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(Story On Page 17) PC Hosts Quantico In 'Laurens County Night' Saturday Football Contest Begins. Page 11 Wi)t Clinton Chronicle Vol- 70 — No. 36 Clinton. S. C., Thursday, September 12, 1968 Index Classified 6 Deaths 3-8 Editorials 10 Hospital News 2 Society 2-3 Sports 17 POSTHUMOUS MEDALS — Mrs. Florence Jenkins of Clinton receives several medals awarded posthumous ly to her son, PFC. Regnial Jenkins, who was killed May 27 in action in South Vietnam. Maj. R. A. Widdows presented Mrs. Jenkins with the Pur ple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnameise Vietnam Campaign Star lapel button.— Holland) Defense Medal, Medal, and Gold (Photo by Jerry Football Contest Starts Today The first Chronicle football contest of the season appears in today’s edition. The Chronicle again will offer prizes of $25 for first place and $10 for second place. An added feature this year will be the Harmon Football Fore cast, one of the country’s most popular sports features. The forecast will appear in The Chronicle each week during the 1968 football season, starting this week. In addition to forecasting the results of some 170 games each week - as well as the New Year’s Day bowl games - Harmon will rate the top 20 college teams in the nation each week begin ning with the forecast for Sep tember 28th. Starting his twelfth year of football forecasting, Bob Harmon has seen the publication of his prognostications grow from three newspapers in 1957 to over 200 newspapers. Harmon uses a formula to arrive at the rating for each of the more than 650 football teams that he follows each fall. The score that is predicted is simply the interpolated difference be tween the numerical rating of one team and the numerical rat ing of its opponent. And, though boasting a col lege forecasting accuracy equal to any in the nation, The Har mon Forecast makes no wild claims of unbelievable guessing percentages. Harmon has a pro ven accuracy over the past eleven years ofbetween 75.2% and 77.9%. Robert S. Harmon, born in Marshall, Minnesota, in 1921, is a 1943 graduate of the Univer sity of Minnesota. While he was in high school and college, the powerful Gophers, under their great coach Bernie Bierman, were national champions five years out of eight. * * * Women Serve When Mrs. Earl Rice and Mrs. Louis C. Horton served on jur ies in Clinton City Recorders Court this week, it was an his toric occasion, according to Re corder James Braswell. Braswell said he believes this is the first time women have served on local juries. City Council recently made up a new jury box from which the names are drawn for local jury duty. Braswell said women con stitute about one-third of the new list. CPL. BOND Tepper' Bond Is Wounded In Vietnam Lance Cpl. William P. (Pepper) Bond of Clinton was seriously wounded in action in Da Nang, South Vietnam, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Bond of Shands St. Ext. Bond received head and in ternal lateral left leg injuries from shrapnel fragments. His parents have been informed that he has been taken off the criti cal list and probably will be transferred to a hospital in Japan. Cpl. Bond graduated from the Language School in Monterey, Calif., in May and left shortly afterwards for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Merchants Group Is Proposed Preliminary steps were taken Tuesday toward organization of a Clinton Merchants and Business men’s Association. At a meeting of the Merchants Division of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce, the group approved a six-point proposal which would call for associational dues which would support promotional cam paigns for Clinton. Merchants Division Chairman Joe Holland is to present the pro posal next Tuesday at a meet ing of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. According to the six-point pro posal, each member of the asso ciation also would have to be a member of the Chamber of Com merce; the association would offer service to the merchants on a year-around basis; dues would be $5 per month for firms with one to five employees, $7.50 per month for a six-10 employ ees and $10 per month for firms with 11 or more employees; the money would be used to pay for administrative affairs, advertis ing, and promotions for Clinton; a proposed credit service would be instituted to aid in collect ing past due accounts; the dues would supplement the allocations now being given by the Chamber of Commerce. The proposal also says that it is felt “This association is bad ly needed in this growing com munity to constantly promote business activities in the Clin ton area ’ Joyce Turner Dies At 18 Joyce Turner, who led the pro cession at Bell Street High School’s 1968 graduation exer cises, died Tuesday morning in Greenville General Hospital. Miss Turner, 18, was confined to a wheel chair but continued her studies in the at-home study program and graduated last spring. She suffered a spinal tumor and underwent several operations. Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Clara Mae Turner; three brothers, Tony Lavar Turner, James Binki Turner, James Win- dell Turner Jr.; three sisters, Flossie Anne Turner, Corinne Davenport Turner and Sadie Eli zabeth Turner; a halfbrother, Reginald Humphrey; and her grandmother, Mrs. Azilee Leake. Funeral services will be con ducted F riday at 4 p.m. at Hebron Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Thompson Mortuary is charge of the arrangements. CLINTON CITY COUNCIU-Clinton’s City Coun cil was organized Monday night under new Mayor Harry Layton, seated. Shown above, left to right, are Dewey Oxner, Ward 4; Talmadge Sanders, Ward 6; Boyd Holtzclaw, Ward 1; Fred Bragg, Ward 3; Truman Owens, Ward 2 ; and George Bag- well, Ward 5.— (Yarborough Photo) Wallace Rally Set Monday In Laurens A Wallace for President rally is scheduled for the Laurens County Courthouse Monday night, September 16, at 7:30. Commander L. S. Connor(USN Ret.) of Laurens will address the rally. Commander Connor is a physician for Spring Mill and vice chairman of the Lancaster Coun ty Wallace for President Asso ciation. Charles H. Johnson of Clinton, Chairman of the Laurens County Wallace for President Associa tion, will preside. Young Americans for Wallace will precede the rally with an appearance in the Laurens busi ness area after school. “The stu dents will not attend the rally. They will have to return to their homes to prepare for the next school day,” says George Mal- com of Orangeburg, adult ad visor to the Wallace youth. in The girls of the Wallace youth group wear white blouses and blue skirts, the boys wear white shirts and dark pants. Both wear a Wallace ambassador ribbon from shoulder to waist and Wallace “skimmers*. Directors Meet The Directors of the Clinton Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. at the Mary Musgrove Hotel. President Louis Stephens will preside. OPEN HOME SCHEDULE—Clinton High’s Red Devils open their home football schedule Friday night, playing host to Belton- Honea Path. Team members are, front row, left to right. Bob Grube, Buzzy Tedards, Bruce Hulion, Larry Addis, Alex Rogers, Bill Alexander, Mac McCrary, Keith Smith, Ellis Davenport, Bob Keller, Lawrence Lee. Second row, Wells Goss, Danny Lanford, Jack Hames, Bobby Baughn, Mike Crawford, David Ramage, Joe Crawford, Billy Hamer, Milford Wright, Ronnie Cheek, Steve Rikard. Third row, Larry Lollis, John Farmer, Otis Patterson, Gene Scott, Leonard Floyd, John Thibodeau, Allen O’Shields, Haskell Patterson, John Ledford, .Lee Benjamin, Larry Killian, Fourth row, Jack Campbell, Steve Heaton, Darrell Shockley, Dwight Bundrick, Jimmy Copeland, Jim Johnson, Mike Long, Tommy Watts, Gene Simmons, Matthew King, and Louis Ham mett. Fifth row, Coach Jerry Lewis, Coach Preston Cox, Coach Claude Howe, Mgrs. Howie Dawkins, Rossie Hanna, Doug Ward Jimmy Cooper. City Council Continues Tax Levy Of 53 Mills Clinton City Council voted Monday night to levy 1968 taxes at 53 mills, the same rate which the city has had for 19 years. Other than adoption of the tax levy ordinance, the meeting was devoted primarily to organiza tional actions. This was the first meeting of the council and new mayor who were elected last month in the city municipal general election. Mayor Harry Layton presided over the meeting and had to cast two tie-breaking votes. On secret ballot, Councilmen Boyd Holtzclaw, George Bagwell, Truman Owens and Fred Bragg received two votes each for two positions on the Gas Authority. Layton, who automatically be comes a Gas Authority member in his capacity as mayor, broke the tie by voting and Bagwell. for Holtzclaw Police Dept. Committee-- Owens, chairman;Oxner andSan- ders. For the position of mayor pro- tern, Fred Bragg and Talmadge Sanders each received three votes and Layton broke the tie by voting for Sanders. Bragg served as mayor pro tern in the preceding administration. Council re-appointed all city department heads and the m&yor appointed the following council committees: Finance Committee--Bagwell, chairman; Holtzclaw and Owens. Utility Committee -- Bragg, chairman; Dewey Oxner andSan- ders. Fire ders, Bragg. Dept. Committee--San- chairman; Owens and Cemetery Committee--Oxner, chairman; Bagwell md Holtz claw. Cecil White was unanimously re-elected city attorney and James R. Braswell was unani mously re-elected City Re corder. R. P. Hamer was unanimously re-elected as a member of the Bond Commission. His new term expires March 31, 1973. Street Holtzclaw, and Bragg. Dept. Committee-- chairman; Bagwell Water System Needs Expanding Clinton has a good basic water system but would have to improve it if a major industry wanted to locate here, Russell McCoy told Clinton Rotarians Tuesday. McCoy, president of Harwood Beebe Co. of Spartanburg which has done studies for the city U- tility Dept., said maximum city water use already is getting close to its filter plant capacity. He pointed out that the city’s filter plant capacity is three mil lion gallons per day. The maxi mum useage thus far this year came on a Friday in August when 2.1 million gallons were used. He said, “Any significant in dustry would put you up next to the capacity and you can’t operate every day at capacity. You have to have a reserve for maximum use.* McCoy made the statement in reply to a question from the au dience. He previously had said that a North Carolina town re cently had to turn away a 150- Job industry because it did not have adequate water supply. McCoy said, “With some com paratively simple modifications, Clinton’s water supply would be in good shape. I will say, how ever, that the quality of your water is second to none.* Clinton draws its water supply from the Enoree River and Dun can Creek. Duncan Creek is the preferred source and will be the primary source when the Dun can Creek Watershed dam is completed. McCoy pointed out that the city will need larger pumps to deliver the water from the Dun can Creek Watershed lake and needs to enlarge the capacity of the filter system. City Utilities Superintendent Ralph Holt, a guest at the lunch eon meeting, was asked about low voltage in the city’s electrical system. He said, “We handled electri cal loads this summer which weren’t expected until next sum mer. We prepared for a 16-1/2 percent growth rate and the growth rate jumped to 35 per cent. We are having studies made now and hope to have a propo sal to present to City Council in the near future.* Dr. Macdonald Heads Division Dr. James Macdonald has been named head of the professional division of the 1968-69 United Fund of Greater Clinton cam paign drive which is set for Sep tember 24 - October 8. Dr. Macdonald, a native of Col umbia, is a graduate of the Citadel. After serving with the Army Air Corps in World War II he graduated from the Medi cal College of South Caiolina. He began his medical practice in Joanna and in 1956 went in prac tice with Dr. James Walker in Clinton. He is a member of the Ki- wanis Club; member of the All Saints Episcopal Church where he has served as Senior Warden; and at present is Chief of Staff at Bailey Memorial Hospital. His wife is the former Lucia Jenkins of Charleston. They live in Merrie Oaks with their three daughters. ■rfVWWWVVWYVWVWVWWWWW A Reminder! The League of Women Voters I attention the following facts: of Laurens County calls to your DEADLINE FOR VOTER REGISTRATION: October 5. (required for voting in 1968 General Election) REGISTRATION BOOKS OPEN at County Court House in Laurens: Mon., Tues., Thurs., Si Erl. - 9-5 o’clock Wed. and Sat - 9 - 12 o’clock RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS: In state, 1 year In county, 6 months (Exceptions: Teachers and Ministers and their q?ouses, - 6 months in the state) POPULATION OF LAURENS COUNTY: 50,000 (app.) CITIZENS REGISTERED TO VOTE: 14,607 (as of noon, Sept 7)