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V v • 'W. ‘ %-OjS Growing With Clinton The Clinton Chronicle ^ ** t'X**, i r.mm, rm Clinton, C,. Thursday, November 2,1967 ,v- Vol. 68 — No. 44 Game Hefe (See Story on Page 10) ,f V I . . • • .y. .- v : aPf . M ■V'y^-yy-V ■■■PllWHili Ill'll m I!I'll I'K .... Bailey Plant Open House Clinton Mills will dedicate its $8 million Bailey Plant with- brief ceremonies here Sunday, then Open it ta*the public. i More than 5,000 persons are expected to tour the new spinning and weaving plant during the open house from 2:15 to 6 p. m. Robert M. Vance, president of Clinton Mills, will speak during the dedication beginning at 2 p. m. The open house will feature a fiber-to-fabric tour of the plant, with some machinery in actual operation, plus a display area. The plant produces blended cloth of polyester and combed cotton for the apparel trades. Clinton Mills, a privately-owned textile com pany, has three other plants. The Bailey Plant marks the company’s first use of synthetic fibers after 71 years as an all-cotton manufacturer. Advisory Referendum November 14 . ¥<a* i s v» 14 y.3 Voter Turnout Encouraged r / For Courthouse Proposal R. H. McGee ! ■ . J . *« 4 '. ' Dies; Rites Slated Today Clinton druggist R. Henry McGee, 66, died early Wednes day afternoon at Bailey Me morial Hospital. tt o r. * r«> x, . _ U. S. Route 76, recently A native ot Anderson County widened to four lanes be _ he had lived in Laurens Coun- tween Clinton and Laurens, ty for the past 33 years. He will be officially opened with Clinton-Laurens Road Opening Ceremonies Friday formal ribbon-cutting cere monies at 11 a. m. Friday, Nov. 3. State Senator W. C. Dob- operated a drug store in Jo anna before opening McGee’s Drug Store in Clinton. A resident |of 203 S. Adair St., he was a son or Mrs.i bins who is in charge of ar- Maggie Grubbs and the late ann “ unccd that Dr. William Glenn McGee, Highway Commission- He was a member of First er S! las N. Pearman of Col- Baptist Church and was a umb ' a wou ‘ d be tba Principal director of Citizens Federal, s P eakera " d lha ‘ the cxer cis- Savings and Loan Associa-« would be presided over by tion S. J. Workman of Woodruff, ‘ chairman of the State High- Other survivors include his Commission. wife, Edna Campbell McGee; 1 _ * ‘ j two sons, Joseph William Mc-i The P ubl,c ,s lnv,ted t0 th ' Gee of Clinton and Robert ex crc ,ses * Glenn McGee of Greenville;! Addresses of welcome will a brother, George McGee „f be.brought by Mayor I. A. Walhalla; four sisters. Misses °[ Laurens and May- Sara and Margaret McGee, N °land B Suddeth o and Mrs. Shelby Crowtherjpnton. The- invocation will all of Anderson, and Mrs. Ed be given by Dr. Robert S C. Gilmer of Rock Hill. iCooper, pastor of.the First „ , x . Baptist Church, Laurens, Funeral services are to be £nd the benediction wiU be conducted today, ^ liurst ^ a y> gj Ven by the Rev. E. W. I Commissioner Earl at 2 p m. at (’.ray Funeral RogerSj pastor of the Board gen of Newberry. Home With the Rev. J. B. street Methodist Church in Darr officiating. Burial will « S. N. PEARMAN the following will participate: Mr. Workman and Mr. Pear- man, House Representatives David S. Taylor and W. Paul Culbertson of Lauren* coun ty and District tiighway H. Ber- Clinton. Senator Dobbins ^rill cut tie ih the Belton Cemetery. j Pallbearers will be Dave the r 0 m c | a ily opening pms, Sloan I odd, J. B. Hart, he High J a y, trhftic and Grady Adair, Broadus and* The exercises will be held at the intersection ■; 0fj the new four lane imprdVement of U. S. 76 Bypass east of Laiirens. Howard McGee. Knight Wins Grid Contest Third Time Downtown Promotion Sales Planned Businessmen, Students Attend State Symposium Representatives of the Great er Clinton Chamber of Com merce and Presbyterian Col lege today were to attend a college business symposium in Columbia. The symposium is spon sored by the state Chamber of Commerce and the local representatives are sponsored by the local Chamber of Commerce. Local representatives were W. R. Anderson and W. C. Baldwin, representing the lo cal Chamber of Commerce; Dr. Fred Chapman and Dr. Mike Marr of the Presby terian College Economics Dept., students Robert Lynn, Randall Grant. Robert Sta- ‘‘Don’t let 10 or 15 per cent of the voters of Laurens County decide whether we get a new courthouse. We want to know what a major ity of the people want, ro gardless of whether this proposal is approved,” R. L. Plaxico told Clinton Rotari- ans at a Tuesday luncheon meeting. , Plaxico is chairman of the Laurens County New Court house Study Committee and was featured speaker . at the Rotary meeting. Plaxico said, “We aren’t a selling committee. We have gathered the facts about what a new courthouse wih cost and what it will offer in services and efficiency. We are presenting those facts to the people and the decision is up to you. However, we do hope you will go and vote on Nov. 14 in the advisory refer endum on this matter? We hope this issue isn’t to be de cided by 10 or 15 per cent of the voters. We hope to have a large turnout.” Plaxico’s committee has recommended that a $2.9 million courthouse be con structed at the intersection of Garlington Street and Highway 76-Bypass in Laurens. He described the complete project to Rotar- ians and after the meeting, le and State Sen. Bill Dof Dins answered question^ about the project. During the question-and- answer session, Dobbins pointed out that it will take three separate referendums to secure a new courthouse for Laurens County. The nroposal couki be stopped in of the General Assembly the proposed location. In would ratify that constitu- that election, two-thirds of tiOnal amendment. those who vote in the election Then one-third of the reg-' n™st vote in favor of the istered voters in the county proposal in order for it to be would have to petition the finalized, governor to call a special Plaxico said that it will be election concerning whether at least 1969 before construc- to move the courthouse seat bon work could be started. Jrom its present location to j (Continued on Page 2) Sample Ballot A sample ballot for the ad visory courthoase referendum is on page 28 and information about voting places is listed in a legal notice on page 19. . i ' >y «+V**- :' ; W . .w'- X v«. > wm Hi :i0szsm:m sip m mm <-*• w. i: m St.;. **' *.:•;* • . >v •••-3k -r *,.*■<£* fc-Kii* . ' ^... sm? - "t " ••• ' x ,*»\ U: ,r* -;■■■■ ton, Richard Galloway and any one ol the lhree refer . Richard Quilleti. Piirpose of the symposium J s to give college students a better understanding of the business community. John Lumpkin of Columbia, president of South Carolina National Bank, was to be the moderator. Discussion leaders were to be Charles A. Gibson, presi dent of Burlington Industries Cotton Mills, discussing auto mation, technology and em ployment; Archie K. Davis, chairman of fcho board of directors of ^adhovia, dis cussing living with inflation; Richard ,D. KarfjLinkle, busi ness economist with DuPont, discussing government’s role in economic growth.* A major downtown sales' 1^ present at the promotion opens this Week-1 to win. drawing City Tax Notices Mailed Out end urns. The balloting on Nov. 74 will oe strictly an advisory “eferendum. If tl^e vote favorable, the county’s leg islative delegation will pro ceed with setting up the legal machinery to hold a referen dum on whether to amend the constitution to increase the county’s bonded indebt edness limit from eight per cent to 18 per cent. That would be necessary so the county could issue general hbligation 1 bonds (I to finiahpe (he project ! 1 If the vote in that referbn- dum r is successful, i (he county’s legislative delega tion at the following session .1 < % HORSESHOE’S’ DESCENDANT —The legendary ‘Horseshoe’ Robert son has a pretty descendant in Carol Thompson, a junior psychology major at Presbyterian College. Carol is pic- ■Of m-mm. tured at Horseshoe’ F^lls which are named for her greit^great-great- great-grandfather because of his Revolutionary War exploits there.— (Yarborough Photo) ' 1 .. Horseshoe's' Descendant At PC end and is sponsored by the For the third time this Special Events Committee of season, Erskine Knight is a the Greater Clinton Cham- winner. 1 . her of Commerce. Knight, ol 400 Academy St., The six-week promotion is this week’s winner of The will feature free gifts from Chronicle’s football contest, merchants with Each ’ participating store w lildisplay an 11-inch by 1^4- inch sign, indicating their participation in the promo tion. Anydne 18 years of age or City of Clinton tax notices were, to be mailed out th : s week, according to City Clerk Brooks Owens. The tax rate of 53 mills is Presbyterian Leader To Addressee Board The tax notices will*cover ad valorem taxes on both -eal and personal property. v. 1.*^ drawings over can register in each in- unchanged from last year. , He missed only three out of held at the participating dividual store every day, if T,ie rate J 135 remained the 20 predictions and wins the stores at 5 p. m. on 1 Satur- he wishes, for a prize to be sa r ^ e 17 yea ff ‘ $25 first prize. days. ■ given away that week in that Knight won first prize once Drawings will be held each store, before and took second prize Saturday through Dec 9. The first week’s prizes and money on another occasion. Tickets will be destroyed participating stores are listed He actually tied for first that after each week’s drawing, in an advertisement in to- time but had to settle for Th e winner does not have to' day’s Chronicle, second because his tie breaker score wasn’t dose enough. Second place this week was a close battle but John Glenn Browder of 171 Cypress St. wins the $10 prize. Browder was one of 19 contestants who missed four predictions but ^ , ho wins on the basis of his Dr - Marshall C. Dondy, tie-breaker score of Clinton, moderator of the Presbyterian 39, Newberry 6. The score in Church, US, General Assem- that game was 40-7. bly, will be the featured Charles Marler, a former speaker at the eighth annual Clinton High School and meeting of the Presbyterian Shrine Bowl football star, c ollege Board of Yjjitors had the same mqrgin hut he tonight. predicted it Clinton 33, New- A PC alumnus who serves berry 0. Browder's point dis- a s executive-secretary of the tribution was more nearly correct. This week’s contest is on page 24. \ BY DONN1 WILDER Chronicle Editor Yes, Virginia, there was a ‘‘Horseshoe” Robertson. His great-great-great-great- j happenstance. The fact that she is now at- rowed the field down to Pres-, with information while he was tending college near the site byterian College.” hiding under ,the water fall of “Horseshoe’s” Revolution- Carol, whose parents now which is now known as Horse ary War exploits is pure five in England where her shoe Falls. great-granddaughter is a jun ior at Presbyterian College. father' is helping to establish Carol, a blue-eyed brunette, a says, Carol R. Thompson, of | State College for Womeji for \\i arv Musgrove Waynesboro, Miss., ife a de-1 two years. Then 1 wanted to i ?ame to Clinton. Sunbeam Electric plant, attended Mississippi says she had never heard of “We were eating dinner at the Mary Musgrove Hotel when I first came here and until she i started asking questions She knew about Mary Musgrove. That s Cendant of the famed “Horseshoe” Robertson around whom so much of the Clinton area’s history and folklore revolve. - City Council Meets Monday Clinton City Council will hold its ^regular monthly meet ing Monday night at city hall. The meeting is to start atj| 7:30 p m. The city is to receive thell auditors’ ivpon on ih»- an-! mml audit, i DR DFNDY Presbyterian Board of Chris tian Education, Dr. Dendy will address the opening din ner session scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in’Greenville Din ing Hall. Malcolm P. v Niven, Green ville business leader who is chairman of the Board of Visitors, will preside. Dr. Dendy will be introduced by Dr. Louis LaMotte of Maxton, N. C., former president of Presbyterian Junior College. PC President Marc C. Weer- sing will welcome the group to the campus, and the col lege choir will render special music. The Visitors will continue their meeting on Friday morn- | ing. After 8 a m. breakfast with student leaders and a student program, the group will assemble for the 9:30 a.m. business session at which Dr Weersing will report on Presbyterian College and new officers will- he. elected. I MSI H sM f v 5 “• 4 < PEANUT PUSHERS — The Clinton Junior High School teacher at right isn’t really straining as hard as it appears. Look closely and you’ll see that the head belohgs to a student who is trying to take a picture. Math Teacher Lindsay Randall, left, and Coach Bill Rhodes engaged in a peanut pushing contest this week after students took them up on a dare. The teachers said if the stu dents could sell $500 worth of magazine jubacrip- attend a church-related col- all about “Horseshoe’’ Robert- was time ^ eart l lege in the Carolinas lor my j son but she didn’t know the: iSS last two years. I’m a Preshy- story of how Mary Musgrove j married?” terian and eventually I nar-1 fed him and provided him Gailbraith “Horseshoe” Rob ertson was captured by the British near what is now Clin ton but escaped. He hid be neath a waterfall near Mary Musgrove’s home and she kept him supplied with food and daily information about the British. She and Robert son also helped Major Arthur Butler escape from the Brit- : sh. The info’rmaJti°n supplied by Roberts<g)j / isjf^redited with helping- def^pt the British at ‘he battle or Musgrove Mill. That battle Js said to have shaken Tory* strength in up- >er South Carolina. Mary Musgrov? and “Horse shoe” Robertson did not marry. Mary’s fjnaneee, John Ramsey, died during the war and she died soon af ter the war. Robertson, who married Sarah Norris, moved to Tus caloosa, Ala,* He and some of his children are buried near Sanders Ferry, 12 miles from Tuscaloosa. The re mainder of his family are buried at West Point, Miss. Robertson died at age 79. Carol is a descendant of the Robertsons on her moth er’s side of the family. Her grandfather, Raymond R. Weems still resides in West Point, Miss. He was married to the great-great-great-grand- daughtu ot Robertson. ^ Mil mm ■ m tions over the weekend; they’d stage a contest of pushing peanuts across the stage. The students sold over $500 worth of subscriptions, raising the total amount sold to $5,028. The goal was $4,500. Miss Ruth Hair’s class led the sales with $1,092.88. High salesman was Davy Sanders, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Sanders. Proceeds will be used for lib rary books and other school projects.