibit m The two Laurens County school districts would have their bonded indebtedness po tential increased by legisla tion introduced in the South Carolina Senate last week. Davis R. Holland Rites Saturday Davis R. (Buck) Holland, Sr., of 501 Calvert Ave., died Friday at 2:05 a. m. at a lo cal hospital after an illness of three weeks. Native of Laurens County, son of the late Thomas Rut ledge and Mary Finney Hol land, he was a member of Broad St. Methodist Church for 50 years and was a Ma son. For many years he was connected with Sadler-Owens Pharmacy. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Chalmers Holland; a daughter, Mrs. Wililam R. (Helen) Hill of Clinton; a son, Davis R. (Bucky) Holland, Jr., of Anderson; two sisters, Mrs. H. T. Hearn of Winston- Salem, N. C., and Mrs. Will Allen Hughey of Roby, Texas; and two grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted Saturday at 2:00 p. m. at Gray Funeral Home by Rev. E. >V\ Rogers. Burial yyas in Rosemont cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. Louis Stephens, Dr. George Blalock, Rufus E. Sadler, Dr. James L. Walker, J. C. Thomas, Alyn Denny Abrams, Charles Johnson, and Joe Holland. Senator William C. Dob bins offered a bill ratifying constitutional amendments which would permit School Districts 55 and 56 to incur, bonded indebtedness up to 16 per cent of the assessed value of taxable property in the dis tricts. There amendments were en dorsed by Laurens County voters in a November referen dum. The limitation set by the state Constitution now is 8 per cent. Dobbins said the new ceiling would allow District 56 (Clin ton area) to complete a build ing program. He said school officials were awaiting ap proval of the new debt limit to proceed. James Von Hollen, chair man of the board of trustees of School District 56. stated that plans are proceeding to muild a new elementary school in Clinton to. cost approxi mately $750,000. He said ar chitects are now preparing plans and specifications for the new structure and that bids are expected to be re quested within a few weeks. He said that bonds would be issued and proceeds used for construction of the facil ity in a yet undetermined amount. Fire Levels Plant At Cross Anchor Fire destroyed the ►only in dustry at Cross Anchor Mon day night, causing a loss es timated at more than $100,- 000. The midnight blaze leveled the plant of Empress Homes, prefabricated dwelling manu facturer. Ted Mack, who bought the firm only last week from Shelton J. Rimer of Clinton, said the loss was insured and the plant will be rebuilt, either on the same site or another in Cross Anchor. The plant’s 50-man work force on Tuesday began clear ing the debris. The fire started at 11:00 p. m, Monday, and was fought by firefighters from Cross Anchor and Woodruff. Mack said jhe building con tained four completed cot tages. An exhibition of the recent art work of Mary Anne Pen nington, instructor in art at Presbyterian College, will be on display in the Douglas House student center on cam pus, beginning Monday and continuing through March 10. The exhibition will include paintings, drawings and works of sculpture rendered by Miss Pennington in recent months. She joined the PC faculty last August after receiving her master of fine arts degree from Richmond Profesional Institute and ‘has enjoyed wide acceptance of her pro gram here by students and by adults participating this se mester in a non-credit art course. Finol Basketball Games Today Four re-scheduled Bask< ball games with Laurens WD] be played this afternoon And tonight (Thursday) at the. High School gymnasium. Junior varsity girls at 4; ju nior varsity boys at 5:30. Var sity girls at 7 p.m. with the varsity boys game following immediately. These will be the last home games of the season in the games of the season. The Eastern AA conference begins Tuesday, February 21 at Dentsville High School in Columbia. Pairings for the turnament will be announced at a later date. Clinton Mills To Train Workers Washoington—Clinton Mills Mills will provide on-the-job training for 194 unemployed workers under a $49,522 con tract with the U. S. Labor Department. Those signed up under the Manpower Development and Training Act program will be given up to 12 weeks of in struction in a variety of tex tile job skills. The federal contract pay-, ment will cover the cost of the training and the company will pay participants for any useful work performed during the instruction period. Renewal Memberships Be Sought Next Week Renewal memberships in the Clinton Community Con cert Association will be solicited next week by workers who will telephone or call on present ticket holders. This drive precedes the new membership campaign scheduled for February 27-March 4. Admittance to the concerts, held in Belk Auditorium, is by membership ticket only. They are $7.00 for adults, $3.00 for children and students, $12.50 sponsor, and $20.00 patron. An agreement with the Greenville Concert Assoc iation will admit Clinton members to their concerts for •an additional fee of $4.00. Mrs. Rqbert Hanson is membership chairman and Mrs. D. O. Rhame, co-chairman. College Summer Term Announced Presbyterian College’s 1967 summer school, divided into two terms covering a total of ten weeks, will be held next June 5 through August 11; Dean Joseph M. Gettvs an nounced today. * He said the first term is set for June 5-July 7; the sec ond, for July .10-August 11. A maximum of 12 hours’ cre dit (two additional for labor atory science) is available for both terms or six hours for either one of the two terms. Tentatively, courses are to be offered in these 12 depart ments during summer School: art, biology, economics, edu cation, English, history, ma thematics, philosophy, psy chology, religion, k sociology' and Spanish. Dr. Gettys said a special three - week workshop for teachers is being considered for June and will be added to the summer schedule if the demand warrants it. Special Services At Broad Street The Rev. Will Rogers, pas tor of the Methodist Church at Buffalo, will be the guest speaker at Broad Street Meth odist Church for the. “Venture in Faith’’ services which bc- * gin Sunday evening, Feb. 19, and continue each evening through Friday. Services are at 7:30 each evening. The Rev. E. W. Rogers, pastor of Broad Street Meth odist Church, will be in Georgetown conducting the se ries at Union Methodist Church. m L m L Snow-Covered Thornwell Campus This was the scone last Thursday afternoon as the season’s first and only snow covered the front campus of Thornwell Orphanage facing South Broad St. The snow startqjl falling From Lots at Joanna about noon and continued into the night, bringing from two to three inches. A warm sun Friday soon melt ed the light fall.—Yarborough Photo. . if Edenfield Is Rose's Manager John Edenfield has been named new manager of the local Rose’s store located on Musgrovc Street, and has al ready entered upon his du ties. He replaces former man ager, Carl Leonard, who re signed recently to assume full time work with the Leonard- Marler Insurance Agency* A native of'’ Swainsboro, Ga., Mr. Edenfield came to Clinton from the Burlington, N. C., Rose’s Store. He is married to the former Frankie Denmark of Pem broke, Ga. They have two daughters, Delila, a junior at Meredith College in Raleigh, N. C., and Ida, a 10th grade student at Walter WiTiiams High School in Burlington. Of Baptist faith, Mr. and Mrs. Eden£jel*| arc members of the Eastern Star. He is also a Mason and a member of the Moose Lodge. Newberry Men Arrested In Wheel and Tire Thefts ' k Architects Preparing Plans for Courthouse Joanna Fire Dept. Breaks Ground Ground breaking ceremonies for the Joanna Volunteer Fire Depart ment building were held February 8. Preparing fo move the first shovel of dirt is Fire Commissioner Claude Lawson flanked b; (1. to i.) Commib- L sioner Curtis Salters, Dr. L. B. Har bin, and Commissioner Ralph Prater. Construction on the new building will begin immediately, with delivery of the new fire truck and equipment ex pected in mid April. An architect is working in preliminary plans and pre paring a cost estimate of the proposed new court house for » Laurens County, according to R. L. Plaxico of Clinton. Plaxico is chairman of the nine-man committee appoint ed by the County Legislative Delegation in January to make a study of the needs for a new court house. The committee was author ized to h re an architect j(o draw up preliminary plans for the building, to study site possibilities and financing, re porting findings and recom mendations* back to the dele gation. Plaxico said Jackson and Miller, architects of Colum bia, have been at work deter mining what should be incor porated into the building. They have contacted county cffieials to find the amount of space each office will require, and the number of employees in each office. This study has been completed and an archi tect is preparing preliminary plans and a cost estimate, along with an artist’s draw ing of the proposed building to present to the committee. All offices pertaining to county government in the pro posed court house will be on the ground floor. Plaxico said. It is possible the court room and conference rooms could be located on a second floor. “Presently the study commit tee is considering three or four site possibilities,” he said, i ' It is the concensus of the committee that the site should have suffidtent acreage for parking facilities and room for future expansion, the chairman said. It is also the consensus of die committee that all county offices and agencies should be brought under one roof. This would include several that are not located in the court bouse now, such afc the sheriff’s office, county jail, welfare department, health department and county farm agents. The committee is also in agreement that the location of the new court house should be at a' place that is easily ac cessible from all parts of the county and as near the geo graphic and population center as possible. A decision about (he loca tion should be reached within the next few days “so far as our recommendation to the delegation is concerned,’* the chairman said. “The delegation is request ing our committee to supply them with the site, the cost of the building, furnishings, and what additional tax levy may be necessary to finance the project,” he said. Alter the delegation receiv es the committces’s recom mendations it will submit the question to the people who will determine in a referen dum whether they favor pro- ceedir.g with construction of a new court house. “I am asked every day, What are you going to do with the old court house?’ ” Plaxico said. “Our committee is a new court house study committee and thus far we have not been requested by the delegation to mak^ recommendations con cerning the old building.” Other members on the com mittee with Plaxico are Thomas Heath Copeland, Charles Johnson, Lucian Bo bo, Lowell Watkins, J. Hew- lette Wasson, David Myers, Gray Hipp and Jack Ham rick. „ Young to Head Historical Group Reese H. Young of Rt. 2, Clinton, was elected chairman of the Laurens County His- troic Preservation Commis sion at an organizational meeting at city hall Monday night. James G. Dunklin of Lau- 1 '- v rens, was named vice-chair man, and Fred Holcomb of Clinton was named secretary. Martin Boyce of Cross Hill, was selected as treasurer, and Miss Agnes Babb of Rt. 3, Honea Patjh, was named historian. A goal of turning the Lau rens County court house into a museum upon completion of the new court house (now in planning stages) was urged by two speakers at tin? meet ing. Carlee McLendon of the i ■ South Carolina Archives De partment, told the group, “Your court house was built in 1838 and is the type build ing that should be preserved.’> Dr. Charles E. Lee, director of the archives, department, echoed McLendon's sugestion to seek to have the court house made into a museum. Dr. Lee urged the commis sion to work toward organiza tion of historical societies to work with the commision. and placed a premium on co operation between any such groups in the area. Other speakers at the meet ing were Barney Slawson of the archives department, and Ernest Richardson of the Hor ry County Historical. Commis sion. State Senator W. C. (Bill) Dobbins introduced the speak ers/Also present were Lau rens County State Represen tatives David S. Taylor and Paul Culbertson and city of ficials from Clinton, Laurens and Gray Court. An automobile wheel and tire theft ring operating at Joanna has been broken up with the arrest of seven men and issuance of warrants against two others. All are from Newberry. Five wheels and five tires were stolen from cars parked on Joanna lots of the Kay- wood Corporation and the Jo anna plants of Greenwood Mills. The thefts occurred on 1 *two occasions, the nights of Dec, 21, when three wheels and tires were removed from two cars, and on’ January 10, when two of the new fancy chrome wheels and tires were taken. The latter tw<f wheels and tires \vere pawned at a Clin-' ton pawn shop by a man who gave a-fictitious name. Laurens County sherili’s of ficers investigating the thefts have arrested seven men, one of whom was connected with all thefts, and the other six were involved in one or more. Warrants have been issued for two others who are in the army, Richard Gladney and Richard Hall. Their eases in volve petty larceny. They were at home when the thefts occurred, officers said. Grand larceny charges have been lodged against lour of the men. They arc Philip Glymph. who officers stated, was involved in all of the cases. T. J. Mathis, James Livingston and James Willie Cook. - In addition to Gladney and Hall, petty larceriy charges have been posted against Da- United Fund To Elect Directors Seven new members of the board of directors of the Uni ted Fund of Greater Clinton arc to be elected, according to Reese If. Young, president of the organization-. The terms are for a three- ycar period, it was stated. Members of the United Fund are requested to mail to the United Fund office, P. O. Box 386. the names of members they would like to recommend to be considered for the 1967- 70 term. Names are to be mailed in by noon Tuesday, Feb. 21. Retiring .members are: Claude A. Crocker, Mrs. R. E. Ferguson, Jr., A. R. Ham ilton, Ralph Patterson, A. Wil- mot Shealy, L. M. Stephens and R. S, Truluck. r Continuing members include Thomas Baldwin, Miss Essie Davidson, L. H. Lee, Rev. E. W. Rogers, Mrs. Frank Sher rill, L. N. Warren, Tommy Windsor, I. Mac Adair, Don G. Creighton, Gary .Lehn, Mrs. R. M. Turner, Mrs. James L. Walker, .Bob Han son and R. E. Martin. vid Gray, Jr., Glymph; Thom as Carter and Johnny Cro mer. All but one of the men have been released on bond. The other was being held in the county jail at Laurens yes terday. Investigating officers were Sheriff’s Deputy C. D. Benja min, Jr., A. S. Holt and Har man Murrah, Jr., deputies at Joanna. The Laurens County officers stated that working closely with them Were ^offi cers of the 'New berry County sheriff’s office. Stukes Award Endowed at PC The Taylor H. Stukes Honor Award, in memory of the late chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, has been . endowed at Presbyterian College through a gift from his wife. President Marc C. Weer- sing announced today that Mrs. Stukes, who continues to reside in Manning, has desig nated that the interest from this investment and a. plaque be given annually to the pre law student of greatest prom ise in the junior class at PC'. The yearly award of approxi mately $500 will he madp available for the recipient’s senior year. • Taylor Hudnall Stukes, in , pilose name this award is giv en, was a dutiful servant of church and State in his na- j* live South Carolina. Born in Manning, he practiced law there, served in the state leg islature and was named to the State Supreme' Court in 1940. He served as chief jus tice from 1956 until his death in 1691. A Presbyterian el der for more than 30 years, he was moderator of the Sy nod of South Carolina in 1956. Mrs. Stukes is the former Georgia Sauls, an outstanding individual in her own right who serves' as a member of the PC Board of Visitors. ,-r Railroad Caboose Is Sold By City ’ The old Saeboard railroad caboose, owned by* the cjty, and placed on a site at the corner of Gary and Thornwell Streets, has been sold to Boyce Wilson, it was learned this week. Given to the city several years ago by the railroad, it was sold for $200, and it is un derstood will be moved to Lake Greenwood to be rebuilt into a lakeside house. The condition of the ca boose had deteriorated to such an extent and damaged by vandals that it was consider ed uneconomical to repair it, it was stated.