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(A » t % Ml :l ■ ■ ■ . +■•'<%• 1 K . . ''' ' j'j * The Clinton Chronicle »«# #%« 11#« Vol. 68 — No. 35 Cliitton, S. C, Thursday, August 31,1967 All Voters Must Re-Register New County Registration Office to Open on Tuesday Capt. Steve Grady Fullback Alt. Capt. Billy Freeman End Alt. Capt. Johnny Jacks Fullback Clinton Mills Gives Labor Day Holiday Plants of Clinton Mills will be closed on Labor Day, Monday, September 4. All plants will resume operations City Business Houses Have Holiday Monday Most houses, Clinton including RE Jim Abrams • QB Barry Mauldin RT Frank Gaskins FB Steve Grady RG Gerl Rice FB Johnny Jacks C Larry Reddeck WB Andy Young LG Harvey White TB Gary Campbell LT A! Webb LE Billy Freeman First Game in York In compliance with the new rent registration certificates voter registration law passed W H1 he valid through 1968. by the 1967 General Assem- From Sept. 1, 1967 through bly, the Laurens County Re- f*" 4 - >• 1*». v<rt*rs may ret . . .. „ ^ .... ister by mail by sending in gistration Board office will be an a p plicaUon form accom . business Most other industrial work- °P ened on a tult tlme tasls panted by their present cer- retail ers will have a holiday. Tuesday. Sept. 5. tificate. Application blanks School of District 56, which The office will be located will be placed in public places with the th»rd shift at 12 mid- stores * shops, offices, banks open for p reliminary sessions on t he ground floor of the over the county very soon, it night Monday. and some industrial plants to( j a y and Friday, will have courthouse, in Laurens, ad- was stated. Labor Day is one of the will close Monday — Labor a holiday Monday, their first joining the Supervisor’s of- i n order to expedite re-reg- company’s designated holi- Day _ the fina i holiday of full day coming Tuesday, go- fice ’ an(1 maintain the istration of voters, Senator days with pay for all eligible summer. ing into the regular schedule. sarne hours as other offices William C. Dobbins said that employees, officials stated. Then will begin the busy Residents of this section in the courthouse. additional part-time help will fall season, to continue with- will take advantage of their Mrs - Wilma Rankin of Lau- be employed as needed, out a break until late No- last opportunity for trips to rens ^ as ^ een employed as the After the office gets into vember’s Thanksgiving holi- mountains and seashore dur- charge of the office. operation, Dobbins said, dep- day. <, ing the long week-end, while full-tim e clerk and will be in uty registrars will go out into Merchants and other busi- others will attend the races * aw stipulated that the the various county precincts . ness houses will remain open at Darlington. Barbecues and office should be open Sept. 1, to register voters. Schedules Fuepnp Harrv Wilkes Sr on Wednesday afternoon, the picnics will claim the atten- but preparations of getting w jn be announced. ao fZ w Man, st Hi^i 6th, according to Carl Leon- lion of many. |he off,c e set up, and the La- Voters may go to th e offifcS. 69, of 202 W. Maple St., died ard chairman of thc Mer _ students at Presbyterian bor Day holiday, necessitated i n Laurens and register in Monday at 6:30 p.m. in a c bants Division of the Cham- College also will meet class- a oelay until Sept, 5. person. Greenwood hospital after a ber of Commerce. es on Monday. This will mark the begin- Laurens County’s state ad, brief illness. Clinton, Lydia and Bailey Stores will resume their nia g ° f re-regis^ration of^al 1 to finance operations of the. He was a native of Laurens Plants ol Clinton Mills will Wednesday " . f .. . . have a holiday. The The Jo- ing on Sept. 13, to continue County, son of th e late ,u- anna p j ant of Greenwood through the middle of Novem- gene Hix and Irene Jackson jyjin s w jn continue operations, ber. Wilkes, a member of the First E. Harry Wilkes Passes Monday Clinton High Prepares For Opener on Friday Presbyterian Church, a gra duate of Clemson University, a former president of the Clin ton Kiwanis Club, and a re tired furniture dealer. He Plans Are Completed For YMCA in Clinton “We have some good foot- /M* |_ M ball players, but we just don’t vliniOnf JOulina lived in Clinton the past 42 M<mbm of the Crea ; er Mrs . Bcn , V ey, secretary; Jim | years - Clinton YMCA Board of Di- Von Hollen, treasurer. His wife, Mrs. Margaret rectors have worked diligently Following are committee V Motz Wilkes, died in 1961. through th spring and sum- assignments: Biirvivtag are two sons, E. mer t0 bring to Clinton a charl constitution, and Karry Wilkes, Jr. of Clinton family type YMCA. Initial By-Laws; Don Creighton, and Gene Cameron Wilkes of surveys necessary for the or- ph-tirman R P Wilder Dr : n . q , * . ^ rtl « ®* ac r h; M three ganizaton of a YMCA were James Walker, Lynn Cooper ! On next Sunday morning at Mrs. J. Moore Mars and Mrs. made by the Clinton Jaycees. the Church School hour at the W. Joel Smith of Abbeville Local industries hav e also Activities: C. B. Dixon, St. John’s Lutheran Church, and Mrs. Booth M. Gray of shown much interest in the JJ iairi I lan ’, ^ officers and teachers of that Laurens; a brother, John T. program thus far. Mrs - Ben Ivey ’ Mllford Smith - - Staff: Rev. E. W. Rogers, i Lutheran Church School to Elect have many of them.” II Those were the words ex- Mgll rharflgH 111 pressed by Clinton High 1 ,VM VilUl^VU ill Coach Claude Howe early T llfA this week as his Red Devils IW0 Llliry vQSvS prepared to face York injhe „ 11T . 0 ^ q Laurens organization will be^jelected Wilkes of Laurens; and four Bingham has been se- Staf,: Rev ‘ E ' W> Rogers ’ L»ut«C..^ ona iwrens o TUPKn. grindchlldred. *• »^dfrTrinr of .ho chairman. Claude Crocker, day night at York. County man was jailed T"" - e rurpn as fiirpftnr or tnr — — _ . . _ . , “This lack of depth will day and another freed Hair Is Personnel gregation s Committee on Graveside services were YMCA, and the American Le- Bl i lj ™ e ’ d l Ph 7* d ^ on Christian Education will conducted at 2 p.m. Wednes- cion building has been ac- Terntor y and Facilities: D. hurt,” Howe continued. “If $1,600 bond in connection with present nominations for the day in Laurens City Ceme- quired for this program. Ten- B ' Smith ' cbairman . Dr - Lou ' key men get hurt, we’ll be the Aug 2 4 entry of two several positions to be filled, tery by Rev. Alfred L. Bixler tative starting date is the f St ^P he " 8 ’ Noland Sud * MariRflPr fit InRHIlfl stores near CUnton. The scho ° l wiU w invited t0 aad Rev. William Redd Tur- first of Novomhor de ! h ’ E - w - * oherts - 1 IwHoyCI CH JUfllllia in a bad way for replace ments, especially in the back- ~~ mak e additional nominations ner field.” Sder ; ff «• Eugene Johnson from l (he floor When questioned further, saj d Lewis Hughes, 18, of Lutheran Church in ki* i i • n • ■ • ‘Yes wo have CUhton, a nd Charles Earl m tne Lutneran Lhuren in Jaclcie Robbing Yes, w e nave , . Amer ca the new educat on I'ODDinb afternoon clos- voters in South Carolina. Cur- office will be $5,000 a year. In addition, the current county appropriation bill designates $3,600 for part-time assist ants. Serving on the County Reg.; istration Board are J. J. Clark of Clinton, Marion Simpson of Laurens, and Mrs. Gladys Cook of the Fountain Inn section. New registration certifi cates will be cards or paper.. of wallet size and all infor mation type, Dobbins said,,/.! Under the new system, reg istration books will be kqpt curent at all times, Dobbins stated. Voters who move from, one precinct to another will be placed on the new precinct roll. Names of deceased per sons will be removed from the list. At the time of every elec tion, the state regtstratibft of fice will furnish every pre cinct in the every county in the State an up-to-date list of all eligible voters in each par ticular precinct. A computer system has Howe stated, This program will be cen- . F f nancc: . R - ^ Wassang - Wendell W. Hair, 403 Mag tralized in the Clinton-Joanna Jl ™ nolia St. in Joanna, has been been or will b e instituted for area, and activities will be W ' Anaerson ’ lom Aaa named personnel maager of thc huge task of initiating designed to meet the needs SOn ’ the J° anna plants of Green- and maintaining the new reg- of this area. An appropriate ^ ^ . w ° od Mills ’ Group Mgr - E> istraUon roll s for the state, ‘7°’’ ... , H with housebreaking and grand year be 8 ins on the second ... program will be set up with On DgQn S List R° berts announced. , Dobbins said. We will be inexperienced lflrppnv Sunday in September. At that Jackie Robbins, daughter th h l f th interstate Miss Patricia Elaine Hen- An employee of the Joanna James B. ‘ Ellisor, deputy time pupils will be promoted, of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Rob- the YMCAVnf dee.™ ^ P' aa ‘ a 1944 • «*, Secretary of State for South a“rage° d Id sm-’’ >etter than cSed to two warrants Tach tlm e P u P ils win he Promoted gets Nursing Degree dverage, i u ady. ..... , , , . , , vpar hp£>ins nn thp spprmH ^ ® “We will oe inexpenencea , at the quarterback and tack- y le, ,posts,” he s stfongest at fullba 'Howfe in obn The warnant , H “rr Committee of the YMCA’s of derson of 408 Caldwell St., pia " ls s,nce ” cep S T f iaie lor souin Ht 1 1 ; Cl ‘ nt “ n ; '•♦ce.ved the g^dunas. Clinton, was named to the T h “"7 cptflplfh .Cirolinaj ifl urt ffharee of thc — -j ^ Tiling i. . — Associate of Arts Degree nffirprs nf th,. r r p a f p r Hot tibn of his education, Hal? state offfeet i 1 ' seemed to be weU pleased . Hilltop^ Gt-tcery_ ^nd pect will be picked up for in nursing on August 19 at c °"‘ n yM £ A are G Harry ‘ E . al Georgi ^ southern College, had most recently been, ns-,; The new certificates will be warpanta) were signed nectlbh; ^ with thefti I, at And bins an with Steve Grady and John- ^ CMntdrt ‘ and^PhQuestioning, Sheriff Johnson graduation exercises at Lan- B 0 lick president- Dr I ouis Statesboro with a 38 grade sistant to tW head the USed in a11 elections and ref ny Jacks, who will do the W s 0 uUt of CHntdn, a >> d PM- said. der College in Greenwood. , M SteDhens v ce-Dresto uornt ra .o industrial engineering de- erendums of any descrinUot line-busting chores from the bps Grocery on S C. High- Most of the stolen m erchan- A Clinton High graduate, &le P nens . V1 ce president, point ratio. fullback slot. vvay a 6 nofth of Clinton. d i se ^as been recovered. she also attended Clemson Buzzy Tedards, who had Hughes was released on Other investigating officers University for two years, at quarterback, is out with bond and Couch was lodged were Lt. C. D. Benjamin, Jr. Miss Robbins is presently been counted on for a season * n Laurens County Jail in lieu and Sheriff’s Deputies Sam employed at Bailey Memo- School Pupils Report Today, Friday a broken leg. Ricky Lollis and of $L600 bond. Another sus- Compton and Wilton Cooper, rial Hospital. Barry Mauldin, both seniors win fin that spot. For Opening Of New Term Three above average ... ,, , r J ■ guards, Howe said, are Har vey White, Gerl Rice and Lu- cien McKee. Billy Freeman, he stated, will probably be one of the best ends in the state, and Today and Friday are the Following is the schedule: Wrinkt Tn ^nanlr Gary Campbell has the po- days — for school pupils of Seventh grade junior high Tvr, 9 nr lo jpeuK tential of being one of the District 56, that is. students will report on Thurs- To Rotary Club best backs in the state. They will report to their re- day. wh : le eighth graders will C. K. Wright of Laurens, Howe is b ® in 8 assisted spective schools on the two report on Friday. will be the featured speaker again this year by Coac Her- days at S p eci f ied hours for Clinton Hich and Boll at tbe Clinton Rotary Club nu a «i„« aC the n c a en t crs e Tarts ‘TT * ^ ‘fT StUT nin.h^n/"^ n^h > a »cheon next Tuesday, Sept, putting me centers, guaras Thursday and Fridav aeti- :i : .i , on 5, at the Hotel Mary Mus- and grove - twelfth grade students will re- Mr Wright is retired super- aii u . intendent of Laurens County All elementary school pu- District 55 SoHooIk pils will report on Friday. L,,strlct 55 Schools. port on Friday. putting me centers guaras Thursday and Friday acti- grade p Upi ‘ s inf report and tackles through their vities for th students will be e w report n a O o s and Preston Cox f- • . sluae n l s win ne Thursday. Eleventh paces, ana rreston v^ox, preliminary m nature, and coaching the ends and the the regular schedule will get junior varsity. underway on Tuesday, Sept. 15 lettermen have returned, 5.(Monday, Labor Day, be- Howe said, most of them ex- ing a holiday). perienced from the viewpoint ‘ of practice but not game ex perience. ards, soph, 165; Ricky Lol- THE ROSTER Hs, senior, 150. Ends: Richard Edwins, sen- Halfbacks: Andy Young, Students will arrive at 8:15 °n these two days and d‘s- aimon HealtrCente“r‘wMi missal will be at 10:00. Book lists will be supplied. Resume Schedule Beginning September 1, the re sume the schedule of being open on Tuesday morning, 10 ior, 140: Jim Johnson, jun- senior, 145; Brent Moody, t 0 t hj s schedule. 8 n m ' ursday, 2 to ior, 150; Mike Long, junior, soph, 165; Danny Hedgepath, 145; Charles Mabry, senior, sehior, 145; Gary Campbell, 155; Jim Abrams, senior, senior, 160. 175; Billy Freeman, senior. Fullbacks: Johnny Jacks, 190; Jimmy Copeland, junior, senior, 185; Steve Grady, sen- 125. . ior, 190. Tackles: Al Webb, senior, After the York contest, Clin- 175; John Thibodeau, junior, ton will meet Belton-Honea 175; Arthur Attaway, senior, Pdth and Lower Richland be- 190; Lee Benjamin, junior, fore playing their first home 225; Jack Campbell, junior, game on Sept. 22 with Ches- 215; Frank Gaskins, senior, ter. 180; Ronnie Bryson, senior, THE SCHEDULE 235. Sept. 2—York Away Guards: Milford Wrighti ju- Sept. 9—Belton-Honea Path nior, 150: Lonnie Bixler, sen- Away Thornwell and Ford To Meet Here Friday The 1967 edition of the Thornwell Wildcats opens play Friday night with rival Ford furnishing the opposition in what should be one of the more interesting games of thhe area. Kickoff time is 8 p. m. on the Thornwell field. Both teams suffered heavily from graduation ior, 150; Lucien McKee, sen- Sept. 15—Lower Richland losses and at present each is an unknown quanity. John Dawdle, Thornwell line coach, states that tackles Ray Rowe, Tim Coppick and Harvin Kellam have looked good in early season practice, while Ben Crabtree, backfield coach said end Jerry Chandler and Backs Maynard Pierce and Dave Foster have given promise of a season of good nlav, engineering de- erendums of any description partment of the Joanna in the state, it was said, plants. Anyone who becomes 21 He attended th e Joanna years of age may register im- elementary school and Clinton mediately. High School. . Dr. Roy Sober Named Director State Commission Columbia — The South Ca- ior, 165; Billy Hamer, junior, Away 172: Gerl Rice, senior, 170; Sept. 22—Chester Home Hgrvey White, senior, 190. Sept. 29—Dentsville Away Centers: Larry Reddeck, Oct. 6—War e $hoals Home senior, 198: David Ramage, Oct. 13—Union A wav junior, 138; Joe Crawford, ju- Oct. 20—Hillcrest Home nior, 160. Oct. 27—Newberry Home Quarterbacks: Barry Maul- Nov. 3—Laurens Home din, Lenior, 150; Buzzy Ted- Nov. iO—'woouruif ... . liou.e Danny Kaye Visits Clinton Airman Kadena Air Base, Okinawa — Danny Kaye chats amiably with Airman Second Class Roy G. Haupfear II, 19, Clinton, in nearby Camp Kue Army Hospital after spotting the youngster’s red hair and saying “We redheads have to stick to gether/’ The son of Mr. and Mrs. James 0. Heaupfear and a newly assigned telephone installer, he was being treated for an infected cyst. He was among more than 450 patients visited by the 54-year-old globe-trotting comic. Kaye chatted, comforted or joshed all, depend ing on individual circumstances, spending from five to 10 minutes with each. All received on the spot photographs of themselves with him and auto graphs addressed to each. His Okinawa visit was part of a Far East tour o’f hospitals to cheer U. S. military Vietnam easualtie^ and other service pa tients!. During World War II, he served in the Army. After re turning to work at Joanna for some years, he entered Pres byterian College and was gra duated in 1951 with a BS de gree. He is single. A member of Joanna Bap tist Church, he is church treasurer and teacher of an ro ij na Commission on the intermediate class. He is past Mentally Retarded named Dr. president of the Joanna Lions Roy Suber as its director Club and is a Master Mason Tuesday, and a Shriner. The commission was creat ed by the recent legislature Resident Loses Grandson to supervise the state’s insti- Philip Codington, age 7, son tutions for mentally retarded of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Co- Children and education for the dington, missionaries to Kor- mentally handicapped, ea and grandson of Dr. and Dr. Suber is director of Mrs. Lewis Lancaster of this Whitten Village institution city recently lost his life by for mentally handiccapcd drowning. children near Clinton. Clinton Chamber To Sponsor STAR Program The Clinton Chamber of attend a statewide banquet Commerce again will sponsor Columbia in the spring at the 1968 STAR Student-Teach- Soutb Carolina’s STAR ^ Student and Teacher will be er program for Laurens Coun- narned ty, acording to I. Mac Adair, Designation of STAR Stu- president of the organization, dents is based on top-ranking The Student - Teacher scores made on the College Achievement Recognition is Board Scholastic Aptitude being sponsored statewide by Test. STAR Teachers are the South Carolina State chosen by STAR Students as Chahmber of Commerce. the teacher who made the A STAR Student and STAR greatest contribution to the Teacher will be selected for student’s scholastic achieve- each participating high school ment. in the county. Winners for The state STAR student will each high school will be hon- receive a $500 scholarship ored at a special recognition from the Sears, Roebuck ceremony at which the county Foundation and a 10-day toUr STAR Sutdent and STAR of Europe from Pan-Aimri- Teacher will be selected, can Airways. The state STAR County winners will then Teacher will receive a $500 compete in Congressional cash award from the Stifte Diairict tomptdtion anu *ili Chamber ot Commerde.