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Missy Wassung In
Greenville for Pageant
Lynne (Missy) Wassurtg is spending this week’
in Greenville where she is participatng in activi
ties of the Miss South Carolina Pageant as Miss
Clinton. The week-long preliminaries and other ac
tivities will reach a climax Saturday night with
the finals being seen on TV as Miss South Carolina
is chosen.
Miss Wassung, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert B. Wassung, was named Miss Clinton ear
lier this spring in the local pageant, sponsored by
the Clinton Jaycees. — Yarborough Photo.
Airport Construction
Soon to Get Underway
Education Center
Graduation Friday
The Industral Education
Center at Laurens will bold
its first graduation exercises
Friday at 6 p.m.. it was an
nounced this week.
The center is located at
1209 S. Harper St. Extension.
“This is an important mile
stone for us and for the 71
trainees who will receive their
diplomas,” stated George L.
Phinney, executive director.
“We have needed to prove
that helping people to ready
themselves for jobs can help
them to assume more pro
ductive roles in society,” Mr.
Phinney continued. “But if
we have accomplished what
we bel'eve we have, then we
will have aided local indus
try ;<id contributed to the
economic growth of the com
munity as well.”
The program, which in
cludes white and Negro train
ees, gives instruction in some
academic fields (reading,
writing and math), and also
deals with work hab ts and
responsibilities, how to dress
neatly, personal habits, how
to apply for a job, and what
is expected of employees.
Julian Bolick is director of
the center, which is sponsored
by Laurens County Commun
ity Action, Inc.
The center has a staff of 15
office workers, teachers, mon
itors and assistants.
City Recreation
Events Underway
The girls recreation prog
ram started its competition
June 30 with a regulation
softball game between two
Clinton , t e a m s. “Charlie
Brown’s All Stars” defeated
the “Originals” in for a close
victory.
Girls who would like to
play on a team, or start a new
team, are asked to call 833-
0420 or 833-2771.
The boys archery had its
first match June 26 with Dan
ny Earls taking first place.
Placing second was Randy
Ward and taking third was
Marty Jackson.
The second match is sched
uled for Sriday 14 on the field
at Clinton High School.
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Clinton, S. C, Thursday, July 13,1967
C *' Seeking Sites
For New Gty Building
The Greater Clinton Plann
ing Commission will investi
gate suitable sites for constr
uction of a city hall and re
port its findings to the Clin
ton C'ty Council.
Council assigned the task
to the commission at the
Monday night council meet
ing.
Councllmen cited lack of
sufficient space, poor arran
gements and inadequate
parking facilit'es existing at
th™ present building.
The city has rented the city
hall building in the business
district for 33 years. The
building houses the police and
fire departments and other
city offices.
The building site will be fi
nanced with anticipated mon
ies and funds alread set aside
in a city hall building fund.
The planning commission is
a 16-membegr group appoint
ed last April by council to
plan for the orderly develop
ment of Clinton.
Council also agreed Mon
day to supply water to the
proposed hew nursing home
to be built adjacent to Bailey
Memorial Hospital.
A news story out of Colum
bia during the week stated
that a bill is proceeding thro
ugh the legislature authoriz
ing the Clinton City Council
to contract for group hospi
talization and medical insur
ance and a pens on plan for
city employees. Actually, the
plans have been in operation
for many years and the pro
cedure is taking place simply
to bring the local plan into
conformity with state laws on
the subject, it was stated by
city officials.
Women of Moose
Slate Enrollment
Clinton Chapter 1555 Wom
en of the Moose will hold an
enrollment Surrlay, July 16.
The names of tho'-e* enrolled
will be on the charter which
will be closed after this en
rollment.
The Clinton chapter will
have future enrollments but
after Sunday t hose names
will not appear on the charter
list in the lodge.
The following out-of-town
guests will be present: Mrs.
Edna Conniffe, Mrs. Bonnie
Dittman. Mrs. Nettie Elmore,
Mrs. Lillie Tyndall, Mr. and
Mrs. Don Taylor, and Mrs.
Ann Edge, all of Fayetteville,
N. C., and Mrs. Bonnie
James of Charlotte, N. C.
First Place Award For PC Alumni Effort
As first place national award for
alumni giving is received in behalf of
Presbyterian College by Ben Hay
Hamniet left), director of alumni
and public relations, from Howard B.
Barr, assistant executive director of
the siMMisoring United States Steel
Foundation. The 1967 award for im
provement in alumni annual giving
among small private coeducational
colleges includes the certificate, a
trophy and $1,000 check. These were
presented at the annual conference of
American Alumni Council just con
cluded in San Francisco.
Courthouse Construction Bill
Laurens in 3-County District
Members Consider Dobbins Flays Senate
Amending Measure Reapportionment Bill
Work is expected to get unr
derway within the next few
weeks on .the new Laurens
County airport, according to
statement earlier this week
by Senator Wiliam C. Dob
bins.
Dobbins stated that the Fed
eral Aviation Administration
office in Atlanta had con
curred in the awarding of the
contract for construction to
G. E. Moore, Co., Inc.) of
Greenwood.
Engineers for the project,
John Talbert & Associates of
Gray Court Woman
Killed in Car Crash
Gray Court — A 44-year-
old Rt. 2, Gray Court woman
was fatally injured near here
about 8:45 p.m. Friday when
struck in the rear by another
auto on S. C. Highway 14.
Laurens County Coroner
identified her as Mrs. Martin
Hugh Wilson. He said she was
dead on arrival at Laurens
District Hospital in Laurens.
State Highway Patrolman
Bill Foster said Mrs. Wilson
was headed north in a 1966
Volkswagen when the vehicle
was struck from behind by
a 1963 Oldsmobile 1.3 miles
north of here. He identified
the driver of the Oldsmobile
as Stevenson Blair, 47, Ne
gro, of Gray Court. He was
taken to Hillcrest Hospital at
Fountain Inn for treatment.
Mrs. Wilson and Blair were
riding alone, the patrolman
said.
Coroner Pressley said an in
quest will be held.
Wilmington, N. C., have been
requested by Senator Dobbins
to forward contract docu
ments to the Moore firm for
execution together with per
formance and payment bond.
Copies of the contract, bid
proposal, bonds, specifica
tions and adenda will be for
warded to the Aviation Ad
ministration for review prior
to their authorizing the issu
ance of notipe to proceed to
the contractor.
Upon receipt of informa
tion from the Aviation Admin
istration that the cohtract
documents are complete,
county authorities will issue
the notice to the contractor
to proceed with the work.
The MoOre firm was an
nounced several weeks ago as
the low bidder on the project
with a bid of $104,226.96.
Including engineering fees,
etc., construction of the new
airport will cost approximate
ly $120,000.
The county will furnish $30,-
000, the state $30,000, and the
Federal Aviation Administra
tion $60,000.
The qirport will be con
structed on the old Clinton-
Laurens road,' near the coun
ty home site.
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Electricity in Lydia
Community to Be Cut
Electricity in the Lydia
community will be cut off-for
two periods on Saturday, mill
officials stated;
The power will be off from
6 to 7 a.m. and from 6 to
6 p.m.
The interruption in service
is made to enable contractors
to install two service line
polls.
Site for Courthouse
Is Still A Question
The site for v a new Laurens
county Courthouse is still ap
parently up in the air.
Laurens County Rep. Dav
id Taylor said late Tuesday
night, while a meeting of the
county delegation and the
nine-member site selection
committee was still going on,
that a 40-acre site recomm
ended by the pommittee has
not been approved by the ar
chitects.
Architectural firm for the
courthouse i s Jackson and
Miller of Columbia.
Tji. committal recommend
ed a site on U. S. Highway
76 Bypass.
‘ Taylor said Tuesday night
that he will offer these ques
tions for an Oct. 17 referend
um as amendments to a Sen
ate-passed bill, but they will
be subject to change by the
delegation:
1— “I am in favor of reno
vations to the present court
house.”
2— “I am in favor of reno
vations to the present court
house and construction of a
new county office building at
a site selected by the court
house study Ct.mmittet."
Dr. Fraser to Tell
Of Middle East Trip
Dr. T. Layton Fraser, pro
fessor emeritus of Bible at
Presbyterian College has re
cently returned from an ex
tended trip through eleven
countries in the Middle East
and Europe where he was en
gaged in making a documen
tary film of the Bible.
He will speak Sunday night
at 7:30 at the First Presby
terian Church on his trip, giv
ing his impressions and ob
servations of the situation
existing as a result of the war
between Israel and the neigh
boring Arab nations.
Dr. Fraser was fortunate
to have moved out of Jordan
and Israel only days prior
to the breaking of hostilities.
The public is ordially invited
to hear him.
City Tournament
Slated July 21-29
The seventh annual Clinton
city tennis tournament will be
held June 21-29 with matches
in the following four divi
sions: men’s, ladies, junior
boys (under 18) and girls (un
der 18).
There will be no entry fee
and interested persons may
enter by contacting tourna
ment director Chris Adair,
III at phone 833-0289 or Ru
fus Sadler at phone 833-0614.
Entry deadline is Thursday,
June 20.
Chamber Directors
To Meet Tuesday
The Board of Directors of
the Clinton Chamber of Com
merce will meet Tuesday,
July 18 at 10 a.m. Hotel Mary
Musgrove. I, Mac Adair,
president, requests all mem
bers to U pifcsenu
Columbia — Laurens Coun
ty House members may
amend a bill on an advisory
referendum on the question
of construction of a new coun
ty courthouse.
Rep. David Taylor of Laur
ens said Friday that any
amendments to the bill will
be made Wednesday morning.
He would not discuss immed
iately planned changes in the
bill.
Apparently any amend
ments would jlepend .oh the
outcome of local discussion
of the’ cojurthouse 'project be
tween now and Weclnetlday.
Taylor arid Rep. Paul Cul
bertson have given favorable
recommendations in ‘the
House to passage of the bill
which has second reading.
Notice of general amend
ments on third reading was
submitted to House Clerk In
ez Watson, Taylor said.
The Senate - passed meas
ure calls for an advisory elec
tion on Oct. 17 on whether a
new courthouse should be
built on a site recommended
by the p social courthouse
study committee.
Legislation moving the
committee’s reporting dale
from May T to Oct. 3 also
won second reading approval
in the House and Taylor said
it will get. third reading with
out House amendments.
The date change was pro
posed by Sen. W. C. (Bill)
Dobbins of Joanna after the
study committee prematurely
reported on a site it chose for
the new courthouse.
The legislative delegation
declined to comment favorab
ly or unfavorably on the com
mittee’s choice, near the old
Lanrens-Clinton highway.
Taylor and Culbertson had
both the referendum bill and
the reporting date measure
referred to the House delega
tion for study after it came
over from the Senate. They
then gave them favorable re
ports as a delegation commit
tee.
Self Named ‘Citizen of the Year’
James C. Self, president of Greenwood Mills,
of which the Joanna Mills are a part, here receives
the “Citizen of the Year” award at a recent meet
ing of the Joanna Lions Club. The award is being
presented by Lion J. K. Waits. E. W. Roberts, man
ager of the Joanna plants, and Mrs. Roberts, are
shown seated.
The Joanna Lions Club, at
its June ladies night meet
ing, presented James C.
Self, president of Greenwood
Mills, the “Citizen of the
Year” award. Lion J. K.
Waits made the presenta
tion.
Outgoing President L. T.
Lawson, was presented the
“Lion of the Year” award
by Rev. Dr. Byron Harbin.
International Counselor
Rembert Truluck, member
of the Clinton club, installed
the new officers. They are:
Clyde Tindall, president;
Mac Williams, Ibt vice prov
ident; J. K. Waits, 2nd vice-
president;'* Tony Phillips, 3rd
vice - president; Secretary,
Wendell Hair; Treasurer,
W. E. Byars; Lion Tamer,
John Wise; Tail Twister,
Clisby Templeton; Direc
tors—Claude Lawson, Car-
son Nabors, W. W. Niver,
Mac Duncan, L. T. Lawson.
Rev. Tommy Daum, pas
tor of the Bush River Bap
tist Church, was guest spea
ker. He was introduced by
the program chairman, Lion
Claude Lawson. Mr. Daum
spoke on the Mirtule East
crisis.
Principal opposition in the
Senate, to the reapportion
ment measure passed last
week by the South Carolina
legislature came from Sena-
tor Williams C. Dobbins of
Laurens County.
Dobbins labeled himself
“the fall, guy of the Democra
tic party’- and charged that
the ingredients of the reap
portionment package were
“unfairness, partisan politics
and favoritism.”
He accused the free confer
ence committee which drew
up the reapportionment plan
With “stabbing the people of
Laurens County in the back.”
At this point Lt. Gov. John
West, presiding at the Urine,
reminded Dobbins that Jef
ferson’s Rules of Order for-
County Supply Bill
Gets Final Changes
I.egislaUon involving the
Laurens County supply bill
moved through the legisla
ture last week.
Last minute amendments
to the bill in the House won
approval of the Senate and
the bill was igven the final
legislative nod.
House amendments increase
travel allowances for several
county officials. They also
provide a part-time worker
to work with children and
families under the Civil and
Domestic Selations Court. An
additional $3,000 was appro
priated.
An amendment also in
creased slightly the amount
tax collector’s field men can
keep as compensation.
Another bill submitted by
the Laurens delegation pro
vides for costs and fees
charged by the Laurens pro
bate court.
Alex Fraser Wins
Trophy at Games
For Scots in N. C.
The Drambouie trophy for
the outstanding athlete ot fhe
Highland Games at Grandfa
ther Mountain, N. C., the past
weekend was awarded to Al
ex Fraser of Clinton.
Fraser won three track ev
ents—the 440, 100 and 220-
yard dashes.
Some 4.000 Scots and non-
Scots gathered Saturday for
the beginning of the two-day
12th annual gathering of
Scottish clans at McCrae
Meadows.
Fraser is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Pow.-ll A. Fraser
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bid use of “derogatory re
marks” against other mem
bers.
Dobbins apologized but la
ter on in his 55-minute speech.
declared:
“It looks to me that some
people were looked out for
and ‘to hell’ with the rest.”^
Again West interrupted, “I
cons'dcr that improper lan
guage and there’ll be no more
of it.”
The Laurens County Demo
crat said the alignment of
Laurens in a two-senator dis
trict with Union ant) New
berry counties was done to
break up a Lexington-Ncw-
berry-Saluda district which
now exists in the 50-member
Senate and is dominated by
Republican legislators.
Sen. Nick Zeigler, D-Flor-
ce. said he had consulted with
the lone Republican member
of the reapportionment com-
mitee. Rep. Jerry Hughes of
Orangeburg, and was assur
ed Senate partisan politics
were not a factor in the plan.
Dobbins said it made more
sense to place Laurens by its-
self in a district than to group
Barnwell with Bamberg and
Allendale counties.
He charged the three-coun
ty district was set up to pro
tect the seat of Sen. Edgar
A. Brown, D-Barnwell, the
oldest senator from point of
service.
“The Barnwell district is a
flagrant example of favorit-i
ism,” Dobbins asserted. “
The reapportionment plan
contains a negative residency
clause, strongly favored byj
the Senate. It assures some
small counties of a resident
senator.
The provision stipulate:
that in multi-county districts
a county will not be eligible
for two senators unless it
has one-forty-sixth of the
statels population, or 51,795,
plus at least 50 per cent of
that figures.
The clause guarantees at
least 31 of the state’s 46 coun
ties a resident senator. As
many as 36 counties could
have one, however.
Another provision says that
in multi-county, multi-senator
districts all candidates from
the same county must run
for the same seat.
The Senate is now opera
ting under a temporary 50-
member Senate plan. The leg
islature is under orders from
a three-judge federal panel to
come up with a reapportion,-
ment plan more in line with
the “one man one vote” edicj
of the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Since the federal court is
sued its order the State Supr
reme Court has ruled that the
size of the Senate is limited to
46 members by the State Core
stitution. t
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Bali Hai Horses •
Win at Ga. Show m -
Bali Hai Ranch, north of
Clinton, won several ribbon*
with the entry of their Aral*-
ian horses in the Chattahore
chie Charity Horse Show
Marietta, Ga., July 1-2.
Their top stallion, Gazraf£
was judged grand champion
Arabian horse of the sho^
and was reserve champion iri
the Arabian park horse clas£
Nizzeym, another Bali Hal
stallion, was champion West
ern pleasure horse and reser
ve English pleasure horse. #
Phinney Is Resigning
Community Action Job
Laurens George L. Phin
ney of Laurens has submit
ted his resignation as direct
or of the Laurens County
Community Action, Inc., ef
fective Aug. 1.
R. L. Plaxico, chairman of
the board of directors, said
Monday that Phinney had
notified the 33 members of
the board by letter of his
pending resignation. The let
ters were dated July 5.
In the letter Phinney said
he would continue to work
closely with his successor “in
seeing that our programs are
carried out.”
The Utter stated that in the
months that Community Ac
tion, Inc., has been in opera
tion “programs have been
approved for approximately
$700,000.” Funds for the pro
gram are federal monies.
Plaxcio said Phinney’s suc
cessor would be named at a
board meeting to be schedul
ed sometime during the week
of July 24.
Applications for the $11,000
a year job will be filed at the
Community Action, Inc. of
fice in Laurens.
The agency is charged with
overseeing administration of
the various anti-poverty and
job opportunnty progrtms in
the county.
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