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ft****************************************************** WE GIVE THANKS Clinton Chronicle v* WEATHER (We«k of Nov. 21-26) Hiffh: 67 Low: 23 Vol. 70 — No. 47 (Nov. 22) (Nov. 21) Rainfall: .01 in. Clinton, S. C., Thursday, November 28, 1968 Christmas Parade Route W FLORIDA Intends To Be Fair, Equitable Sanders Discusses Tax Job BY DONNY WILDER Chronicle Editor Bobby Sanders ofClinton, Lau rens County’s new tax assessor and the man charged with getting the county’s tax re-evaluation program off the ground, knows he has a tough job. But he’s had tough jobs before and hard work doesn’t intimidate him. "I intend to be fair," he said in an interview, “I also intend to prepare myself to be as know ledgeable as possible in this field. I believe that armed with the pro per knowledge and a fair set of guidelines, the program can carry, out its purpose which is to equalize taxes. “Some people have the wrong idea about the program, Its ob jective is not to raise taxes but to equalize them, to make sure that each taxpayers is paying his fair share and no more. There will be some cases where peo ple are paying too much taxes. There will be some cases where people aren't paying enough and there will be some property which isn’t currently listed tor taxes. That’s our job: to sift out all these facts and put everyone on the same basis." Sanders said, "I Intend to at tend as many assessors’ schools and seminars as possible. I spent a day last week in the Orange burg County Tax Assessors’ Of fice and I spent another day at the State Tax Commission Of fice in Columbia. Orangeburg has a good program and we can team a peat deal from them. The State Tax Commission will be of great assistance to as. On Dec. 3-6, I will be in Columbia attending the S. C. Tax Assess ors School." Another misconception about the program, Sanders said, is that BOBBY SANDERS begin he will Immediately assessing property. "It will be two or three years before any assessing is done. We have a lot of foundation to dig before we get into that," he said. which has been given the owner of the property. The field worker will go into specific areas and see what the property includes, how many buildings, etc. This information will be compiled and filed. Sanders said, “We will take the county a section at a time until we have the entire county index mapped. It’s a big job because Laurens County is the sixth largest in the state in land area.” Sanders, 42, is a native of Asheville, N.C., who has resided in Clinton since 1932. A 1942 graduate of Clinton High School, he worked at Clin ton Mill until going into the U.S. Army in 1944. He was discharged in 1946 and attended Greenwood College of Commerce through 1948. He then became adminis trative assistant in the local Nat * ★ ★ ★ Clinton Stores ^ Remain Open ! On Wednesdays One of his first jobs is fur- . nishlng his office which is in the Cli l on i5° r r wm J; emai11 ^ downtown Laurens building for- ! thls Wednesday afternoon and merly occupied by Powe Drug J each ^rnoaa during December. Co. He is also screening appli- * _ . . ^ cations tor four jobs. He will * Beginning December 2 the have a secretary and three fieiu * stores wiU remain open later, representatives working wilt e' 1 ” 1 "* 7 4. Saturday, except Friday when the After that is settled, he ^ * stores wiU close at 8 p.m. his staff will take the county ^ Stores rema i n open until U fh^* 8 P* m * December 16 through De- * cember 23 ’ Monday throogh Sat “ * ur< *y- 0n December 24 stores checking deeds awl wins. As this c i ose 6 D m research work is done, the new * v tax roll will take shape. * These .hours were set by the They also have 801 prints of * Holiday and Store Hours Com- en- *mlttee of the Merchants Division tire county. They will number j”of the Clinton Chamber of Corn- each piece of property on a coun- *merce. Joe S. Holland is chair- ty index map. The number will *man of the Merchants Division, correspond with the number * ************** City Hall Bond Issue Is Proposed By Council ,r- ional Guard until 1954. He worked briefly in insurance and then be came co-owner of a service sta tion in 1954, a position he held until he was appointed last week to the new county job. Sanders is married to the for mer Rosa Bridges and they have four children: Marvin, 25, a lieu tenant in the U.S. Navy; Carol, 21, a recent graduate of Furman University and new student at the Medical College of South Carolina; Becky, 19, a sophomore at Clemson University; and Davey, 13, a student at Clinton Junior High School. The Sanders are members of Joanna Baptist Church. Clinton Mills Employees Get Paid Holiday Clinton Mills employes will have a holiday Thursday as all Cl inton M ills plants will be closed ’ for the day. ^ This is one of the paid holi- y days for employes. \ A total of $255,533.75 was dis- y tributed on Nov. 22 to 722 Clin- ► ton Mills employes who partici- i pated in the Christmas Savings ► Club. PC Carol Service Set The fourth annual Christmas Carol Service of the Presby terian College choir will be pre sented on Sunday afternoon, Dec ember 8, Conductor Charles T. Gaines announced today. He said the 54-voiced group of young men and women will bold its program in Belk Auditorium, starting at 4:30 p.m., and the public is invited to attend. Clinton City Council this week proposed a general obligation bond issue of about $250,000 to finance construction of a new city hall. Council held a joint meeting with the Greater Clinton Planning Commission Monday and unveiled the proposal. Mayor Harry Layton explained, “The building would cost about $459,000, according to the archi tects. We already have about $230,000 in the building fund. This has been accumulated from the city’s share of the Clinton- Newberry Natural Gas Authority revenues. “We can build this city hall without any additional burden on the taxpayers. We have two ways to handle it. We could wait a- bout three years until we have all of the money in hand. Archi tects say building costs are go ing up about six per cent per year so it would cost more in three years. Or we could have a short-term general obligation bond issue to finance construc tion now. We could repay that bond issue, from Gas Authority revenues, within three to five years. Council has gone on re cord as favoring a general obli gation bond issue so that we can move forward with construction of this badly needed building.” City Attorney Cecil White ex plained that to hold a general obligation bond issue referen dum, a petition must be pre sented, signed by over half of the freeholders in the city. Whitten Village To Be Featured - On Television Whitten Village will be the sub ject of an hour-long television feature Thanksgiving night on WFBC-TV (Channel 4) in Green ville. The program will be broad cast from 9:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. on Thursday night The program was filmed by WFBC-TV crews over a three- week period. R. L. Plaxico, former chair man of the board of trustees of Whitten Village, said, "The pro gram should be of interest to everyone interested in mental retardation and to Clinton people in general. ” 'Christmas Stocking Fund' Drive Slated The Clinton Jaycees and the Christmas Students Association at Presbyterian College will a- gain jointly sponsor the “Christ mas Stocking Fund.” They will collect money on Dec. 8 to finance a shopping tour on Dec. 10 for underprivi leged children. The two organizations are planning to take at least 60 child ren on a shopping tour, during which they will purchase need ed clothing and other items. Plaxico Wins Football Contest Bob Plaxico of202 Calvert A ve. Clinton, is the winner of The Chronicle’s football contest this week. Plaxico had a perfect slate in predicting 15 winners. He wins the $25 first prixe. Second prize of $10 will be divided between Mary Patterson of 813 N. Adair St and Esther Mitchell of 400 Academy St Both missed only two predictions and had the same point margin on the "tie breaker.” Three other contestants missed only twopre- dictions hot their "tie breaker" score wasn’t as close as those predicted by Mary Patterson and Esther Mitchell. They both pre dicted a six-point margin, in fa vor of PC, against Western Caro lina. PC won it by one point Mayor Layton told Planning Commission members, ‘We so licit your help in presenting this proposal to the pei>ple. We would like for you to go before the ser vice clubs and other groups and explain the need and the pro posal. We believe this is the most attractive bond issue proposal ever presented to the citizens of Clinton. It can be handled with out changing the tax structure of the city.” The Planning Commission adopted a resolution commend ing City Council for accumula ting the funds it now has and urg ing council to proceed with the project *as soon as possible.” Representatives of the archi tectural firm of Craig and Gaul- din of Greenville attended the meeting and discussed the archi tectural plans. Kirk Craig said the plans are now “75 to 80 per cent complete’ and said the work ing drawings should be compfel- ed by Dec. 15 and that a call tor bids could be issued in January. Layton said, “Once the pltns are completed, we will be gladto have anyone come by city hall and look them over. They will be available for your study.” Layton also said that archi tects have estimated that it will take about a year to complete construction of the building. Hospital Wedding When Rachael Wright became the bride of Clyde Haskin, they chose an unusual setting for their wedding--the conference room of Bailey Memorial Hospital. Rachael and Mrs. Kathy Wood- all have been friends from child hood. Rachael asked Mrs. Wood- all to be the matron of honor. Kathy accepted. Then things got complicated. Mrs. Woodall was in the hospital and her doctor wouldn’t let her leave for the wed ding. So Rachael and Clyde brought the wedding to her at Bailey Memorial Hospital. .«» In picture above, the Rev. Olin Martin of Joanna, performs the wedding. Shown left to right are Mrs. Woodall, Rachael and Clyde and best man Milford Wright, brother of the bride. In picture below is the wedding party, left to right, Mrs. Tommie Nelson, sister of the bride; Mrs. S. Senn of Newberry;Mts. Wood- all; Mrs. Banks Martin of New berry; Mrs. M&ry Wright otClin ton, mother of the bride; Ra chael and Clyde; Mrs. Viola Simmons, mother of the groom; Rev. Martin; and Milford Wright Fraser Says Private College Future Bright The Presbyterian College Di rector of Development, Colonel Powell Fraser, told Clinton Ro- tarians on Tuesday at the Mary Musgrove Hotel that the future for private and church-related colleges remains bright despite the recent rash of articles in national magazines on ‘theplight of private colleges’ and ‘the coming crisis in private col leges". The college official said, “These articles highlighting some of the grave problems fee ing non-tax-supported institu tions does not take into consid eration the determination and stewardshto of thousands of de dicated tedtvidnals and communi ties who believe in the educa tion of young men and women in the realm of liberal arts and sciences within a distinctively Christian context" Despite crucial problems, the speaker siad “We believe that the future of non-tax-supported col leges and universities remain good for those institutions which have well-defined aims, quality programs, able management, ag gressive development efforts, and leadership from the trus tees, visitors and other volun teers.” The speaker went on to say that this note of defeat by some should prove belptol in creat ing better understanding of the problems feeing private colleges of skyrocketing costs; competi tion with state colleges, the gov ernment, and industry for facul ty, competition with state col leges and public junior colleges tor students, expansion of their plants; and remaining within rea listic budgets. Clinton has played and is play ing a key role in keeping the idea of church-related colleges alive through its support to Pres byterian College. “Without this support the college could not cd£ tinue to go forward”, Col. Pha ser added, “The spark has b«M set to the 1969 Capital Campakp in the Synod of South Carolibk by the citizens of the commtsQlfy going over to the top in rens County campaign which I has reached a total of $721.4 “Citizens in this commv the college official et “have gained an understandings the economic impact of the col lege in the community an&{|e importance in providing jofc6,4)l» come, education, and to the communities". ,f.- Col. Fraser summed qp point by saying that ‘by ing its college, the Clintn® zens are saying to the other constituents and donors: “We know this We believe in its is important to us. We giv (Coot on Page 7.)