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®he Clinton Chronicle
Vol. 70 — No. 19
Housing Authority
Members Appointed
A five-man Housing Authority
has been appointed for the City
of Clinton.
Appointed to the authority at a
special meeting of Clinton City’
Council Monday night were Dr.
Louis M. Stephens, DavidE. Den-
dy, Lynn W. Cooper Jr., H. Fran
cis Blalock and Sam Williams.
Dr. Stephens was appointed to
a five-year term, Dendy to a
four-year term, Cooper to a
three-year term, Blalock to a
two-year term and Williams to a
one-year term.
The authority was appointed at
a joint meeting of City Council
and the Chamber of Commerce’s
Civic Affairs Committee.
The Housing Authority will
work with City Council and with
the City Planning Commission in
initiating a low-costhousingpro-
ject for the city. The authority
will determine the need for hous
ing, how many units are needed
and can obtain options on possible
sites for the proposed project.
Anderson Mon
Dies In Wreck
Near Ioanna
An Anderson man was killed
Saturday in a wreck on Interstate
26 between Newberry and Joanna.
Robert F. Smith, 23, of 34
Lyons St., Anderson, was pro
nounced dead at the scene of the
wreck which occured about seven
miles north of Newberry.
Smith and two other Anderson
men were occupants of a 1969
Volkswagen which struck the rear
of a 1966 Ford while both vehicles
were traveling west on the inter
state.
The Volkswagen struck the
rear of the Ford, ran off the right
side of the road and overturned
several times, according to S. C.
Highway Patrolman E. B. Mc
Daniel.
Stephen Craft of Anderson, a
passenger in the Volkswagen, was
admitted toNewberry County Me
morial Hospital where he was
listed in satisfactory condition.
Another passenger, not identi
fied, was not seriously injured,
the patrolman said.
Robert Eugene Thornhill, 29, of
Columbia, driver of the Ford, was
not injured, McDaniel said.
Thornhill’s wife, Nancy, 25, and
their two sons, Christopher, 2,
and Michael, 5, were listed in
satisfactory condition at the New
berry hospital. Another pass
enger in the car, Maggie Cagle,
18, of Columbia, was not injur
ed, the patrolman said.
A Housing Authority was ap
pointed in Clinton in the 1950s
but terms of all the original
members have expired. The
authority appointed this week will
be a continuation of the origi
nal Housing Authority.
The Clinton Housing Authority
will work with the Regional Hous
ing Authority in establishing a
low-cost housing project inClin-
ton. The local authority will con
tract with the regional authority
for the operation and maintenance
of the project.
Courthouse
Repair Work
Project Set
LAURENS - An $18,000 con
tract has been awarded for a
new roof, guttering and repair of
columns at the Laurens County
Courthouse.
County Supervisor Furman
Thomason said Tuesday the coun
ty commissioners had been
authorized by the delegation to
have the repairs made. Work is
scheduled to begin by June 1.
David S. Snipes of Laurens
County was awarded the contract.
Delegation Works
On Supply Bill
The Laurens County delegation
will begin work on the county sup
ply bill this week.
Rep. David S. Taylor said the
bill should lie ready to submit
to the House of Representatives
during the week of May 25.
“This will give us ample time
to get the bill passed before the
new fiscal yfiajr. bfgins on July
1,” he said.
Canada Dry
Franchise Sold
The franchise for Canada Dry
Bottling Co. in Clinton was sold
Saturday to Carolina Canada Dry
Inc. of Columbia.
The local franchise is for an
eight-county area, Laurens,
Spartanburg, Newberry, Chero
kee, Union, Abbeville, McCor
mick and Greenwood counties.
A spokesman for Carolina
Canada Dry said no personnel
changes are anticipated at the
local plant.
Tom Addison of Clinton was
owner of the local franchise. San
dy Garner is plant manager.
Clinton, S. C., Thursday, May 15, 1969
INDEX
Four Sections, 26 Pages
Classified 6-A-
Deaths 8-A
Editorial's 2-B
Hospital News 5-A
Society 2-A
Sports 7-A
No Passenger Service
BULBS FOR BAND — The Clinton
Exchange Club will conduct its an
nual light bulb sale tonight, Thurs
day, and Friday. The entire pro
ceeds from the sale will go to the
Clinton High School band uniform
fund campaign. Lou Ledford models
one oi tne proposed new uniforms.
At right is Wyman Shealy, a mem
ber of the Exchange Club which will
conduct a door-to-door campaign in
an effort to raise $1,000 for the band
uniforms. — (Photo by Mack Par
sons)
Clinton High
Bond Campaign
Tops $7,150
The three-quarter point has
teen passed in the current$9,000
fund raising drive toward the pur
chase of new uniforms for the
Clinton High School Band, Mrs.
A. C. Workman Jr., general
chairman announced Wednesday.
According to Mrs. Workman,
figures reported by teaman D.
Jones, executive committee trea
surer, listed cash collected
and on deposit at $5,800, with
pledges in the amount of $1,350
for a total of $7,150 to date.
"Two projects of importance in
the fund raising drive and not in
cluded in the amount reported are
proceeds from the Clinton High
Senior Class production of “My
Fair Lady’ last week, and the
light bulb sale by the Clinton
Exchange Club Thursday and Fri
day of this week’, Mrs. Workman
said.
“It is hoped area residents will
continue to help in our fundrais
ing drive for new CHS band uni
forms by purchasing as many
light bulbs as possible from Ex
change Club members as they
make their house-to-house sale,”
Mrs. W'orkman stated.
As a gesture of appreciation,
the Clinton High School March
ing and Concert Band presented
a musical program at BelkAudi-
torium on the Presbyterian Col
lege campus last Monday night,
which was well attended and
enjoyed by area residents.
Prater To Receive
PC Teaching Award
Presbyterian College’s first
“distinguished teaching award*
will be presented to Dr. Neal B.
Prater, professor of English and
department chairman, at the 89th
commencement exercises on
Sunday afternoon (May 18).
The award is teing inaugurat
ed this year by the PC Alumni
Association to honor superlative
classroom performance by a pro
fessor as judged by students and
teaching colleagues. A special
student committee nominated
three tenured professors for con
sideration, and the final selection
was made by a faculty commit
tee.
The “distinguished teaching a-
ward,” to be presented each year
as part of the commencement
program, will include a certifi
cate of merit and a $200 check.
Dr. Prater has teen a member
of the Presbyterian College
faculty since 1960 and has headed
the English department for the
past five years. Besides being an
effective classroom teacher, he
has teen active in faculty af
fairs. The 1965 student yearbook,
in its dedication to him, cited
Prater for “his interest in the in
dividual. . .and his scholarship
and skill as a teacher.”
Neal Prater earned his BA de
gree from Westminster (Mo.)
College and both his MA and PhD
degrees from Vanderbilt Uni
versity.
DR. PRATER
GOV. McNAIR
REV. TAPP
JOHN OSMAN
DR. GETTYS
At PC Commencement Sunday
Governor, Son Share Spotlight
Governor Robert E. McNair
will address a record class of 172
graduating seniors, one of them
his own son, at Presbyterian
College’s 89th commencement
exercises this Sunday.
The South Carolina chief ex
ecutive also will receive one of
four honorary degrees during the
final afternoon program in Belk
Auditorium.
Besides the doctor of humani
ties degree to McNair, PC will
bestow an honorary doctor of
laws degree upon Alumnus John
Osman of Washington’s Brook
ings Institution, and doctor of di
vinity degrees upon the Rev.
Charles Robert Tapp, executive
director of the Presbyterian
Home in Summerville, and the
Rev. Max Milligan Jr., pastor
of the Claremont Presbyterian
Church of Decatur, Ga.
Commencement activity begins
with the 11 a.m. baccalaureate
sermon, preached this year by
Dr. Joseph M. Gettys, profes
sor of religion and retiring aca
demic dean. The mid-day
luncheon for seniors and their
guests in Greenville Hall will be
followed by the president’s re
ception at 2:30 and the 3:30 p.m.
pre-commissioning ceremonies
for ROTC cadets.
PC President Marc C. Weer-
sing will preside over the final
exercises starting at 4:15 p.m.
Degrees, student honors and
army commissions will be a-
warded at this time, with Trus
tee Chairman Eugene T. Wilson,
pastor emeritus of Atlanta’s
Peachtree Presbyterian Church,
making the degree presentations.
The 172 seniors scheduled to
graduate on this occasion repre
sent the largest graduating class
in the history of Presbyterian
College. They outnumber the 136
of last year, and they also in
clude the largest number of wo
men graduates, 33.
The governor’s son, Robert E.
McNair, Jr., who has been maj
oring in English and playing foot
ball for four years at PC, will
receive his BA degree. He also
will be among the 36 ROTC ca
dets to be sworn into the Offi
cers’ Reserve Corps as second
lieutenants.
Governor McNair recently
completed his fourth year in of
fice, having moved up from lieu
tenant-governonr on April 22,
1965, upon the resignation of Gov
ernor Donald S. Russell. He was
elected to a full four-year term
in 1966.
His years as chief executive
have been marked by special em
phasis on public school and high
er education. His interest in this
area was recognized by the fact
that the National Governors’Con
ference named him chairman of
its education committee. Last
summer he became chairman of
the Education Commission of the
States.
Clinton Mayor Against
Elimination Of ' Comet'
Pressau Honored
By PC Yearbook
The 1969 Presbyterian College
yearbook just distributed to the
student body tears a special de
dication to Dr. Jack Pres
sau, associate professor of re
ligion and psychology.
The annual, entitled “PaCSaC*
and edited this year by Sam
Hobson of Anderson, carried
these words of dedication in re
ference to Dr. Pressau:
“To one who aids in our quest
of knowledge, to one who seeks
to understand, to one who is a-
ware of our needs, to one who is
patient, to one who cares, to one
who gives unselfishly of himself,
to one whoexemplifies tteChris
tian life. . . ’
PC Junior
Wins Fellowship
Diana Rice of Wilhston, a ris
ing junior biology major at Pres
byterian College, has teen a-
warded a summer fellowship for
additional study at the University
of Tennessee, it was announced
today.
The program in the zoology de
partment under sponsorship of
the National Science Foundation
is entitled “Undergraduate Re
search Participation.” It is sche
duled for June 18-August 23.
Stidham Selected
For Summer Study
Dr. James D. Stidham, asso
ciate professor of biology
at Presbyterian College, will be
one of 15 college teachers from
across the United States tq
participate in a summer study
program in radiation biology.
The program, sponsored joint
ly by the National Science Foun
dation and the US Atomic Energy
Commission, is scheduled for
Colorado State University from
June 16 to August 23.
* * *
Adult Graduation
Exercises Tonight
Adult education graduation ex
ercises will be held tonight,
Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the
Clinton High School auditorium.
The public is invited to attend.
Clinton Mayor Harry Layton
says he will recommend that City
Council protest theeliminationof
the Seaboard Railroad’s passen
ger service in Clinton.
A notice was posted Wednes
day to the effect that Seaboard
will petition the Interstate Com
merce Commission to discon
tinue passenger trains 33 and 34
between Atlanta, Ga., and Rich
mond, Va.
Passenger trains 33 and 34,
known as "The Silver Comet’,
have served Clinton since the
1940’s. Originally, it provided
passenger service from Bir
mingham, Ala., to Washington.
However, the service was cur
tailed recently and now includes
service from Atlanta to Rich
mond.
Elimination of the passenger
trains would leave Clinton without
rail passenger service.
Mayor Layton said, “I’m sure I
express the consensus that it
would be regretable and some
what inconvenient to the resi
dents of this area to have these
trains discontinued. I will recom
mend to council at nur meeting
May 23 that council express its
opposition to the move and to
protest the removal of these
trains tefore the appropriate
commission. ”
After the notice is posted, lo
cal residents will have 15 days in
which to voice tteir opinion to the
Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. If considerable opposition
develops, a public hearingwillte
held.
In a booklet, Seaboard Coast
Line Railroad says that the
passenger trains have resulted
*in an annual loss to Seaboard
Coast Line of $924,000.”
The booklet says, “Trains 33
and 34 have experienced losses
for a num ter of years and numer
ous efforts have teen made to
curtail tte losses in faces of
increasing costs and dwindling
passenger business. For exam
ple:
“1. We were successful in re
ducing some of the loss by dis
continuing a highly unprofitable
segment of service between At
lanta and Birmingham.
“2. We substituted Tavern-
Lounge Service for an extremely
unprofitable dining car service.
“3. We removed one sleeping
car.
“4. As a result of removing
sleeping car and using tavern-
lounge car, the consist was re
duced to a point where we could
take off one locomotive.
“These efforts results in re
ducing our annual loss on trains
33 and 34 from $733,000 to
$354,000---still a staggering
loss to sustain.
"But then came two back
breaking events.
“Early in 1969, due to poor
patronage, the Penn Central dis
continued handling through equip
ment tetween New York and
Washington. This action meant we
could no longer offer through ser
vice tetween New York and At
lanta. However, we were in the
position to continue to offer ser
vice to Washington. W'e continued
to promote the service tetween
Washington and Atlanta even
though passenger revenue for the
first two months of 1969 declined
by 27 percent.
“Then came the cripplingblow.
“On May 8, 1969, the Richmond,
Fredricksburg & Potomac Rail
road, pursuant to authority re
ceived from tte Interstate Com
merce Commission, discontinued
service tetween Richmond and
Washington.
“Result? Trains 33 and 34 now
operate tetween Atlanta and
Richmond and are unable to offer
through service to Washington.’
The booklet notes, “None of the
employes now operating these
trains shall be deprived of em
ployment. *
The two passenger trains in
question have scheduled stops in
Clinton at 2:50 a.m. and 11:17
p.m.
Fulmer Is Selected
To Study In England
John H. Fulmer Jr. of Clin
ton, a rising junior at Furman
University, has teen selected to
participate in the first Fall Term
in England program sponsored by
F urman.
On Sept. 6, Fulmer will leave
for London with a group of 30
Furman students. After a two-
week study tour of England, they
will return to London to study
English history and contempor
ary European history at Birkteck
College, University of London.
Then the group will go to Strat-
ford-on-Avon to study at tte
Shakespeare Institute. Also in
cluded are two weekend trips, one
to Scotland and the other to Ire
land.
Furman University’s 1969 Fall
Term in England was instituted
to provide the students an aca
demic experience enriched by
travel, residence and participa
tion in the life and culture of Great
Britain.
The students will be expected
to take advantage of tte broad
range of cultural opportunities
JOHN FULMER JR.
afforded by the museum, libra
ries, concert halls and theaters
both in London and in Stratford.
The group will leave London
Dec. 10 for the return trip home.
Ninety students applied for the
program and 30 were accepted.
PTA OFFICERS — Officers elected
for the 1969-70 school year of the
Clinton Elementary School PTA are,
left to right: Robert Taylor, presi
dent; Mrs. Betty Anne Meadows,
secretary; and Bob Cason, vice-presi
dent. William Hatton, who was elect
ed treasurer, was not available when
the picture was made.— (Photo by
Dan Yarborough)
Women Leaders
Elected At PC
Women’s activities at Presby
terian College for the coming
year will be headed byjocelle
Alverson of Spartanburg as
president of the Women’s Coun
cil and Ann Harwell of Atlanta
as chairman of the Women’s
Honor Council.
They emerged victorious in re
cent campus elections which
found Peggy Ellison ofGreenville
and Elysia Greenlee of Marietta,
Ga., named council vice-presi
dents .
Jane Reece of Cramerton,
N.C., was chosen new secre
tary of the council; and Diana
Rice of Williston, treasurer.
Other new Women’s Council re
presentatives are: Joy Glenn of
Spartanburg and Lena Strick
land of Atlanta, senior represen
tatives; Mary Lee Smith of
Marietta, Ga.; and Sandra Ryan
of Chester, junior represen
tatives; and Barbara Hogan of
Atlanta and Maree Water of
Greer, sophomore representa
tives.
Other Memoirs
BY JOE H. SIMPSON
When we of the present age think of transporta
tion our first thoughts are probably of traveling by
airplane or automobile. Trains are almost a thing
of the past as a means of passenger conveyance.
However, we of the horse and buggy era, have
many pleasant memories of this meth(xl of travel.
Not everyone owned a horse and buggy. Clinton
was fortunate to have two fine livery stables
where, for a reasonable fee, one could rent a nice
rubber-tired buggy with a pretty fringe around the
top and a fine high-spirited horse. A pretty lap-
robe was furnished to spread over your lap to pro-,
tect you from the dust in the summer and a nice,
warm, heavy one for winter use. The heavy one
would often have a design of a dogor some animal
on it, with glass eyes. One of the stables was
owned by Mr. Robert Adair. It was located by the
side of the Utopia or cement block building. TTie
other was on South Broad about where the Masonic
building now stands. This one was owned and
operated by Mr. John Little. If you were a horse
and buggy visitor in the city either of these firms
would feed and care for your team.