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Index Growing With Clinton Vol. 70 — No. 33 Clinton, S. C., Thursday, August 22, 1968 CliuMlftof < Deaths 3-8 Editorials 10 Society 2-S Sports 7 PLANT SITE—The graded land t*e- struction. The new mobile home plant side Palmetto Mobile Homes will be will employ about 100 persons and the site for the new Columbian will produce 10 mobile homes and Homes plant which is now under con- pre-fabricated homes per day. New Mobile Home Plant Under Way Construction started this week on a new mobile home pre-fab ricated home manufacturing plant, Columbian Homes, between Laurens and Clinton. The new plant, which will employ about 100 people, will be a division of Barcraft Homes. Jim Barnes, president of Bar- craft and Palmetto Homes, an nounced that the Columbian manufacturing facility will cover 46,000 square feet of floor space. There also will be a general ware house for materials needed by Barnes organization, including the new plant. The warehouse will have 12,800 square feet of floor space. The new manufacturing plant MRS. JAMES will produce 12-foot wide mobile homes and 24-foot pre-fabricated FHA approved homes. The plant is expected to produce 10 units per day. The pre-fabricated homes will be primarily in the $15,000brac ket, according to Barnes. The new plant will t>e located on a 24-acre tract of land ad joining the Palmetto Homes plant on tiie old Airport Road offHigh- way 76 between Laurens and Clinton. Grading lias been completed<>n the site and construction is to be completed in 60 days, Barnes said. Roebuck Building Co. of Roebuck, S.C., is in charge of construction. The Barcraft organization cur rently emplojies. about 225 peo ple, Barnes said. * * * First Baptist Kindergarten Opens Monday Clinton First Baptist Church Kindergarten will liegin regular session Monday, August 26, at 8:30 a.m. Registration is today, August 22. Children four or five years of age may be enrolled. Anyone desiring further information may contact Mrs. J. A. Orr Jr. Weaver To Join Thomwell Staff The- Rev. Thomas A. Weaver HI, assistant pastor at First Presbytei an Church in Clinton, lias accepted a call to join the staff at Thornwell Prior to beginning his service at Thornwell, he will return to Florida State University to work toward a masters degree in so cial work. Upon completion >f his work at Florida State, Weaver will be connected with the social workers program at Thornwell. Weaver, a native of Florida, has been assistant pastor at First Presbyterian Church for the past one and a half years. * * * Mrs. James, 110, Dies Police Chief Suffers Attack Mrs. Rosa James, believed to be 110 years old, died Wednesday morning at Bailey Memorial Hos pital. She was the last member of her immediate fam ily. She was born on the Hollingsworth Plantation in the Renno section and, in an interview last March, recalled watching Confederate and Union soldiers marching down the roads near her home. Married twice, she had eight children, all of whom are deceased. Eight of her 10 grand-chil dren survive her. Mrs. James made her home on Route 1, Clinton. Thompson Mortuary is in charge of arrange ments. Clinton Police Chief B. B. Ballard suffered a heart attack Saturday night but was reported to be showing a good recovery Wednesday at Bailey Memorial Hospital. The attending physician said that Ballard “is doing fine” but that he will be unable to return to his job for a few weeks. Horace Hortoa^jJ^Sjjteistant chief of police. ' •CITY* BOBCAT—The bobcat shown above was hit and killed on Spring- dale Drive last weekend i, only a few vards outside the Clinton City limits. John P. Daniluk found the dead bob cat in the middle of Springdale Drive. Weight of the bobcat has been esti mated at from 26 to 35 pounds. PC Launches 89th Session On Saturday Presbyterian College will launch its 89th academic ses sion with a pre-school orienta tion program for freshmen start ing this Saturday and the offi cial opening of college for new students Sunday evening. Some 250 new students are ex pected for the several days of placement tests and other pre liminary activity leading up to registration next Wednesday. The pre-school orientation program, sponsored by the Stu dent Christian Association, is voluntary. More than one-half of the incoming freshmen have indi cated they will attend, checking in between 1 and 5 p.m. President and Mrs. Marc C. Weersing will entertain all new students in the annual freshman reception Sunday evening. It is set for 8:30 p.m. as the first official event of the new school year, although students interest ed in fraternity pledging are re quested to meet in Belk Audi torium at 4:30 p.m. that day. Monday liegins a concentrated period of directing the new comers through a battery of placement tests, counseling ses sions with faculty memt^ers, con ferences with student leaders and other activities designed to ac climate them to college life. Freshman registration will l>e- gin at 3:30 p.m. next Wednes day. Returning upperclassmen, meanwhile, have their first sche duled campus appelarance set for 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. They will meet with faculty advisers at this time to complete arrangements for their registration the next day. The regular class sche dule will begin on Friday, Aug ust 30. A schedule change inaugurated this year findsPresbyterianCd- lege operating on the five-day week, with classes lieing held Monday through Friday. This fol lows the change of two years age which pushed up the opening date into late August to permit com pletion of the first semester l>e- fore the beginning of Christmas holidays. Smith Joins Staff At PC, Whitten Village F. Yinten Smitli Jr., has re turned to Clinton in the dual capacity of instructor in psy chology at Presbyterian College and directs nfedueation at Whit ten Village, Dean Joseph M. Gettys announced today. The son of Lt. Col, and Mrs. F. V. Smith, he comes from Tren ton, N.J., where he has served as the principal operations analyst for all seven of the state institutions for the mentally re tarded. At PC Smith will teach two courses each semester in the area of special education. It is part of the college’s new pro gram to enable teachers to meet state certification requirements in this field. During the first semester of the 1968-69 session, starting next week, Smith will teach courses on The Exceptional Child f Monday and Thursday, 4:10 F. V. SMITH JR. Save Ways Store Opens In Clinton Save Ways Discount Store open ed this week in downtown Clin- lon. The store is located in the building between Belks and the Clinton Cafe and carries a line of name brand health and beauty aids, small appliances, household items and first aid supplies. The young organization also has stores in Anderson, Pickens, Union, Chester and Elberton, Ga. The grand opening for the store is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 24. Store hours will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday; 9 a.m. until noon on Wednesday and 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Friday. Mrs. Kay Moss is manager of the store. Her husband, Michael Moss, works at Greenwood Mills in Joanna. They have four child ren and are members of the Methodist church. They now re side in Union but are planning to move to Clinton in the near future. -5:25 p.m.) and Psychology of Mental Retardation (Tuesday and Friday, 4:10-5:25 p.m.). Dean Gettys pointed out that both of those courses may carry graduate as well as undergrad uate credit, as they did during PC’s 1968 summer school Approval for graduate credit is pending with the Clemson Uni versity School of Education, through which PC offers work toward a master’s degree. Presbyterian College last month announced a $30,000 grant from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation of Winston-Salem, N.C., to establish this program in special education in coopera tion with Whitten Village. In helping to staff this program, Vinten Smith brings a brtjad back ground of education and exper ience. After receiving his BA in psychology from Rutgers Uni versity in 1962, lie earned his MA in mental retardation atfte- wark State College and has com pleted additional work toward his doctorate. He received his Clin ton High diploma in 1958. Dr. Claude Cooler, chairman of the PC psychology department, said the special education pro gram is being closely coordinated with requirements outlined by the Program for Exceptional Child ren of the South Camlina State Department of Education. He added: “There are two important cri teria which will relate closely to the effectiveness of our pro gram to train graduate and un dergraduate students to work with the mentally retarded: 1--close preximity of an institution like Whitten Village at which students will obtain part of their train ing, and 2--an individual quali fied to supervise the program. With the fine cooperation of the Whitten Village administrators and the addition of Mr. Smith, we feel PC can now offer a mean ingful program in special educa tion.” * * * Republican Rally Slated Saturday In Mountville MOUNTVILLE-A free chicken stew supper will be served Sat urday, Aug. 24, at the Mount ville Republican precinct rally which also will feature state GOP leaders and local senatorial can didates. Serving will start at 6 p.m. in the area between the church and the school. In the event of rain, the rally will be held in the school. Speakers will beU.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond; Marshall Parker, candidate for the U.S. Senate; Charlie Bradshaw, candidate for the U.S. House of Representa tives; State Sen. Eugene Griffith of Newberry and Marshall Aber crombie of Laurens, candidate for state senate. TALKING POLITICS—Two Republi can state candidates are shown above at an open house held in Qinton Tuesday. Shown above, left to right, are Charlie Bradshaw, candidate for U. S. Congress; Murray Adams, host at the drop-in; Marion C. Hiers; and Marshall Parker, candidate for the U. S. Senate. Bradsaw, Parker, U. S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and local GOP candidates are to be featured at a Republican precinct rally in Mount ville Saturday night. Contract Awarded For Highway 76 Award of a $318,053 contract to widen a U. S. Route 76 section at Hinton to four lanes and im prove S. C. 66 in Laurens County has been announc ed by the State Highway Department. This contract was awarded to Sloan Construction Company, Inc., of Greenville on the basis of the firm’s low bid, according to Chief Highway Com missioner Silas N. Pearman. Four bids were en tered, ranging as high as $376,267. The contract calls for grading, drainage, bitumi nous stabilized macadam base course and asphaltic concrete surfacing for widening 2.3 miles of Route 76 from Clinton to near state secondary systeim road S-34 beyond Whitten Village to the industrial park. The contract also provides asphaltic concrete sur facing on three miles of the route from Road S-34 easterly to near S. C. 66 at Joanna. Included in this project is asphaltic concrete surfacing for strengthening and improvements of 3.65 miles of S. C. Route 66 (Whitmire Road) from U. S. 76 at Joanna to Interstate Route 26. Total length of the project is nine wiles. Rids on the project were opened July 16. School Bells Ring For 4,400 Students HARRY BOL1CK Bolick Heads United Fund's Institutional Div. Harry Edmund Bulick, 111, Plant Engineer nf the Tnrrington Company will serve as Chairman of the InstituConal Division of the United Fund of Greater Clin ton, Inc., for the 1968-69 drive it was ami' unced this week by ca.up ign cjiairman Mrs. F rank Sherrill. Bolick was born in High Point, N.C., and spent his youth in nu merous places in the U.S. and overseas, due to his father Viug in the U.S. Army. He graduated from Clemson Uruvt i ; where he was named to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Uni versity, and later attended the USASA Training School (Army Security) at Ft. Devons, Mass. He joined the T< r ington Company in 1961 on termination of his military career. He was recently named Plant Engineer of the year by the American In stitute of Plant Engineers and serves as National Chairman of the Water PollutionControl Com mittee for that association. He has t>een recently chosen as a candidate for the “Mr. Industry” award. Since coming to Clinton Bolick has been active in civic, church and community affairs. He serves as president and chairman of the Board of Directors of theYMCA; president and chairman of the Board of Directors of the Com munity Concert Association; an active member of the First Pres byterian Church and its choir; and a member of the Kiwanis Club. He is married to the former Charlotte LaRue W'right of Ashe ville, N. C. They have three children and reside on Sun set Boulevard. * * * Jaycee Candy Sale Continues The Clinton Jaycees will con tinue their Stuckey’s pecan roll candy sale this week with a house- to-house campaign. The Jaycees will sell the candy house-to-house tonight, Friday and Saturday nights. Proceeds of the sale will go to the State Jaycee organization for its statewide charity pro jects. School bells rang this week for Laurens County School Dis trict 56 students. Approximately 4,400 students were expected to report to school this week, according to Superin tendent R. P. Wilder. He said the enrollment is expected to be about the same as last year. “The enrollment has been sta ble for the last two or three years,” he said. First grade students reported Wednesday morning. Second and third graders were to report this An inquest is scheduled, prob ably next week, into the death of a 40-year-old Clinton man who was fatally injured Saturday morning on the railroad tracks at the Centennial Street crossing. Laurens County Coroner Mar shall Pressley said that the in quest will be held but he had not set a date Wednesday morn ing. He said it probably will be held next week. The victim was identified as George Rivers of 99 Bond St. He died in a Greenwood hospi tal at 10:30 a.m. Saturday of internal injuries received about three hours earlier. Rivers reportedly was on his way to work at Thornwell when the accident occured. The coroner said Rivers apparently was injured by a freight train about 7:30 a.m. Pressley said his investigation indicated that Rivers wasattempt- ing to either crawl under or over the freight train and was caught and unable to get free. The train dragged Rivers about 460 feet, Pressley said. There were no eyewitnesses. The coroner said the crew of the train was not aware of the morning and fourth through sixth grade students are to report at 8:15 a.m. Friday. Junior High School students reported this morning, alongwith ninth and 10th graders at the high schools. Juniors and seniors are to re port at 8:15 a.m. Friday. Regular classes will begin Monday, Aug. 26. Monday, Sept. 2, will be a school holiday in observance of Labor Day. accident until they were notified of it after they arrived in North Carolina. Rivers was found by the crew of another Seaboard Coast Line train about 10 to 15 minutes after the other train had departed. Funeral services are to be con ducted today at 3 p.m. at Beth lehem Grove ^aptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Survivors include a daughter, Miss Mary Ellen Rivers of Clin ton; his mother, Mrs. Mary Rivers of Clinton; his grand mother, Mrs. Beatrice Maddox of Clinton; two sisters, Mrs. Doro thy Attaway of Clinton and Mrs. Annie Pearle Johnson of Char lotte, N.C.; and two brothers, Roosevelt Rivers of Philadelphia, Pa., and John Olliewood Rivers of Clinton. * * * Firemen Called Clinton firemen extinguished a tree fire Monday afternoon. During an electrical storm, lightning hit a tree near a home in the vacinity of Clinton Shop ping Plaza. Firemen extinguished the blaze, limiting damage to the tree. Inquest Is Planned In Railroad Death