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Index
Growing With
Clinton
Vol. 70 — No. 33
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, August 22, 1968
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Deaths
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Editorials
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Society
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Sports
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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