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WEATHER (Week of Oct. 15-22) High: 82 Low: 40 (Oct. 15) (Oct. 18) Rainfall: .01 In. (Oct. 20) Soil Temp Range: 67-71 dTfye Clinton Chronicle Vol. 70 — No. 41 Clinton. S. C., Oct. 23, 1969 INDEX Three Sections, 20 Pages Classified 6-A Deaths 8-A Editorials 2-B Hospital News 5-A Society 2-A Sports 7-A PUNT, PASS, KICK WINNERS—vShown above are the top fin ishers in the Punt, Pass and Kick contest sponsored last week by the Clinton YMCA and Baldwin Motor Co. Shown above are, left to right: Tom Baldwin, of Baldwin Motor Co.; Jimmy Braswell, judge; Tom Davenport, 2nd among 9-year-olds; Dean Chuvala, first among 9-year-olds; Jimmy Hedrick, 2nd among 12-year-olds; ' Philip Saunders, third among 10-year-old; Chuck Waldron, 2nd among 11-year-olds; Cal Gault, third among 11-year-olds; Sammy Lanford, 3rd among 12-year-olds; Ben Pitts, 2nd among 10-year- olds; Martin Comelson 3rd among 8-year-olds; George Campbell, 2nd among 8-year-olds; Dale Adams, 1st among 8-year-olds; Kevin Prater, 3rd among 9-year-olds; John Edwards, 1st among 10-year- olds; John Lane, 3rd among 11-year-olds; George Shealy, 1st among 12-year-olds; Ben Wham, YMCA Physical Director; and John Bingham, YMCA Executive Director. Not pictured is Tony Chapman who won 1st place among 13-year-olds. The first place winners competed least Saturday in the Zone Competition but none of them advanced to the Regional Competition. CHS Band To Unveil 'Hew Look' Friday Darlene Vanderford Wins Grid Contest Darlene Vanderford of 810 Pal metto Street, Clinton, is this week’s winner ofTheChronicle’s football contest. She missed only the Southern Cal - Notre Dame tie and wins the $25 first prize. Larry Wise of Prosperity missed only two, counting the Southern Cal-Notre Dame game but won second prize of $10 on the basis >f his tie-breaker score. He picked Clinton 14-8 over Urn in. Clinton won, 14-6. This week’s contest is on page 7-B in today’s Chronicle. The “new look" at Wilder Sta dium Friday night will not be from Dior, but to the “home crowd” and visitors alike it will look just as good. For the first time this foot ball season, the Clinton High School Red Devil Marching Band will be sporting new uniforms as a result of a fund raising drive conducted earlier in the summer when more than $9,000 was do nated. So, gone are the red blazers and berets. . .and, the “new look” is here. All that remains of the old will !>e the white shoes that carried the old “Red Devils” to marching and musical glory. Early in the Spring, band mem bers’ parents formed a commit tee to conduct a fund raising campaign for new uniforms, and through the generosity of indi viduals and businesses in School District 56 the more than $9,000 needed was raised. The general fund raising com mittee was headed by Mrs. A. C. Workman, Jr., as general chair man with Learn in Jones, trea surer, Dr. R. H. Dawson, pro jects chairman, and Mrs. Guy Tumblin Jr., and Mrs. Len Led ford, secretaries. " It is gratifying to know so many of our area people have so much pride in the Clinton High School Band and by their gra cious donations we know this to be so," Mrs. Workman said. “And, not only will the band be m new uniforms, but the Drum Major and Majorettes along with the newest addition to the band... the Clinton High Color Guard will be sporting new outfits, too,"she stated. Mrs. Workman said she hoped all those people who donated and those interested in the band will attend the Clinton High - Lex ington High game Friday night. The names of individuals and firms that donated a complete uniform during the fund raising drive appears on the inside of the uniform jacket. “We know we have a good band and that they have played well and looked good in the past, but with the 'new look’ they should really tie a 1 million dollar band'", Mrs. W<>rkman said. Bell St. Sets Homecoming Bell Street High School has set Friday for hoinoocming activi ties. The day is to be highlighted when the Wildcats face Bryson High of Fountain Inn at 8 p m. The homecoming parade will begin at 3:30 p.m. It will start at Presbyterian College and travel the usual route. Miss Homecoming and Miss Bell Street will be featured with marching bands, representatives of other area schools and Bell Street or ganizations. Several civic, social and religious organizations are expected to participate. Laurens County Fair Opens Monday; Special Events Slated The Laurens County Fair opens Monday, Oct. 27. The fair will continue through Saturday, Nov. 1, featuring over $6,000 in prizes. Tuesday and Thursday have been designated as “School Days" when bicycles will be given away. A 1970 automobile will be given away on Friday night and on Sat urday afternoon, the prizes will include a pony, saddle and bridle. Worn-a, with an escort, will be admitted free on Monday night. WDiM DON’T MENTION YELLOW JACKETS — Tony Farmer, William King and Bobby Ginn, Jr., held the dubious distinction of receiving the most Yel low Jacket stings during a recent Cub Scout out ing. The Pack Is Back Oub Scout Pack 194 of Clinton, sponsored by the local Jaycees, went on a nature study trip to Paris Mountain last weekend but they got a closer study than they had bargained for. Everything went fine until one youngster jumped off a small embankment right into the middle of a nest of Yellow Jackets. Once aroused, the Yellow Jackets swarmed and several of the boys were stung numerous times. The adult lead ers didn’t escape the wrath of the Yellow Jackets and all were stung at least once. Cubmaster Riley Gilmer said the moral is “Don’t stray off the trodden path, especially when hiking with 23 Cub Scouts.” After the tears were dried, the Cubs found the experience to be a laughing matter and began comparing notes on who received the moat stings. This year's fair will feature the Dell and Travers Show on the Midway. Dell and Travers operated the midway at last year’s fur. Also featured will be the “House of Flowers", sponsored by the Laurens County Garden Clubs, livestock exhibits and4-H exhibits. The Laurens County Fair grounds are located near Lau rens. 1,200 Young People To Visit PC Saturday Som? 1,200 young pe ip'e of South Carolina and Georgia will visit the Presby’enan College camp is this Saturday for the sev enth annaul Presbyterian Youth Day. They will lie guests of PC for this special occasion which in cludes tours of the campus, a stu dent program of entertainment, dinner in the college dining hall and the Blue Hose - Guilford football gam-. The occasion is scheduled to begin with registration at 10 a.m., followed immediately by campus tours conducted by memliers of Blue Key leadership fraternity. Don't Forget Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour Saturday night when you go to bed. We switch from Daylight Savings Time to Eastern Stand ard Time at midnight Saturday. That means that if you go to bed at 11 p.m. Saturday, move the clock hand back to 10 p.m. That way, maybe you won’t be late for church Sunday morning. Blue Key also will help with the 11 program n Belk Au li- torinn. Du ican M<T adyen, Blue Key president from Raeford, N.C., will preside over the pro gram desump 1 :o j\\p the visit ing you ig poop'e a glimpse of cam]) is life. PC Preodeu 1 M ire C. Weersing, Student Body President Bobby Johnst >n if Co lumbus, Ga., other studmt lead ers and the PC choir under Charles T. Gaines also will par ticipate. Yule Parade Starting Time Moved To 4 p.m. The starting tinio Dr the—in ton Christmas parade- Ins b-en changed from 4 p.m. to 4:30p.m. on Dec. 4, a<' 'ording to Jaycee PieHdmt Mike Hurt. 11.• said til < >ther times previou -Hy aiue ainced in relation to line-up times w:ll remain the sam -. He also announ -“dth • rule: for the float contest. To tje eligible for the contest, a float must lie built by th - spon soring ■ -rganization. That - mgani- zation w ill tie responsible for the unit in the parade. An entry fee of $5 will tie charged. Prizes will lx- $75 for first place and $25 for second place. Anyone needing additional in form, tioi. s’lnjld contact Mike Hurt at 833-0210. He said a firm fommittm nt must lie made b) Nov. 22 for participation in the parade. McGee Issues Final Call For Junk Cars Clinton StreetsSupt. Eddie Mc Gee this week issued a final call for junk cars to be hauled off. McGee said that Buck Galloway of Greenwille has disposed of about 225 junk cars in the Clinton area thus far. Galloway will be working in this area about 10 more days. McGee said that anyone who wishes to have junk cars hauled off should contact him at 833-0660 Galloway takes old cars which are given to him for hauling aw ay and converts them into market able scrap metal. McGee pointed out that the old cars are breeding places for mosquitoes and rats, in addition to being an eyesore. He saidCity Council is expected to pass an ordinance in the near future, making it mandatory that junk cars be removed. Ex-Lydia Pastor Dies In The bodies of F. Stanley Hardee Jr., former pastor of Lydia Baptist Church, and his 13-year- old son were found Sunday in a swampy area near Daytona Beach, Fla., where their small plane erased in a storm. A Civil Air Patrol spokesman in Orlando, Fla., told The Chron icle that the plane wreckage was found Sunday afternoon. CAP search parties had been looking for the plane since Oct. 3 when airport officials lost contact with the plane at about 8:30 p.m. Also aboard the plane was H. Arthur Fisher, 47, former vice president for development at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla. The CAP spokesman said Har dee’s body was found in the plane wreckage. He said the bodies of Fisher and Hardee’s son, Robbie, were found about 300 feet from the wreckage. Tentative investiga tion, he said, indicated that Hardee died instantly and Robbie Hardee and Fisher might have survived the crash but died after getting out of the wreckage. He said a coroner’s inquest is to be held. The Beechcraft Baron airplane was found in waist deep water in a piney-Palmetto swamp about nine miles west of Daytona Beach, the plane’s destination. The CAP spokesman said the plane had been burned black, making it difficult to find. He said the plane apparently went down at about a 45-degree angle, clipping some trees and hitting the swamp side ways. Hardee, 38, and Fisher both were pilots. Hardee, a graduate of Pres byterian College, had flown toSt Petersburg to pick up Fisher and was returning to Daytona Beach when radio contact was lost as their plane was approaching Or lando during a storm. Hardee was a former assist ant to the president at New Or leans Baptist Theological Semi nary. He and Fishei resigned their On CN&L Line Seaboard To Consider Town Track Removal Hopes for removal of one set of railroad tracks through down town Clinton have brightened, Francis Blalock told Clinton Chamber of Commerce directors Tuesday. Blalock, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce’s Streets and Highways Committee, said he has been informed a railroad traffic proposal will tie present ed to the management of Sea board Coastline Railroad Co. which would remove the CN&L tracks from three downtown in tersections. Blalock said the proposal would eliminate rail traffic on the CN&L tracks at the South Broad, VV mdrow and Sloan Streets in tersections, routing that rail traffic over the Seaboard tracks. This would free a large pM of land along Fast Carolina Ave. (where the Jd railroad station was situated). If the proposal is approved, Blalock said, it would lie contingent upon the city pur chasing that land fr-m the rail road. Blalock said it has lieen es timated that it would cost Sea board approximately $100,000 t" nuke the necessary 'dianges. Blalock pointed ait, “Of course, this is just a prop...sal and still must lie approved bv Seaboard management but it sounds encouraging." In other reports at the Tues day morning meeting: ---J. C. Thomas f the edu cation Committee, said that six PC students will attend a N"v. 6 college-business seminar m Co lumbia, sponsored by the C'ham- !>er J Commerce. They will W' accompanied by Dick Casque . f The Torrington Co., M ,ck Par sons of Clinton Mills, and Dr. Curl Arnold of the PC Business Depurtmuit. Purpose of the seminar is an exchange "f ideas lietween college students and bu sinessmen. — Tom Plaxico of the Indus trial Development Committee said his group is trying to get some sites nailed iovn as to price and advantages so we'll have something definite to show industrial prospects.” He also announced that an economic pro file of the C linton area has t>oen completed by the Savannah Devel opment District and is available b give to industrial prospects. ---Chamlier of Commerce President George Cornelson an nounced that contracts have lieen signed for a three-year billboard advertising campaign prone ting Clinton Two signs are to lx? put up on the interstate highways near Clinton. Although the Cham ber ofCommerce has coordinated the program, it is being financed by local industries and nesses. Cornelson said the first signs should tie up by N v. 1. He priased the efforts of Lynn Cooper Jr. in setting up the pro- PC Receives $5,000 Gift A $5,000 gift has come to Pres byterian College from the estate of Alum.iiis I Edward Means, Jr., of Greenville, form-r presi dent of the Alumni Association. A 1930 graduate, Means bed on July 17, 1968, after an active career as vice president of the Citizens Lumber Company and a Presbyterian Church elder. Crash positions with the two Baptist institutions earlier this year to become associated with a Flori da real estate holding corpora tion, Oceanado Inns, Inc. Hardee had accepted the posi tion as executive vice president of Oceanado Inns., Inc., and execu tive vice president of Lyndaunick Investments, both investment and real estate firms in Florida. In addition to his wife, he is survived by three sons, Roger, Ray and Richard Hardee. Rev. Hardee was pastor of the Lydia church about 12 years ago. His son, Robbie, was born in Clinton. Hardee served here for about four years. gram. Couper is chairman of the Chamlier f C mmi-rce’sTourist Committee. —Joe Holland of the Trade Development Committee report ed that the Merchants and Busi nessmen’s Association will have a “Howdy Days" promotion start ing Nov. 6. lib said that partici pating merchants would eive The ' Silver Conn ‘" ma 1o its last stop in Clinton laM Wod- ne -day, i »ct. 15. Discontinuance f Passenger Trains 33 and 31, stiowu is “The Silver C met", leaves C lin ton with it rail passenger ser vice. The p.isseiiger service has d;.v.i.itiimo,! it the request f S * a t m rad • "ojstline fficials w!i . said they were losing verS'JOG,- Ooi* per year n the service. The Seaboard reque ,t vjs m.rle in a petition b the Interstate Com ment. C 'ininission which held a sorie: f tuiblic hearings on the prizes to shoppers whom they didn't greet with “Howdy.” ---Donny Wilder of the Public Relations Committee reported Mullin-Kille Company represen tatives currently are working in the Clinton area on a city direc tory for 1970. His committee ap proved Mullin-Kille as the firm b' prepare the directory. petition. After the hearings, the ICC announced that th*' petition re-quest u mM 1»- /ranted. The Silver ( m t" had served Clinton since the 1940s. Origi nally, the trains provided pass enger service fr 'in'!:/ nsigham, A la., b i W.ishinfton, I >. C. Ser vice recently w-s curtailed t include sur. ce fr m Atlanta t Richin ad. The two trams had scheduled sb [is in ( lint n it 2:50 a.m. and 11:17 p m. Tiio C nr t v’ fit.al O p in Clinton c.un*- .it C'e ,.n;. net. 15. N pasM?ngeis 1 arded the last p issenger ti am m ( lint m. Trick Or Treat Night October 30 rhursd.n, Get. 3b, tits Vea fficially proclaim 1 V ween "Trick n- T:eat" d r. m Clinton. Clinton Mi, ; Hun Layton said this late will e-un id- wit!, th • annual ('lint a E(em itarv S-honl Halloween Carriiv .'. Tn.-carni val will b' held in the National Gutrd \ r m ry from 5:30 until 7 p.m. H'inert I. Cason, iire-ndpnt of th a PTA, requeued p|.. Trick r Treat’ da\ hinge to avoid a conflict With th* <. Lnt :■ i.V. Seho'i] football giaio i I riday night. Cuson said, “In nuking this chaige, it is ur hope L keep our children away fr un bi- ' it\ streets during the heav , ; r iffic w.uch will ace ,nij ng Hie /, eii ." Gason a Is said the diange mav help eleviate sum- f the P hoe Di p irtnieiit’s problem " f traffic c >ntrol and pWriun safety. THORNWELL QUEEN — Aileen Kellem was crowned Thornwell High Schixil Homecoming Queen last Friday night. She was crowned at the halftime of the Thornwell-Jonesville football game. • •••••• • m 9 * *#*«*, *»***#"#*#*#*•*#*•*#*#*.*»*»*»* •••••••••••••••••••••• Other Memoirs BY JOE H. SIMPSON Guess that I must be getting into the old age class as most of my hair is gone and so have most of my teeth. This reminds me of the time that my grandparents reached this period of life. I well recall my grandmother cutting an apple in halves and then taking a knife and scraping the apple for my Grandfather. She would also take freshly parched peanuts and place the shelled nuts in a clean cloth and crush them with a ham mer into a form of peanut butter. Time has changed all of this for you can now take a modern electric blender and make your ap ples or other items of food palatable for the tooth less ones or you can buy apple sauce and peanut butter already prepared. Yes, the old days were fine but as for me, I like the modern day with all of its new conven iences. Silver Comet' Makes Final Stop In Clinton