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L The Clinton Chronicle Index < Ihhhj fieri Dent h* Kditorials Society Vol. 69 — No. 4 Clinton, S. C , Thursday, January 25, 1968 Sports Two CC Committees Appointed | I wo nominating committees I were appointed Tuesday by ! 1 Mac Adair, president of the ' Greater Clinton Chamber of , Commerce. (hie Committee is to no«ii- j inate a slati 1 ol officers and the other is to se'ert names j to be placed on the ballots for membership on the board of directors The officers' nominatmt’ 1 committer* is comprised of Tom Plaxieo, .1 C Thomas, and D. B Smith. The directors nominatiiu 1 , committee includes Louis M. I Stephens, Joe S. Holland, Carl U*onard, Shelton J Kimer, and D. O Hhame. Ballots will be mailed to the Chamber members this month Five directors are to he elected to three years terms. Members retiring from the board this year art* 1 Mac Adair, W. C Baldwin, Tom Plaxieo, Shelton Rimer and Robert Wassunp Cont'nuin« members arc* C. W. Anderson, U R Ander son, Georitc il ('oivolson, Chrudes 'I' 1 iti>. I m U M Stephens, (.<•! r^e Brocken- broUKh, Joe Holland, 1) B Smith, B. \ol.ind Surldr tli and J. C. Thomas Claude A ( mk ki . v..> , nam ed chairman ef i:,c commit tee to make plan-, for the annual rneetiny ;o he held in March. Robin U assume oi the office comm itee reported that the Chamber of Commerce as now incorporated and the charter is dated Her. 5, 19(57. The meeting ol ti e Cham ber of Commerce Directors was held in the* Gold Room of the Hotel Mary Musgrove. .rv; ■ Jij mi 15 -r * ' i / I, j I PC Annual Giving Hits Record $135,575 - VKr l. w&wte. £ -T>S DORM COMPLETED—Brand -m‘\v (leor^ia H ill \vc*nt into operation with the start of the second semester at Presbyterian College earlior this month, and 252 men students are now accommo dated there. As depicted here, the four-story build ing maintains the colonial Georgian stole of archi tecture distinctive of the !*€ campus. It is air-con ditioned throughout and features two-room suites separated by a bathroom, a laundry for men stu dents in the basement, large lounge and reception area on the first floor, and smaller lounges on the other three floors. The $1.25 million structure is named for (he Synod of Georgia, which shares con trol and support of PC. (Photo by Dap Yarborough) Area Railroad Overpass Studied ESP Expert To Lecture An unorthodox look at ex tra sensory perception will be given Presbyterian College students next Monday by Russ Burgess, popular para psychologist now on lecture tour under sponsorship of the American Program Bureau. The 10 am. assembly pro gram in Belk Auditorium will ; include a formal lecture pre sentation of the subject and audience participation in ESP. j Burgess predicts his pro gram will come to a dramatic conclusion. He already has sent to Professor Aurel Er- j win, PC program chairman, a sealed envelope of predic tions to be opened and re vealed at the Monday pro gram. Formerly associated wiUi I the Department of Justice, Russ Burgess has received wide-spread recognition lor his lectures before college groups throughout the coun try. The public is cordially j invited to his Monday appear- | ance at Presbyterian College. | Children's Branch Library Hours Listed The new hours for the Chil- ren’s Branch of the Laurens County Library at Presbyte rian College are announced today, effective Monday, Jan. 29 The hours are: 2:30-5 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday; 9 a.m.-noon, Sat urday. The branch is closed on Wednesday afternoon RUFUS E. SADLER Sadler Named To Savings, Loan Board Rufus E. Sadler recently was elected as a member oi the hoard of directors of Citizens Federal Savings and Loan Association. He was elected at the as sociation’s annual member snip meeting. A native of Clinton and graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, he is owner and manager of Sadler-Owens Pharmacy. Other members of the board arc T D Copeland, 11. Fran cis Blalock, J. Sloan Todd. J B Hart, T. Heath Cope land and Leatnan D. Jones. Heath Copeland is presi dent of the association and Todd is vice-president and managing officer. Jones is secretary - treasurer. Mrs Virginia S. Hunter and Mrs. Juanita N. Cathey arc book keepers and Mrs. Martha O. Rice and Mrs. Judith B. Bai ley are tellers. An overpass bridge near Clinton is being considered in conjunction with plans to re move about 21 miles ot a Sea board Coast Line Pmi.'oad track trom the Greenwood area to near Waterloo Tom Moore, assistant to he vice president in charge ol operations of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Co . out lined the plans under consid eration last week at Green wood Lions Club meeting He said removal of the track would eliminate train travel through the center of Green wood The track removal is proposed from a point south of Greenwood to near Water loo in Laurens County and d involves tho old Chari sion and West Carolina track He Sc'iid the \CL line wi 1 ' he connected at a point near Clinton with tin Seaboard lino to reroute trains on the Sea hoard track to Greenwood The trains will run on the Seaboard line to a point south o| (froenw ood u her it \v ill rocomiee: wiih the U’L 1 rack Moore said -oir.e -e turns ot the ACL track will he retain c*d but no through freight trains w i! 1 he runn ng on .lie former ACL sections which I remain I Moore said that an over i pass bridge near Clinton may be needed also for the con- j nection ot the ACL with the Seaboard track He said a lack of business on the sec- , lion between Waterloo and Greenwood influenced plans to retire the line from ser vice. A railroad official., previous ly has reported that the Sea board-ACL line also is con sidering removal of the I CN&L tracks through Cl n- ton. C\&L railroad traffic would he routed through Clin ton on the ACL-Seahoard track, beginning at a point somewher t . between the down- mwn area and Whitten Vil- 'age Moore did not say exactly where the overpass may he .ocated near Clinton The railroad firm will file application with various fed eral government agencies for nernnysion to retire the 21- mde section of track Bolick Named To State Committee Julian Bolick of Clinton has been named to the Statewide ( ommomorative E v e n t 8 Committee of the S C. Trircn'i nmal Commission el eai committee is compos* f representatives from, ol the state's six con- gre smnal districts These committees will develop and implement various events to he held m the state’s 46 Presbyterian College's na tionally cited Annual Giving program turned in another record performance with $135,575 rar-ed in 1967, Pres ident Mare C. Weersing an nounced today Sw inmg 20 percent above its previous year's total of $113,813, the program topped its 1967 goal of $125,000 as 1,465 alumni. friends and non-alumni parents joined in support Just last summer the alum ni phase of the program was awarded a first-place na tional award lor improve nent m a |omt presentation by the l nited States Steel Foundation and the Ameri can Alumni Council Now the alumni have done even better in providing $63.- 019 of the 1967 total Thirty percent of the alumni contri buted 1,004 individual gifts Clinton Man Dies In Wreck On Saturday Johnrn Checks, 27-year-old Negro of Route 1, Clinton, died of injuries suffered Saturday afternoon in a one-ear arc i- dent on Secondary Road 98 about three miles north ot Clinton Cheeks was driving a 1964 Pontiac owned by Pringle Watson, also of Route 1, Clin ton Watson was a passenger in the vehicle He was treat ed in the emergency room at Bailey Memorial Hospital and was dismissed. Checks was dead on arrival at the hospi tal. also increased then as 343 gave $58,923 new high in thi.; brack- count cs during 1970, state's tricenlcnmal vrar the Speeding Leads Charges Police Court Report Issued A total ot $42,749.04 was col lected in Clinton's municipal, court and from parking me- 1 tors during 1967, according to the annual report released by Police Chief B B. Ballard Parking meter men ev to- talc ! C'lo,!-+5.02 Parking tick cts issued totaled 2,569 and I lie were $1,348.47. Spioding and reckles-s driv ing arrests brought in $7.- 235.25 in lines although drunk enness w.uv the leading cause il .tiTn.-d Tae’e 'vere 498 drunkenness charges iiled and fines on tho-.e charges total- ei $6,857.30 There were 402 charges oi pceding and reck- 'ess driving Panking third in cause of arrest was disorderly con duct and 283 such arrests wen* made Fines totaled | $4,462 on thaj charge. Other arrest totals (with I fines in parenthesis) were: Fighting, 84 ($1,754.); Car rying Concealed Weapon. 16 ($660); Violating Liquor Law, Friends support for a et Among the 1 major objec tives ot the \nnual Giving urogram the Walter Johnson ’lid) sh, re amounted to 535.350 Uhil, the largest por tion of the lund- was given for unrest riiged use. other ihieet v edrawing support included aeademie scholar ship;. Whitelaw grants, fa- "ult v ■ alarv increases and depart ment al improvements. South ('arelma led the states with $67,868 10 given in support ot ih,- PC efiort North (',ii ohna alumni and Smith said north, hit a about 4 30 spun out of the road the ear, headed sheet of ice at p.m Saturday, control and left Mothers' March Plans Are Announced Nearly one hundred moth ers and others will ring door- beUs in the Clinton area to collect funds for the March of Dimes’ 30th annual campaign during the last week in Jan uary. Much of the money contri buted goes into a research program which seeks to shed light on the complex mys teries of birth defects. An other part goes for public edu cation and another portion is allotted to the country-wide network of 100 birth defects centers where youngsters may icceive team-coordinated, spe cialized treatment. Mr. L. A Marshall, chair man lor the Joanna section, stated that about 40 Boy iicouts and Explorers in uni form and wearing March of Dimes identification will so licit in the Joanna area Fri day. Jan. 26. Miss Sally Milam, assisted i by Misses Jan Alexander, Beth Edwards, Frankie Cau- ley, Sara Jackson and Caro line Hughes have placed coin collection boxes in various parts of the city. There will be no business solicitation this year. Among those who will par ticipate in the door-to-door canvass this year are: Mrs. Clyde Teague, Mrs .William B. Blakely, Mrs. Robert Muldrow, Mrs. Tom my Windsor, Mrs. Harold Cheek, Mrs. Harold Crow, Mrs. Alvin Hueble, Mrs James Braswell Mrs Don Haselden, Mrs. W. L. God win, Mrs. George Link, Miss Sandra Marco. Miss Dot Tay lor, Mrs John Finney J\, 1 Mrs. C. W. Copeland. .Mrs. Earl Rice, Mrs. Gary Hol comb. Mrs. William Hogan. Mrs. Robert McKee. Also, Mrs. Talmadge Sim mons, Mrs. Marvin Manley. Mrs. George King, Mrs. J. J. Cornwall, Mrs. John Burney, Mrs. Ray Fernell, Mite-Brooks Owens, Mrs. Harry Settles, Mrs. J. Addison Neighbors, Mrs. Ben Ivey, Mrs. William Blackwell, Mrs. Callie Gault Mrs. Noland Suddeth, Mrs. John Mimnaugh, Mrs. Alfie Undari, Mrs. Robert Walker, Mrs. Judson Davis, Mrs. Lon nie Hiers, Mrs. Herman Jack- I son Mrs Rnv Smith Also, Mrs. Miles Powell Mrs. James Shakespeare, Mrs ! Joe Edwards, Mrs. Stephen Dubose. Mrs. Robert Grube Mrs. Fred Chapman, Mrs. Melda Cunningham, Mrs. Maggie Craig, Mrs. Lorraine ’McCoy, Mrs. Jeannette Bell, Mrs. George McMorris, Mrs. Hubert Simpson. Mrs. Clara Voung, Mrs. Elizabeth Young. Also, Mrs. Alfred Lancas ter. Mrs. Eva West, Mrs. Shir ley Wilson, Miss Barbara Bra zil, Mrs. B P. Lark, Mrs Jessie Patterson, Mrs. David j Word, Miss Iris Hughes, Mrs. Kalph Riddle, Mrs. George Tucker, Mrs. Edgar Burdette, Mrs. Clayton Reese, Miss Roberta Prince, Miss Velda Farmer, Mrs. -Claude Gil- (Continued on Pajfe 2) 9 ($65u . Vagrancy, 6 i$15) Comb 1 me 2 i $30 ; . Driving l nder Ini liu ncc of Intoxa- cants, 65 i$5.393). Operating Auto Without Drivers Li cense, 64 $1,302), Damaging Private or Puhhe Property, Pi ($880.. Trespassing, 12 ( $ 1351 All Ollier Offenses, 52 $1,651), Petty l.arceney, 27 ($680 Eight v-scv eu per ,ons were arrested mi investigation or suspicion Onlv i n i-demeanors are Tied in Clinton Municipal ( ’on I t pelmile ,, such as charge, ol murder or arm ed robbery, are tried in Lau rel's Countv General Sessions ('ourt Summer Library Program Approved The Laurens County Library ‘pplied to the South Carolina State Library Board for par ticipation in the library in ternship program lor the summer months and last week the application was ten tatively approved, depending on a suitable candidate. This program is open to rising juniors and seniors who have not decided on a profes sion and to young teachers who are interested in be coming public librarians. Awards arc given on a com petitive basis and the appli-j cants must have at least a “B” average. j It is an opportunity to work in a public library for three months and find out from firsthand experience what a public librarian is and does. The hope is that some can be recruited and that all will gain a clearer understanding of lihrarianship. Application blanks may be obtained from Laurens County Library. The deadline for receiving appli cations is March 15 m:. ■ s friends added $22,503.28. while Georgia iolluvved close h with $18,795 82 All tho other states combined lor the reman.mg $26,407 80. President Weiu'smg pmnled out that Annual Giving is a vital source of^funds for cur rent operations, t in>du< ing more each vear for Pro by tenan than endowment in come. The program is under the dll ect’<hi ol the PC V- uinni .Association, ht-nde-J this past vear bv PresHhml Sam Cornwell of Charlotte and President-Elect Furman Pinson, .fr. ot Greensboro. \ C . who also served as drive chairman Concert Sunday Lee Of CHS Named To All-State Band ev I ••e i senior at Clin- S< iiool, will he top 122 high school who will perform Furman l niversi- tou 1 1 f emon ■ il musicians Sunday at tr Let son of Mi and Mrs Bill Lee, has been selected to play first trombone in the All State Land which will give a public concert Sunday in MeAlistei Auditorium at conceit will be ll m ol four Clinton hand members elected to partici- AU State Band ref: 84 Fur: n; am id He i , one High School who were pate m th Patrolman J A Smith said Cheeks suffered facial and head injuries Cheeks was a native of Clin ton and a member of Mt Pleasant AME Church Survivors include’Hiis par ents, Mrs. Judith Cheeks ol Clinton and Frank Cheeks of Washington, I) C.; two sis ters, Mrs Virginia Brewster and Miss Robert Cheeks ot Clinton; and his grandmoth er. Mrs Marie Dawkins of Whitmire. Funeral services were con ducted Wednesda.v a! 2 p.m at Springfield Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery It wa. the fir.( highway 1a- tiihly in Laurens County in 1968 'Dollar Days' Set Feb 8-12 Iiollar Day are sched uled Feb. 8-12 in Clinton Merchants will offer special bargains during the sales promotion campaign s p o ri s o r e d by the Mer chants Division of the Cham ber of Commerce Clime v hie!) open 1 Friday at Furman Also to participate m the clinic ban 1 are Collie I/eha mm ot Mr and Mrs. Gary Lebn; Johnny Bolt, son of •Mr and Mrs Omar Bolt; and Carole Perry, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Perry. Carole is a sophomore The other three are seniors Lehn plays alto saxophone, Bolt plays tenor saxophone and Miss Perry plays tym pany (kettle drums) Over 1.400 high school mu sic ions auditioned to play m the All State Band or clinic hand and only 366 were se lected Selection to tin* All-State Band is the highest honor at the TII-S’ate Band Clinic. JOEY LEE • ♦ r» » I Lee also hits been sele to play in the All state Or ehestra in Aiken, Feb. 9-10. Directing the AM State Band will he Leonard Falcone, re tired director of the Michi gan State University band Claude T. Smith, composer and director of bands it Chilicothe, Mo . will direct the clinic band The all-state hand and clinic hands both will give eonccDs Sunday Friday night and Sat urday’s activities will he de voted to practice sessions. The clinic is sponsored bv Furman and the S C Music Educators Association. Broad St. Methodists Plan Building Crusade Sanctuary Building oi Broad Street t C hurc h will begin Crusadi Method Sunday. Th,. Rc\ Walter E. Hoover ol the national division ot the Board ot Missions will speak at the Sunday morning service Mure than 100 work ers will meet Sunday after noon. starting at 2 o'clock, and then call in teams of two in the homes ot ihe congre gation A report session will be held Sunday afternoon and (1 W' \ .4** > D-W evening and Tuesday cvenm ; until 9 o’clock, a* w inch time there will be a shot! Thank.-- i giving Service i Workers training meetings were held Sunday alternonii and Tuesday evening at a dinner meet mg Ralph Patterson is general C hairman ol the crusade Don Creighton is soheitaMon chan- man. Other chairmen are 1). • (> Smd.li. advance gilts; | Charles Buice, publicity. Mrs | Harry Rouknight, food and i .ellowship; Mrs James Potts, secretai y ; ( h a r I e s Pitts, j measurer. ! The Rev E W dugwig) r- i pasioi oi trie chutvo which 1 ,ias plans lor a $2nl),(k).i ,-ane- | tuary to he tniilt on the cur ; .em < mn eh s,'e ...._. . . t Ex-Counciirnan Questions '68 ' m ' V ~v Clinton Budget WINS BRONZE STAR—Army Capt. Robert E. Elmore Jr., rigtht, ol? Clinton, recently received the Bronze Star Medal in ceremonies near Bangkok, Thailand. The award wis presented by Maj. Gen. Hal D. McCown, left. Capt. P’dmore received the award for outstanding service in combat in Viet nam from July 1965, to July 1966. A graduate of Presbyterian College, Capt. Elmore’s parents and wile, Carolyn, live on Route 1, Clinton. He is a member of the Intelligence Section. James Sloan, a former Clinton City Council mern her; raises some questions about the city's 1968 hud get in a letter to the edi tor in today’s Cnronielt Sloan, who served on council for e.ght years, also makes some suggestions about a city manager meth od of operating the mu nicipal government and says consideraiion should be giv en to a proposal that the city offer to purchase Clin ton Mills’ electric service. The letter appears on page 10 in today’s Chronicle.