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Wat Clinton Chronicle
VoL 71 — No. 16
Clinton, S. C, April 16, 1970
INDEX
Three Section, 20 Pagee
Classified 6-A
Deaths 8-A
Editorials 2-B
Hospital News 8-A
Society 2-A
Sports 7-A
TWO YOUNG CLINTON MEN DIED WHEN THIS CAR WRECKED
.. . Friday Evening On Curve Near Clinton
Two Young Men Die
In Automobile Accident
Two young men from Clinton,
including one who returned only
recently from a tour of duty in
Vietnam, died Friday in an auto
mobile wreck about a mile south
of Clinton.
Claude William (Butch) Grady
Jr., 21, of 108 Cypress St., was
dead at the scene. He had re
turned >»nly f>>ur days previously
from Vietnam where he was twice
wounded in combat.
Michael Durm^nt Juluison, 19-
year-old senior at Clinton High
School, died at Bailey Memorial
Hospital about 20 minutes after
the wreck.
The two young men were fatally
injured when the car in which
they were riding overturned sev
eral times on a curve on Secon
dary Road 46. The accident
occurred about 7 p.m. Friday.
S. C. Highway Patrolman M.
W. Bostic said Grady was the
driver of the 1963 01dsmobile. He
said the car overturned several
times 'C a curve and both victims
were thrown from the vehicle.
The car was traveling east when
the accident occurred.
Grady was a son of Claude W.
and Laura Ward Grady Sr. He
was a 1968 graduate of Clinton
High School and was a veteran
of the U. S. Marine Corp. He
was formerly employed at Lydia
Mills and attended Lydia Baptist
Church.
Other survivors include a sis
ter, Mrs. Jon Koenig ofBicknell,
Ind.; and two brothers, Steven and
Rickey Grady of the home.
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BUTCH GRADY
Funeral services were con
ducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at
Lydia Baptist Church with burial
in Pinelawn Memory Gardens
with military rites.
Johnson was a son of Bobby
J e and Frances Coker Johnson.
He attended Lydia Baptist
Church.
Other survivors include two
tMONT JOHNSON
sister!, Mia Diane Johnson and
Lisa Johnson of the home; a bro
ther, Joe Johnson of the home; and
grandparents, R. G. Coker of
Gastonia, N. C., and Mrs. Della
Johnson of Spartanburg.
Funeral services were con
ducted Sunday at Lydia Baptist
Church with burial in Pinelawn
Memory Gardens.
PC's Awards Day
Scheduled April 23
Student accomplishments at
Presbyterian College will be re
cognized next Thursday (April 23)
at the Annaual Awards Day pro
gram at which Dr. W. Walton
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WDpIDWN
Youngest Author
Joe Holcombe, 16*year-old senior at Clinton
High School, must qualify as Clinton’s youngest
published author.
Joe and Leon Robinson of Charleston combined
their knowledge about an
tique bottles and wrote a 80-
page booklet which is enti
tled “Charleston Colored
Soda Water Bottles.” The
book was ready for distribu
tion last Monday.
Joe, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Fred Holcombe, says he and
hia father met Robinson *
while collecting bottles in %
Charleston. A friendship de
veloped and Joe and Robin
son decided to write a book
about Charleston bottles.
Joe Said, ‘The primary
purpose of the book was to
accumulate and distribute
some information about bot
tles. Very little has been
written about Charleston
bottles and we thought bottle collectors would be in
terested in having more facts about antique bot
tles. It’s sort of a reference book. It's mostly pic
tures of bottles with information about the com
panies which manufactured the various bottles,
where and when they were in business.
"We had to do a good bit of research on these
companies but we came up with some pretty good
information. We hope to do a more detailed book
later, perhaps with color pictures.
"This time, we came across some bottles
which people didn't know existed.”
JOE HOLCOMBE
It Was 'Done'
That recent fire which heavily damaged four
cars at CL W. Cooper’s Garage had manager Marvin
Manky hopping for a while but it didn't dampen
his sense of humor.
Later that afternoon, a young man who owned
one of the damaged cars came in to get it He hadn’t
heard about the fire.
He asked Manley, "Is my car done?”
Straight-faced, Manley replied, "Yeah, it’s well
Referendum
Voting Places
Are Announced
Wj
Jones, administrative dean for
university extension at North
Carolina State University, will
be the main speaker.
The student assembly is sche
duled for 10 a.m. in Belk Audi
torium. The public is invited to
this occasion which will be pre
sided over by PC Academic Dean
W. Fred Chapman.
After opening remarks by Pre
sident Marc C. Weersing, Dr.
Chapman will present an array of
37 awards recognizing both aca
demic accomplishments and ex
tra-curricular leadership. The
only non-student citation is the
annual Distinguished Teaching A-
ward, to be given to a selected
faculty member.
Dr. Jones, the main speaker,
is an Horry County native who
earned both his BS and MS de
grees at Clemson University and
then followed three years later
with his PhD in economic de
velopment from North Carolina
State in 1961. He returned to NC
State a year ago to assume his
present position.
The speaker’s background also,
includes being field director of
the Coastal Plains Regional Com-
mlssioo, a staff economist on the
President’s Commission on
Rural Poverty, adviser to the
North Carolina Planning Task
Force and an associate professor
of economics at NC State. He is
the author of some 50 articles,
monographs and technical re
search reports.
County Artists
Eligible To Exhibit
All artists residing in Laurens
County are eligible to exhibit in
Presbyterian College’s Douglas
House Gallery during the col
lege’s fourth annual Festival of
Arts, Mrs. Alta Alberga, art in
structor, announced today.
She said works will be receiv
ed on April 25 from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. in the Douglas House and
will be placed on display from
April 26 to May 2. Original art
in all categories will be receiv
ed: paintings, all media, water
color, drawings, sculpture, cera
mics, photography, prints and
crafts.
Voting places have been an
nounced for the School District 56
tax referendum which is sche
duled for May 5.
The referendum question will
be “Shall the tax levy of School
District Number 56 of Laurens
County be increased 10 mills?”
Voters will vote either yes or
no.
District 56 School Board
Chairman James Von Hollensaid
the 10-mill increase is needed to
cover an anticipated $100,000 de
ficit in the proposed 1970-71 dis
trict budget. He has pointed out
that the district has operated at
a deficit for the past two school
years and the increase is needed
to balance the budget.
School District 56 current
ly operates on the basis of a
48-mill levy for general opera
tion of the school district. School
District 55, which includes the
Laurens area, already has a 58-
mill levy.
The polls will open at 8 a.m.
and close at 7 p.m. for the re
ferendum on May 5.
VOTING PLACES
Voting places are as follows:
In the Clinton attendance area
(for electors registered in Clin
ton No. 1, Clinton No. 2, Clin
ton Mill and Long Branch pre
cincts) at the National Guard
Armory on South Broad Street
in Clinton.
In the Joanna attendance area
(electors registered in Joanna,
Hopewell, Renne andShady Grove
precincts) at the Joanna Club
house in Joanna.
In the Mountville attendance
area (for electors registered in
Mountville precinct) at the
Mountville Grange Building in the
Mountville community.
In the Cross Hill attendance
area ( for electors register
ed in Cross Hill precinct) at the
Cross Hill City Hall.
In the Lydia attendance area
(for electors registered in Lydia
Mill precinct) at the Lydia Com
munity Building.
Any qualified voter residing in
the School District and present
ing a valid registration certifi
cate shall be elibigle to vote in
the referendum.
Dr. Stump
To Receive
PC Award
Dr. Alexander B. Stump, chair
man of the biology department at
Presbyterian College for the past
23 years, has been named to re
ceive the 1970 Alumni Distingu
ished Teaching Award at PC’s
annual Awards Day program next
Thursday, April 23.
The presentation will include a
citation and a $20" cash prize.
It was inaugurated last year by
the Alumni Association to recog
nize classroom teaching skill re
flecting both scholarship and con
cern for the individual student. A
student committee nominated
three tenuredprofessors for con
sideration, and the final decision
was made by a faculty-staff com
mittee.
Besides his classroom ability,
Dr. Stump is noted for his re
search activities which have been
published in a number of profess
ional journals.
Alex Stump joined the PC fac
ulty in 1947 after II years at
Flora Macdonald College, with
time out for World W’ar n ser
vice. A native ofEmmorton, Md.,
he received all of his training
at the University of Virginia,
right up to his PhD innl934. His
family includes wife Sallie and
four daughters.
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WINS STATE AWARD — Clinton
YMCA Director John Bing-ham,
right, receives the State Jaycee Phy
sical Fitness Award from Don Jack-
s o n of Clemson, chairman of the
state contest.
Bingham Receives State
Physical Fitness Award
John Bingham, executive di
rector of the Greater Clinton
YMCA, has been named South
Carolina winner of the Jaycee
Physical Fitness Award.
Bingham was selected from 27
candidates nominated from
throughout the state. Nominated
by the Clinton Jaycees, Bingham
was selected as the man who has
done the most in his community
for physical fitness for all age
groups. He was selected pri
marily on the basis of the pro
gram he has set up for the YMCA.
Bingham received the award at
a Clinton Jaycee meeting Monday
night. Don Jackson of Clemson,
state chairman of the Physical
Fitness Contest, made the pre
sentation.
Bingham will be South Caro
lina’s nominee for one of the 10
national Physical Fitness A-
Firemen Answer
Five Fire Calls
Clinton firemen answered five
alarms during the past week,
including one call to a fire which
heavily damaged two barns.
Saturday morning at 11:40, fire
men were called to 523 Musgrove
Street where a barn was de
stroyed by fire and another was
heavily damaged. The barns were
located behind the residence.
Last Wednesday, firemen ex
tinguished a fire in a Clinton
Mills truck filled with trash at
Five Points. On Thursday, fire
men extinguished a blaze in a
pile of scrap lumber near a house
at 137 Bluford Street. On Friday
firemen were called to Nash
Street where about one acre of
woodland burned. A false alarm
was turned in on Friday also.
DR. STUMP
U.S. Census Workers
Haven't Forgotten You
If a U.S. Census worker hasn’t picked up your census form, don’t
worry. They haven’t forgotten you.
U. S. Census District Manager B. W. Crough Jr. said, “It may
take one to three weeks longer before a census taker calls on you
but she will be by.” The Census forms were mailed to residents and
are to be filled out by the residents and will be picked up by Census
takers.
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HELP SOMEONE — SOMEWHERE
—Mrs. Arthur Katzfcergr presents
Lion W. S. (Shorty) Home with
some old glasses collected by her hus
band, Lion Arthur K&tzberg, a doc
tor at Whitten Village. The local
lions club is collecting old glasses,
frames and cases this week and next
week. These glasses and parts will
be reworked and given to “Someone,
Somewhere” to enable them to see
better. Collection boxes are at Belk’s
Department Store and McGee’s Drug
Store. Joanna Lions Club is conduct
ing a similar campaign. Home is
chairman of the Clinton lions Sight
Conservation Committee.
wards. The 10 national winners
will visit President Nixon and
discuss national physical fitness
programs.
South Carolina has had only
one national winner in the his
tory of the program, which was
started when John F. Kennedy
was president of the U.S.
A native of Boone, N. C., Bing
ham is a graduate of Appala
chian State University and is
Clinton’s first YMCA director.
He came to Clinton about two and
a half years ago when the YMCA
was first organized. He came
here from the Kannapolis, N. C.,
YMCA.
Fine Arts Festival
Offers Opportunities
PC Choir Concert
At Arts Festival
The Presbyterian College
Choir "will present its annual
Spring Choral Cnncert on Thurs
day, April 30, at 8 p.m. in Belk
Auditorium as a part of the Fes
tival of Arts according to Mr.
Charles T. Gaines, ActingChair-
man of the Department of Fine
Arts.
Details of the concert will be
released next week.
BY CHARLOTTE P. REED
There is a warmth and a pride
that comes with touching, feeling,
enjoying and possessingathingof
beauty. It cannot be equalled by
any other experience.
Visitors to Laurens County Day
of the SpringArts Festival, which
will be held May 2 from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m. on the grounds of Pres
byterian College in Clinton, will
be given a unique opportunity.
South Carolina artists of local and
statewide repute will be on hand
to give working demonstrations of
their techniques, and offer some
of their past and present cre
ations for sale.
These offerings represent that
mysterious inner force which im
pels a human being to create,
to express himself meaningfully
and beautifully. Everyone is in
vited to enjoy the talents of the
participating artists, view their
works, to get caught in the thrill
of creation, and come away own
ing a work of art. Many mediums
will be represented.
On display and for sale will be
examples of pottery and jewel
ry, oil painting and water colors.
There will be a selection to en
courage many tastes and offer
interested shoppers the multiple
pleasure of discovering and pur
chasing a place at art, meatlaf
the artist responsible, and per
haps watching him in the process
of creation.
Among the artists who will be
present are Mr. Jon Formo of Co
lumbia, who will work at his
potter’s wheel and show the ver
satility which pottery can ex
press; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Turner,
of Columbia, who will show pot
tery and handmade jewelry, Mr.
John Coles of ETV in Columbia,
who will demonstrate cartoon
animation, Mr. Miles Powell of
Clinton, who will demonstrate
commercial paste-up; Mr. Wil
liams Shields a master photo
grapher from Clinton, will exhi
bit his photographic art, and Miss
Betty Fryga of Clinton, who ex
periments in many different me
diums, will show a variety of her
work.
Every home has an empty cor
ner, a bare wall, Laurens County
Day will present a seldom d-
fered opportunity to fill these with
warm living pieces of art, ori
ginals. Presbyterian College, the
Clinton Music Club and the Las*
rens County Fine Arts Associa
tion hope that many persons will
take advantage of this exciting
occasion.
Other Memoirs
’ , BY JOE H. SIMPSON
One of the first fires that I can remember in
Clinton was that of D. E. Tribble Company’s two- .
story building:. This was, of course, before we had
very much fire equpiment, and no city water sys- .
tern. The building: was all wood and made a very
larg^ flame.
Another was when the drug: store that stood *:
where the 1st National Bank Building: was later
erected. I believe that this business was owned
and operated by Dr. J. Q. Phillips, and one tiling
that impressed me as a child was the terrible odor
of the destroyed drugs and other contents.
Probably the largest and costliest fire was
that of Bailey Bros. Dry Goods and Grocery Store. ;
This was the double store and two stories high. -
One section of the upstairs housed our city library
and many volumes of books were destroyed, in
cluding a large number of Horatio Alger books
that I had been reading. Another very destruc
tive fire in the business section was that of Mm
Sumerel Bros, general store about where the Sad
ler Drug Store is now, and was owned by Mosers.
Thad and Will Sumerel, two fine brothers.
Then there was the Clinton OR Mill, Sane of
Peace building at Thomwell, First
Church* and others. One that always gavejne a
chuckle was that of the two-story *
Tom Duckett. It stood on the
grove Hotel A volunteer helper was
a bowl and pitcher out the as
and come down the stairs with some piUoava i
bed clothing in his anna.
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