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☆ ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Kiwanianslo
United Fund Budget Cemmittee bSioSi
To Hear Agency Requests Today
The Clinton Kiwanis Club
will celebrate its 44th anni
versary at this Thursday
night’s bi-monthly meeting.
Ninth Division Lt. Gov.
Wade C. Harrison, Jr., of
Troy will be present for this
The Budget and Admission Mrs. R. E. Ferguson, Jr., Churches l n
Committee of the United Fund Mrs. Frank Sherrill. . . p . ,
of Greater Clinton, Inc., will United Fund President Rob- JOIR* K®VW(l!
meet today (Thursday) with ert B. Wassung requests any At Mountville
represestatives of participat- agency representative who The Mountville Presbyter- occasion which will feature
ing agencies to determine al- has not returned reservation ian an d Baptist Churches will the cutting of a giant birthday
location of funds for the com- cards to call the United Fund have a j° int revival Monday, cake. It’s scheduled to start
ing year office 833-2716 July ** 1 ’ throuR * 1 Friday, Aug. a t 7 p.m. at the Mary Mus-
k ,;* OII ce *™ A0 ' . 4, each evening at 8:00 o’clock grove Hotel with President
The United Fund campaign Information required from at the Mountville Baptist L. H Lee presiding PreSldent
will be mada this fall. agency representatives , in- Church. The program under the di-
The committee session will eludes statement of service Dr. Neil Trucsdale, pastor rection of George Brocken-
be held at Hotel Mary Mus- rendered in Clinton area, copy of Aveleigh Presbyterian brough and A. C. Young, will
grove, beginning at 1.10 p.m. 0 £ 5 U( jg e £ t amount requested, Church, Newberry, will lead chronicle the history of Clin-
Members of the committee balance on hand at end of the services. . ton. Special attenUon will be
arc: A. B. Godfrey, chair- d ^ Dpr ti neIt t in given to its development since
man, Bob Hanson Calvin ^ orm ' atio ^ R . 1923 whn th* Wwanls Club
Cooper James Von HoUen, I. Agencles whose r ep r e S enU-/ n a ,, , P™ 0 " started l ? ere as a local c,vlc
Mac Adair, John P. Dan,luck, will meet with tl)c com . Descendanls, of James W. organization.
mlttee at designated hours aad Emma Teague Chandler All charter members of the
Robert Jones Gets ^“of " e e : A “ August 6 a^rpTeno^ip and p a r r e e sid n en| te Lee a8 u r geT7i
Newberry Scholarship Sneer Sodety, mue RU g e ^ *" —ed a, ,:00 regular memhers to be pres-
n h„., uniii.™ ,L 7 Council Boy Scouts of Amer- p m ' ent for tn s occasion.
Robert Will,am Jones, 1967 ica Th( , Salvation ^
graduate of Clinton High (Laurens - Union Counties),
School, has been awarded a Old Ninety Six Girl Scout
scholarship to attend Newber- Council, Carolinas United, Cy-
ry College this fall. ** Flb I r0,is Re ' earc ( h
„ . . . , dation, Laurens County Chap-
Having been a member of £ er American Red Cross, Lau-
the National Honor Society for rens Q0 Un ty Medical Health
three years and vice-president Association, Cerebral Palsy
his senior year, he was also Association, of Greenville
recipient of the A. B. Culbert- County, Cl|nton Council of
The apparently routine pas
sage of Seaboard Coast Line
Railroad freight train num
ber 98 eastbound through Clin
ton Tuesday at 4:27 p.m. was
shattered approximately nine
miles east of the city shortly
after that time when 17 cars
left the rails to become a
pile of jumbled wreckage
along the track. The accident
occurred just east of the
Stomp Springs Road.
Contained in the wreckage
among the other cars were
two tank cars of LP gas which
caught fire. The last two cars
of the train, containing per
ishable food, and the caboose
remained on the rails as did
the motor units and several
cars in the front section.. Ru
mors held that the front sec
tion of the train contained
cars of military ammunition,
and that these cars were
quickly detached by crew
men and pulled away from
the accident scene and fire.
This part of the train eventu
ally proceeded on to Monroe,
N. C.
The immediate vicinity was
evacuated of even firefight
ers in the explosive wait for
Burning Car of Gas
Makes Danger Area
the tankers to burn them
selves out.
Seaboard Coast Line offi
cials would not comment as
to what caused the wreck at
press time, primarily due to
their inability to get near
because of the fire. The tank
cars built pressure up and
flames would billow into the
sky at intervals of every few
minutes. The Whitmire fire
department attempted to
quell the flames and cool the
cars, but the flames and heat
drove away every attempt.
Even after the fire is out, it
will take from 2 4to 36 hours
to reopen the smashed rail
line,' it was stated.
In the meantime, Seaboard
Coast Line trains are being
detoured over other rail lines.
The passenger train, The Sil
ver Comet, detoured on the
Columbia. Newberry and Lau
rens Railroad to Columbia
More Land Required
For County Airport
Laurens — Furman Thom- the other 50 per cent of the
son Award for the senior ath- Carm/ Fire Girls Clinton ason ’ L au ^ c n s County Super- 3,200 by 60-foot paved land-
Icte with the highest scholas- YMCA, United Health and Vl f a f’ sal< . SaU,rdav a con : m f stnp - .... _
tic average over the four Medical Research Foundation Hact with G. t. Moore Co of It was decided by Burns,
years. - of Charleston, local relief, ad- ®. re , < : nwood , for . C0 " S , ,r V Cl ° a ™ em t bers , of . bc Laurens
He is the son of Mr. and ministration and campaign °[ 1 h , T ' „ 7 h ,h bounty Legislative Delega-
Mrs. Lcaman Jones. expenses. probably be signed within the t on and the county supervis-
next few days. Work will be- or, that three local real es-
gin soon afterward on the es- tate men would appraise the
tmated $140,000 project. value of the property. Thoma-
There had been a delay by son said Saturday they had
the County Board of Comrrrs- appraised it at $500 an acre,
sioners in signing the contract When the deed for the ap-
due to the necessity of obtain- proximately 20 acres is turned
ing additional land from R. over to the board of county
A , w * * r . .. t"\ jx* ta u • . ▼ R• Burns adjacent to county- commissioners, the contract
A large turnout for the sixth Dottie Dubose against Nan- . ■ ^ i
owned property. will be signed by the commis-
nnual city tennis tourna- C y Jones and Cynthia Turner. Securing the extra acreage sioners and work on the air-
meut has marked a renewed The j unior s i n gi e s and dou- was a requirement of the Fed- port started, Thomason said.
era of enthusiastic pub ic sup- bles are well under way . T he eral Aviation AdminisTat on
poit o* the city s athletic pro- fj na i s are expected to be in order for the federal gov- *|l fi
e^Hes has pfo C viSed m toug 0 h .>1^ on Saturday. crnm ent contribute up to All-Maf 0311165
entries Has provided tougn The fine p ar t lcipa tion of the 50 per cent of the cost of the
“^petition for the top rank clty , s youth in dicatps that the project
future tournaments will be State and county funds on
and thence over the Seaboard
Coast Line to Hamlet.
SCL train 6, the evening
passenger train, tied up in
Clinton, and the locomotive
and crew were used to res
cue the two cars of refriger
ated perishables and the ca
boose of the ill-fated train
from the wreck area.
H. A. Lanier of Abbeville,
trainmaster, said the freight
was on a scheduled run be
tween Atlanta, Ga. and Mon
roe, N. C., and that the pow
er unit and the first four cars
cleared the area on a straight
rail line where the next 17 de
railed.
The derailment occurred
just before the train reached
a curve. The first four cars
were pulled half a mile be
yond the point of wreckage
and were out of danger.
The crash and fire attract
ed large crowds of the curious
in spite of the remote loca
tion, reached only by log
roads.
Laurens County Sheriff R.
Eugene Johnson and men of
his force were standing by
near the scene late Tuesday.
Railway officials said cause
of the derailment could not
be immediately determined.
Presbyterian
Church to Present
Drama on Sunday
“The Difficult Language,’-’
a drama celebrating the one
hundredth anniversary of the
sending of the first mission
ary by the Committee of For
eign Missions of the Southern
Presbyterian Church will he
presented at the First Pres
byterian Church Sunday eve
ning at 7:30. The actors are
semi-professionals from the
Richmond Professional Insti
tute.
The play was presented at
the General Assembly in
Bristol, Tenn., at the World
Mission Convocation in Mem
phis and will be enacted at the
auditorium in Montreat on Sa
turday evening.
The public is invited to see
this drama on Sunday eve
ning.
Winners Emerging In
City Tennis Tourney
A large turnout for the sixth Dottie Dubose against Na
annual city tennis tourna- C y Jones and Cynthia Turner.
players.
The 15 and under Boy’s tro- evcn more successful
phy has been captured by
Dirke Von Hollen, who defeat- '
cd Bill Alexander 6-1, 6-3.
Previously, Alexander posted
an upset victory over the top-
seeded Dickie McSween 8-6,
6-1. However, second-seeded
Von Hollen displayed his su
perb ability by overcoming
Alexander in the finals.
The 32 entries of the men’s
singles has been reduced to ’
the 8 seeded players after 5
days of competition. In the
top match of this division,
thus far, Chris Adair edged
Powell Fraser 7-5, 6-4 to gain
a place n the semi-finals. In
other matches played, Ferd
Jacobs defeated Ben Ham
mett, Jr. 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 and Juan
Amaya downed Bob Plaxico
6-0. 6-2.
Competition in the men’s
doubles began as Larry Con
nelly and Doug Haynie de
feated Joe Nixon and Bill
Hill 6-0, 6-4. In another match,
Rufus Sadler and Ferd Jacobs
downed Bob Plaxico and An
dy Young 6-4, 6-2.
Although the competition in
the women’s singles has been
delayed, the women’s doub
les has reached its J final
match, pitting Stephanie and
Be Played Today
High Man InSoil Judging
A. Augustus Ramage III of Laurens County was the
individual winner in soil judging competition during 4-H
Club Week activities at Clemson University, compiling
a high score of 193 points out of a possible 240. He re
ceives congratulations from Dr. Leonard R. Allen, Ex
tension Service Agronomist, Conservation, in charge of
the contest. (Extension Service Photo),
a matching basis will finance Hampton’s Pony League
team won the regular season
championship in a playoff
game with Bailey by a score
of 12-2. The teams had tied
at the end of the regular sea
son w : th 12-3 records.
All-Star games in all three
leagues will be played today.
Teams made up of players se-
’ected by the coaches will
play the winners in regular
season play. These winners
were Hampton Lions Small
7'; Fry, Joanna Little Boys, and
Hampton Pony League. Mem
bers of the All-Star teams
will be announced in next
week’s paper.
Game times: Small Fry —
5:00 p.m.; Little Boys — 6:15
p.m.; Pony League — 7:45
p.m.
At Air Force Camp
Lykes S. Henderson, Jr., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Lykes S.
Henderson of 102 N. Woodrow
St., Clinton, participated in a
U. S. Air Force Reserve Offi
cers Training Corps field
training encampment at
Charleston Air Force Base.
Cadet Henderson is a mem
ber of the AFROTC unit at
Clemson University.
Peggy White Greeted
By Throng in Laurens
Pegyy White, Miss South Carolina, is escorted
up the Laurens County Courthouse steps by Lau
rens Mayor Ike Griggs to receive the key to the
city and to be named honorary mayor Thursday.
Laurens — It was Peggy
White Day in Laurens Thurs
day and hundreds of the
town’s citizens turned out to
honor the 23-year-old home
town girl who was named
Miss South Carolina last Sa
turday.
The beauty was presented
a key to the city and named
honorary mayor for the day
in ceremonies at the north
portico of Laurens County
Courthouse, at which Mayor
Ike Griggs presided.
The activities started with
a 3 p.m. motorcade down
West Main Street under bunt
ing and banners proclaiming
the special day.
Taking part in the motor
cade were Laurens Jaycees
and Jayce-Ettes, c : ty and
county officials and Miss
Laurens 1967, Eugenia Coo
per and Miss Clinton, Missy
Wassung.
The program ended Thurs
day night with a reception and
dinner in her honor.
Participating in the cere
monies were Laurens County
Legislative Delegation mem
bers Sen. W. C. (Bill) Dob-
Miss South Carolina, Peggy White
stands among the hundreds of well-
wishers who turned out for Peggy
White Day in Laurens Thursday.
bins and Reps. David S. Tay
lor and W. Paul Culbertson;
Laurens Chamber of Com
merce President Richard
Townsend; S. C. Tax Com-
mision chairman a.id [Lau
rens native Robert Wasson;
Jaycee president Mike Lee;
and Jaycee-Ette president
Mrs. Jack Sumerel.
Weaver Ordained
And Installed A!
1st Presbyterian
Rev. Thomas A. Weaver
was ordained and in-tailed as
assistant pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at a ser
vice Sunday evening by a
commission appointed by
South Carolina Presbytery.
Members of the commission
were:
Rev. H. Cobb Ware, minis
ter of the Presbyter an Church
of Fayetteville, Ga., who
preached the sermon.
Rev. Alfred L. Bixlcr, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian
Church, to preside and pro
pound the constitutional ques
tions.
Dr. George C. Bellingratb.
retired minister of Clinton, to
charge the minister.
Thomas F. Hollis, elder of
the local church, to charge
the congregation.
Dr. W. Redd Turner, pastor
emeritus of the church, who
made the prayer of ordination.
Other members of the com
mission were A. C. Young
and Harry McSween, elders
of the local church.
Rev. Mr. Weaver, native of
Miatni, Fla., and recent gra
duate of Columbia Theologi
cal Seminary. Decatur, Ga.,
assumed full-time duties at
the church in June. He com
muted from Decatur on week
ends for several months pri
or to that time.