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WEATHER
(Week of July 29-Aug. 5)
High: 96 Low: 69
(Aug. 1) (Aug. 2)
Rainfall: .31 in (July 31, Aug- 1)
Soil Temp. Range: 83-87
Whe Clinton Chronicle
Vol. 71 — No. 32
Clinton. S. C„ August 6. 1970
INDEX
Three Sections, 20 Pages
Classified 6-A
Deaths 7-A
Hospital News 4-A
Editorials 2-B
Society 2-A, 3-A
Sports 1-C, 2-C
Are Arrested In Connection With Fires
FIRST OF TWO—Clinton’s Matthew King cross
es home plate Monday night after the first of two
home run hits in the opening game of the Upper-
state American Legion Championship Series.
King’s first homer ignited a four-run Clinton scor
ing spree which paved the way for a 5-3 win over
Anderson. King iced the game with another
home run in the seventh inning.
Clinton Hosts Anderson
Friday In Upstate Series
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BY ERNIE SEGARS
The second game of the upper-state championship
playoff between Clinton and Anderson American Le
gion baseball teams was cancelled Tuesday night be
cause of rain.
Clinton holds a one game lead in the best of five
that will continue tonight, Thursday, in Ander-
The baseball park in Anderson was ntft andTlfthla
a Wednesday night game. The teams will return
to Clinton Friday night for what could be the final
game if Clinton wins tonight
Clinton Coach Sam Owens said Wednesday morn
ing that the rain-delay may have helped Anderson
considerably. He said, “The rain could have helped
them rest their pitchers. They’ll be tough to beat.”
He pointed out that Anderson played Rock Hill on Fri
day, Saturday and Sunday of last week and then play
ed Clinton on Monday, a schedule of four games in four
days. Buzz Tedards. Clinton’s ace righthander who has
won nine and lost only three, is expected to start the
game for Clinton tonight. Game time is 7:30.
FIRST GAME
Matthew King hit two home
runs and Tony Bowen drove in
two runs with a double Monday
night as the Clinton American
Legion Baseball team won the
initial game of the three out of
five instate championship
series at the Clinton Mill Ball
park.
Tommy Motes went the dis
tance to pick up his eigth vic
tory of the season. He has lost
only one game. Motes struck
out ten and didn’t walk a bat
ter in his victory.
Clinton scored first in the
bottom of the fourth when King
lined a home run over the right
field fence to give the locals
a 1-0 lead. Tedards then drew
a walk, and Arnold Lletzsey
was safe on a fielders’ choice.
McNlnch drew a walk off Hug
gins, the losing pitcher, to put
runners on first and second.
Bowen lined a double to left to
score Lietzsey and McNinch,
giving Clinton a 3-0 lead. Motes
and Elrod then drew walks to
load the bases. Tommy Shields
hit a single back through the
middle to drive in Bowen giving
Clinton a 4-0 lead.
Anderson scored two runs in
the top of the fifth on singles by
George Harris, Mike Boucbil
lon, Danny Andrews, and Geo
rge Gantt Anderson scored
again in the seventh inning when
Gamtt doubled in Bouc hill on, who
had walked.
King completed the scoring
tor Clinton in the top of the
eighth when he lined home run
to right center, his second of
the game. Anderson threatened
in the top of the ninth when the
first hitter was safe on a bunt
single. The next batter hit a
line drive against the left field
wall that Billy Young flagged
down after a long run. Motes
struck out the next batter and
got the last out of the inning
when the' next hitter bounced
out to King.
Motes gave up ten hits, but
several fine defensive plays
got him out of trouble. In the
second inning, Harris, Ander
son’s catcher, hit a long fly
to deep left center. McNinch
climbed the enbankment and
made a one-handed stab to take
away an extra base hit Mc-
N inch made another outstanding
play in the top of the fourth when
he went against the fence in
deep right center to snare a
long drive off the bat of Bean-
non. In the top of the fifth, a
sparkling double play from
Lietzsey to King to Bowen got
Clinton out of the inning.
* * *
Bike Racers
Pedal Here
Saturday
Contestants in the 250-mile
Olympic development bicycle
race between Greenville and
Charleston are scheduled to
come through Clinton about 1:30
p.m. Saturday.
The contestants will come
down Highway 76(Laurens High
way) and will receive a police
escort through Clinton.
Sponsored by the SouthCaro-
lina Tricentennial Commission
and sanctioned by the Amateur
Bicycle League of America, the
race will offer winners trophies
and merchandise worth approx
imately $1,000. An estimated
100 cyclists are expected to
participate in the event which
is open to all amateur bicy
clists.
The initial 105 -mile Green-
ville-Columbia leg will start at
9:30 a.m.Saturday,Aug.8,from
Piedmont Exposition Park on
Roper Mountain near Green
ville, off Route 385. It con
cludes at Midlands Exposition
Park in Columbia Saturday af
ternoon.
After an overnight stop in
Columbia, the cyclists win re
assemble Sunday morning, Aug.
9, for the brutal Columbia-Ch
arleston leg, to be interngjted
only by a stop in Orangeburg,
75 miles from Charleston.
Railroad
Proposal
Still Alive
The recent placing of new
cross ties under the CN A L
tracks through downtown Clin
ton is part of an overall tim
bering program for the Uine,
according to J. L. Williams,
superintendent of the Florence
Division of Seaboard Coastline
Railroad.
Mr. Williams told The
Chronicle, This project in no
way reflects on our efforts to
come up with a plan to eliminate
the CNAL tracks through down
town Clinton.
This is part of a timbering
program which has been under
way from Columbia to Laurens.
It is a program of several years’
standing and does not mean that
the tracks in that particular
area will stay exactly where
they are now.
Mr. Williams last year
showed Clinton Chamber of
Commerce representatives a
plan whereby the CN&L tracks
might be eliminated from Clin
ton’s downtown area. He said
the proposal would be contingent
upon the approval ofSeaboard’s
Board of Directors and pur
chase of the vacated land by
the City of Clinton. The late
Harry Layton, then Mayor of
Clinton, indicated the city
would definitely be interested
in purchasing the vacated land.
The proposal would eliminate
one set of tracks by routing
CN&L traffic over the remain
ing Seaboard track. Rerouting
the rail traffic would not les
sen the number of trains com
ing through downtown Clinton
but it would free land which
could be used for parking or
other purposes in helping to
aleviate the downtown traffic
congestion.
Mr. Williams said in an
interview late last week We
are trying to come up with a
proposal which will meet our
operating needs and at the same
time help the people of Clinton.
Each proposal which we have
come tg> with thus tar involves
a whale of a lot of money. Rizht
now, we are trying to get the
cost down to a reasonable
range and that’s been the big
hang-up thus far.
But please -assure the peo
ple of Clinton that we are still
working on the proposal and we
hope to come up with something
in the near future.
Two Clinton residents have been arrested in
connection with a firebombing and an attempted
firebombing in July.
Willie B. Byrd of Livingston Street was ar
rested in connection with the burning of Pitts-
stable off Musgrove Street on July 15.
Willie James Young of 539 Gary St. was ar
rested in connection with the attempted burning
of Pace's Grocery at the intersection of Broad
Street and Highway 308 on July 16.
Byrd and Young were being held in jail with
out bond Wednesday morning.
Announcment of the arrests was made Wed
nesday morning by spokesmen for the Clinton Po
lice Department, the Laurens County Sheriffs De
partment and State Law Enforcement Division
(SLED).
The arrests are the first announced in connec
tion with a series of firebombings last month in
the Clinton area.
Seven businesses were hit by firebombs and
two rural stores were gutted by flames on July 16
and 17.
No further information was available Wed
nesday morning.
Two Contested Posts
Voters Select Mayor,
Councilmen Next Tuesday
JOEY SPILLERS
Joey Spiders
Dies In Wreck
JOE B. (JOEY) SPILLERS
Jr., 15, of 207 Gordon Stre-'t
died Friday morning from in
juries received in an accident
near the Ballentine Ext., in Lex
ington County on 1-26 West
Other occupants of the car
were Mike Ballew and Mike
Lydia of Clinton. Lydia sus
tained several abrasions but
was not seriously hurt Ballew
suffered a bruised leg, but he
also was not seriously injured.
Ballew and Lydia were re
leased from the hospital after
treatment for their injuries.
Spillers was a student at Clin
ton High School (10th) grade, a
member of the Junior Varsity
football team and a band lea
der of “The Last Resort*. He
was a member of Calvary Bap
tist Church.
He was a son of Joe B.and
Barbara Rollins Spillers.
Other than his parents he is
survived by: one brother: Fred
die Spillers of the home, his
grandparents: Rev. and Mrs.
J.W.Spillers, Clinton, and Mrs.
O.R. Rollins, Clinton; Great-
grandother: Mrs. Frank
Bayne, Greenville.
Funeral services were held
on Sunday in Calvary Baptist
Church, conducted by Rev.
Floyd Hellams. Burial was in
Pinelawn Memorial Gardens.
Pallbearers were: Billy Rey
nolds Jr; and selected members
of the Jr. Varsity football team,
and honorary Pallbearers were:
members of the Jr. Varsity
football team, coaches, and
members of the band* The Last
Resort*.
Clinton voters go to the polls on Tuesday-
August 11, to elect a mayor and six aldermen.
The only offices that are contested are mayor
and the alderman’s post from Ward 6.
In the mayor’s race, Democrat J. C. Thomas
will oppose incumbent Republican Noland Sud-
deth.
Thomas making his first bid for political of
fice, served two terms as president of the Clinton
Chamber of Commerce and was active in the or
ganizing of the United Fund in Clinton. He is
the immediate past president of the Greater Clin
ton Planning Commission. He has also served for
ten years on the Laurens County Board of Educa
tion. He is a member of the First Baptist Church
of Clinton where he has served as deacon.
Suddeth served as Clinton’s mayor from
1966-68 and was elected last February to fill the
unexpired term of the late Harry Layton. The
city’s first Republican mayor, Suddeth is a mem
ber of the Kiwanis Club, a member of the Laurens
County Water Study Commission, and the former
vice-chairman of the Clinton-Newberry Natual
Gas Authority. He is also a member of the First
Baptist Church.
WARD 6
In Ward 6, Democratic incumbent Talmadge
Sanders is opposed by Republican Robert L. Whit-
sel. Democratic candidates Boyd Holtzclaw in
Ward 1, S. .A (Chick) Pitts in Ward 2, Mrs. Nelle
Howard in Ward 3, Dewey Oxner in Ward 4, and
George Bagwell in Ward 5 are unopposed in the
general election.
Sanders, a veteran of eight years on City
Council, is a section man in the spinning room at
the Bailey Plant of Clinton Mills.
Whitsel, making his first bid for public of
fice, is assistant overseer in the Spooling Depart
ment at Clinton Mills.
Polls will open at 8 a.m and close at 7 p.m.
There will be three polling paces—Ciinton No. 1
(City Hall); Clinton No- 2 (Armory); and Clinton
Mill (Clinton Mill Community House.)
B. NOLAND SUDDETH
MARK BALLOT CORRECTLY
Improperly marked ballots have cost some
voters their vote in recent Clinton general elec
tions.
To make certain your vote counts in next
Tuesday’s general election, carefully read the
instructions on the ballot.
To vote a straight party ticket, make a cross
(X) in the circle under the name of the party for
which you wish to vote. Nothing further need or
should be done. To vote a mixed ticket—for can
didates of different parties—do NOT make the
cross mark in the party circle at the top. Instead,
make a cross mark in the voting square opposite
the name of each candidate on the ballot for whom
you wish to vote. If you wish to vote for a candi
date not on any ticket, write the name of the
candidate opposite the name of the office.
Council Adopts New
Policy On Press Info
Clinton City Council Monday
night adopted a policy under
which all police or fire infor
mation must be released to the
press by the chief of police or
the assistant chief
in the absence of the chief.
The action was taken follow
ing a highly speculative article
which appeared in The State
newspaper about series of fire-
bombings in the Clinton area
last month.
Mayor Noland Suddeth said,
‘We are certainly not trying
to withhold any information but
we want to make sure that
reporters gather their infor
mation from an authoritatize
source. The information will
be available but it should come
from a source which has a)’
of the facts at his disposal.*
In other actions Monday
Tricentennial Parades
Set In Ciinton, Laurens
The Laurens Community Theatre will spon
sor a parade in Laurens on Thursday, November
12, and in Clinton on Friday, November IS.
AH entries must be patriotic or historical.
(Such as old cars, horses, wagons, floats, cas-
tumes.)
Churches, plants, schools, organizations and
individuals ape urged to participate in the Tri-
Centennial celebration.
Prices will be given for the beat entries, cos
tumes, and beards.
For more information call Mrs. Libby Motes,
984-4739 or 984-5961.
night, City Council:
Referred to the Planning
Commission and Housing
Authority a request that State
wide Homes, Inc., build 74 low-
rent housing units in Clinton.
Council asked the Planning
Commission and Housing Auth
ority to investigate the pro
posal to see if it conflicts with
current Housing Authority plans
to construct low-rent housing
in Clinton. The Housing Auth
ority and Planning Commission
are to make recommendations
Ho council concerning the
matter.
Unanimously adopted the
land use proposal and prelim
inary thoroughfare plan which
were presented last week at
public hearing sponsored by
the Planning Commission. In
requesting that council adopt
the two proposals, Planning
Commission Chairman Ed
Campbell pointed out that there
was some opposition at the
hearing to the proposed belt-
line route. He suggested council
adoqjt the preliminary thorough
fare plan with the exception of
the location of the proposed
beltline. The exact location of
the beltline route between
Highway 72 North and Highway
72 South has not been det
ermined.
The land use plan and pre
liminary thoroughfare plan are
part of the long-rangi plann
ing survey being conducted by
Wilbur Smith and Associates,
under contract to the State
Development Board through
City Council. The land use
plan will serve as the basis
for zoning proposals which will
be presented by the Planning
Commission in the near future.
Appointed Mayor Suddeth
to serve on the board of dir
ectors of the Upper Savannah
Development District
Employed the accounting
firm of Harris, McMillan and
Hudgens to make the annual
city audit The audit is to be
completed within six weeks of
the close of the city’s fiscal
year, Aug.31.
Authorized Mayor Sud
deth and City Attorney Cecil
White to negotiate for purchase
of the necessary property and
rights of way for a sewer la
goon notheast of Clinton.
M rs. Jacobs
Dies At 45
Mrs. Elizabeth Lunsford
Sims Jacobs, 45, wife of Hugh
Shockley Jacobs of 512 Walnut
St, died Tuesday.
She was a native of Rock
Hill: a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Randolph Sims
of Rock Hill. She was a grad
uate of Winthrop College and a
member of First Presbyterian
Church.
Surviving also are a daugh
ter, Miss Edna Shockley Jacobs
of the home; a son, Hugh Sho
ckley Jacobs Jr. of the home;
three sisters, Mrs. Charles
New of Spartanburg and Mrs.
Ammie Hall Sims and Mrs.
James Rufus Bratton of Rock
Hill; and a brother, Robert
Erwin Sims of Rock Hill.
Funeral services Wecfcesday
at 5 p.m. at First Presbyter
ian Church. Burial in the church
cemetery.
Other Memoirs
BY JOE H. SIMPSON
Wonder how many bushels of Irish potatoes
I have stuck on the end of kerosene cans?
Customers would bring their one or five
gallon cans to the store for kerosene and the cap
for the spout would be lost An Irish potato akuA
ped on the end would take care of thia. Aa a de
livery boy, I had to be very
sene can was not placed near any of the
packages of groceries, aa a drop or to
a package of sugar or other food. Vi
stores now deliver groceries but I chi
the homes in CHnton that