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The Clinton Chronide
Vol. 68 — No. 51
Clinton, S. C, Thursday Decamber 21, 1967
Buy Your Gifts
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In Clinton
Industries, Businesses To Close
Clintonians Rush Toward
Christmas Holiday Lull
"Be Not Forgetful To Entertain Strangers: For
Thereby Some Have Entertained Angels Unawares."
—Hebrewt 13:2
The frantic Christmas rush
will reach a crescendo late
Saturday and the world will
then settle down Sunday to
await America’s favorite holi
day, Christmas Day.
After a hectic week-before
Christmas, the Clinton area
will slow to almost a stand-,
still Sunday and Monday for
the holidays.
Clinton area schools began
The
Lighter
their Christmas holidays Tues
day afternoon and school will
resume on Jan. 2. Presbyte
rian College students started
their holidays on Monday and
will return on Jan. 8.
All businesses. except some
service stations will be closed
Monday but most will re
open Tuesday, many featur
ing after Christmas sales next
week.
Christmas Edition
Features Greetings
Today’s 30-rage Chronide Christmas edition
features the annual greetings from merchants,
in addition to local news coverage and pictures.
Also featured in today’s Chronicle are stories
about various Christmas traditions and customs.
Most of these will be found in the third section.
The area’s industries will
be closed Monday and some
will be closed for several
days.
Clinton Cotton Mills, Lydia,
M. S. Bailey Plant, Torring-
ton, Mansure and Anderson
Hosiery Mill will be closed
from Friday through Tues
day, Dec. 2(>.
Hallmark Shirt Co. closed
Wednesday and will resume
production Jan. 1.
Azalea Mobile Homes will
be closed Monday and Tues
day while Kaven and Cross
Hill mobile homo manufactur
ers will close Friday and re
sume work Jan. 2.
To be closed on Monday
are Brookline Carpet, Kay-
wood Southern, Empress, Mo
bile Homes, (Jreenwood Mills
plant at Joanna, Aseoe Felt.
Christmas morning services
are scheduled at Hartncss-
Thornwcll Memorial Church
on the Thornwcll campus.
Service will begin at 10:30
a.m. and will feature a ser-;
mon by Dr. James Macdon-!
aid, president of Thornwcll.
St. John’s Lutheran Church
will again feature the Chris-
mon tree which was introduc
ed in this area last year. A
schedule o( showings is print
ed clsew’hcrc in today’s
Chronicle.
Another holiday feature is
the live manger scene which
will, be staged tonight, Friday
and Saturday nights at First
Presbyterian Church in Clin
ton.
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By DONNY WILDER
Chronicle Editor
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You think little ones don’t
notice? ‘ , .
Tina Mann, age 5, dictat
ed the following letter to the
editor of The Chronicle:
“Why did Santa shave?
“In the Clinton Christmas
parade, Santa had no mus
tache. Many little boys and
girls were probably as up
set by this as I was. Please,
Santa, let your mustache
grow.”
I have forwarded Tina’s
letter to the North Pole and
I hope Santa has a good
answer. I sure don’t.
An index to today’s paper:
Deaths.. .
Society
Sports
Editorial
Page 2
Pages 7-8
Pages 24-26
Page 10
Local Churches
Chrismon
Tree Hours
Announced
Monger Scene
To Be Presented
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A live manger scene Will be
, presented tonight ,and Friday /
rpL Cf tv,- t al and Saturday nights' at First
chu h ;ch st . gi r"h« ^ c ) n
vites the general public to ' '
share in the Chrismon tree ’
by observing special hours
when it may be viewed, in
addition to the hours of ser
vices held during the time
the tree is up.
The tree will be decorated
in the afternoon of Decem
ber 20 and will remain in the
church throughout the rest
of 1967, possibly longer.
Hours set for the conven
ience of the public are: Sat
urday, Dec. 22, from 7:30
p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Christmas
Day from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00
p.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 26,
from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.,
Other hours may be announc
ed later. Those desiring to
see it but finding it impos- {
sible to do so at the sched
uled hours may make special
appointment.
St. John’s congregation in
troduced the Chrismon tree
to this immediate Vicinity
last year. Several new sym
bols and other significant
ornaments will adorn the
tree this year. A folder of
explanations of the symbols
will be availaole lor ihose
who wish it, without cost.
Christmas Morning
Service Scheduled
County Airport
Work Is Halted
Completion of the new ways by G. E. Moore con-
I -aurens County Airport has tractors, showing that the
been delayed until next project is not completed. All
spring, according to Furman pilots arc asked to please not
E. Thomason, county super-1 try to use this facility until it
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Thomason said, “Every Work on the $140,000 proj-
ffort possible has been made| ect began Aug. 15. When
by the Board of County Com-' completed, the airport on the
I missioners, the county
gation, the contractors
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Tonight and Friday,*; t}ie tio« ii.completed and if th«
manger scene will be present-
dele-
and
engineers to complete’ the
airport before bad weather
ietiin;bUjt we just) did not
quite make it.
old Laurcns-Clinton road will
have a 3,200-foot runway.
ed from 7 uqtil 9 o’clock. On
Saturday 1 night, .'the scene,
will be staged from 7:30 un-
Lutheran Christmas
Service Sunday
The congregational Christ
mas worship service of the
St. John’s Lutheran Church
will be held Sunday morning
and will feature Christmas
music both by the congrega
tion and the choir, as well
as a sermon by the interim
pastor. Dr. E. B. Keisler.
The congregation’s tradi
tional and impressive candle
light service will be held on
next Sunday evening, begin
ning at 7:30. This service
consists largely of the sing
ing of Christmas hymns and
carols and with the symbolic
lighting of the candles.
Man Sentenced
A man in his late 20’s has
been arrested, tried and con
victed on two charges of in- :
decent exposure.
He was charged with inci
dents which allegedly occur
red in the Fitts Meadows sec
tion.
A Chrisimas morning serv- He paid a $200 fine on one
ice will be’ presented at Hart- charge and currently is serv-
ness - Thornwcll IVlemorial ing a 30-day sentence on the
Church. ! gang on the other charge.
The service will start at
Dr. James AMacdonald, pre- Dies Of Wound
sident of Thornwcll, will de
liver a sermon entitled WHITMIRE Eugene Mar-
“Kecping Christ in Christ- tin Mars - 19 - formerly of
the
contractor could have had
one more week of favorable
weather, the asphalt could
have been put down. How
ever, since bad weather is
upon us, it is the opinion of
all involved that a much bet
ter job can be obtained by
postponing the laying of the
asphalt until the
weather breaks, possibly in
March or April.
“Therefore, the John R.
Talbert Associates, consult
ant engineers, have issued a
temporary stop order on the
project.
“The necessary markings
are being placed on the run-
Cravens Win
Miami Yrip
Mr. an<^ Mrs. Edward Cra*
ven and two sons, Bruce and
David, left Wednesday for
Miami, Fla., after winning
the trip in a national contest.
They w'on $100 travel ex
penses in the “Discover Ford
winter * Country” contest. They flew
to Miami and will return by
car.
Their Route 2, Clinton,
neighborhood apparently is a
.ucky one.
Their neighbors, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Young recently
won hotel expenses in
a Stanley Products contest.
A folk quartet from Presby- •
tcrian College was a big hit
at last Thursday’s Kiwanis
Club ladies night event.
Between songs, the young
mei kept the group laughing
with such as this:
“When I first came to Clin
ton, I saw a sign in front
of a church which read ‘Tir
ed of Sinning? Come On In.’
Someone had scribbled under
neath, ‘If not, call 833-. . . ’
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At the Clinton High School
football banquest Tuesday
night, Dick Weldon, former
PC athlete and now offHv
sivc backfield coach at tlwk
University of South Carolina,
told about his first college
football game.
PC was playing at Clemson
and, as usual, the Tigers
were loaded.
Coach Ix)nnic McMiUian
sent Weldon in at quarterback
in the first quarter. Weldon
ran an .option play*, gained
six yards, and began to be-
computcd . by /adding two lieve he had ClemsOrt*s num-
jihip Enrollment Drive,, the sung, George Brokcnbf’ough, points for each dollar turned ^ cr However, about that
at Mrs. Claude H. Howe, James in and one point for eachi ^ me ’ h ^ e ^ 0n
T i 1 smashed into Weldon from
Lynn W. i membership acquired. Anyone ^ blind s jde.
meeting to be held Friday, j Cooper, Jr., 1 Don G. Creigh-1 who has not been contacted! “He just about tore my
Dec. 22. ion. and T. L. Stallworth. by a worker and who is in-’ arm off. The ball went one
It is hoped that the mem- i; H . second place team is -erested in securing a char- way, I went the other. Clem-
bership will be over the 500 Team No. 4 Headed by Bea ter membership should con-, son recovered.”
mark. Ferguson with 948 points. | -act the YMCA by calling Weldon was shaken physi-
With nine teams working Third place team is Team 833-15.55 or come by thOj ca iiy, but his enthusiasm was
in the membership drive fig- \o. 3. Headed by Mrs. Vir- YMCA Office. undaunted,
ures after two weeks of re- ginia Vance with 887 points. Equipment has been placed “On the sidelines, I apolo-
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YMCA Membership Drive
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Passes Half-way Mark
At the end the second wart R. Hanson, George H. with 719 points. ' Points are
week in the YMCA Member- Corne’son. Robert B. Was-
;*nt Drive,,
membership now stands
302 with one more - report H. Von Hollen,
porting, show that Team No.
1 is ahead w'itli 967 points.
The Captain of team No. 1 is
Nancy Sherrill: workers are
Fourth place team is Team
No. 9, headed by Johnny
Moore with 819 points. Fifth
place team is Team No. 2
William F. Jacobs 111. Ste- headed by Ralph . Tedards
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in the building for the use of gi7ed t0 Coach Mac j lold
he membership and may be him , Coach rm 30rry a bo U t
used at any time the YMCA that hi;t scnd me back in. I
is open. .At present the Y
will be open from 9 a. m. un-;
til 5.30 p. m. ; ^ ^ is arin around my
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want some more.
“Without a smile.
Coach
of the
shoulder and said, ‘That’s
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Kaywood Southern
Wage Increase
Is Announced
A general wage increase of
,53
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, vear, a full-scale program
! ror members will he launch- 0K : s ? n ’ yOU . ^ T™
i ed in the form of basketball There s plenty nr»rg
! 'eagues for boys and girls where that came from. t
; and gym class for the young-
er boys and girls. Fre-school
, 'tory hour is being planned
' for boys and girls who are
1 not yet in school. Gra-Y and
j Tri-Gra-Y Clubs for grade
H’hool hoys and girls will be
former! and will meet at. the'
YMCA. Physical actiivties al- from fivcAo eight per cent
so are being planned for the has been announced for em-
j adults, both men and women, ployes of the ^Kaywood
Announcements of program Southern Division of Joanna
; nd schedules w-ill he sent to Western Mills Co., located at
car h member and announced Joanna.
n Ihc Chronicle for the in- Manager Fred J. Slimmer
'urination of the member- the announcement at
ship Anyone wanting further dlc corn p anv ’ s annual Christ-
inlormation about programs mas dinner. The increase was
should contact the YMCA Of
fice.
mas.
The public is invited.
Fire Call
Clinton Firemen
a call to 500 E.
Ave. Tuesday about 12:30
p. m. where wiring in an
electric stove shorted out.
No serious damage was re
ported.
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Whitmire, died Saturday at a
Hendersonville, N. C., hos
pital after suffering a gun
shot wound.
Hendersonville' City Police
Capt. Dubois Edmundson
answered said Mars apparently died
Carolina of a head wound accidentally
self-infliqted. The youth had
been target practicing and
evidently thought the pistol
was empty when it discharg
ed.
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Rescue Squad
Election Slated
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SANTA VISITS—A surprise guest at a Whit
ten Village Christmas party was the jolly, old gent
in the sleigh. The party was. one of two held
for Whitten Village students last week at Circle
School on the Whitten Village’campus. At the
informal program, the students sang Christmas
carols and acted them out. (Yarbrough Photo)
effective Monday.
The increase will make the
average hourly rate in ex
cess of $1.95 per hour.
Kaywood manufactures
wood louvered shutters and
, other doors and has an an-
The Laurens County Kc.s- nua| „ o( aI)prox j mately
h ' ,ld lts an - $600,000 per year. This com-
pany is one of two louvered
door manufacturers in South
Carolina, and combined with
a ^ g 1 its sister plant in Benton Har
bor, Michigan, are the larg
est manufacturers of mov-
oni
cue Squad will
nual election of officers
Jan. 2.
The meeting will be held in
the rescue squad headquar
ters and will start
o'clock.
All squad members are
urged to attend and phrtici-| able louvered shutters in the
pate in the election. world.
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