The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, May 02, 1968, Image 1
Growing With
Clinton
The Clinton Chronicle
Vol. 70— No 17
Clinton, S. C. ( Thursday, May 2, 1968
Index
(lasjiified
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Deaths
J-1
Editorials
16
Society
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Sport s
7
City Democratic
Club To Reorganize
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The C lint- n City 1 Mil- rr.itie
CTiib will h-ild its Mennial re-
urinunzati n.tl meetiiu’ I-Tidav
niyht at the Clint-'ii Mill C m-
niunity HuiMini’. The meetin;' is
t- start at 7:dO'fi.ni., ac- niitir
tn Y. Parks Adair, secretarv-
treasurer.
The CliiP will ■ loot ffirers,
inrliKiiiu' an exenitivi- cninmit-
tee, t set maehinerv in in- ti n
for a city Dem-cratic primary
to nominate a ma\ r and six
Ci 'uncilmen.
(Tficers t- he elected are
president, vice president, secre
tary-treasurer, and an executivi
committeeman fr -m e ich t tin 1
six wards.
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lutes h r the primaries
pr-l-uhlv will lie set f- r late
May, with the renera! election
s--metimo in Aiumst.
Junior High Chorus
To Present Concert
School Chorus will
( Tuesday) at the jun-
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COTTAGE C OMPLETED — This new cottage
was completed recently on the Thornwell camipus.
It will house 16 boys and their housemother. The
cottage is located across the street from the Thorn-
well gymnasium. The boys who live in the new
cottage will work at the Thornwell dairv.
Also to tie determined an
plates for two primaries.
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Supply Bill
To Have Hike
For Employes
COLUMBIA - The Laurens
County supply bill, expected to
be introduced this week, will
carry a slight cost-of-living in
crease in salary for county em
ployees.
Also included, according to
Reps. Davis S. Taylor and W.
Paul Culbertson, will lie a “sub
stantial sum” to cover setting up
a tax assessor’s office in the
county.
Money will be included to set
up isolation quarters for prison
ers who are ill at the Laurens
County prison camp.
Appropriations under last
year’s (1967-1968) supply bill to
taled $838,731.60.
West To Speak
At County
Worked Fete
Lt. Gov. John C. West will
be guest speaker May 9 at the
annual barbecue of the Laurens
County Unit of the SouthCarolina
State Employees’ Association.
The barbecue will be held at
Whitten Village.
Oates To Speak
At PC Exercises
Mrs. Alice R. Davidson
president of the local unit.
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DAVID TEMPLETON
Templeton
To Speak At
ARP Church
David Templeton, a na
tive of Clinton and graduate
of Presbyterian College, will
fill the pulpit Sunday at Clin
ton ARP Church,
Templeton will speak at 11
am. service Sunday and
again on Sunday evening.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. D.
S. Templeton, he will fill the
pulpit for the Rev. Zeb Wil
liams who will conduct a re
vival at Pisgah ARP Church
near Gastonia, N. C.
Templeton is now a student
a t Columbia Theological
Seminary and has supplied
several churches in the Clin
ton area.
James F. Oates, Jr., chair
man of the board of the Equit
able Life Assurance Society, will
deliver the main address at Pres
byterian College’s 88th com
mencement exercises on May 12,
President Marc C. Weersing an
nounced today.
The noted business leader will
speak to some 116 graduat
ing seniors, their parents and
friends assembled for the final
afternoon program in Belk Audi
torium. He will be Introduced
by John A. Sibley, Atlanta attor
ney who serves as honorary board
chairman of the Trust Company
of Georgia.
Oates is prominent in college
and university circles as an arti
culate spokesman for business,
as executive committee chair
man of the Princeton University
board of trustees and as a life
trustee of Northwestern Uni
versity. Last year he delivered
three McKinsey Foundation lec
tures at Columbia University
which have been published as a
book entitled Business andSocial
Change. He has been awarded
nine honorary degrees.
.A 'aduate of Princeton and
Northwestern law school, Oates
was a partner In the Chicago
law firm of Sidley, Austin, Bur-
Tax Program
Legislation
Introduced
Preliminary legislatimi fur
Laurens Cuunty’s tax reevalua
tion program was introduced last
week in the General assembly.
A bill tn give the county a
board of assessment appeal was
offered in the House of Repre
sentatives by the ! aureus County
delegation.
Rep. David Taylor of Laurens
said the measure provides the
machinery for the county’s pro
perty reevaluation program
scheduled to begin in July.
The bill would abolish the ex
isting 13 boards of assessors
which have three members each
and replace them with a board
of assessment.
The measure would create a
nine-member board of assess
ment control, three memtiers
each from School Districts 39
and 96, and three from the c -un-
ty at large. Members would be
,, i i • . . . ,, appointed by the governor -n
turn to being chief executive offi- recommen(1atillI1 (lf the ( „ untv
cer of Equitable, lie is a direc
tor of the Chase Manhattan Bank,
Colgate-Palmolive Company, the The 1)()ard wnuld have tlie sanK ,
First National Ba^k of Chicago, [ s and dutie . s ^ iven such
New York Telephone CompanyJ t(()ards by general state law . It
would establish methods and pol
icies, make andpromulgate rules
Present officers are K \ I.
Holtzclaw, president; J. l-'.-rbort
i Hughes, vice president; and
Adair, sec rotary-treasurer.
Executive committeemen are:
I lie Clinton Junior High
nrosont :ts spi me niticori May 1
>or high anilitori11ni ;it < To |). ni.
The program will include ‘'Max
( oiol.^ I utu Maramha, "Lei all things now
li'iiny. ( onsider Yourself," "America,”
i 11 om West Side Story), "this Land is your
'and. Georgy Girl, " 1 he Lord’s Praver,” and
I he Lord (Hess you and keep you.”
Pianisis f nr the program w il | Be Nancy
Tu ks, Mary Ann Ferguson, and Rena Ramage.
Lkelele accompaniment will he played on two
songs.
Mrs. Rohhie Wagner will direct the chorus.
The program will Iasi about 15 minutes. There
is no admission charge.
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gess & Harper, 1931-48, and
chairman of ttie Peoples Gas
Light and Coke Company in
Chicago, 1948-97. Now, in addi-
IN BRIG ADDON — Shown in
scene from ‘Brigadoon’ which will he
presented in the Clinton High School
auditorium tonight and Friday are,
left to right, Jessie Owens, Becky
Medlock. Claire Duncan, Sylvia Robi
nson. Sandra Campbell, and Jeannie
Nabors.
delegation.
Telephone
and the Brooklyn Union Gas Com
pany. He has been engaged in
numerous civic and philanthropic ! ^ regulat i ( , ns fnr fair an dequit-
activities and is an elder in the
Brick Presbyterian Churcti of
New York City.
able assessment
perty.
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Music Week
Activities Set
A tax assessor wnuld l>e em
ployed by the board to assess
property.
Dr. Raymond 0. Thigpen,
supervisor of music for the State
Department of Education, will be
guest speaker Tuesday, May 7,
at the Hampton Ave.PTA meeting
as part of the Music Week activ
ities planned locally.
Other activities include a stu
dent recital Sunday; a piano class
demonstration Thursday, May 9;
a special story hour Tuesday;
a concert by the Clinton Junior
High School chorus Tuesday; and
prize-winning poster displays.
Dr. Thigpen has visited over
500 schools in South Carolina
since 1964, making surveys and
recommendations concerning
music. Before assuming his cur
rent position, he was choral di
rector in Conway High School.
He received degrees from
Erskine College, Manhattan
School of Music and Columbia
University,
Also at the Hampton Ave, PTA
meeting, new officers are to be
installed. They are, Charles Wal
dron, president; Lynn Cooper,
Jr., vice president; Mrs. Jack
Pressau, secretary; and William
Hatton, treasurer.
Winners of the National Music
Week Poster Contest areReginal
Gerome Hudson, first place;
Calvin Suber and Clarence
Cunningham, second place; and
Joseph Price, third place. Hud
son, a seventh grader, won $5
while Suber and Cunningham,
eight graders, won $3. Price Is
a seventh grader. The entries
A board of assessment appeals
would l>e set up tu assume the
! powers and duties of the county
board of equalization. It would
tie made up of five members,
were judged by Mrs. Mary Ann two each from Districts 99 and
Walker of the Presbyterian Col- 96, and one at large member,
lege Art Dept. The winning post- j Members would be appointed by
ers will be displayed in down
town stores.
Ttie student recital Sunday is
to start at 4 p.m. and will be
held at Belk Auditorium on the
PC campus. The participants are
students of AlanCookandCharles
T. Gaines.
The story hour at the PC
library Tuesday will start at
3:30 p.m. Mary Shakespeare will
conduct the story hour.
Charles T. Gaines will con
duct a piano class demonstra
tion in room 301 in Belk Audi
torium on Thursday, May 9.
Davidson St.
Revival Set
Davidson Street Baptist Church
will have revival services be
ginning Sunday and continuing
nightly through Sunday, May 12.
Rev. J. N. Watson of Spartan
burg will be the guest preacher
with his services beginning on
Monday night. William Lowe of
Laurens will be guest music
director. The night services will
begin at 7:30. Pre-service prayer
meeting will be held In the social
hall from 7:00 to 7:20 each night.
Special music will be presented
each night by the choir.
the governor on recommendation
of the delegation.
'Brigadoon' Performances
Set Tonight, Friday
TlnVadnon,” to ho proontod Thursday and
Friday (May L’ and .”>) at Clinton HipT School
nt S F. M,. is a musical sot in a magdc villayo in
Scotland. It conies to life every hundred years
and disappears after a sinyle day.
Performinj: lead roles in the larpte cast are
Claire Duncan, Collie Lehn, Lynn Riser, Randy
Sheldon., and Royce Williams.
Supportiny roles are played hy Kathy Foster,
Kathy Loukniyht, Robert Meadors, Sidney
Pitts, -lack Feryuson, Find Finley, Forrest Adair,
Teresa Foster, Keith Prannon and Ace Work
man.
The musical will come to life with the catchy
sonys, the briyht costumes and the scenery. The
hiyh school chorus joins in the stun - as the
sinyiny townspeople. The hiyh school band
plays tlie accompaniment.
Ticket prices are 75 cents for students and
one dollar for adults.
Home Rule
Legislation
Considered
The Laurens legislative dele-
gatinii lias agreed tn move event
ually to some form nf county
! government regardless of whe
ther the county ends up with a
resident senator, according to
Sen. W. C. “Bill* Dobbins,
Dobbins said the delegation
has agreed only that some form
of county government exclusive
inf the delegation should be in-
'stituted and that action on it
will not necessarily take place
this year.
The senator said Reps. Paul
Culbertson and David Taylor of
Laurens have been exploring var
ious forms of home rule in an
effort to come up with a suit
able and acceptable arrangement.
STREET WIDENING—State High
way Department workers have begun
work on -’“widening Broad Street
(shown above) and the intersection
with Carolina Ave. The project will
give a right-turn lane from Broad
Street to Carolina Ave. The project
also calls for Carolina Ave. to be
widened for about a block.— (Photo
by Bill Quarles)
his condition was reported ;i>
satisfactory Wednesday
Assisting Coroner Preshey
in the investigation were
Clinton Police Officers Che-
ley Richards and .1 T Elli
on
A lifelong resident of Clin
ton, Mrs, Foster was a daug
hter of the late John and Lula
] Pucket Hedspeth She was a
! member of Calvary BaptiP
!Church
Surviving also are lour
[sons. Ronnie Hedspeth ot
Springfield. Mass.. Stan Pn-
i ter of the U S Navy. Viet
nam, Gerald Foster of the l
S Navy, California, and Tony
Foster of the home, two dau
ghters, Mrs. Grady (Freida>
Spoon of Clinton and Miss
Gail Foster of the home; a
brother, Larry W Hedspeth
of Clinton; and two stepbro
thers, Maxie J Hedspeth of
Wichita, Kan . Leon E Heds
peth of Atlanta. Ga . four sif
ters, Mrs. Robert (Irene I Ad
ams, Mrs Robert (Myrtle-
Whitsel and Mrs Henry (Gen
eva) Caughman of Clinton
and Mrs Wilson (Essie t
Garner Jr of Chester; and
two stepsisters, Mrs Wayne
(Shirley) Templeton of Clin
ton and M rs. Wallace (Les-
sie) Carr of Aiken
Funeral arrangements will
be announced by Gray Fun
eral Home
Red Cross Swimming
Program Is Scheduled
The Laurens County Chapter of
the American Red Cross ap
proved a summer swlmmingpro-
gram for Laurens County at a
meeting of its Board of Direc-
tos Thursday, April 25th.
Plans call for contacting child
ren in grades 1 - 7 in the pub
lic schools of Clinton and Laurens
to find out how many are inter
ested in a “Learn To Swim Pro
gram.”
The Red Cross swimmingpro-
gram offers courses in beginner
swimming, advanced beginner.
intermediate swimming, swim
mer and also junior and senior
life saving. All courses will be
taught by certified water safety
•instructors who have been trained
to teach swimming. The learn
to swim program is offered as
a public service to the county,
and there will be no charge for
instruction.
The board of directors has
authorized Its Water Safety Com
mittee to seek out qualified per
sons and to send them to a Red
Cross Aquatic School to be held
in Hendersonville, N. C., from
June 5 - 15. Those receiving
scholarships from the chapter
will return to teach in this Sum
mer’s Learn to Swim Program.
Interested persons should contact
the chapter office in the County
Court House,
This Is the first new program
offered by the Laurens County
Red Cross chapter since the
Board of Directors was reorgan
ized in December. The officers
are: Charles F. Waldron of
Clinton, chairman; Charles W.
Moore of Laurens, vice-chair
man; Lawson Hall, secretary, and
Lonnie Hiers, treasurer.
City Electric
Power To Be
Off Sunday
Electric power will be off in
Clinton for about three minutes
Sunday morning.
Utilities Director Ralph Holt
said the power would be cut off
at about 6 a.m. for about three
minutes while some switchovers
are made on the electrical sys
tem.