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Growing With Clinton ®l)e Clinton Chronicle INDEX Vol. 70 — No. 40 Clinton. S. C„ Thursday, October 10, 1968 Classified 6 Deaths 3-7 Editorials 10 Hospital News 7 Society 2 Sports 16-17 BIU Shields of Clinton, introducinp U. S. Sen. Ernest F. Rollings at last week’s joint Laurens County civic club meeting, uncovered an interest ing sidelight. Shields said he noted that one of Rollings’ chil dren has the same middle name as Republican Presidential candidate Richard Milhouse Nixon. He asked Democrat Rollings if there is any signifi cance to it. . Rollings explained that Milhouse is a family name in his wife’s family and that the relationship between his wife’s family and Nixon’s family ’Is very distant.” '*•**••• Clinton Rotary Club President Ed Sadler took to his master of ceremonies duties with authority. Toward the conclusion of the meeting he said, ‘‘Since we were the youngest civic club in the county last year, we were given the honor of being in charge of this year’s meeting. I assume that is the way this thing is handled, therefore I nomi nate the Laurens Jaycees to be in charge of next year’s meeting. All those in favor say ‘yea’, those opposed say ‘nay’, the ‘ayes’ have it. (No on had time to say anything). Congratulations, Laurens Jaycees. Meeting adjourned . ***••* The civic club meeting was held in a cattle barn at the Laurens County Fair Grounds. It attracted many political candidates. Marvin Manley of Clinton, watching the poli ticians come in, commented, ‘‘There'll probably be more bull in this bam tonight than there will be next week at the County Fair.” Mrs. Frank Sherrill, chairman of the United Fund campaign, has the perfect way to celebrate the campaign’s success. It was reported Tuesday that the campaign went over its goal. Sunday, she and her husband leave for a two-week vacation in Las Vegas, Nev., Hawaii, and San Francisco, Calif. Mrs. Sherrill won the trip in the Hawaiian Car nival at the local Winn-Dixie Store. She and her husband will spend three days and nights in Las Vegas, seven days in Hawaii and three days and nights in San Francisco. Merchants Back PC Field House The Clinton Merchants Divi sion of the Chamber ofCommerce Tuesday morning pledged its sup port for the $600,000 Laurens County campaign for funds to help finance construction of a field house-ROTC center at Presby terian College. The merchants unanimously pledged their support after PC Athletic Director Cally Gault and Assistant Athletic Director Billy Tiller addressed the Group. Gault told the group, “Athle tics provide the test teacher of discipline. We promise as long as we’re at PC, you’ll be proud of the teams we field and of the young men we recruit to repre sent Presbyterian College. “You have always given us your support and we ask that you now give us your support in this cam paign which will mean so much to Laurens County. This field house will be open for use by area high schools and you will find that all of this area will benefit.” Merchants Chairman Joe Holland appointed a committee to look into the possibility of stag ing a fund-raising dinner to assist with the field house campaign. Mac Adair was named chairman. Committee members are O. P. Haynes, Donny Wilder, Dr. Louis Stephens and D. B. Smith. The merchants also pledged their support to the Clinton Jay cees who are arranging this year’s Christmas parade. The parade is scheduled for Dec. 5. United Fund Tops Campaign Goal Clinton’s 1968 United Fund campaign drive soared over its budget goal of $45,063.00 with total contributions and pledges of $47,670.60 exceeding t.he goal by 5.8 r ( . These figures were re ported on Tuesday at a meeting held at the Mary Musgrove Ho tel and attended by division chair men and officers. Final reports from the divi sions of the campaign showed the following figures: Industrial division, chairman Calvin Reed, with a goal of $25,235.00 - $31,021.30; Residential division, chairman Mrs. Louis Stevens, assistant Mrs. Dick Swetenburg, Council Sets Hearing For Utility Report A hearing is to be held Oct. 14 for a report on the city owned electrical system. R. C. Carroll of the engineering firm of Har wood Bebee Co. of Spartanburg will make a report on a survey conducted by his firm. The meeting is to start at 7:30 p.m. The meeting date was set Monday night at the regular monthly meeting of Clinton City Council. Council also authorized Mayor Harry Layton to inquire as to when work plans for the proposed new city hall will be ready for presentation to council. STEERING COMMITTEE — Among the steering committee members directing the Clinton area campaign in behalf of Presbyterian College are left to right, seated: President Marc C. Weersing, James H. Thomason, Sr., C. W. Anderson, Tom Ad dison and Dr. Delmar Rhame; standing: Michael Turner, Hugh Jacobs, Dr. Marshall W. Brown, Robert M. Vance, Tommy Hollis, Francis Blalock, and Mac Adair. PC Fund Campaign Opens Monday Presbyterian College’s great est fund-raising campaign will open officially Monday night when the Clinton area working organi zation kicks off on a $600,000 Laurens County goal toward the $2 million state-wide objective. Some 75 community leaders are expected to assemble in PC’s Greenville Dining Hall at 7 p.m. Monday for a dinner meeting to receive final instructions from County Chairman C. W. Ander son and State Chairman Robert M. Vance. Solicitations will be gin immediately thereafter, with the first report meeting sche duled for October 21. The proposed new physical education and ROTC center is the facility toward which Lau rens County funds will be raised. Campaign leaders selected this as the objective, not only be- ♦**♦*♦***★★★★★★ cause of the urgent college need but because of what the center will mean to adults and young people using it for various com munity activities. PC Athletic Director Cally Gault will speak directly to this point at the Monday night meet ing, giving details about the pro posed facility and plans for its use. President Marc C. Weer sing also will ^)eak on this occa sion at which Anderson will pre side. Robert Vance, as general chairman for the total $2 million campaign to be conducted throughout South Carolina during the next six months, will empha size the vital importance of this opening local effort The Clin ton area set the spark to PC’s successful 1962 campaign by un derwriting the cost of Clinton ★★****★♦*★★**★* Hall women’s dormitory. When the program is taken to the remainder of the state, be ginning next January, it will have as its other objectives a new li- orary building, infirmary and additional endowment. Work al ready is far advanced in lining up the leadership organization for the state-wide effort. C. W. Anderson said that he was enthusiastic over the pros pects for a successful start in Clinton. He said the physical education center is a popular ob jective locally and in the Lau rens area, where a drive will be held in its behalf next month. He added: *The present LeRoy Springs Gymnasium has stood as an example of excellence in phy- *************** Anderson Is Selected For 'Gold P’ Award C. W. Anderson, who built his Clinton hosiery operation into one of the nation’s leading manufact urers of first-quality women’s stockings, has been named to re ceive Presbyterian College’s Alumni Gold P Award for 1968. In making the announcement today, PC President Marc C. Weersing said the Alumni Asso ciation board of directors se lects one alumnus annually whose ‘outstanding accomplish ments in his chosen profession reflect credit igxm Presbyterian College. • Presentation will be as part of the November 9 Homecoming program. The Class of 1929 alumnus started his hosiery manufact uring on a shoestring in 1946 when it became difficult to obtain enough goods to meet his de mand as a jobber. By this year the C. W. Anderson Hosiery Com pany had grown to a weekly pro duction schedule of 50,000 dozen pairs doing a $9.5 million busi ness, with a $12 million fore cast for the year ahead and ex pansion plans aiming for 100,000 dozen pairs. Production, which covers die Southeast, is handled by two knit ting plants in Clinton and one in Whitmire and a finishing plant in Clinton. It is the only major hosiery manufacturer handling the entire operation—knitting, finishing and sales—out of its local office. Two years ago the authorita tive publication ‘Textile Indus tries* made this statement: ‘The C. W. Anderson Company is the biggest producer of reciprocated heel hosiery (selling for less than 50 cents at retail) in the country.’ By ‘reciprocatedheel* it meant a high-quality stocking with knitted in heel and toe. Anderson joins an illustrious group of Presbyterian College men who have received the Alumni Gold P Award. The past two recipients, for example, were S. Banks Hayes, Jr., vice-presi dent of the New Jersey Telephone Company, 1966 winner, and Dr. Robert G. Matheson, president of Paducah (Ky.) Junior College, honored last year. 100% Firms attaining 100 per cent participation include Clinton Paper Box Co., M. S. Bailey and Son, Southern Bell Telephone, McGee’s Drug Store, J. C. Thomas Jewelers, Dobbins In surance Agency. with a goal of $3,380.00 - $3,058.00; Professional divi sion, chairman Dr. James Mac donald, assistants Dr. Judson Davis, Mrs. Johnny Moore, with a goal of $1,800 - $1,839.00; Commercial division, chairman Charles Waldron, with a goal of $10,819.00 - $9,078.00; Insti tutional division, chairman Harry Bolick, with a goal of $3,380.00 - $2,4 54.70; Out of town divi sion, chairman Robert Vance, with a goal of $450.00 - $230.00. Two divisions, the Industrial and the Professional achieved over 100^ of their goal, with the Professional also obtaining 100Cc participation from the town’s doctors, dentists, optometrists, lawyers and chiroprocters. All divisions hope to achieve their goals by the end of thfs week. Anyone who has not been con- 15,584 Register Laurens County will have 15,584 voters eligible to cast ballots in the Nov. 5 general election. Registration books closed last Saturday for the Nov. 5 election. tacted during the two weeks drive is urged to turn in their con tribution to Mrs. Esther Pitts, executive secretary, at the Chamber of Commerce Office. A special recognition is due the Industrial division which had a large increase over last years contributions and which gives the lions share of the United Fund each year. Clinton Mills and coordinator Calvin Cooper should be commended for their employers pledged in excess of $15,000 to the success of this campaign. The Torrington Company, with Ellis liuffstettler as coordinator, had a 30^ increase over last years contributions. Names of other coordinators in the Indus trial division who were ommited last week are: Oliver Green, Assoc. Felt; Ren Copeland, Azalea Homes; and Clinton W'hite, Zipper Trailers; also Mrs. Ethel R. Pitts name was omitted in the Residential division. President Don Creighton and Campaign Chairman Mrs. Frank Sherrill expressed pleasure and appreciation to all division heads, solicitors and contributors for a job well done. “We knew you could, we knew > u would and you did,” Mrs. Sherrill said in discussing the result of the meet ing on Tuesday. A report was sent toCarolinas United on Tuesday of this week giving the figures on the suc cessful completion of the Clin ton drive. OVER THE GOAL—United Fund officials pose in front of the United Fund torch on the square in downtown Clinton after the finishing touches were applied to the United Fund torch, signifying that the drive had reached its goal. Shown above, left to right, are Dr. Judson Davis, Goyne Simpson, Don Creighton, Mrs. Frank Sherrill, Mrs. J. R. Swetenburg, and James Von Hollen.— (Photo by Jerry Holland) Chapman Is Named Dean At Presbyterian sical training at PC for 48 years. It was built for a student body one-third the size of the current enrollment and without regard for coeducation. Today, with in creasing intramural emphasis bringing 85 percent of the stu dent body into sports activity and with 210 women among the 720 students on campus, this gymna sium is clearly inadequate. Springs Gymnasium has meant a great deal in past years to citi zens, organizations, church groups and schools of the area, and the new facility will mean even more in the future.* * * * Lutherans Enter New Sanctuary On next Sunday morning, Octo ber 13, the St. John’s Lutheran congregation will meet for the first time for Sunday Church School and worship service at the new building just beyond the city limits on the Greenwood Highway. On that day the usual hours for the Sunday School and the worship service will be observed - 10 a.m and 11 a.m., respec tively. * * * Sears Building Being Constructed Construction has begun on the new Sears Roebuck store in Clin ton Plaza shopping center. The 60 ft X 100 ft building is being constructed by Garrett and Garrett of Fountain Inn and is scheduled for completion early next year. E. W. Nelson, manager of the store which will be moved from its current 130 Musgrove St building will feature more mer chandise on display and will have an installation shop for tires and batteries. Dr. W. Fred Chapman, chair man of the economics and busi ness administration department, will become Presbyterian Col lege’s new academic dean suc ceeding Dr. Joseph M. Gettys next May, President Marc C. Weer sing announced today. The PC board of trustees, at its semi-annual meeting Tues day, approved Dr. Chapman’s ap pointment upon recommendation of a special trustee-faculty com mittee. The committee was acti vated last year when Dean Gettys requested that a replace ment be found for the position he has held since 1962. Dr. Gettys, who haS been on the PC faculty since 1956, will retain his position as chairman of the department of religion and philosophy. In accepting his re signation as dean, both Presi dent Weersing and the trustees expressed “profoundest gratitude and appreciation to Dr. Joseph M. Gettys for his untiring, dedicated and wise leadership." Jewelry Thefts Are Investigated Clinton police are seeking two girls, believed to be in their early 20s, in connection with an investigation into thefts at two jewelry stores in Clinton. The theft of two diamond rings was reported at J. C. Thomas Jewelers on Oct 3 and a jewel box reportedly was taken from Dillard Bolands on Oct. 2. Both thefts were reported after two young women had been on the stores and had diverted the at tention of clerks. from Clemson in 1956 and his MS from that institution in 1958. He earned his PhD at the University of Florida with a dis sertation that received the 1964 award of the American Farm Economics Association, and has contributed to numerous journals in the field. He is a member of the American Economic Associa tion and other professional or ganizations and is listed in “Who’s Who in the South and Southwest.” An Army veteran of the Korean War, Dr. Chapman is married and has two children. He is active in the work of the First Baptist Church here and of the Clinton Kiwanis Club and serves as a di rector of the Junior Achievers. DR. CHAPMAN Dr! Fred Chapman will offi cially take over as dean on May 19, 1969 after the close of the current academic year. His re commendation followed months of deliberation by the special com mittee, which considered 60 po tential candidates of varied back grounds and experience. A native of Belton, the 37- year-old Chapman is a relative newcomer to the PC faculty. He first came in 1964 for one year as department chairman, went to Clemson University for a year of graduate school teaching in 1965-66, and then returned to Presbyterian College in the fall of 1966. His earlier experience includes five years as a mar keting economist with the US De partment of Agriculture. Fred Chapman received hisBS * * * * * * * * * County Fair Opens Monday The Laurens County Fair will open Monday, Oct. 14, at the fairgrounds in Laurens. Tuesday, Oct. 15, and Thursday, Oct. 17, wiU be school days for county school children. $5,000 in prize money is being offered in the various exhibit departments of the fair. A 1969 Chevrolet, bicycles and a pony are to be given away during the fair. The drawing for the car will be held on Friday night, Oct 18. The bikes are to be given away on the school days and the drawing for the pony will be held on Saturday afternoon, Oct 19. The midway will feature Dell and Travers Shows which will go from the Laurens County Fair to the State Fair in Columbia. * * # * Watkins Wins Football Contest Billy Watkins of Route 3, Clin ton, is this week’s winner of The Chronicle’s football contest. Watkins won the $25 first prize on the basis of his tie-breaker score. He picked PC over Wof ford, 20-13. Fred Satterfield of 207 Flo rence St. wins the $10 second prize. He and Watkins both missed only two predictions but Satter field picked the tie-breaker at PC 17, Wofford 13. PC won the game 10-0 so Watkins’ point spread, seven points, is more nearly correct. Kiwanions Host Tanners' Night' An official with the National Small Business Association will be featured speaker tonight, Thursday, at the Clinton Kiwanis Club’s annual “Farmers'Night” meeting. Dr. David M. Molthrop of Washington, D. C., community education consultant for the NSBA, will be featured speaker at the meeting which is to be held in the dining hall at Pres byterian College, starting at 7 p.m. The meeting originally was scheduled to be held at Mary Musgrove Hotel but was moved due to a conflict in meetings. Over 100 local farmers have been invited to attend the meet ing. ROBERT TAYLOR Taylor Named Data Director At Clinton Mills Robert A. Taylor, a native of Hephzibah, Georgia, has been appointed Director of Data Pro cessing for Clinton Mills The announcement was made by Walter A. Sigman, Controller of the Company. Taylor was a senior Systems Engineer with the Honeywell Corporation’s Electronic Data Processing Division in Jackson ville, Florida prior to accepting the position. He is a B.S. degree graduate of Georgia Southern College and did graduate work at the Univer sity of Georgia in the field of education. Following two years of teaching in the Cairo, Georgia public schools, he entered the U. S. Marine Corps where he attained the rank of Captain as pilot of fixed wing aircraft and helicopters. Taylor, is married to the for mer Marjorie Mayfield of Cairo, Georgia. They have two children, Zana, 8 and Andy, age 4. The Taylors will move to Clin ton this week. They will reside at 201 Hampton Avenue. * * * Democratic Rally Slated Monday Three Democratic candidates will participate in a rally Mon day, Oct. 14, at the Laurens Coun ty Courthouse. Robert C. Lake and John D. Long, candidates for the two state senatorial seats in the district ^which includes Laurens County, are to participate along with James R. Mann, candidate for U.S. Congress. The rally is to start at 7:90 p.m. and the public Is invited.