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1 1 INDEX Three Sections, 24 Pages Classified 6-A Deaths 4-A, 5-A Editorials 2-B Hospital News 5-A Society 2-A, 3-A Sports 7-A Clinton Chronicle Vol. 70 — No. 47 Clinton, S. C. f Dec. 4, 1969 Christmas Parade Route flO’IPM* Yf H*]W CIHTIHHIAL thokhwill OtfHANAGE -Lcal I MAPLE ir ir SANTA COMES TO TOWN—Shown is the route the Clinton Christmas parade will take today, Thursday, in downtown Clinton. The Clinton pa rade will start at 4:30 p,m. after a preview parade at 2 p.m. at Whitten Village. The parade will fea ture 48 units, including floats, bands, beauty queens, local dignitaries and the feature attraction Santa Claus. Following the parade, the Christmas lights will be turned on. The lights this year are featured in the large red and white decorations and will not be strung along the streets as in the past. County Landfill Planned The Laurens County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to open a large landfill trash dis posal area on county property in the vacinity of the County Prison Camp and the County Home. County Supervisor Furman Thomason said that, weather per mitting, the area should be avail able within about two weeks. He said, big area." “This will be a right He said the trash disposal area will be available “to anyone who Another Charged In Fated Shooting LAURENS - Horace Wright, 26, of Rt. 1, Moore, was arrested Saturday and charged with murder in the Nov. 23 shoot ing death of a Laurens County man. Laurens County Sheriff R. Eu gene Johnson and State Law En forcement Division (SLED) Lt Harold Forts on transferred Wright from a Spartanburg County jail to a Laurens jail Saturday night. Wright it charged with murder in the slaying of James Edward Spearman, 20, of RL1, Laurens. Also charged with murder in the Spearman death is Niles Leonard Crowe, 26, of Spartanburg, who was arrested shortly after the shooting at a club near Lau rens. Warrants also were issed by Magistrate Lucille Watts charg ing Crowe and Wright with assault and battery with intent to kilL The charges were made in the shooting of Claude Ben Bell Jr., who was wounded in the arm dur ing the shooting incident at the club. Sheriff Johnson said the two men also face charges of armed robbery in connection with the two shootings. The men were being held in separate jails in Laurens County Saturday night wants to use it" The county will maintain the area. Commissioners also voted to consider any other landfill sites in the county “as they become available. in another action, the commis sioners approved architects’ preliminary plans for renovation of the Laurens County Courthouse and instructed the architects to get a cost estimate on reno vation of the courthouse and on construction of a county office building. The commissioners did not take any action on a request PC Christmas Carol Service Slated Sunday The fifth annual Christmas Ca rol Service of Presbyterian Col lege’s 55-voiced mixed choir will be held this Sunday afternoon in Be Ik Auditorium. The public is invited to attend this 4:30 p.m. program under the direction of Charles T. Gaines, assistant professor of music, and the 4:15 p.m. organ prelude by Instructor Alan G. Cook. Sunday’s service will include works by Sweelinck, Bach, Cornelius, Holst, Dlstler and Zimmermann, and carols from Appalachia, Czechoslovakia and France. The soloists will be Karen Buchbolz of Waycross, Ga.; Pat Phillips and Margot DuPuy, both of Greenville; Fran Lowe of Jack- son, Miss.; Bonnie Dietz of Aiken; Hal Lewis of Hartsvllle; Tom Donnelly of Concord, M. C.; and Ray Reed of Orange Park, Fla. Instrumentalists assisting in the Czechoslovakian carols will be Nancy Jones of Clinton; Bar ry Shatter of Charleston; Pat Os walt of Mansfield, 0.; and Dan Hamby of Gainesville, Ga. Rob Hlcklla of Spartanburg will ac company the Zimmermann piece on string bass. made last week by the Laurens County Legislative Delegation. The delegation requested that the commissioners borrow $250,000 for construction of county roads. According to the delegation proposal, the money would be re paid in two equal installments from funds accruing to the county under the 1-cent gasoline tax un der the farm-to-market con struction program. Supervisor Thomason opposed borrowing the funds. He asked the delegation to provide $100,000 of the county’s surplus funds and “let us build or rebuild some county roads that we think should have been built long before now." He said that at least 12 miles of roads could be built without borrowing funds or paying in terest, which he estimated at 7.5 per cent. Rep. David S. Taylor said he does not favor spending the $165,000 surplus the county has in reserve for building roads. He said, “If we go ahead (and borrow the $250,000) we can ac celerate the road program by three years. It is my understand ing that it is the ultimate goal of the highway department to put Laurens County roads into the state system, so why should we spend taxpayers’ money to build roads and still have to maintain them?" Sens. Robert Lake and John Long also said that borrowing the funds would best serve the people. Long said the need for the roads is “urgent." Authority Goes Local Housing Firm Is Selected The Clinton Housing Authority has decided to operate on a local basis and has selected the archi tectural firm for a low-rent hous ing project for Clinton. Dr. Louis Stephens, chairman of the authority, told Clinton City Council Monday night that the au thority voted unanimously to handle the housing project through the local authority, as opposed to turning it over to the Regional Housing Authority. Dr. Stephens said, “Wedecided it’would be best for us to main tain our independence from any regional authority. It will be a hard job but we think the end results for the people of Clinton will make it all worthwhile." The firm of Tomblin Asso ciates of Atlanta, Ga., was se lected to plan the project. The federally subsidized pro ject will establish low-rent hous ing in Clinton. Persons in low- income brackets will be eligible to live in the project, with the a- mount of rent geared to income. WUbur Tomblin of Tnmblin As sociates told City Council the authority is thinking in terms of 200 units. In answer to a ques tion, he pointed out that all of the units may not be located in the same area, but could be scat tered throughout the city. Tomblin, who will handle the preliminary work toward the pro ject, said, “The most important decision the authority must make is the selection of the project manager. The success of the pro ject will depend on that person.” The manager's salary isbased on the number of units in the pro ject. Dr. Stephens pointed that the project manager’s job will be a part-time arrangement initially. Rent from the project will be used to repay the Housing and Ur ban Development loan over a 40- year period. At the end of 40 years, the project will be owned by the city. In other business Monday night, councilmen heard Lynn Cooper Jr. request an increase in the city’s appropriation for theClin- ton YMCA. Cooper, YMCA budget finance chairman, explained that the YMCA took over the city’s re creational program and the city has been giving the YMCA $8,000 per year to operate those pro grams which the city was offer ing prior to the organization of the local YMCA. Cooper said that the YMCA “has been going into the hole" on the city’s portion of the pro gram, spending $11,250 on that portion during the past year. He said, “As you know, ex penses have been rising inevery- thing. Also, although we have cut expenses per person in the pro gram, we are serving so many more people than previously were enjoying these programs.” Cooper asked council to raise its appropriation to $12,000. He said, “With $12,000, we can maintain the program as it is, with a little expansion. If we get less, we’ll have to cut back the program accordingly. The young people are the heart of our town and w>9 want to offer a well-rounded pr ogram of re creation for these young people. Every dollar spent on this pro gram is well-placed." Council voted to increase the recreation $10,000. appropriation to City To Enforce Fireworks Ordinance Clinton City Council Monday night instructed the 1 Police Department to strictly enforce the city fireworks ordinance. The City fireworks ordinance prohibits the sale or use of fireworks in the city limits. The only exceptions are t spark lers and Roman candles. Anyone found guilty of violation of the ordinance is su bject to a fine of $100 or imprisonment for up to 30 days. In another action, city cow- cil approved the purchase of a 2 1/2-ton truck and a tractor with a front-end loader to re place some outmoded equipment used by the Streets Dept. Council received a request from E. L. Mansure Co. for per-. mission to use some fill dirt in the industrial park for a 30,- 000 square foot addition to the Mansure plant. Council instructed Sanders to notify Mansure officials that the city already has plans to use the available fill dirt on the City Hall project. Midway School Accredited School District 56 officials were notified this week that Mid way Elementary School has been accredited by the Southern Asso ciation of PublicSchoolsandCol- leges. Midway is located in the Cross Hill-Mountville area. Midway Principal Lewis Knighton is representing School District 56 this week at the an nual meeting of the Southern As sociation in Dallas. Tex. Midway has 288 students in grades one through eight and there is a teaching faculty of 11. In order to be accredited by the Southern Association, a school must meet certain stand - ards which concernteacher-pupi 1 ratio, teachers’ salaries anc' standing in the community, li brary facilities and building requirements. A Southern Association accre ditation committee visited Mid way and made its recommenda tions concerning accreditation. Clinton Elementary School and Joanna Elementary School re ceived accreditation last year. School officials are striving to have Martha Dendy Element ary School and Bailey Element ary accredited next year. It has only been in recent years that accreditation stand ards were applied to elementary schools. PC Changes Academic Calendar To 13-J 3-7 A mine flexible curriculum with greater opp irtunity fir spe cial study projects is the obj?c- tive of Presbyterian College’s revised academic calendar an nounced today by President Marc C. Weersing. The new program, to be in augurated next fall, calls for two terms of 13 weeks each and one of seven w«eks to replace the present two-semester sys tem. It represents PC’s most ex tensive curriculum ren ivation in 50 years. Plans now being developed in detail by the faculty are the re sult of a series of curriculum evaluations held over the past few years. They seek to combine the best of traditional course of ferings with imaginative new edu cational patterns. The result will be a program giving greater emphasis to independent study and student research at the jun ior and sem >r level, and inau gurating studies abroad, a Wash ington term aiid vicious types of student exchange. Academic Dean W. FredChap- mj;i p tinted out that Presbyter ian has moved carefully into the area of curriculum revision to avoid some of the “fad" pro grams adopted by some colleges and to base decisions soundly on student needs and faculty person nel. He added: “The 13-13-7 program is well- conceived to strengthen PC’s academic position and to make our college more attractive to the better student. Our liberal arts course offerings remain the P.E. AREA DEDICATED—^Dedication of the now P.E Area at Clinton Junior High took place on No vember 24. Lana Stephens, president of the Jun ior High Student Council, master of ceremony, made the dedication speech and is shown above presenting the key to John H Fulmer, School Prin cipal, who in turn gave it to Harold Prater, Physi cal Education Director. Student Council V i c e- President, Claude Crocker, gave a devotion, and the Junior High band, under the direction of Bob Smith, played the alma “mater and “America.”— (Yarborough Photo.) sam-b although some of the general education requirements are being changed. The big dif ference will be at the junior- senior level in encouraging stu- Fred Satterfield Wins Grid Contest Fred Satterfield is the winner of The Chronicle's final football contest of the season. Satterfield missed n’yoneof 14 predictions but he won first prize on the basis of his “tie breaker" score. Satterfield,Jen nie Watkins of Ron to 3, Clinton, and Erskine Knight of 400 Aca demy St., Clinton all missed only one prediction. However, Satterfield predicted a 10-point margin in PC’s favor in the PC-Newberry “tie-break er” while Mrs. Watkins predicted a 17-point margin and Knight picked a 28-point margin. PC won, 23-21, a two-point margin, so Satterfield wins the $25 first prize and Mrs. Wat kins wins second prize of $10. The Chronicle had one contest game incorrectly listed last week. The contest showed Bos ton College playing Holy Cross. However, Holy Cross had to can cel the game because of illness among team members and Bos ton scheduled Syracuse to fill the date. The Boston game was not counted in the contest. Even if it has been counted, it wouldn’t have changed the outcome be cause Satterfield, Mrs. Watkins and Knight all correctly picked Boston College. Joanna Man Is Charged With Murder JOANNA - Charles Douglas Rowe, 20, has been charged with murder in the death of his mo ther-in-law, Mrs. Myrtle L. Brewington of 601 Milton Road. Mrs. Brewington was fatally wounded here at 12:45 p.m. Sat urday. She was shot in the head with a .32 caliber pistol. Laurens County Coroner Mar shall Pressley said the shooting occurred in the entrance hallway at the apartment building where Rowe lived. Pressley said the wo man’s daughter called her to the ^ apartment and the shooting apparently occurred after an ar gument Also investigating were Joanna Police Chief A. S. Holt, and Lt Wilbur Traynh&m and deputy Sam Bishop of the Laurens Coun ty Sheriff’s Department dent initiative and 11 using more of tfr e world beyond our campus as a 1 earning experience." The 13-13-7 calendar reduces the loi id and provides for four three-t, iour or four-hour courses in each of the long terms and two col 'rses in the short term (the frei shman-sophomore ROTC and phyi lical activity courses in addition). The program also pro vides for more flexibility in the scheduling of general education requirements and modifies these requir emonts to permit more electiv es. Dean Chapman indicated there will be no change in course cre dits earned under the new pro gram and no difficulty in trans ferring into the program or oat of it. IHe said 1970-71 calendar dates u nder tlhe 13-13-7 program will read: Fall Term - Sept. 2-Dec. 17, Winter Term - Jan. 4-April 9; Spring Term- April 19-June : 1. Worn an. Daughter Hurt In Wreck Mrs. Ai me Harlan of Route 1, Enoree, \ vas injured Tuesday morning w hen her car struck a road wider.ter machine on U.S. 276 near Cl inton. Mrs. Harlan was admitted to Bailey Memorial Hospital where her condition was reported as “improved" W ednesday morning. Her 17-mcnth- old daughter, Jac- quelin A me Harlan, suffered minor injuries but was not ad mitted to the hospital. Highway Patrolman Jerre Smith said the ac cident occured at 7:40 a.m. Tuesday in the east- bound lane of 276, near the in tersection with 308. He said Mrs. Harlan’s car came over a slight rise and stei reported' was blind ed by the sun. Her car struck the rear oftlie road widoner which was driven by WilliaiU James Graham of Houte 3, Danielrille, Ga. Smith described Mr s. Hir- lan’s car sis “a total loss." Yule Stocking Fund Campcrigiu Presbyterian College stnfevte will conduct a door-to-door fet'd raising campaign this week to help finance the Clinton Christ mas Stocking Fund. *>1 * The Christmas Stocking TwA is sponsored by the Clinton J>y cees who take needy children on a Christmas shopping tr|paai treat them to a holiday dtanr. Last year, the Jayones approximately 60 children shopping trip, giving end $12 to spend.