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Index Growing With Clinton The Clinton Chronicle Vol. 70 — No. 23 Clinton, S. C, Thursday, June 13, 1968 Classified __ ^ Deaths 8 Editorials 10 Society Sports 7 Boy Reported Missing, Is Presumed Drowned Rodney Gray, 14-year-old son of a Clinton native, has been list ed as “missing, presumed drowned" at Virginia Beach, Va. The youth is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dana Gray, formerly of Clinton. He is the grandson of Mrs. 0. B. King and the great- grandson of Mrs. R. C. Stewart, both of Clinton. Mrs. Gray, who resides at 2209 N. Lakeside Dr., Virginia Beach, if the former Miriam White, daughter of Mrs. King. Mrs. Clinton Mills Announces Pay Increase Clinton Mills’ 1,700 hourly- paid manufacturing employees will receive a pay increase effec tive July 15. King left Sunday for Virginia Beach to be with the family. The youth was on a weekend camping trip at a man-made lake, called Great Beck Lake, when he disappeared while re portedly attempting to swim through a hole in an island. Gray was described as a good swimmer and outstanding athlete. Teenagers said they often dived around the island which is de scribed as “looking like swiss cheese", with numerous under water holes. The search for Gray began at 6:15 p.m. Sunday. Ten divers searched the island area for 10 hours beginning Sunday, and con ducted a 13-hour search on Monday, with no results. Gray, who recently completed the eighth grade, has two sisters, Nancy, 17, and Paula, 13. ROOF COLLAPSES—A section of plant. No injuries were reported, roof in the Anderson Hosiery Co. Workers are shown clearing- away plant in Clinton collapsed Friday the deh r i s. — (Photo he Hill during heavy rain. The roof span- Quarles) ned the knitting section of the - The exact amount of the in crease was not announced by Robert M. Vance, President, in a Notice posted in the Plants June 8. The increase will be the second within 10 months for Clin ton Mills employees. A general wage increase for hourly paid employees was effective in Sept ember 1967. If the Clinton Mills pattern is followed by the rest of the indus try, the economy of Laurens County will be boosted by more than $1,150,000 annually. State wide, comparable pay hikes would add $42 million to annual textile payrolls. A spokesman for another large textile firm said last week that he expected the wage-pay package pattern to average approximately 6 % industry wide. * * * Councilmen Candidate* Three incumbent city council- men filed this week for re nomination in the Clinton Demo cratic Primary which is sche duled July 16. Filing this week were incum bent councilmen Boyd Holtzclaw, Ward 1; Lynn Cooper Sr., Ward 4; and George Bagwell, Ward 5. The filing deadline is noon, June 24. t All city council posts and the mayor’s position are up for election this year. The municipal general election is scheduled Aug. 13. Head Start Under Way The 1968 Summer Head Start program, sponsored by Laurens County Community Action, Inc., opened on Monday, June 10, at the Mercer Silas Bailey School and the Providence School in Clinton. An enrollment of over 400 children is expected and a staff of 74 persons have been hired. The preceding week, instruc tions and an orientation program were provided for the staff to acquaint them with the work for this summer. The target area of Head Start Program In Clinton is low income familiesprimarily, but, ten percent of the children may come from families with higher income. The purpose of the program is to prepare children for school when they enter next fall Each child will receive a medical and dental examination and treatment except those in the higher income brackets. These children will l>e bused from a point near their home to the school and back again at the end of the day. They wdll be served a full balanced meal and lunches each day. Magistrate Runoff Scheduled Marvin Patterson and incum- tient George Simpson will l»e in a runoff June 25 for the Demo cratic nomination for magistrate of Joanna-Mountville. Patterson led the ticket with 792 votes while Simpson polled 721. However, Patterson failed to get a majority in the foiir- jiian field. Bobby Joe Simmons had 412 votes and Pet Moates had 408. The runoff will tie held in con junction with the Burnett-Mann runoff for the Democratic nomination for Congress, Senator Long Sweeps To Demo “ Riding the crest of a 7,000- vote margin in his home county, State Sen. John D. Long III of Union County swept the Demo cratic nomination for Seat No. 1 in the Fifth Senatorial District in Tuesday’s primary. Long polled a total of 12,506 votes while Laurens County Sen. W. C. (Bill) Dobbins of Clinton and Joanna had 7,520 and former Sen. King Dixon of Laurens had 2,915. In Ids liome county, I.ongpolled 7,601 votes to 676 for Dobbins and 286 for Dixon. In Newberry County, Long had 3,889 votes, Dobbins had 2,661 and Dixon had 048. In Laurens County, Long got 1,016 votes, Dobbins had4,183 and Dixon had 1,981. I ong tliusly eliminated Dobbins and Dixon without the necessity of a runoff and will face Repub lican Marshall Abercrombie of Laurens in the November General Flection. In the senate race, Union bounty voters cast a total of 8,563 votes wtdle LaurensCounty voters cast 7,180, despite the fact that Laurens County has about 2,500 more registered voters than does Union. Incumbents were returned to other county offices. Reps. Paul Cultiertson and David Taylor were renominated as was coroner Marshall Pressley, Sheriff Eugene Johnson and County Commissioners Paul ' )’Doll and George Penland. Laurens County gave Nick Theodore the most votes forU.S. Congress. Theodore polled 2,66u votes to 2,203 for James Mann, 1,346 for Leo Hill and 840 for Burnett. However, MannandBur- nett will be in a runoff for the nomination because of returns from Spartanburg and Greenville counties. U. S. Sen Hollings got 5,863 votes in Laurens County and J Jin Bolt Culbertson got 1,190 as Rol lings was re-nominated. Sheriff Johnson was the leading vote-getter in the county as he polled 6,061 to 1,175 for challenger Delmar Riddle. In the race for the State Rouse of Representatives, Rep. David Taylor of Laurens had to wait until the final box--Laurens No. 4--was counted before he was assured of victory without a run off. Newcomer Eugene Stoddard made a strong challenge, garner ing 3,096 votes toTaylor’s 3,523. However, Taylor needed oriy 3,312 to win without a runoff. Cifl- tiertson led the ticket with 4,016 votes while Mason Motes had 1,095 and Richard Townsend had 2,125. After his victory, Sen. Long said, “The people of Union County have teen awfully good to me but I told them on four separate speaking engagements here that I was not running just to represent Union County. I pledged to Lau rens and Newberry County that I would not put Union ahead of them and I told the Union people the same thing. I will treat the people of all three counties equally as far as industrial de velopment and representation in the senate are concerned, if lam elected in the Novemter General Flection. “I can appreciate and under stand the feeling of the people of Laurens County as far as local candidates are concerned, ii wever, we have some mighty fine folks in Union County who were In rn in Laurens County and visa-versa. We have a community f interest in a lot of things and we share many common prob lems." Jim Sloan Magna Cum Laude At Harvard James P. Sloan Jr., of Clinton today received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. To fulfill the re quirements for the honors pro gram in the History Department, Sloan wrote a thesis on “NIXON AND THE LIBERALS—The Re sponse of the Literal Intellec tuals to the Career of Richard M. Nixon, 1946-1962," combining attacks on Nixon and doctrinaire literalism after World War II. The thesis received high honors. During the spring term this year Sloan served as teaching assistant at Harvard, lecturing and grading students in Eco nomics 122 (management accounting), under special per mission granted by the Eco nomics Department, as that duty is an unusual assignment for an undergraduate. During the same term the student from Clinton wrote a book for which Hough- ton-Mifflin Company of Boston has purchased an option; publi cation is pending revision. This first novel, entitled A SMALL W'AR, describes a young man’s participation in the war and his growing disillusionment with the war and the generation that is making it. The 23-year-oldClin- ton native is now working on a second novel. Valedictorian of Clinton High's class of 1961, Sloan interrupted his Harvard studies by volun teering for military service as a paratrooper at the end of first term ofhis junior year. He served three years, wore the Green Beret of the U. S. Army Special Forces, saw combat duty in the Mekong Delta, South Vietnam, and was awarded the Medal of Honor of the Republic of Viet nam for exceptionally meritor ious service there. Returning to Harvard in February, 1967, he consistently made the Dean’s List during the remainder of his undergraduate study. Accepted at the Business Schools of both Harvard and the University of Chicago, Sloan chose to work toward a doc torate in business administration at Harvard on a $2,500 Harvard scholarship. Jaycees Conduct Community Survey The Clinton Jaycees this week began their community services survey and it will continue through July 15. The door-to-door survey will be conducted to ascertain what community service projects the residents of Clinton believe to be most worthwhile and most needed.