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Index Growing With Clinton ®he Clinton Chronicle Vol. 70 — No. 32 Clinton, S. C., Thursday, August 15, 1968 Classified 6 Deaths 3-18 Editorials : io Society 2-3 Sports 7 WRECK OFF 1-26—Mrs. Ruth And- derson Pierce of Spartanburg was injured Friday about 1:00 p.m. when her 11X>8 station wagon went out of control, broke through a guard rail and went down an embankment off 1-26 near Clinton. Mrs. Pierce was pinned in the car for about an hour. Rescue efforts are shown in picture above as workers try to lift the car so that Mrs. Pierce can be pulled out. The one-car accident (XTurred about 1 1 -j miles north of the 276 inter change. Mrs. Pierce was given emer gency treatment at Bailey Memorial Hospital a n d w a s transferred to Spartanburg (i e n e r a 1 Hospital.— (Photo by Paul Quinton) Eight Inches Restored We inadvertantly did (.eorge Reid out of eight inches of fish last week. In reporting Reid’s state record catch of a 75- l>ound sailfish. we reported that it was S5 inches long. It really was inches long. Reid is having it mounted. This will provide pn>of of the exact measurement: We never even caught anything approaching even a creek record but we prefer to do away with our catches and then let them '’grow - ' through our own fisherman's tales over the years. Reid doesn’t have to do that. His catch was al most 30 pounds over the previous record. A Mr. Boyd caught a 45-i>ound, eight-ounce sailfish oil the South Carolina coast last year. Reid's catch is entered in the (irand Strand Fishing Derby but he was two days too early to enter it in competition for the Governor’s Cup. Reid and his Clinton cronies weren’t the only ones excited about the catch. Folks down in George town were mighty happy alxnit it. too. because it wil help them 1hh»sI trade as a deep-sea fishing ix>rt. Georgetown Weekend Speaking of Georgetown, there should be quite a Clinton contingent on hand Sept. 6 when the CHS Red Devils ojxm their UH>8 football schedule at Georgetown. Many Clintonians already have made motel reservations and art' planning to make a coastal weekend of it. After the game, the CHS football team will go on to Charleston for a tour on Saturday. Oops' Dept. Anytime you start throwing superlatives around in the newspaper business, you’re likely to run into trouble. Few events are ever the absolute first or last. Last week, we reported that Mrs. W. W. Harris was the local B&PW’s first delegate to a national convention. We had forgotten that Mrs. J. B. Hatcher (formerly JMrs. Leila Johnson) attended the BAPW convention at Miami Beach in 1%6. She also attended one later in St Louis. Missouri. Mrs. Hatcher now resides in Gaffney. Mrs. Hatcher's son, Capt. Charles Johnson, is now stationed at William Beaumont Hopsital in El Paso, Texas. He recently completed his national board examinations in Internal Medicine. And while we're correcting bloopers—there’s one on page 9 in today’s paper. Before the staff of the Presbyterian Church Kindergarten resigns en masse, let us hasten to assure them that the regular hours of kindergarten will NOT conclude at 1:30 a.m. It's supposed to be 11 :S0 a.m. Republican Rally Set Aug. 24 In Mountville New Mayor Outlines Goals Layton Takes Over On Sept. 1 MOUNTVILLE - One of the largest precinct rallies in Lau rens County is scheduled by Mountville Republicans on Sat urday, Aug. 24. A free chicken stew supper will be served on a first-come, first- served basis. Speakers will be U.S. Sen Strom Thurmond; Marshall Parker, candidate for the U.S. Senate; Charlie Bradshaw, candidate for the U. S. House of Represen tatives; State Sen. Eugene Grif fith; and Marshall Abercrombie, candidate for state Senate. The supper will be held be tween the church and the school and serving will start at 6 p.m. In the event of inclement weather, the rally will be held in the school. The public is invited to the supper and to bear the speak ers. Between 300 and 350 per sons are expected to attend. New Elementary Enrollment Plans Are Announced Pupils who will attend the new Clinton Elementary School are asked to report for enroll ment and assignment to classes according to the schedule listed below: First grade: Wednesday, Aug ust 21, at 8:15. Second and third grades: Thursday, August 22, at 8:15. Fourth, fifth, and sixth grades: Friday, August 23, at 8:15. All pupils will assemble in the cafetorium and from there will be assigned to homerooms. The cafetorium is located in the cen tral portion of the building fac ing Chestnut Street. Parents who bring children are requested to use the driveway from Chestnut Street. The drive way from Teakwood is reserved for use of school buses only. First grade students at other schools also will report to their respective schools at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21. Junior High School students will report at 8:15 a.m. Aug. 22 at Junior High School and ninth and 10th graders will report to the high schools at 8:15 a.m., also on Aug. 22. Eleventh and 12th graders will report to the high schools at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 23. Regular classes will begin on Monday, Aug. 26. Clark loins Faculty At PC Dr. Gale J. Clark is the latest addition to the Presbyterian Col lege chemistry department, President Marc C. Weerslng an nounced today. President Weerslng said Dr. Clark will join the PC faculty as an assistant professor later this month for the start of the 1968-69 session. He comes di rectly from Vanderbilt Uni versity, where he has just re ceived his PhD degree with a major work in analytical chem istry. A native of Memphis, the new PC professor attended Vander bilt on a graduate teaching fel lowship after receiving his BA degree from Hendrix College in 1962. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and Sigma Xi honorary scientific fra ternity. His church affiliation is Methodist * * * Chamber Board The Board of Directors of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce will meet on Tuesday, Aug. 20, Hotel Mary Husgrove at 10 a.m. President Louis M Stephens will preside. After his election as mayor of Clinton in Tuesday’s Municipal General Election, Harry C. Lay- ton offered his thanks to the voters and said, “We will strive to give the people an administra tion worthy of the community.’ A veteran of 10 years’ service as a member of City Council, Democrat Layton defeated in cumbent Republican Mayor No land Suddeth by 70 votes. Layton carried two of the city’s three boxes. He won No. 1 (City Hall) 189-166 and No. 3 (Clinton Mill) 120 - 54. Suddeth carriedNo. 2 (Armory) 191-162. The total vote was Layton 471, Suddeth 411. In a post-election statement, Layton said, “We shall attempt to continue to give the city a progressive administration. We hope to continue the programs already started and to keep things operating on an even keel. For example, movements already are underway for the proposed “Ring Road’ bypass and the construc tion of a new city hall building. If the plans for financing these projects are sound, I would like to see them continued. We do need a city hall. We need a de cent, respectible place to trans act the affairs of the city. “We hope to make progress in the fields that deserve to go forward and we want to have a good, business-like administra tion of the affairs of the city. “I also want the people to be fully informed about the affairs of the city. They are entitled to knowledge about anything they want to know.’ Layton also expressed his thanks to the voters, saying, “1 appreciate the opportunity for service to the community, an opportunity given me by the peo ple.’ Layton will begin his two-year term as mayor on Sept. 1 and will preside at the next meeting of City Council. The election of Layton gives the city a Democratic adminis tration. All six incumbent coun cil members, all Democrats, were re-elected without opposi tion in the general election. Councilmen re-elected are Boyd W. Holtzclaw, Ward 1;Tru man Owens, Ward 2; Fred Bragg Jr., Ward 3; G. Dewey Oxner, Ward 4; George W. Bagwell, Ward 5; andTalmadgeSanders, Ward6. During his entire service on Council, Layton was a member of the finance committee and was chairman of that committee for the last four years of his ser vice on Council. He also served eight years as a member of the Board ofDirec- tors of the Clinton-Newberry Natural Gas Authority. For many years, Layton was a member of the staff of the Clin ton Chronicle and last Septem ber opened a general printing plant on W. Main Street. A graduate of Thornwell High School and Thornwell College, he is a member of the First Pres byterian Church and the Lions Club. He and Mrs. Layton reside on E. Walnut Street and they have a daughter, Miss Jean Layton, woman’s editor of The Green ville News. Merchants Group Study Committee Is Appointed Clinton Merchants Committee Chairman Joe Holland Tuesday appointed a committee to study ways to make the committee more effective. Holland said that the committee CHARLES WALDRON Waldron Heads United Fund’s Commercial Drive Charles F. Waldron, trust offi cer of M. S. Bailey & Son, Bank ers, has been appointed to head the Commercial Division of the 1968-69 campaign of the United Fund of Greater Clinton. The Commercial Division will kick off ahead of the public campaign. Waldron attended Benjamin Franklin University, Washington, D.C., and is a native of Rice- ville, Virginia. He served as an infantry company commander of Pacific Theatre invasion forces in World War II from 1942-46. He served as an accounts ex aminer and auditor for the In ternal Revenue Service from 1946 until 1961. In 1961, he came to Clinton as Controller of Clinton- Lydia Cotton Mills and Trust Officer of M. S. Bailey & Son, Bankers. Since 1965, he has de voted his time to the Trust De partment of the Bank. He is president oftheParents- Teachers Association, chairman of the Board of Directors for the Laurens County Chapter of the American Red Cross, treasurer of Cub Scout Pack 21, member of the Board of Directors of Clinton Lions Club, deacon and teacher in the First Presbyter ian Church. He is married to the former Jo Ann Phillips of Springfield, S.C., and they make their home with their three children on Pine St should particularly look into the possibility that the merchants group might be more effective as an independent association. He said, “I certainly don’t want to do anything to hurt the Chamber of Commerce but I just want us to see if we might be more effective as an associa tion instead of as a committee.* Charles Buice was appointed chairman of the committee. Other members are J. C. Thomas, Mrs. Perry Moore, Donny Wilder, O. P. Haynes, D. B. Smith, Howard Smith and W. C. Baldwin. Billy Grigsby of Fountain Inn was featured speaker at Tues day’s meeting. He told the group of the organization and accom plishments of the Fountain Inn Merchants and Businessmen’s Association. When the group was organized, the merchants needed more park ing space downtown, a credit bu reau and ways to promote Foun tain Inn as a shopping center. Through the association, he said, all three problems had been solved. He said there are 51 members in the association and there are 76 members in the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber assists the association but most of its money comes from membership dues. The dues are $3 per month for a firm with one to two em ployes; $4 per month for firms with three to four employes and $5 per month for firms with five or more employes. *★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ HOW THEY VOTED Box Layton Suddeth Clinton No. 1 189 166 ( Union No. 2 162 191 Clinton No. 3 120 54 TOTAL 471 411 HARRY C. LAYTON ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ City Businessmen Pledge Jr. Achievement Support A Junior Achievement program for Clinton was launched Monday night with the enthusiastic en dorsement of about 25 civic lead ers. After the program was ex plained at a dinner at MaryMus- grove Hotel, President Tom Addison asked those who support the program to stand. The sup port was unanimous. Dr. Fred Chapman, chairman of the Business and Economics Department at PresbyterianCol- lege, is the program manager. Be showed a film aUiut Junior Achievement and explained the program fully to those in attend ance. In the Junior Achievement pro gram, high school seniors, juniors and sophomores set up their own corporations, make a product, and market it. The busi ness community provides ad visors to assist the young people TOM ADDISON in management of their corpora tion. One of the primary objectives of the program is to, give the young people experience in and an appreciation for the free en terprise system. The local organization hopes to start at least two corporations during the coming school year. Addison said, “There are a lot of critics who believe our y(MDg people do not receive enough training in appreciation of the free enterprise system. The Communists begin training their young people early in their tern. Junior Achievement is not necessarily an endoctrination program but we believe that once our young people have experienc ed the benefits of our system, they will more appreciative of it. We in the business community owe it to the young people to do what we can to encourage them in our free system. ’ v.nVv- Ernest Davis Changes Jobs-After 42 Years ! § Fire Destroys House Thursday Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a house on Secondary Road 98 (Cross Keys Road) about 11 a.m. Thursday. The house was owned by Buddy Copeland and occupiedby Mr. and Mrs. Loranz Brewington and their two sons. The Brewlngtons lost almost all of their possessions in the fire. The Clinton Fire Dept, was called but was unable to assist was extinguishing the fire be cause the house was located out side the local department’s area. However, at leak one city fire man went to the scene to assist, on his own. After 42 years, Ernest Davis will change jobs this month. Davis, who has the longest ten- ture of anyone in School Dis trict 56, will be in charge of maintenance at the new Clinton Elementary School. For the past 42 years he has been main tenance man at Providence Schixil at Lydia Mill. Providence is one of the two schools which will consolidated into the new elementary school. Davis admits some reserva tions about the new job. “Everybody at Providence knew me and it was like home to me. This new school is going to be so big and there will be so many young folks I don’t know but I guess we’ll get along.’ Davis, who celebrates his 63rd birthday today, started work at Providence in 1926. He has worked under six different prin cipals and has seen generations of children come and go. “I ran into a fellow the other day who seemed to know me but I couldn’t place him. He looked like he had some years on him and finally I asked him, ‘Don’t I know you?’ He said, ‘Sure, you know me. You were working at Providence when I was a stu dent there 40 years ago.’ " Davis and his wife Lillian have a daughter, Mrs. Ernestine Gos- nell who lives at Gideon Hill. Davis’ stepchildren are Josh Savage, who works in the supply room at the new Bailey Plant, and Mrs. Arda Mae Roden of Philadelphia. Concerning changes in young people over the years, Davis said, ‘They have so much more today than children used to have. They have plenty of money to spend-- too much sometimes--- and they see so much on television but they’re still just children. You can’t make grown folks out of ’em until it’s time.’ Davis is Impressed with the new elementary school building. ERNEST DAVIS ... 63 Years OM Today “It’s a pretty thing,’ he said, “ WeTl have a tough job at first because the grass won’t be up and they’ll be tracking mud around but after the grass gets up it'll be alright.* * * * ♦ ♦ ♦ * * * ¥ ♦ * * « ♦ * It's Football * « « ♦ ♦ Time JSee High School; ♦ ♦ J Practice Reports ; Page 7 * * * * ♦ * * * * Reynolds Organist At Si John's In the absence of the regular organist, Mr. James W. Ingram Jr. at St John’s Lutheran Church, Dr. Robert N. Reynolds, formerly of Clinton but now of Nashville, Term., will serve as organinst at the chorch next Sunday morning. Dr. Reynolds is the son of the late Julian R. and Mrs. Reynolds. Candy Sale The Clinton Jaycees will spaw- sor a Stuckey’s pecan sale this weekend in downtown Clinton.