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NOTICE OF ELECTION STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. „ , . Laurens County of Notice is hereby given that the General Election for State aad County will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County aforesaid on Tuesday, November 5. 1968. said da> being Tuesday following the first Monday, as pre scribed by the State Constitution Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the constitutional oath The Managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. •The polls shall be opened at such voting places as shall be designated at 8 o’clock in the forenoon, and close at ~ o'clock in the afternoon of the day of election, and shall be held open during these hours without intermission or ad journment; and the Managers shall see that each person offering to vote takes the oath that he is qualified to vote at this election, according to the Constitution of this State, and that he has not voted during this election. *The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after being duly sworn, can conduct the election At the close of the election the Managers and Clerks must paxeed publicly to open the ballot box and count the ballot^ therein, and continue without adjourn ment until the same is completed, and make a statement of the results for each office and sign the same Thereafter the Chairman of the Managers, or someone designated bv the Board, mu't deliver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list, the box containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the election At the said election qualified electors will vote upon the adoption or rejection of amendments to the Constitution, as provided in the following JOINT RESO LUTIONS Statewide Constitutional Amendments NO. 1 Shall Article MI of the Constitution of this State be amended to permit tL; establishment of regional councils of government? hmitaffoiis of Article V, Sections 20 and 21 relating to magistrates shall not apply to the government created by the home rule charter pursuant to the powers granted to the electors of Charleston County by virtue of the proposed Article III to the Articles of Amendments nor to the territory from time to time under its jurisdiction? Shall the Constitution of this State be amended by adding to proposed Article III of the Articles of Amendments a section to provide that the restrictions and iimkations of Article MI. Section 11 relating to township government shall not apply to the government created by the home rule charter pursuant to the powers granted to the electors of Charleston County by virtue of the proposed Article III to the Articles of Amendments nor to the territory from time to time under its jurisdiction? Shall the Constitution of this State be amended by adding to proposed Article III of the Articles of Amendments a section to provide that the restrictions and limitations of Article >111, Section 1 relating to organization and classification of municipal corporations shall not apply to the government created by the home rule charter pursuant to the powers granted to the electors of Charleston County b\ virtue of the proposed Article III to the Articles of Amendments nor to the territory from time to time under its jurisdiction? NO. 2 FI ORKNCE COUNTY Shall Section 17 of Article 1 of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, be amended so as to permit the use of the power of eminent domain by the Munici palities of Florence County or housing or redevelopment authorities functioning in the Municipalities of Florence County for the purpose of slum clearance and redevelopment work in areas within the corporate limits of the Municipalities of Florence County or within the jurisdictional area of the housing authorities of the Municipalities of Florence County which are predominantly slum or blighted, in order to acquire and clear such areas, to prepare them for re-use and for sale or other disposition to private enterprise for private purposes or to public bodies for public purposes, to require that just compensation be paid for property and property rights taken pursuant to such use of the power of eminent domain, and to provide that in cases of condemnation of land, where re-use Ls for private purposes, the condemnee shall he given the first opportunity to purchase the land when it is sold by the condemnor for such re-use? NO. 3. (.rVtnmite COUNTY Shall Section 17, Article I. Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, be amended so to provide for slum clearance and redevelopment by Greenville County, incorporated municipalities and other public authorities in Greenville County, in areas, streets, roads and rights of way, including air rights and sub-surface rights, the acquisition of the rights bv any lawful means, including the power of eminent domain, and the disposition of the rights? LAURENS # 3: Clyde W. Garner, Mrs. Alice Ruth Garner, Mrs. Louise Jones. LAURENS # 4: Mrs. Fred Taylor, Mrs. Rush Nabors, Mrs. Mack Bryson, Mrs. Bill Jennings. LAURENS # 5:-Mrs. Geonre Hill. Mrs. John Wharton, Jr., Mrs. W. C. Cullum, Mrs. Pearl Monroe, Mrs. R. M. Brown, Mrs. Dewitt Parker. LAURENS # 6: Milton Y. Blakely, Mrs. Bessie Childress, Mrs. L. A. Cooper, R. B. Satterfield, Martha Ann Goad. LONG BRANCH: Mrs. Sam Compton, Sr., Mrs. Sam Compton, Jr., Mrs. C. D. Benjamin, Jr. LYDIA MILL: T. E. Moore, Jr., Mrs. Lucile Trammell, Miss Mary Johnson. MADDENS: Paul Finley, Mrs. Young Pinson, Mrs. Luke Cook. MERNA: Miss Sara Nash, Mrs. John W. Ropp, Mrs. Lake Hellams. MT. OLIVE: Mrs. Annie A. Boland, Mrs. Richard G. Chapman, Mrs. Dewey L. Campbell. . MT. PLE'JSANTi Mrs. Alice Nelson, Mrs. Myrtle Crenshaw, Mrs. John C. Moore. MOUNTVILLE: P. H. Miller, Mrs. L. R. Adams, Mrs. W. F. Lynch. ORA: Mrs. Jenny Y. Blakely, Mrs. Kathleen Hunter, Sam H. Byrd. 0WINGS: Mrs. Alice C. Willis, Mrs. Velma G. Cook, A. F. Cook. PLEASANT MOUND: Mrs. Carrie Lou Britton, Mrs. Bertha Putnam, Martha Putnam. POPLAR SPRINGS: Ray Godfrey, Hoyden Mitchell, J. T. Culbertson. PRINCETON: Mrs. Ethel R. Babb, Mrs. Ruth A. Ridgeway, B. A. Elledge. RENNO: J. D. Neighbors, Mrs. J. G. Simpson, Mrs. A. I. Dixon. SHADY GROVE: R. C. Franklin, J. C. Nabors, Mrs. Clyde Bledsoe. SHILOH: Geneva W. Armstrong, Betty C. Smith, Carrie A. Watkins. STEWARTS STORE: Mrs. W. D. Stewart, L. A. Cook, Hosea M. Cook. TIP TOP: Gladys Whitaker, S. F. Whitaker, George 0. Madden. TRINITY RIDGE: Dorroh Owings, Mrs. Pauline Johnson, Mrs. Irene McCall. WATERLOO: Mrs. D. C. Smith, Mrs. W. Y. McNeill, J. H. Powell. WATTSVILLE: w. O. McIntyre, Shirley Burch, Mrs. Larry Weeks, James Cline. WOODVILLE: Mrs. Patricia Jones, Wilton Curry, Albert Terry. YOUNGS: Tyra Manley, Mrs. Frank Bobo, Mrs. Myrtle Gossett. The Managers at each Precinct named above are requested to delegate one of their number to secure the boxes and blanks for the election. NO. 2 Shall Section 12 of Article XI of the Coastitntiou of this State be amended so as to permit, with respect to aav increase ia Ikease fees or taxes imposed after July 1, 1969, on the sole of spirituoos. malt, riaous and iatoxicatiag fiqaor and beverages, all or a portion of the proceeds to be applied to the treatment am) rehabiliLifica of alcohol and drug addicts and for the prevention of alcohol and. drug addiction? NO. 3. NO. 4 GREENVILLE COUNTY Shall Section 17. Article I, Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, be amended so as to provide for the severability and means of acquisition, eminent domain or o&erwtse, of air rights over and sub-surface rights under the surface of the ground or the surface of streets, roads or rights of way by Greenville County, any incorporated municipality, political subdivision or authority in Greenville County, and to permit the disposition of such rights to any person, corporation or public or private legal entity? Saturday, November 2nd, at the L a urens Court House at 10 o’clock. Joe B. Medlock, Lester He-ir, D. R. T.vers, Shall Section 3, Article XY1I of the Constitution of Sonth Carotiua. 1895, SPARTANBURG COUNTY IrrlimTiJriT so as to add tortin—n; separation for a period of at least three years as an additional ground for divorce? NO. 5 NO. 4 Shall Section 1 of Article XYI of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to provide that for the general elections in 1970 and 1972 proposals may be made for th? revision of an entire article of the Constitntioo or the addition to be voted on and to allow constitutional prormona from other articles to be chhaged if such provisions relate to the snbjsct matter of the article hems revised or proposed? Local Constitutional Amendments (TO BE VOTED ON STATEWIDE) ->XJ. i CHARLESTON COUNTY : : Shall the CoasLTjtioa of this Stale be amended by Articles of Amendments so as to tn adopt a shtgSe nail of gov thereof? Shall the ConsLtutiou of this State be amended bv t* W of the Articles of Amendments a section to pro^dTS L of Article YID, Section 7 and Aitide X, Section 5 of bonded debt sfcdi not mnh to tbe ^ charter pun^ to the powe«^mmd to tbe elcctun of by virtue of the proposed Article HI to the Articles of territory from tide to time nader its : Shall the Ccostitnthm of tfes Stale he nf of the Articles of AmendmeMs a notations of Article X, Section 5, a# apply totte •ovrrnaoem'av^db^ P^ers granted to the electors of Charteston Comtfv bv .nt- ARIde 111 to the Articles of Article 111 to thi Shall Section 17. Article I. Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, be amended so as to provide for tbe severability and means of acquisition, eminent domain or otherwise, of air rights over and sub-surface rights under the surface of the ground or the surface of streets, roads or rights of way by Spartanburg County , any incor porated nmaRipatify. political subdivision or authority in Spartanburg County, and to permit the disposition of such rights to any person, corporation or public or private legal entitv? NO. 6 YORK COUNTY Shall Section 13, Article n, of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, be amended so as to permit tbe holding of special elections in any incorporated municipality in York County for the purpose of determining if the municipal crmntfl of any such incorporated municipality shall be empowered to issue general ohUgatiou bonds of such municipality for any corporate purposes without there first bring presented to tbe municipal council a petition signed by a majority of the freeholders of any incorporated municipality located In York County petition- ing and authoriring such elections? MANAGERS OF ELECTION Tbe following Managers of Election have been appointed to hold the election at tbe various precinct' n the said county. BAILEY Mrs. Catherine Adair, Mrs. Bennie Blakely, Walter Ram age. BARKSDALE XARME: Mrs. Willie Mae Norris, Mrs. Lois Holliday, Roy Sumerel. BREWER TON: Cmrtls B. Young, Henry Balentlne, Anita Bale n tine. CUNTOfv ♦ t L L Copeland, Jr., Mrs. C. D. Pitts, James R. Braswell, Mabry W. McCrary, Mrs, Clayte Ray, Mrs. Lois Thornley. CLBfTOb' * t Arthur Howard, Mrs. Bdbbf Joe Meadors, Harry Ayers, Mrs. John Domfc, V. P. Adair, Mrs. E. B. Pinson Jr. GLUTTON MILL: Truman Owens, Mrs. Glen Downs, Mrs. A. D. Lancaster, Bill Shanty. Edgar fenllew, Goldie Simmons. COOKS STORE: T. R. Patton, W. R. Bailey, J. D. Thackston. CROSS HILL: Mrs. J. H. Coleman, Mrs. Doris White ford, Eleanor Dial. hr the DANIELS STORE: W. B. O’Dell, Clint R. Culbertson, J. Y. Martin. DIALS: E. D. Harris, J. E. Henderson, Mrs. Mary Garrett. EKDIf: Mrs. Helen Taylor, J. Roy Culbertson, Ansel L, Burts. GRAY COCRT. Mrs. Ethel Jackson, Mrs. S. E. Martin, E. J. Evatt GRAYS: S. H_ Coker, Mrs. Sallie M Gossett, Robert Thomas. HKSDBY TAVERN: C. R. Babb, L, B. Roper, N. B. Bolt Spemd Article IinTtot tint to time and* its jura l Shall the Coustitotiaa of 18 of the Articles of Amru Stale he ameudrd hy 13 HOPEWELL; Bayne B. Workman, Hugh B. Workman, Don H. Boyd. JOANNA: a J. Bochuan, Mrs. RoUe Clark, Mrs. Dick Hueble, Mrs. Waltar Byers, rs. Qyde Torn*. Mr. Clyde Young. JOKES STORE: Harold L. Thompson. Raymond A. Cook, Robert L. Thompson. LANFORDt Mrs. Martha Blakely, Mrs. 0. C. Fleming. Mrs. Bobby Byars. LAURENS t t Mrs. Moans Knight, Mrs. Maoda Damsport, Mrs. C. L. Owens. LAURENS • fc Mrs. Frank Templeton, Mrs. Horaos W. Gray, Mrs. Gary Templeton. Commissioners of Elections for Laurens County, S. C. October 24 jq^g Legal Notices SUMMONS FINAL SETTLEMENT STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA: COUNTY OF LAURENS: IN THE CIVIL AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS COURT OF LAU RENS Carolyn Dianne Patterson, Plaintiff, vs. Roger Lewis Pat terson, Defendant TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUM MONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action of which a copy is hereby served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Com plaint on the subscriber at his office at Laurens, S. C., with in twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the date of such service and If you fall to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, tbe Plaintiff In this jetton will apply to tbe Court for relief demanded In the Com plaint W. Paul Culbertson Attorney for Plaintiff October 2,1968 TO THE DEFENDANT ABOVE NAMED: TAKE NOTICE that tbe Sum mons in the above entitled act ion which the foregoing Is a copy, together with the Complaint therein was filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court for Lau rens County, S. C. on the 4th day of October, 1968, the object and prayer was to obtain a decree of divorce a vinculo matrimonii. W. Paul Culbertson Attorney for Plaintiff Laurens, S. C. October, 1968 024-3C-N7 Take notice that on the 12th day of November, 1968, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Guardian of the estate of Blanche Stockman in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens County, at 3:30 P.M., and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Guardian. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date, and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven or be forever barred. Dimple Horton 100 Stonewall St Clinton, S. C. October 5, 1968 O10-4c-O31 * * * FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 15th day of November, 1968, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Administra trix of tbe estate of Marvin Birge Bedenbaugh In the office of the Judge of Probate of Lau rens County, at 10 o’clock A.M., and on tbe same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administratrix. Any person Indebted to said estate Is notified and required to make payment on or before that date, and .all persons hav ing claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven or be for ever barred. Laura Morris Bedenbaugh Administratrix Clinton, S.C. , Oct 14,1968 * • • * * * 017-4c-N7