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4- # i [I 1 V. m' v 1 1 V '> r XM;;A, ' SApI ii>:i •«<■ :sS Vol. 68 — No. 15 m Chronide Clinton, S. C. # Thursday, April T3 # 1967 5' 'f wfe' "H ill »* < 11 Ppii|: iiy&ii . . V ;;mgm '■ ;<: ■ %!>" »>■ m liM m i .f' pi i mm m m' mm mt miX mi sMpjj m m ■ *v Martha Jean Smith First Runnerup Lynn EMen Wassung “Miss Clinton” —YarboroilEh Photo Elizabeth Vass Second Runnerup Lynn Ellen Wassung Is The New 'Miss Clinton’ $125,000 Is Target For '67 College Giving Fund An ambitious $125,000 is the since 1959, the Annual Giving i target for Presbyt6rian Col-*P r P8 ram ^ as produced a total • lego’s 1967 Annual Giving of *513,326Jor Presbyterian I I It program. Alumni and Public Coll ? K ' ‘ l has J c °T f , rom ,. a| - . . Relations Director Ben Hay most ..individual 8‘ fts - 4 1] Hammet announced today. Pfc Dennis Stroud Dies of Wounds In Vietnam War Joanna — Pfc. Dennis C. Stroud, USMC, 19, of 712 Whit mire Road, died Thursday, March 30, at the First Medi cal Battalion, Chu Lai, Repub lic of Vietnam, from gunshot wounds hi the head, sustained scholarships^" faculty* salary from hostUe , rlflc fi , r h e ’ wl 4 le increases and departmental oa aa ° p0rall0a ln ,he vlcm - improvements. Ity of « uan8 Nga1 ’ / The geographical goals for “ e , was H a nallvc of , Joanaa 1967 are: South Cainlina - a, ’ d ! vcd “l"' ™ 0 r si of , h,S $62,500; North Carolina -$22.- " tc H u c f aduated ■’“l" Lau - 500; Georgia - $20,000; and r ‘" ,s Hlgh M Scha ^ a 17 . >' car , s other states — $20,000. All of ?L aBe . ln Ma . y 19 ^ 5 ,! n A . u . 8a !^ He said the new record goal compares to the $113,813 mark established by this program last year. In setting the 1967 objective, the alumni board of directors will aim to se cure $65,000 from alumni, $45,000 from friends and $15,- 000 from non-alumni parents of students attending PC. At least $35,000 of the total amount is sought for the Wal ter Johnson Club, alumni ath letic organization. Other ma jor objectives are academic The New South Wing wm v -- : .>' 1968, he • entered the USMC and received his basic train- Miss Lynn Ellen Wassung “My Favorite Things” f r o m LeQUCMCO is the new “Miss Clinton.” “Climb Every Mountain” and _ ’ . • Lf She was chosen Saturday “The Sound of Music.” bpeOKS I Olligni night at the “Miss Clinton Miss Smith, 19, is the daugh- To KiwOllis Clllb these ligures represent slight 1967” pageant which saw ter of Mr. and Mrs. James nr Fran . n „ increases of the record re- Parris Island Later eight girls competing for the M . Smith of Newberry and is . Dl \^ f sponse ,n each . state ,ast y par - he 8 was transferred to Camp honor. a freshman at Presbyterian tive of Cuba who left because Hammet pointed out that ^.leune N C where hoTe “Miss Clinton” was crown- College, and represented Pi of the Castro regime and is ed by Mrs. William C. (Bill) Kappa Alpha Fraternity. The now on the Whitten Village mi i ■ nm m JM LeJeune, N. C. where he re ceived specialized training in gunnery. From Camp Le Jeune he was transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif., and remained there until January 23, 1967, left for Vietnam I rip p vp rTfiQ I no oftr oi l Named “Miss Congeniality” representing Kappa Alpha Musgrove Hotel, with Presi- ij^ thp miHonr P an y. Weapons Platoon, was Miss Susan Harmon. , Fraternity. The 5-6 “Lillibet,” ,lc dunng me ouaopr One of the 50 Beds Added Dobbins, who is a former 5-5V2, green - eyed blonde rep- staf f w jn S p e ak to the Clin- Individuals And B^ke S ly) 0Ulh Car0lina <HClen SCn ,! ed V° Cal “ ,eC “ 0n „„ 1 Kiwanis Club about Cuba GfOUpS Invited First runnerup was Mis^. daughter of Rev. and Mrs. at thc f 1 1 p L k ' For Aft’S Festival Martha Jean Smith, and sec- Lachlan C. Vass of Lubondai, (Thursday). Activities of every variety where he was attached to the ond runnerup was Miss Eliza- Congo, is also a freshman at It is scheduled to start at ^ being or|£ , anited lo deli g ht First Marine Division, Second beth Vass. Presbyterian College, and was the usual 7 p.m. hour at Marv ,. . ,. .. . Battalion, 7th Marine, G Com- the eye and the ear of the pub- ’ ’ presen- , , . j u i dent L. H. Lee presiding. tations on Saturday, April 29, I’l 0, Stroud was the son of ^ : LlUle ; iiS ^ ,i " t ° n 1 e ves ea^e a dramadc read- Dr. Lequerica will present at the Spring Arts Festival J - c - and Christine Stroud, contest, Nancy Fay Grube, 4, ’ background information about to be held on the Presbyter- and was a member of the DI I If V/ N daughter oTor "anf Mrs Ro- Judges for the pageant were Cuba and tel » of |f n College ^ “ rUDIIC TO VIGW IV6W OGCTIOn aaugnier oi ur, ana urs. _ Yorkov I nuis G ences I here after the Castro these are an outdoor art ex- bert 9 rub f’ . prppn and Mail riiiocnip aii takeover. He left the island hibit, a band concert, a chil- “Missy Wassung, 17, is Green and Neil Gillespie, all . 2 , .. d , Da intine naviUon a the daughter of Mr and Mrs of Greenville. Emcee for the country in 1962 to make his aren s painting P av -hon a h —zr somc barbcr - bfonde. In the talent porUon Vfciting queens invited for f ^vmi^^herr h^ TiJes ^ gr ? UP 0r f Single artisl f of the pageant she sang the Clinton pageant were Lynn Y d * aga ’ llvts wishing to perform out of L—YarkorMck Teachers Workshop To Feature College 1967 Summer Term A three-week summer work shop for teachers will be among the features of Pres byterian College’s 1967 sum mer school, scheduled to open June 5, Dean Joseph M. Get- tys announced today. The workshop, providing 3 week amended the state ap- semester hours of credit, will propriations bill to take care meet three hours daily, five 0 f counties Without county su- days each week until June 23. perintendents of education. Logan, “Miss Greenwood”; h' s wile und sisiei. doors on Saturday, April 29, Mary Deck Jenkins, “M i s s Dr. Lequerica i^> a graduate should call Mrs. Ronald Burn- Fountain Inn”; and Pam of the University of Havana side, 833-0184, to be assured Shaw, reigning Peach Queen Medical School, who has done of a place on the calendar of- and “Miss Georgetown 1965”. residency_work in canccroly- the day’s events. All persons ogy, gynecology and surgery, interested in participating m and has done additional gradu- the hootenanny are requested ate work at the University of to contact Miss Missy Was- Miami Medical School. sung, 833-1780. tk Hospital Announces Sunday Open House Laurens Members Amend State Bill Columbia—House members from Laurens County last School District to Offer Practical Nurse Training PFC. STROUD Pentecostal Holiness Church R. P. Wilder, superinten- day through Friday at the at Bonds Cross Roads. A selection of two courses of- The appropriations bill con- denl Laurens county Schonl hospital between the hnurs of i n addition to his parents, ematies in E fe me^tary' ‘Z^Ju.STvV^’lfn Z *Wct 56, has announced that ™ «•“’ aad P m U P™ survivors include; one lister, cmatics in kiemtntary state would pay $6,008 on the A ^ , , cqmpletion of the program, Mrs v E (Diana) Madden Schools,!’ under Dr. Alvin salaries of county superinten- District 56, has announced the students win be eligible t0 jr of § c ^ Munson, Jr., of the University dents of education. that plans are underway to take the State Board of Nurs- ' ma t C rnal grandparents,’ Mr. of South Carolina 1 acuity; and Laurens County will abolish offer a training program for ing examination for practical and Mrs. C. H. Caldwell, of “Teaching Social Studies in its county superintendent’s p rac tical nurses. The program purses and if a passing score Joanna. Secondary Schools,. under Dr. post effecbveJuly^l.^ ^ wiu bc administered by the 1 ? obtained, will become 11- George McGuire, chairman of Reps. censed practical nurses. the PC education department. Paul Culbertson of Laurens l° ca l school system and thc ^ wji der stated that he Funeral services were held Monday at 2:00 p.m. at the hours of academic available each term. t’m f . The regular summer school offered an amendment, adopt- Trade and Industrial Section h ad jj een assured by the hos- Bonds ( ross II ()a ds Pentecos- program has the first term ed without difficulty, under of the State Department of pj ta i authorities that there is tal ,,olincss c hurch - conduct- set for June 5-July 7; the sec- which the allocation from the Education in cooperation wiht a nee( i j n this area for licens- ed by Bcv - ljeslie Braze11 and ond term, July 10-August 11. state could go to the County the Bailey Memorial Hospi- ed nractical nurses and that Bt>V ’ ^ ,oyd Brewer ^ Burial Courses are to be offered in Board of Education for ad- tal. t he school system is cooperaC was in Rost ' monl Cemetery, 12 departments, with six ministrative purposes if there The training" program will j ng w jth the hospital in mak- Ghnton, with military honors. credits are no county superintendents^Extend over twelve months j ng suc h a program available of education. and classes will be held Mon- i t j s f e lt that this program Thomwell ClaSS v will be of benefit to the in- -r« dividuals who take it and al-* T ° H ° ,d Lar WaSh ;o to the community. * The junior class of Thorn- To bs eligible to enroll in well High School will hold a ihe program, students must car wash on Saturday between be between the ages of 17 the hours of 10:30 and 11:30 ind approximately 50, be a a - m ’ and L00 to 2:30 p. m. •itizen oh the United States, Anyone interested may bring md have satisfactorily com- their car to the M. S. Bailey dieted at least two years in Print Shop at Thornwell. ‘ •' in accredited high school or he equivalent as established >y test. All candidates for thc chool will be required tc take \ standard achievement test )e. r orc being considered Tor he program. The test will be ulministered in two p^rts at he hospital by Herman Jack- on, vocational guidance coun- elor, on Tuesday and Wed- csday, April 18 and 19, bc- i .inning at 8:00 a.m. and pnd- ig at 12:30 p m. Anyone interested in con- iidering this vocational train- ng should carll Mrs. Evelyn ieid or Mrs. Hazel Moore t Bailey Memorial Hospital ,r further information. To Form County Chapter of Alston Wilkes Society A meeting to organize a Laurens County chapter of the Alston Wilkes Societv will be held on Tuesday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Broad Street Me thodist Church. The Alton Wilkes Society was founded by a Methodist clergyman to assist in the re habilitation of former Inmates of penitentiarios. T h r o u g h county chapters, of which (Carolina, thc society helps there are presently ten in South former inmates to obtain housing and employment, re build his family,and gain ac ceptance uporv his return to society. It also works to gain public support for the rehab ilitation programs of the South Carolina Department of Cor rections. Any persons interested in the work of this organization arc ir\vited to attend the meet ing. On Dean's List Miss Patsy Henderson, ele mentary education major at Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, was named to the dean’s list for the winter quar ter. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fowler of Clin ton. .— Bailey Memorial Hospital will hold open house Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 o’clock when thc public is invited to view the new south wing and some new facilities, including an expanded and better equip ped laboratory. The hospital has recently completed a $541,000 enlarge ment program, adding §0 beds, bringing capacity to 102 beds. Among the facilities added are a second X-ray machine with an image intensification unit, several units of labora tory equipment, medical rec ords office moved to hew sec tion, a physician’s' dictating room, large storage room for supplies (everything except food). The 50 new rooms, besides oxygen equipment and TV fa cilities, have varied bath fa cilities, some with only .lavor- atory and toilet, while others have tub or shower. The .50 rooms for patients are all on the second floor, in cluded in two new wings, to the south and to the west*. Of the total dost, a grant of $361,000 came from Hill- Burton funds (federal govern ment). The remaining $180,000 was from foundations and in dustries as follows: $75,000 Bailey Foundation; $50,000, Duke Foundation; $35,000, Marquette Charitable Organ ization; $20,000, The Torring- WM I it m ton Company’s Clinton Bear ings Plant. No local tax fumta were used for construction of the practically doubled capacity hospital facility, it was point ed out. The hospital is operated by a board of directors composed of Dr. George R. Blalock of Clinton, chairman; E. W. Ro berts of Joanna, vice-chair man; W. C. Neely of Clinton, secretary; Ryan F. Lawson of the Hopewell section, and John M. Simmons of Mount- ville. Fred N. Crawford is thc administrator. Lindsey Joins Belk's Carpet and Rug Center Here Garvin Lindsey of Green ville, formerly with thc Phoe nix Furniture Company is now associated with Belk’s Carpet and Rug Center. He comes to Clinton with many years experience in carpet and fur niture and coldf decoration. Mr. Lindsey will be joined this week by his wife and three children, and will make their home at 313 E. Ferguson St. They are memb ers or the West Gant Baptist Church# Greenville. mm Ik "u ‘ 4, m Vi'" VV Galloway Honored By Lions Club The Clinton Lions Club Tuesday night honored .C. E. “Chick” Gallo way, one of South Carolina’s all- time great major league ball play ers, as Clinton Citizen of the Year for his example of high sportsman ship iis well as for the encourage ment and support given to young people of the community through the years. Mrs. Galloway is shown here with him as the former star shortstop of the old Philadelphia Athletics receives the award cita tion from Phil Rogers (right), Lions president and captain of one of Presbyterian College baseball teams coached by “Mr. Chick.”—Yarbor ough Photo. Art Exhibit At Douglas House Art work of Presbyterian Col lege students is now being ex hibited in the Douglas House lobby under the auspices of the fine arts department, con tinuing through next Monday. The exhibition includes drawings, paintings, collages, and commercial designs creat ed by .students in course work under J Art Instructor Mary Anne Penninetou. .1— Clinton Horizon Club Girls Visit Gov. McNair The Clinton Horizon Club Council of Camp Fire Girls, Inc., visited in the office of Governor Robert ’ McNair last week to receive a proclamation on the 57th anniversary of Camp Fire Girls. Pictured with the Governor a* he signed the pioUaination ate Kayran Cox, Julia Sadler, Nancy Hollis, Teresa Sum merville, Carol Perry,. Ginger Gault, Claire Duncan, Lynn Cooper, Jr., president of the Clinton Camp Fire Council, Julie Young, Cathy Bouknight, Eloise Fraser and Pat Davis.