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Growing With
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Index
Vol. 70 — No. 21
Clinton, S. C, Thursday, May 30, 1968
Classified
Deaths
8
Editorials
10
Society
2-.3
Sports
If you catch a fish that’s wearing glasses at
Clark Hill, the glasses probably belong to Hamp
McDaniel of Clinton.
McDaniel and J. C. Thomas were fishing at
Clark Hill recently when McDaniel lost his
glasses overboard. A few days later, he rigged
up a net and went back to Clark Hill with Ned
Anderson for some more fishing. He and Ander
son went back to the place where the glasses
were lost and seined for them. All they got,
however, were some old cans and a wallet
(empty).
Some of McDaniel’s friends have assured
him that somewhere in Clark Hill, there’s a big
catfish wearing McDaniel's glasses.
McDaniel says he has the problem whipped now.
When he goes fishing now, he attaches small corks
to the ear-piece of the glasses.
“At least I won’t have to feel my way home
again,” McDaniel says.
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One local ‘‘golf widow” recently found the
secret to getting some work out of her husband
on a Saturday.
The husband went out Saturday morning to
play golf. It was almost dark before he got
home and he braced himself for a showdown
about the grass he had promised to cut that day.
When he went into the house, however, all
was quiet. There was no one around. He found
a note from his whfe, saying she had gone to a
play in Greenville.
Th.e golfer seized that opportunity to cover
his absence for the day. He raced out of the
house and quickly cut the grass, although it was
pretty dark at the time. He went back into the
house and washed a sinkful of dishes he had
promised to help with.
He settled down in a chair, secure in the
knowledge that he had his alibi covered. No
one need know that he had played golf all day.
That’s when his wife stepped out of a closet
where she had been hiding all the time, in near
hysterics as her husband zipped about, estab
lishing his alibi.
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CHILD’S PRAYER: One of the more ram
bunctious little boys at Thornwell recently said
this prayer as he went to bed: “Dear Lord,
please make me a good little boy. And if I
can’t be good all the time, please give my house
mother plenty of patience.”
'Stump Speaking' Slate
Is In Home Stretch
State senatorial candidates for
District Five will be in Jones-
ville in Union County Saturday
night as the “stump speaking’
schedule enters the home stretch.
After the Jonesville engage
ment, there will t)e five speaking
engagements for the candidates
but two of the dates conflict.
The candidates will speak in
Lockhart in Union County on
June 7. The candidates will be
at the Clinton Ball Park on Sat
urday, June 8, but also scheduled
to speak at the Newberry Court
house on the same night. On
June 10, candidates are scheduled
to speak both at the Ford Ball
Park in Laurens and at the Union
Courthouse.
State Sen. W. C. (Bill) Dobbins
said the conflicts could not be
avoided and the senatorial candi
dates will have to decide which
meeting they wish to attend.
A crowd of about 250 people
attended Monday night’s speak
ing engagement in Gray Court.
Richard Townsend, a candidate
for the House of Representative,
repeated his charges concerning
the county’s road policies but
his charges generally were
ignored by incuml»ents David
Taylor and Paul Culbertson.
Townsend said that Taylor and
Culliertson have interests in a
subdivision its roads are eligible
to lie placed in the state highways
system. Townsend said it repre
sents a “conflict of interests’
for legislators to have to decide
which eligible roads should be
placed in the system when the
legislators have a financial in
terest in a particular road.
Townsend said that “a lot of
pressure’ has been put on him
and his family since he “dared
challenge the road policy.’
Taylor and Culbertson ignored
Townsend’s charge and said they
are running on their record. Cul
bertson said, “I will stand and
look anyone in the eye for any
act I have done while in office.”
Former Sen. King Dixon of
Laurens took another verbal
swing at Sen. W. C. (Bill) Dob
bins of Clinton.
Dixon said, “You have just
heard one of our candidates get
up and say you can’t elect a
senator from Union County. If
Seat No. 1 of District 5 goes
anywhere but to Laurens County,
there sits the man who, with all
his seniority, didn’t have the
weight to keep a senator for Lau
rens County by itself.”
Dobbins has warned that if Lau
rens County splits its votes be
tween Dixon and himself, Sen.
John Long of Union County will
probably win the nomination,
leaving Laurens County without
a resident senator, although Lau
rens County is the largest in
the district.
Mrs. John Long Jr. substi
tuted for her husband in speaking
at Gray Court. She read a pre
pared statement listing Long’s
accomplishments.
PC Summer School
To Open On Monday
DRIVE-IN DEPARTMENT STORE?
A tanker truck rammed through a
display window at Relk’s Department
Store m (Minton Monday afternoon
Hut no injuries were reported. Don
ald Kidd was driver of the truck
which is owned by Clyde Bra/.eh.
Kidd made a right turn at the
Adair's Men's Shop corner and the
driver discovered that h i s brakes
were not working. MTie driver suc
cessfully managed to avoid striking
pedestrians or parked cars and struck
the window and wall at Relk’s a po
lice spokesman said. The driver was '
charged with driving with improper
brakes.—< Photo by Paul Quinton)
Presbyterian College’s ex
panded summer school, offering
graduate credit for the first time,
will begin the first term of its
1968 session next Monday (June
3).
Registration is scheduled for
that day, starting at 2 p.m. in
the library building. Regular
classwork will begin Tuesday at
8 a.m. for the opening term which
will extend through July 4. The
second term is set for July 8-
August 9.
Dr. W. Fred Chapman, summer
school director, said the high
preregistration rate indicates
about 250 students will attend the
first term. Many of these are
teachers who plan to take advan
tage of the 18 hours in graduate
credit being offered in coopera
tion with Clemson University.
Nine of these hours are in spe
cial education, available for
Local Guard
Goes To Camp
On June 8
Members of the Clinton-based
30th Infantry Division, Main
tenance Company, National
Guard, will leave Saturday, June
8, for two-week summer encamp
ment at Fort Stewart, Ga.
There are 95 enlisted men and
six officers in the local company.
Capt. Van C. Oxner is company
commander. The group will leave
at 5 a.m. on June 8.
They will be among 11,000South
Carolina National Guardsmen
who will spend their two-week
field training period at Fort Ste
wart during the next two months.
There are 76 company size
units in the Second Brigade, 30th
Infantry Division. Twenty-two of
them will report for duty June 8
and 54 will begin training June
29.
either graduate or undergraduate
credit, and the other nine are in
advanced education courses
offered only at the graduate level.
In addition, the summer curri
culum will include 42undergrad
uate courses taught by 22 PC fac
ulty members in these 14 depart
ments: Art, biology, economics,
education, English, history,
mathematics, philosophy, physi
cal education, political science,
psychology, religion, sociology'
and Spanish.
Dr. Chapman said each stu
dent may receive credit for a
maximum of six hours each term,
with an extra hour available for
laboratory science. The schedule
calls for classes to meet five
days weekly, Monday through
Friday. There will be three two-
hour periods helddaily each term
at 8 a.m.-10 a.m., 10:30 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. -
3:30 p.m.
Supply Bill
Introduced
The Laurens County supply-
bill, totaling approximately
$890,000, was to be introduced
in the General Assembly today,
according to spokesmen for the
County Legislative Delegation.
The supply bill calls for no
tax increase.
The bill includes a $100-
across-the-board annual pay in
crease for fulltime county
employes and a $50 increase for
part-time employes.
Rep. David Taylor, secretary
of the delegation, said this is
the same percentage increase
given to state employes under the
House of Representatives’ budget
proposal.
The only other major change
is a $45,000 appropriation to
finance establishment of a county
tax mapping system.
Templeton Rose
Prison, Jail Get 'Good' Ratings
The Laurens County Prison is
rated “good” on security, disci
pline, buildings and equipment,
food, sanitation and inmate em
ployment, according to an inspec
tion report by a representative of
the S. C. Department of Correc
tions.
G. S. Friday, supervisor of
the Jail and Prison Inspection
Division of the Dept, of Correc
tions, also said the prison rated
“fair’ in administration, medical
and health services, and inmate
activities.
Concerning administration, the
report recommended that a more
complete receiving procedure be
set up, including complete medi
cal information.
In the comments on medical and
health services, the report says,
“Every successful medical pro
gram for prisons must lie based
on cooperation with and assis
tance from all medical health
resources in the community.
Every prisoner should be ex
amined by a physician as soon
as possible after admission. As
a general policy, prison em
ployees should not attempt to
diagnose a prisoner’s illness or
decide whether he is malingering.
The only safe rule is to let a
doctor decide. It is recommended
that a doctor come to the camp
on regular sick call.*
The report says the prison’s
education program is inadequate.
It says, “No man should leave
prison unable to read and write.
A need for the long-time illi
terate prisoner to be educated
can be done with the assistance
of the County Adult Education
people.* The report also suggests
that a book mobile visit the camp
regularly and that a recreation
program should be developed.
The report says, “Recreation
programs help security by keep
ing the inmates busy and out M
trouble. The pr< fits fr m the can
teen can assist in the program
financially, It is recommended
that the fence le enlarged so
that the outdoor recreation can
t>e liehind the fence for security-
purposes.’
The report also says, “Since
75 per cent of the crimes are
committed by men under the in
fluence of alcohol, it is evident
that many of these men are act
ually alcoholics and need treat
ment for this disease. The most
effective treatment program
available is the Alcoholic Anon-
ymouse Group. We recommend
that the Laurens County Chapter
l>e asked to sponsor a A A pro
gram at the camp.’
Although inmate control and
discipline was rated “good*, the
report recommended that a new
solitary confinement facility Fie
constructed.
Buildings and equipment also
were rated "good* but the re
port rec^jnmended that the fire
department make an inspection to
determine the numtier of fire
extinguishers needed and where
they should be placed. Investiga
tion into another type heating
system also was recommended.
Concerning housekeeping, san
itation and personal hygiene,
which were rated “good,* the re
port recommended that the Board
of Health lie asked to check the '
water supply at least every six
months.
The Laurens County Prison
was built in 1957 and has a nor
mal capacity of 60 men. Cost
of operation for the prison is
$103,066.59. There are 16 paid
employees who are under the
supervision of the county super
visor, F. E. Thomason.
COUNTY JAIL
The LaurensCounty Jail, under
the supervision of Sheriff E. R.
Eugene Johnson, received an “ex
cellent” rating on housekeeping,
sanitation and personal hygiene.
The jail was rated “good* on
administration, security, disci
pline, building and equipment,
food, and inmate employment. It
was rated “fair* on medical and
health services and “inadequate"
on inmate activities.
The jail was built in the early
1900s and cost of operation for
1967-68 fiscal year was $13,000.
The normal capacity of the jail
is 24 men and two women.
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Candidates
Questioned
Candidates for state offices in
the June 11 Laurens County Demo
cratic Primary have been ques
tioned on key issues in a ques
tionnaire prepared by the County
League of Women Voters.
The candidates’ replies to the
questions appear on page 11 in
today’s Chronicle.
LIONS BROOM SALE—Clinton Lions Club mem
bers Ren Ivey, left, and Claude Crocker, are shown
selling a broom to Mrs. Ken Fryfogle of Merrie
Oaks. Crocker is chairman of the sale and Ivey is
associate chairman. The Lions Clubs’ annual
broom sale is scheduled tonight and Friday in
Clinton.— (Yarborough Photo)
From Sweeper To Executive
In 1915, a 12-year-old boy went
to work as a sweeper with Clin
ton Cotton Mills. Tuesday, he
retired from Clinton Mills as
Vice President of Manufacturing.
He is Joseph Bee Templeton
and he has witnessed a revolu
tion in the textile industry during
his 53 years career.
’The changes have been q?ec-
tacular,* he said, ‘Working and
persona] comfort conditions as
well as wages have improved
tremendously. Both people and
machinery have improved. And I
foresee many wonderful things
to come. Machines are being de
veloped which are superior to the
ones now being used. New pro
cesses may replace the present
processes.*
’There are many wonderful
opportunities in this industry for
bright young people. We have had
many of them to come with us and
accept responsibility. There al
ways will be room in this indus
try for well-prepared, ambitious
young people. *
When he was 12 years old, Tem
pleton went to work with Clinton
Cotton Mills as a sweeper in
the Spinning Department. He
worked in the afternoons, on Sat
urdays and during summer vaca
tion. He has supported himself
financially since he was 12.
‘It wasn’t too difficult when
I was going to school and work
ing. I managed to do my home
work in the mornings prior to the
opening of school."
He ranked in the top three in
his class all through his academic
career. After completing high
school, he went to Clemson Col
lege. He had saved money toward
college and received a loan from
local businessman.
During his career, Templeton
worked with Springs and Green
wood Mills, Brandon Mill and
Poinsett Mill (Abney) in Green
ville and returned to Clinton in
1951 as Superintendent of Lydia
Cotton Mills. In 1953, he was pro
moted to Vice President of Manu
facturing, Clinton and Lydia Cot
ton Mills.
Active in civic affairs, he was
named Clinton’s ’Man of the
Year* in 1966. He has been active
in Boy Scout work for more than
30 years and recently received
the Silver Beaver Award, Scout-
ing’s highest honor for lead
ership.
A native of Clinton, he is
married to the former Sara Mc-
Carley of Whitmire and they have
two daughters, Mrs. D. L. (Ann)
Mann of Lake Wales, Florida,
and Mrs. R. L. (Miriam) Mc
Lendon of Winston-Salem, N.C.
Dr. and Mrs. McLendon will
move to Greenville July 1.
The Templetons have four
grandchildren and they are at the
top of Templeton’s list of things
he wants to enjoy more now that
he has more time.
He and Mrs. Templeton will
go to Florida this week to visit
their daughter and her family and
to see granddaughter Martha
graduate. She has won a music
and band scholarship to the Uni
versity of Miami.
Concerning other ideas about
retirement, Templeton said,‘I’m
giving some consideration to tak
ing up golf and I may take up
fishing, to a degree, although I
don’t intend to sit on a river
bank for the rest of my life. I
plan to catch up on my reading
and I want to travel, particu
larly visiting with my grand
children more.’
Reflecting on the past he said,
‘My favorite cfelhenge over the
years has been taking a depart
ment or plant not up to par and
bringing it up to a high lever of
efficiency, quality, and morale.
The highlight of my career was
having the duty and responsibility
of planning, constructing, equip
ping, and bringing into efficient
production the new Bailey Plant
of Clinton Mills.’
Much of the success of our
endeavors at Clinton Mills is
attributable to the cooperation of
the fine people with whom I have
been associated.’
He continued, “One of the things
which has. made my retirement
easier is the fact that I feel
I am leaving the plants in ex
cellent hands. We did not have
to go outside the organization to
fill any vacancy caused by my
retirement. There were six pro
motions involved in filling the va
cancy and all of them involved
people within our own organiza
tion. And we believe that we got
the best man for each job. I’m
really proud of that.*
“The calibre of people we have
in the various positions takes
part of the regret out of my re
tirement. When you work long
and hard for something, you don’t
want to see that portion of your
life wasted, but I can leave feel
ing that what I have worked for
has been of some value and will
be carried on.’
Templeton paused and addwl,
“You know, it’s been a lot of fun.
I can’t remember a single day
in my career when I didn’t enjoy
my work. There always was an
interesting challenge. Pve en
joyed every day of It. *
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