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V\ ••t Growing With Clinton The Clinton Clinton, S. C, Thursday, November 23,1967 Happy Vol. 68 — No. 47 Area Pauses To Give Thanks Community Service Highlights Holiday m A community religious , < service will highlight the Clinton area’s Thanksgiving holiday Thursday. Most downtown stores, all governmental a g e n c ie s', schools and industrial plants will be closed for the holiday which also will feature the traditional Presbyterian Col lege vs. Newberry football game in Newberry. The community service will be held at 10 a. m. at the Hartness Thornwell Presby terian Church on the Thorn- well cafnpus. The Rev. Alfred L. Bixler, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, will deliver the Thanksgiving message and other area ministers will par ticipate in the inter-denomin ational service. CLINTON MILLS CLOSE All plants at Clinton Mills j will observe Thanksgiving | Day by closing at midnight Wednesday. Thanksgiving Day is one of the company’s designated paid holidays. Some 1,700 eligible employes will receive pay for the holi day. Clinton Mills operations will resume with the regular third shift at midnight Thursday. The Torrington plant will be closed Thursday and Fri day and work will resume on Monday. The Greenwood - Joanna Mills plant will operate on Thursday. Presbyterian College’s holi days begin at 1:30 p.m. Wed nesday and classes resume Monday morning. Laurens School District 56 students will begin a two-day Thanksgiving holiday at the end of the regular school day Wednesday. Classes will resume Mon day. Christmas holidays will be gin at the end of the regu lar school da yDec. 19 and ! classes will resume on Jan. 2. BEK E VO 'Long Gone' Watch Deal Is Halted Three wntch salesmen did a brisk but brief business in Clinton last week before their license was revoked and they were ushered out of town. Clinton Police Chief B. B. Ballard said the three were rounded up about an hour after they started their sales campaign in Clinton. “They had a sales license but they were misrepresenting the products they were selling so we revoked their license,” the chief said. He said the three Negroes apparently used varying stories to sell the watches which were shown in boxes bearing price tags ranging over $100. “One of them told a fel low his car broke down and he needed some mon^y quick,” Ballard said. The chief said most of the watches were sold for around $12.50 each. “After we pick ed the three up, we made them give most of the money back.” The three were in a car bearing Ohio license plates. He said the watches were represented as being Lon gines but that the brand name actually was slightly different. “Probably more like Long- Gone,” the chief commented. Tickets On Sale For PC Production Tickets went on sale this week for the Presbyterian College production of “Dia M for Murder,” scheduled for a three-night run, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1-2, in PC’s new theater- in-the-round. This crime play which suc cessfully chilled the spines of New York audiences for 69 weeks is the second produc tion of the year for the PC drama program headed by Dale Rains. It fealures Jerry Mebane of Dunwoody. Ga., Belinda Ritter of Rome, Ga., Michael Gayne of King ston, Jamaica, and Vincent Hunter of Atlanta. WILKES CHARTER—Shown at presentation of the Alston Wilkes Society charter for the Laurens County Chapter are, left to right, Mrs. Daniel Orr of Clinton; Ted Moore, staff member of the Alston Wilkes Society; Wirron Willis of Laurens; Ronald Burnside of Clinton; and Kenneth McCrary of Clinton. Alston Wilkes Society Boosts Prisoner Rehabilitation The Laurens County Chap ter of the Alston Wilkes So ciety received its charter last week. The society’s purpose is to assist former prison inmates in adjusting to life after pri son and to stimulate public support for prisoner rehab ilitation. Ronald Burnside of Clin ton | is president of the Laurens i County Chapter. Othqr officers are Wirron Willis of Laurens, vice pres ident: Mrs. Daniel Orr of Clinton, secretary; and Ken neth McCrary of Clinton, treasurer. The Alston Wilkes Society was founded in Columbia in 1962 by the Rev. Eli Alston Wilkes and a small group of laymen who were interested in the rehabilitation of for mer inmates of the South Carolina penal system. There are now about 1,800 members and chapters are located in 12 counties in South Carolina. The organization assists former prison inmates in Securing employment, loca ting housing and gaining ac ceptance in the community to whicri he returns. The or ganization also serves as an information agency concern ing prisoner rehabilitation. ^Anyone interested in join ing the Laurens County Chap-| ter is requested to contact Dr. Jack Pressau on Chest nut Street in Clinton. Indivi dual memberships are $3; in stitutional or group member ships are $10 and business or industrial memberships are $25. The Alston Wilkes Society will hold its annual dinner meeting Thursday, Nov. 30, at 7 p. m. at the Central Cor rectional Institution in Col umbia. The speaker will be Ellis MacDougall, director of the South Carolina Depart ment of Corrections. Area Baptist Churches Participate ; In Missions Schools Next Week Lutherans Break Ground For New Church ^ t Ground breaking ceremon ies will be held Sunday for the new sanctuary and edu cational facilities for Sr. John’s Lutheran Church. The Rev. Dr. Karl W. Kin- ard, president of the Luther an Synod of South Carolina will participate in the cere monies which are to start at 3 o’clock. The public is invi ted. The site upon which the structure will be erected is located just beyond the south west city limits on Highway 72, northeast of the new ele mentary school which is now Under construction. The site includes almost four acres. In addition to Dr. Kinard, those participatipg in cere monies will include Dr. E. B. Keisler, interim pastor of the church, various officials of the congregation representa tives of auxiliary organiza tions and other persons in-, strumental in the building program. Architects are Tarleton and Tankersly of Greenville and the contractor is W. E. Baker of Whitmire. Dr. Kinard also will preach at the morning worship serv ice at St. John's. His sermon will be entitled "‘Be Ready.” J . ii 1 dl . 1 f n ;*1.1° "a . E. . > if in. SKETCH OF PROPOSED BROAD STREET METHODIST CHUCH ... New Sanctuary And Educational Unit Plans For New Building Approved At Broad St. By a vote of 182-38, the congre gation of Broad Street Methodist Church accepted the architectural and financial plans for a new sanc tuary and educational unit. The cost will be approximately $200,000. The sanctuary will seat 500 in its main auditorium with 122 in the balcony area. The educational unit will house the adult and youth divi sions of the Church School. The demolition of the present structure will begin in May or early June of next year. Architects for the project are Walker and Farmer of Greenville. The Rev. Edwin W. Rogers is pastor of the church. The new church is to be built on the site of, the, current church, which was constructed in 1914. Twenty - five Baptist Churches of the Laurens Bao- tist Association will part ; ci- pate in a Schools of Missions series beginning Sunday and continuing nightly through Friday, Dec. '. Churches in the Clinton urea participating ; n the spe cial activities are First Bap tist Church, Calvary Baptist Church, Davidson Street Bap tist Church. Lydia Baptist Church, Bellview Baptist Church, and Holly Grove Bap tist Church. A different m i s s i on a ry i speaker will be assigned to each of the 25 churches each of the services, on Sunday Nov. 25, and for each nigh* service of the week. A mis sion study period will pre cede the missionary’s mes sage each evening. igms ■■ Ji Foreign missionaries assist ing during the week are: Mrs. Louise Sparkman (Nigeria), Miss Hannah Plowdbn (China- Hawaii), Charles Bedenbaugh (Tanzania), Miss Sara J. Wilson (Argentina), Miss Er- nelle Brooks (Nigeria), Miss Laura Frances Snow (Chile), Dr. Frank Lide (Hong Kong), Glenn Swicegood (Brazil). Home missionary speakers are: Edmon Burgher (Flori da), Troy R. Stair, Jr. (Ohio), Mr. and Mrs. Rudy J. Antle (Indiana), Miss Martha Jean Chappell (Indiana), Miss Min nie Berry (Kentucky); David Richardson t Alabama), and T. M. Underwood (Georgia). State missionary workers to assist are: Dr. Sam Law- ton, Richard J. McQueen, Wyatt Garrett, Mrs. Johnny Brown, E. R. Eller, James Mitchell, Dr. - Sam Smith, James, Beacham, and A. T. Greene, Jr. m m PC Is Planning $ 2 Million Drive - Preliminary planning at Presbyterian College is get ting underway for a $2 mil lion, campaign authorized by tne Synod of South Carolina to begin late next year and '•xtdnd through 1969, Presi dent Marc C. Weersing an nounced today. He said the drive will mark the next major step in PC's long-range development uro gram to add $20 million to endowment and plant re sources by the 1980 centen nial year. He pointed out that while the trustees consider specific objectives, a campaign ex- t cufive committee of synod leaders is to be enlisted tor direct supervision of the drive. More endowment is an W- pi ■i w: Christmas Lights Go Up DR. KINARD United Fund Board . Members of the board of directors of the Greater Clinton United Fund will meet Nov. 28 at Mary Mus- grove Hotel. The meeting is^ to start at 10 a. m. Work on putting up Clin ton’s downtown Christmas lights to be completed this week. The downtown decorations will follow the same pattern: used in recent years. , In addition to the lighted garlands and bells strung across the street, the monu ment in the center of town will be decorated and there will be a large lighted Christmas tree in the area between the two railroad tracks. The City of Clinton pays half the cost of the decora tions and the Merchants Di vision of the Greater Clinton Chamber of Commerce pays the other half. City work crews put up the lights. The decorations are rented and the rent for this year’s decorations will be $360.50. Mrs. Perry Moore is chair man of the Christmas Dec orations Committee of the Merchants Division. Tthe lights will be turned | on during the annual ChrisU mas parade which is sched uled for Dec. 7. urgent objective. The imme diate building needs include a new library, physical edu cation center and inirmary; however .specific priorities have not yet been establish ed by the board. This campaign, given final tipproval at the 1967 meeting of synod, is the largest fjund- la sing effort yet undertaken by South Carolina Presbyte rians. It surpasses the great 1962 effort for Presbyterian college when more than $1,300,000 was raised for en dowment and the construc tion of Clinton Hall women’s dormitory, Richardson Hall of Science and Greenville Din- irg Hall. The tempo of PC’s 25-year development program has picked up steadily since it. beginning in 1953. Seven new buildings have hoc*) added to ♦he plant, and the endowment lii-s been . increased more than 200 per cent. In addi tion. existing facilities have be4n remodeled and .120 more acres of campus land pur- chas* d. in 5M li PC Gels Video Recording System In General Electric Foundation Grant * FIVE EAGLES, THREE DAIL EYS—Five Clinton area Boy Scouts were promoted to the rank of Eagle Scout at Monday night’s Court of Honor at the Joanna Methodist Church. Three of the five are Dail eys. Left to right above are George Dailey, his twin brother, Don, sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Dailey; their R cousin Len Dailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dailey; Bobby Wassung, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Was sung of Clinton; and Jack Prater, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hack Prater of Joanna. The three Daileys and Wassung are members of Troop 111, Clinton, and Prater is a member of Post 75, Joanna.—(Yarborough Pho- t0 ) . : p_ 1 A touch of show business comes to the Presbyterian College chemistry depart ment with the addition of a General Electric Tri-Pack Video Tape Recording System announced today as a grant from the General Electric Foundation. The complete closed circuit system includes television camera, video tape recorder and monitor. It provides for use of the camera directly connected to the monitor or for tape recording both pic ture and sound for future use. i Dr. K. Nplon Carter, chem j istry department chairman, pointed out several ways in which the new system will be helpful as a teaching tool; The tape recorder acn be util ized to show recorded demon strations, otherwise impracti cal, at appropriate time dur ing classroom instruction. It can be used to record some laboratory techniques that students need to refer to from time to time, and to record the use of instruments at oth er schools But not available derstanding lectures on the at -PC to aid students in un topic. The system without record er will be used in laboratory work which must be done as demonstration because of lack of apparatus for individ ual student use and because of danger involved in some experiments. In these cases, the camera will be fecused on the experiment so that each individual student can take down the data himself direct ly from the monitor. mm >«*>»* * * * TRI-PACK SYSTEM—Operating the new Tri-Pack Video Tape Recording Sys tem given as a grant to Presbyterian College by the General Electric Foun dation are Randy Huff, left, assistant professor of chemistry, and Dr. K. Nolon Carter, chemistry department chairman.