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Growing With Clinton ®jje Clinton Chronicle Vol. 70 — No. 35 Clinton. S. C„ Thursday, September 5, 1968 Index Cbuuriflcd 6 Deaths 8 Editorials 10 Hospital News 17 Society 2 Sports 7 , PROPOSED CITY HALL—Shown above are two views of the proposed new City Hall for Clinton. The picture above is an architect’s sketch of the north side of the building which is to be built on a site on North Broad St. The large doors at left in picture above are for fire trucks. Shown below is a sketch of the front of the building. v/E^r elevation! City Hall Plan Unveiled Plans for Clinton’s proposed new city hall were unveiled last week at a joint meeting of Clin ton City Council and the Greater Clinton Planning Commission. At the conclusion of the pre sentation, outgoing Mayor No land Suddeth presented new Mayor Harry C. Layton with a check for over $228,000 sym bolizing the amount of money a- vailable for the project. Architects estimated the build ing will cost about $4 3 5,800 com plete. Suddeth told Layton, “City Council has spent a great deal of time, thought and effort on this project We have visited other cities to get ideas to in corporate into our plans. We hope that the new administration will carry it forward.* Layton said, “This is some thing the community needs very badly and I hope we can carry it through. Your administration has done an excellent job.’ The proposed city hall, to be constructed on a lot already pur chased on North Broad Street, would house city administrative offices in addition to police and fire department facilities. The front third of the build ing would be devoted to adminis trative offices; the middle third to the Police and jail facilities; and the back third to the Fire Department. The building front will be 85 feet from the curb onNorth Broad Street. It would be 200 feet long and 100 feet wide across the front. The architects said some costs could be shaved by eliminating one row of cells and by leaving the second floor unfinished. He estimate that about $40,000 could lie saved with those two eliminations. The building will have 24,000 square feet of floor space. Tbs architects, Craig and Gaulden of Greenville, are now preparing the working drawings and they are to be ready in about nine or 10 weeks. J. C. Thomas, vice chairman of the Planning Commission, pre sided over the luncheon meeting at Mary Musgrove Hotel. 711 Students Are Enrolled At Presbyterian It’s now high of 711 students for Presbyterian College this ses sion, according to official figures issued today by Registrar Ros- lyn Martin. She said the enrollment for the first semester of the 1968-69 aca demic year includes 509 men and 202 women. The total compares to the precious high of 702 stu dents last year. The co-ed population shows a 25 percent increase over last session as the result of a sec ond women’s dormitory made available for this fall. The rise from 149 women of last year is part of the planned gradual in crease in women students to an ultimate total of 300. The number of men students, meanwhile, de clined somewhat from the 553 figure of 1967 to the current 509. Presbyterian College students registered last week for the first semester, which is scheduled to end next December 20. * * * PC Giving Program Hits Half-Way Point The Presbyterian College An nual Giving program has hit the half-way mark in its quest to raise a record $150,000 during 1968, President Marc C. Weer- sing announced today. • if -V , i, v . f; He said an even $75,000 has been contributed to date by 960 alumni and friends. It's the fast est pace yet for a program which has established successively higher records in each of the past five years. The 1967 total reached $135,575. Dr. Weersing pointed out the current $75,000 figure is com posed of $40,300 from 681 alumni and $34,700 from 279 friends. The funds are marked primarily for unrestricted use or for such designated objectives as student financial aid, faculty salary in creases and departmental im provements. Aid funds for the Walter Johnson Club, alumni ath letic organization, thus far amount to $16,905 of the overall total. Alumni giving at Presbyterian College has been ranked among the top programs nationally in the small cooeducational college bracket for the past several years. COLONIAL BRICK The two-story, colonial brick building would feature a drive- in window in the administrative section. The administrative area would include the city clerk’s office area, mayor’s office, coun cil chambers which would double as a courtroom, and four multi purpose offices, including one which would be used for a jury room. The police area would feature 16 cells plus a juvenile detention room separate from the cells. There would be a day room, two interrogation rooms, the chief’s office, gun room and a dispatch office. The dispatch office is lo cated between the police area and the fire department area so that the dispatcher would have easy access to either area. The Fire Dept section would have space tor six fire trucks, the chief’s office and a day room. On the second floor above the Fire Dept area would be a com munity room with kitchen for gen eral public meeting use and a sep arate dormitory for firemen. Suddeth explained, “Under writers have told us that within a tew years, we may have to have a fulltime F ire Dept staff, backed up by our volunteers, if we are to maintain our fire insurance rating.* EXPANSION AREA Above the police department is an area which could be used for expansion. MAYOR SWORN IN—Clinton’s new mayor, Harry Layton, center, was sworn in Saturday in brief ceremon ies at City Hall. Presiding at the swearing-in was City Attorney Cecil White, left. At right is Mayor Lay ton’s twin brother, Harvey W. Lay- ton, of Ormond Beach, Fla.—Photo by Yarborough. Tedards Is Named Regional Personnel Mgr. The Torrington Company an nounced today the appointment of Ralph N. Tedards to the new position of Regional Personnel Manager. In his expanded re sponsibilities Mr. Tedards will administer, co-ordinate and audit a full range of corporate and lo cal personnel services to the Company’s plants in Clinton, Walhalla and Union, South Caro lina. The promotion follows his seven year career with the Com pany as Personnel Manager of the Clinton Bearings Plant. The Torrington Company, whose headquarters are in Tor rington, Connecticut, manu factures bearings, knitting and sewing machine needles, swaging machines and specialty metals parts. In addition to its Connecti cut and South Carolina opera tions, the Company has manu facturing facilities InSouthBend. Indiana; Canada, England, Ger many, Italy, Portugal, Japan and Braxil. Mr. Tedards received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Presbyterian College in 1950. Since that date he has pursued RALPH TEDARDS graduate studies at Furman Uni versity and the University of South Carolina. His prior work history includes 11 years in the field of secondary education as a teacher, coach and athletic di rector in the Gaffney, Honea Path and Clinton high school systems. Mr. Tedards will maintain his office at the Clinton Bearings Plant Vance Heads UF Division Robert M. Vance, local banker and textile executive, will serve again this year as chairman of the Out-of-Town Division for the 1968-69 Greater Clinton United Fund campaign. The drive will get underway on Sept. 24. Active in civic and church af fairs, Mr. Vance is a member of the Board of Trustees at Presbyterian College and is an Elder at the First Presbyterian Church. He is a Kiwanian and is a member of the State Com mission on Higher Education. Merchants Meet Tuesday Morning The Merchants Division of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce will meet on Tuesday morning, September 10, at 10 a.m. at Hotel Mary Musgrove. Charles Buice, chair man of the Special Events Committee, will report on the progress of spe cial promotions. Chairman Joe S. Holland urges each member to attend and of fer any suggestions that would be helpful to this committee. Special Ed Courses Offered At Presbyterian Two courses in special educa tion are being offered for grad uate or undergraduate credit at Presbyterian College during the fall semester, Dean Joseph M. Gettys announced today. He said approval had just been received from the Clemson Uni versity School of Education whereby these two courses are included in the cooperative grad uate-study program now existing between PC and Clemson. The courses, both taught by F. Vin ton Smith, Jr., of the PC and Whitten Village staff, are: “The Exception Child,’ offered at 4:10 to 5:25 p.m., Monday and Thurs day; and “The Psychology of Men tal Retardation,* at 4:10 to 5:25 p.m., Tuesday and Friday. Dr. Gettys said interested per sons still have time to regis ter before the September 10 dead line for late registration. Rev. Rhoden At St. John's Sunday morning the worship service at SL John’s Lutheran Church will be conducted by the Rev. J. Marion Rhoden, Jr. who served the local congregation from 1953 until 1955, leaving Clinton in order to become a Mission Developer. 40-Acre Tract Presbyterian Home Site Selected Here Acting in behalf of the Board of Trustees of Presbyterian Home of South Carolina, the Rev. Charles Robert Tapp, Executive Director of the Home, announces the recent decision of the board to purchase a 40 acre traot of land in Clinton for future de velopment and expansion of the Horne’s service to its sponsor ing agent, the Synod of South Carolina. Synod must give its approval of this site before it can be de veloped. Presbyterian Home has com pleted ten years of service to “senior citizens’, having opened its doors to the first group of residents in January 1958 inSum- merville, S. C. The Home has grown progressively during its initial decade of service, and at the present time has nearly $2 million in physical assets, and 140 residents. Mr. Tapp states that the pur chase of this property is part of a long-range development plan adopted by the Synod of South Carolina at its May meeting. The Home’s Board of Turstees were authorized to build another re sident wing to its present facility at Summerville, increasing the capacity to care for 200 resi dents, and at the same time to look toward the establishment of a branch in the Piedmont area. When asked to comment on when actual construction might begin in Clinton, Mr. Tapp com mented, “Our Board of Trustees will request the Synod of South Carolina at its 1969 meeting to authorizi a Capital Fund Drive for the purpose of raising funds for this branch. It is not like ly that the campaign could be held before 1973. In the mean time every means will be under taken to strengthen the financial position of the Home in Summer ville, while at the same time look ing toward the earliest possible development of the Piedmont area branch.* Commenting on the selection of Clinton as the board’s select ion for a branch of its services, Mr. Tapp said: “Our entire board has enthusiastically endorsed this 40 acre tract of land in Clinton as being ideally located in the center of its Piedmont area constituent Churches. In addition to this the property is ideally located for its future re sidents, being within short walk ing distance from a Shopping Cen ter, and less than a mile from the heart of Clinton, one and 1/8 miles from 1-26 on Highway 56 leading into Clinton.* Enthusiastic endorsement has also come, according to Mr. Tapp, from Thornwell Home and School for Children and Pres byterian College, whose out standing services are so well known, and as well from First Presbyterian Church in Clinton. Mr. Tommy Hollis, a member of Presbyterian Home Board of Trustees, and an Elder in Clin ton’s First Presbyterian Church, and a prominent Clinton busi nessman. has nlaved a prominent role in the acquisition of this property, having been chairman of a special committee of the Home’s Board of Trustees, charged with seeking a site for a branch of the Home in the Pied mont Area. The Reverend Doctor W. Mc- A Negro man has been charged with possession of marijuana and marijuana seeds following a Sat- *iAday morning raid by agents of SLED, Laurens County Sheriff’s Dept, and Clinton Police Dept. A man identified as Darnell Barksdale, about 40, was being held in Clinton jail Wednesday in lieu of $2,000 bond on a charge of possession of marijuana and marijuana seeds. Barksdale was found guilty of an charge of pos session of illegal liquor and was sentened to 30 days in prison or a fine of $100. leod Frampton, Jr. of Orange burg is president of Presbyterian Home, having been elected by the Board of Trustees on June 4 to succeed Alfred Scarborough who retired after 15 years of service. Doctor Frampton has served the Home from its inception. Barksdale was arrested Satur day morning when police offi cers raided his room in the West End Motor Court, according to Assistant Police Chief Horace Horton. Horton said the raid climaxed an investigation which had been underway for sometime. Horton said that Barksdale re portedly had been making his home in Clinton since April. He said Barksdale has resided pre viously in New Jersey and Cali fornia. rrs KICKOFF TIME—ainton Higrh Cheerleader Jan Alexander typifies the spirit of the season as she prepares for the football opener this week. For reports on local higrh school football schedules this week, see page 7. Jan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abit Alexander. Picture of the CHS cheerleading squad is on page 16. Marijuana Possession Charge Filed After Raid GENERAL AREA OF PROPOSED PRESBYTERIAN On Cross Anchor Road, Beginning Near Philips St b