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Drive Safely, Highway Danger Takes No Vacation Growing With Clinton Clinton Chronicle Index Classified 6 Deaths 8 Editorials 10 Society 2 Sports 7 Vol. 70 No. 26 Clinton, S. C„ Thursday. July 4, 1968 it r.y •a'® Up The Creek • • • :iW| i>ann\ .Jones and Joey Lee of Clinton were U : he ereek with only one paddle last weekend. 1 hey went on a boat trip down the Enoree Kiver and had planned to arrive in Whitmire late that afternoon. They put their canoe-type boat in the water at Yarborough's Mil] about ;i:30 p. m. They didn't take anything with them except two pad dles, a gun and life preservers. No lights. After paddling for about an hour, one of the paddles broke. The other had to be used to guide the boat. Moving only with the current of the river, they moved slowly and soon night descended. In the darkness, they heard snakes plopping in tl;e water. There was no light and only the sounds of wildlife for hours. They finally arrived at Whitmire about midnight, a little jumpy hut greatly relieved. Nobody's Perfect On her recent visit to Clinton, Mrs. Julia Sadler gave us a clipping of an article in the Ari zona Daily Star, which told of the troubles a daily newspaper in the South had with a classi fied advertisement. It started in a Monday when the newspaper ran the following advertisement: FOR SALE: R. D. Jones has one sewing ma chine for sale. Phone 958 after 7 p.m. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him cheap. On Tuesday— NOTICE: We regret having erred in R. D. Jones’ ad yesterday. It should have read: One sewing machine for sale. Cheap. Phone 958 and ask for Mrs. Kelly who lives with him after 7 p.m. On Wednesday— R. D. Jones has informed me that he has re ceived several annoying telephone calls because of the error we made in his classified ad yester day. His ad stands corrected as follows: FOR SALE: R. D. Jones has one sewing ma chine for sale. Cheap Phone 958 after 7 p.m. and ask for Mrs. Kelly who loves with him. Finally, on Thursday— NOTICE: I, R- D. Jones, have no sewing ma chine for sale. I smashed it. Don’t call -9^8 as the telephone has been taken out. I have not been carrying on with Mrs. Kelly. Until yester day she was my housekeeper, but she quit. "V i-A * . > V: ../vj WRECK SCENES—Shown above are vehicles involved in two separate wrecks Thursday near Clinton. A North Augusta man was driving the rental truck shown above when it overturned near the Enoree River at about 8:00 p.m. In picture at right, taken by Paul Quinton, Jerry Sher rill Morrow of Route 3, Clinton, was charged with failing to yield right- of way. The Morrow car at left collided with a car driven 1 v Shirley Da vis Robinson of 210 Meadow Road. Laurens. The accident occurred at 4:10 p.m. Thursday at the Laurens-CIinton Road intersection at Put’s Grocery. Morrow was treated and released at Bailey Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Robinson was admitted to Bailey Memorial Hospital and was later transferred to Greenville General Hospital where her condition Tuesday was reported as “good”. Disaster Drill Said Successful, Helpful Clinton’s (iisaster drill last Thursday morning was both suc cessful and helpful, according to officials in charge of units involved in the drill. After the drill, leaders met Thursday night at the tiospital to discuss the drill and ways to improve emergency coordina tion. Among some of the questions raised by the drill were: A! * tfv.* mt- (1) How can rescue squadsmen lest help the medical doctors at the scene 0 (2) Can a net alert system le established to call in all doc tors during a disaster situation 0 (3) How much first aid train ing is needed by ambulance attendanls? (4) What is the test and most efficient way to handle new's media representatives seeking information? In addition to these inter agency questions, each agency also discovered some kinks in their emergency procedure and ***« «***.** + *#*# More On Pictures Page 9 Co. WHITTEN VILLAGE DEDICA TION—Shown at Whitten Village dedication ceremonies Sunday are, left to right, R. L. Plaxico; Miss Norma E. Hallett; Mrs. Beatrice R. Sloan and Dr. Roy Suber. They were honored as buildings were dedicated in their names.—’(Yar borough Photoj PC Opens 2nd Term Summer School The second term of Presbyter ian College’s 1968 summer school will begin next Monday after noon with registration in the li brary building. Dr. Fred Chapman, director of the summer session, has an nounced that registration will start at 2 p.m. and the regular class schedule will begin the next day at 8 a.m. The 4-1/2 week term, extending through August 9, provides for six se mester hours of credit selected from among course offerings in ten departments. The schedule includes three two-hour periods daily for five days a week. Classwork on the first term, meanwhile, will close this Fri day with the final examinations. It has a record summer enroll ment for PC, with 229 men and women in the regular program and another 15 registered for non credit courses. Ceremony Honors Four At Whitten Village began studying ways to iron them out. Sheriff Kugene Johnson told the leaders, “You are to lie com mended for initiating this drill. I thought it was very successful and most helpful We hope that we will never have to put into practice some of the things we learned from this drill but I believe we’re tetter prepared to cope with such a situation should it arise.’ Sheriff Johnson sounded the a- larm at 9:48 a.m. Thursday. He and his deputies notified police, rescue and hospital officials that there had tieen an aircraft crash just off a secondary road in front of The Torrington Company. The various agencies swung into action and the first ambu lance arrived at Bailey Memorial Hospital at 10:15 a.m. with two victims of ttie crash. In 57 minutes, all ITrrashvic tims had t>een removed from the scene and taken to the hospital. Agencies involved in the drill were the Sheriff’s Department, Clinton police, State Highway Pa trol, Laurens County Fescue Squad, the medical staff of Bailey Memorial Hospital and some doc tors from Whitten Village. Dr. James Macdonald, coordi nator at the hospital, said, “I thought it went very well We had more staff than we actually needed at the hospital within 20 minutes of the first alarm.” Dr. Macdonald also compli mented Sheriff Johnson on the realism of the way the sheriff set up the simulated situation. The crash scene was littered with debris. With the aid of plas tic wounds, the victims played their parts well. There were moans and screams at the scene. One of the “victims” was found hanging in a tree. Two men happened to drive by the scene. They stopped their car and watched as rescue squadsmen brought the “victims” out of the woods. They jumped out of their car, raced up to a reporter and asked, “What’s go ing on?* Told that it was a dis aster drill, the driver replied, “Somebody ought to go up there and whup those folks. They just about scared me to death.” Two administrators and two retired teachers were honored Sunday in dedication ceremonies at Whitten Village. Honored were R. L. Plaxico, chairman of the Board of Trus tees for 11 years; Dr. Roy Suber, superintendent of Whitten Vill age; and retired staff members Miss Norma E. Hallett, former director of training and head of the psychology department; and Mrs. Beatrice B. Sloan, former campus supervisor. The buildings dedicated to those four are the R. L. Plaxi co Administration Building, re cently enlarged and renovated; the Roy B. Suber Center, a com bination dormitory-training- recreation facility; and the Hallett-Sloan Educational Center a school and home economics building. Portraits of the four were un veiled during the program in the school auditorium. Effective Monday, Whitten Village came under the super vision of the new State Commis sion on Mental Retardation. The former Boardof Trustees met for the last time Sunday. Members of the board received special recognition during the program. Mrs. Mary L. Spann, president of the Whitten Village Parents Club, presented copies of a resolution to each trustee, expressing the club’s appre ciation for the board’s services “for our children.* Chronicle Published Early 'The Chronicle was published a day early this week, because of the July 4th holiday. The Chronicle office will be closed Thursday, Friday andSat- ttrday of this week so that em ployes may take a long holiday weekend. DR. JAMES MACDONALD OVERSEES EMERGENCY ROOM ... At Bailey Memorial During Disaster Drill Budget Committee To Meet On July 17 JIM VON MOLTEN Von Hollen Heads UF Budget Group Jim Von Hollen will serve as chairman >f the Budget and Ad missions Committee of the Uni ted i und of Greater Clinton, Inc. for 1968, it was announced this week by DonCreighton, president of Hie organization. Von Hollen, vice-president of the M.S. Bailey and Son Bankers, is a Clinton native, a graduate of the University of Georgia and lias been active in all phases of civic and religious affairs in the community. He has served the United Fund in numerous capacities through the years, act ing as president in 1964 and as campaign chairman in 1962. He is a former president of the Kiwanis Club, former presi dent of the Chamber of Com merce and presently serves as chairman of the Board of Trust- tees for Schnot^District No. 56 and treasurer of the First Pres byter iai^hurch. Von Hollen is married to the former Nancy Griffin of Hunt ington, W. Va. They have three children and reside on Elm St. A meeting of the Budget and Admissions Committee of the U- nited Fund of Greater Clinton, Inc, will te held on Wednesday, July 17, beginning at 1:00 p.m. at the Hotel Mary Musgrove. Members f this committee are Jim Von Hollen, chairman; Mac Adair, Gen. A. B. Godfrey, Oliver Green, Gary Lehn, David Meyers, Calvin Reed, D. 11. Roberts, IGeee Young, Mrs. R. E. Fer guson and Mrs. Frank Sherrill. All participating agencies will lie invited to send representatives to the meeting to report on the work of their agencies during the past year and to make requests for funds to lie included in the 1969 budget. Any organization interested in Incoming a participating agency in ttie 1968-69 budget for the United Fund should contact chair man Jim Von Hollen or send their information and request to Mrs. Esther Pitts, United Fund Secretary at the Chamber of Commerce Office. Already scheduled to appear before the committee are repre sentatives of: Laurens County Unit, Ameri can Cancer Society; Blue Ridge Council, Boy Scouts of America; The Salvation Army; Retarded Children; Old Ninety Six Girl Scout District; USO; Cerebral Kinards Gets New Post Office Building The Post Office Department has awarded a contract for the construction of new postal facili ties at Kinards. Van C. Oxner, Jr. of Kinards in the success ful bidder. Upon completion, it will be leased to the government for five years with three five years re newal options. The new one-story structure will be air conditioned and lo cated on the east side of High way 76 near the intersection of state road 560. Cost is estimated at $12,927. The unit is scheduled for com pletion by December. Dr. Chapman To Address CC Members Dr. W. Fred Chapman, Eco nomics Department, Presbyter ian College will speak to mem bers of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m., Hotel Mary Mus grove. This meeting is sponsored by the Merchants Division of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, of which Joe S. Holland is chair man. Palsey of Greenville County; Laurens County American Red Cross; Laurens County Crippled Children and Adults; Laurens County Mental Health; Clinton Council of Camp Fire Girls; Clinton YMCA. G CECIL WILSON Cecil Wilson Dies Monday; Funeral Set Cecil P. Wilson, 56, owner and operator of the Clinton Cafe for 24 years, died unexpectedly Mon day night. Mr. Wilson suffered an attack at 7:55 p.m. Monday at his home at 106 Ansel Drive. A native of Laurens County, he was^a son of the late Clarence P. Wilson and Katherine Dagnall Wilson. He was educated in Hick ory Tavern schools and was a member of Broad Street Metho dist Church. He lived in Laurens until 1944 when he moved to Clin ton. Mr. Wilson was a charter member of the Clinton Rotary Club and was a Mason and Shriner. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Vivian Vaughn Wilson; a daughter, Mrs. Alvin (Rachel Ann) Heubel; five sisters, Mrs. Ralph (Katherine) Womack of Franklin, N.C., Mrs. George (Sarah) Wham, Mrs. Jones (Toni) Garrett and Mrs. John(Juanita) Cheek of Laurens and Mrs. Mur ray (Bessie) Smith ofGreenville; and a granddaughter. Funeral services were to be held Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock at Broad Street Metho dist Church, conducted by the Rev. Paul Layton and the Rev. Crickett Lowery. Pallbearers will beThadJohn son Jr., Hack Cheek, Ferd Ja cobs Jr., Charles H. Johnson, Carter Redd, Jimmy Thompson, Charlie Cook and Jerry Wilhite. In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorials be r sent to the Broad Street Methodist Church Building Fund.