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1 WEATHER (Oct. 14-21) High: 84 Low:35 (Oct. 16) (Oct. 17-18) Rainfall: 1.23 ins. (Oct. 20-21) Soil Temp. Range: 66-67 Clinton Cfjronicle Vol. 71 — No. 42 Clinton, S. C., Oct. 22, 1970 INDEX Four Sections, 28 Pages Classified 4-A Deaths 1-D Hoapdtal News 3-A Society 2-A Sports 6-A Pageants, Parades, Battle Re-Enactment Tricentennial Plans Are Set Laurens County’s Tri centennial Week November 8- M will be a busy one with a varied schedule ranging from historical salutes to a tour of one of Clinton’s newest struc tures. William P. Jacobs in, chair man of Laurens County Tri centennial Committee, unveiled the plans Monday night at a meeting of the Laurens County Historic Preservation Com mittee and again Tuesday morning before a Clinton Chamber of Commerce mem bership meeting. Taking the events day-by day, the schedule thus far is: Saturday, Nov. 7—The Clin ton Cotillion Club will sponsor a costume ball for members and their guest. Sunday, Nov. 8--A11 churches are requested to observe ‘Re ligious Heritage Day.* On Sun day afternoon, ‘open house* will be held at Clinton’s new City Hall from 2 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9—Schools are asked to observe “Education Heritage Day* featuring pro grams about the county’s his tory. On Monday afternoon, there will be a special cere mony on Musgrove Street at 3 p.m. for the dedication of a plaque to the late Eugene Sloan, a native of Clinton who was editor of the Columbia State’s Sunday magazine section and was a noted historical writer. Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 10-11—Tours will be held of the county’s historic sites. Also, some other ceremonies for these days will be announc ed later. Thursday, Nov. 12—Clinton merchants open their ‘Old Fashioned Sale’. Merchants will offer special‘Old Fashion ed Prices’ bargains, will have special displays of antiques and will offer Tricentennial souveniers for sale. Also, some sales people will be dressed in old fashioned costumes and some sidewalk sales will be held. Also on Thursday—the Lau rens County Tricentennial par ade will be held in Laurens. On Thursday night, the Lau rens Little Theatre win pre sent a pageant at Laurens High School. Friday, Nov. 13—The Little Theatre Pageant wiU be pre sented at Be Ik Auditorium in Clinton. Saturday, Nov. M—A re enactment of the battle of Hayes Station win be featured at the halftime of the Presbyterian College-Carson-Newman foot ball game. TOUR BROCHURE—Reese Young, center, chairman of the Laurens County Historic Preservation Com mission, presents a copy of a bro chure to Robert Vance, right. The brochure features tours of historic sites in Laurens County. Vance is president of M. S. Bailey and Son, Rankers, which helped finance the project. At left is William P. Ja cobs, III, chairman of Laurens Coun ty’s Tricentennial Committee, who was a featured speaker at the com mission meeting Monday night.— (Yarborough Photo) Hayes Station Property, Brochure Are Presented The Hayes Station property was deeded to the Laurens County Historic Preservation Commission at a meeting Mon day night which also served as a preliminary organizational session for formation of a Lau rens County HistoricalSociety. The one-acre tract of land on which Revolutionary War battle was fought was present ed by H. M. Hentz. Making the presentation on behalf of Mr. Hentz was Clinton attorney John Rucker. Also presented at the meeting which was attended by about 130 people at Presbyterian Col lege’s Belk Auditorium, was a colorful brochure featuring tours of historic sites in Lau rens County. Members of the Historic Preservation Committee were named to a committee which will draft by-laws and nominate officers for the Historical Society. Others named to the organizational steering com mittee are Mrs. J. A. Coleman of Cross Hill, Mrs. Mirtin Teague of Laurens, William Johnson and William P. Jacobs, HI, both of Clinton. Dr. A. N. Sanders, chairman of the Furman University His tory Department, discussed the steps to take in organizing a historical society. He explained the need for a historical society by saying, “An historic preservation com mittee is a government-related agency and is limited by that fact Its members are appointed. An Historical Society is a grtxgr of Interested people who are limited only by the creative thinking of its members.* Reese Young, chairman of the Historic Preservation Committee, presented a copy of the tour brochure to Robert Vnace, president of M.S. Bailey and Son Bankers which helped finance the project MUMM Petition For Cliff Members of the Clinton High School Class of 1960, which held their class reunion last week, are sponsoring a community petition campaign to determine the whereabouts of James Clifford McKittrick, who has been listed as missing in ac tion in Vietnam. The petition is addressed to North Vietnam and seeks information on whether McKittrick is a prisoner of war. He served three terms as class president of the 1960 graduating class. TTie petition will be available in the Bank of CKnton and M. S. Bailey and Son, Bankers, dur ing banking hours on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 22 and 23. Cliffs friends and other interested citizens are requested to sign the petition. • •••••• Suggestion From ‘The Clinton Challenger’, published by the Clinton Chamber of Commerce: Question: “What can I do about the litter that is thrown along the road in front of my house?” Answer: “Go out and pick it up. It will do wonders for your waistline, help cut down on your taxes and improve the appearance of your property.” Daylight You-Know-What After all our troubles about the changeover to Daylight Savings Time, we hesitate to mention it (and swore we wouldn’t), but this Sunday it will be time to change back again to Eastern Standard Time. After very careful consideration and after polling such authorities as J. B. Arnold, Dr. Ixmis Stephens, and Mrs. R. P .Wilder (who ragged our hide off after our earlier blunders), the concen sus seems to be that you should turn your clock back one hour when you go to bed Saturday night. If it's 11 p.m., turn it back to 10 p.m., thereby regaining the sleep you lost when Day light Savings Time came in. We must admit. Dr. Stephens was rather non-comittal. He said he was waiting until The Chronicle came out so he’d know what to do. We would have taken that as a compliment if he hadn’t been laughing so hard. Spring ahead, fall behind and down with Daylight Savings time! He said that 15,000 copies have beer, printed and will be available at the Clinton Cham ber of Commerce office, M. S. Bailey Bank and South Carolina Welcome Stations. The brochure features sketches of Laurens County’s historic buildings and has maps and information about four tours which can be taken in Laurens County. Some of the buildings featur ed in the brochure are Belfast, Ora ARP Church, Laurens County Courthouse, Duncan’s Creek Church, Hickory Tavern, Madden House, Dial House, Octagon House, Lafayette Young House. The Clinton tour includes the Finney House, Davidson House, Home of Peace, Old Tavern, Old Clinton Schools and Presbyterian College. Greenwood Mills To Buy Power From Duke Greenwood Mills has an nounced that it has completed plans to purchase its power requirements used in Green wood and Laurens Counties from Duke Power Company. Until now, the textile firm has generated a major portion of these requirements itself. J. C. Self, President of Greenwood Mills, said that con current with these plans his firm also has agreed to sell its 32,500 kilowatt generator which was placed In service in March of 1B56 and some trans mission and substation equip ment to Duke Power. The sale will be sifcject to approval by the South Carolina Public Ser vice Commission. UF Drive Hits 82% Of Goal The latest figures released for the United Fund Campaign of Greater Clinton show 82% of the goal has been reached thus far.-At last county $45,789 had been collected. There are still a few divisions which have not been counted, but these should be in at an early date. Anyone who has not been contacted about a contribution and who would like to be in cluded, should call Mrs. Ted Davenport, Residential Divi sion Chairman at 833-2716. All Divison Chairman and workers are hoping that with a last great effort the goal for 1970-71 will be reached. It will take everyone doing his ‘fair share* to push the drive over the top. If you haven’t given your “fair share*, give today! You’ll be glad you did. KiwanU Installation Is Slated Col. Frank J. MacNees of Travelers Rest, Division Nine lieutenant-governor of the Ki- wanis Carolinas District, will speak to the Clinton Kiwanis Club and install its new of ficers at the regular meeting this Thursday night It is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Mary Musgrove Inn. W. Fred Chapman, academic dean at Presbyterian College, will be installed as the new president at this meeting. He succeeds Bailey Dixon, Clinton Mills executive. The club also will hear the seven-minute address bv Clin ton Scout Lynn Dailey which won him the Boy Scout’s state oratorical contest and which he will deliver in regional com petition in Atlanta next week. The Kiwanis Club sponsors Troop 111 to which Dailey be longs. DR. RHAME CC Board Backs Toll-Free Counfywide Phone Service The Clinton Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors went on record in favor of a proposed toll-free telephone service in Laurens County. The Laurens Chamber of Commerce took a similar ac tion earlier. The Laurens County Develop ment Board is making an effort to secure toU free telephone service in Laurens County. As proposed, the service would not Include Joanna and Cross Hill at this time. Telephone companies have been cottacted and will con duct customer surveys in Nov ember to determine public sup port for the proposal. Southern Bell Telephone Co. has offered to make the ser vice toll-free for 30 cents per month for residential phones and 80 cents per' month for business phones. General Telephone, which serves the Laurens area, has listed 25 cents for residents phones and 75 cents for bus iness phones. Piedmont Rural proposes to charge an additional 50 cents for residential phones and $1.50 for business phones monthly. Clinton Chamber of Com merce President Ralph Pat terson, in presenting the pro posal to the board of direc tors said, ‘We feel this pro posal should help unify our county and we can see many advantages of almost the en tire county being linked with toll-free telephone service.* Dr. Rhame Wins PC Award Dr. Delmar O. Rhame, Clin ton physician and surgeon, has been named to receive Pres byterian College’s 1970 Alumni Service Award as part of the November 7 Homecomin&prp- gram, Alumni & Public Rela tions Director Ben Hay Ham met announced today. Dr. Rhame, a PC graduate in the class of!926, was select ed by the alumni board of directors because of “unusually devoted and meritorious ser vice* to Presbyterian College ranging over a period of al most 40 years. During this time, he has served as a trus tee, as president of the alumni association and in other capaci ties!, as college physician and as a leader in very important capital funds campaign under taken by PC. Delmar Rhame earned his MD degree from Columbia Uni versity in 1930 and, after resi dency in surgery at Kings County (NY) Hospital, settled in Clinton. He is recognized as a fellow of the International Colfege of Surgeons and as a diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners. Be sides his active work in behalf of PC, Dr. Rhame serves the Flrslt Presbyterian Church as an eMer and earned the Silver Beaver Award as a member of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. The Homecoming program at wnich the Alumni Service Award and other activities are scheduled—is set for 1 p.m., November 7, in Belk Audi torium. Other events that day will Include class reunions, a barbecue and the PC-Gardner- Webb football game. * * * 'Candy Sale' Set Friday According to Erskine Jacks, president of the Clinton Lions Club, due to the inclement weatljer experienced during their first annual Candy Day, they plan to hold a repeat per formance Friday. Antiques Are Sought For Window Displays CHnton merchants are offering window space to local residents for display of antique items of historical significance. Anyone having such items to display is re quested to contact the Clinton Chamber of Com merce office and arrangements will be made for display space. Tie displays will be used to enhance the local celebration of the Tricentennia]. 36 TO BE HIRED Teacher Aide Project Approved For Dist. 56 Laurens County School District 56’s application for teachers aides and materials under the Title 1 program has been approved, effective Oct. 21. according to Supt. R. P. Wilder. The district’s program calls for 36 teachers aides to be hired. The teacher aides will assist teachers in any way necessary, performing such duties as preparing materials to be used in class, checking the roll, col lecting money, and working with slow learners. The teacher aides will work from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. The pay scale will range from $60 per week up to $90 per week, de pending on the amount of the aide’s training and qualifications. A teacher’s aide must have at least a high school diploma. Applicants must also take a one- week in-service training course con ducted by State Department of Edu cation members on an elementary lev el. The in-service training sessions are scheduled Oct. 27, 28, 29 and Nov. 3 and 4 at Clinton Elementary School After the training, the aides will be placed where they are most needed in the school system. Those who complete the course and hired will be compensated for the time spent in the in-service training. Applications may be obtained at the District 66 office in the old Hamp ton Ave. School building. Beltline Survey Work Halted; Opponents Heard South Carolina Highway De partment survey crews were to be pulled offClinton’sproposed Beltline Route Wednesday while officials reconsidered the project The action was promised Tuesday night after Chief Ur ban Design Engineer P. M. Cobb met with about 50 Clin- tonians at Mary Musgrove Hotel The meeting was called by opponents to the pr closed belt- line route between High 72 South and Highway 72 North. Also attending were repre sentatives of the Clinton Plann ing Commission, Clinton City Council and State Reps. David S. Taylor and Paul Culbert son. Ed King presided over the meeting and said, ‘I think the intent of a beltline route is good. However, there is con siderable opposition to the current location. Stakes have been put out along the route and we have become concern ed that this project has gone so far that it can’t be stopp ed.’ Earl Bur gin, head of the Highway District which in cludes Laurens County, re plied: ‘Anything can be stopped. But V) years from now people in Clinton won’t be able to get from one side of town to the other. They can’t do that with out considerable difficulty now. We think that we have the best route, based on the information we have, to help solve Clinton’s downtown traffic congestion problem...That’s what we were asked to come here and do..* Ed Campbell, chairman of the Clinton Planning Commis sion, explained the background of the propsaL He said that several years ago, merchants in Clinton went to the Highway Department and said that help was needed to relieve downtown traffic congestion. The Highway Department came op with the beltline concept to help move traffic from the outlying areas to the other side of town with out having to go through the downtown area. Reese Young said, ‘At the two previous public bearings, not one property owner has spoken in favor of the route which is now being surveyed. I asked the Highway Department surveyors to stay off my pro perty but the next day they were back on my property. I have heard only two members of the Planning Commission speak in favor of the route where it is.* The Highway officials were asked if Highway Department surveyors could come on land without the owner’s per mission. Mr. Cobb replied, ‘We have the right to make a survey. If any damage is done, the High way Department will pay any legitimate claim.’ Those who spoke against the current proposed route said that it was cutting through a section already congested and that it is too close to the Clinton Elementary School, Bailey Memorial Hospital, and the site of the proposed new YMCA building. Also, they questioned the amount of traf fic which would use the road. Generally, it was suggested the road was too close into town and should be fatherout the only one which we can re commend now. It’ll do the job for downtown traffic. We have checked to see if it could be moved farther out but the road becomes more expensive and the potential traffic volume drops drastically. •Frankly, Pm surprised that this meeting is being held to night I can see little the High way Department has done in the Clinton area in the last few years. We have millions of dollars in projects planned (coo’t on page 3A) Mr. Cobb we’re going to any route, evident that doesn’t want tainly aren’t on them. The said, ‘We know to get opposition However, If it’s a city or county a road, we cer- golng to force it present route Is Saunders Wins Contest Barry Saunders of Byrnes Street, Joanna, is the winner of first prize in last week’s Chronicle Football Contest Saunders missed three out of 15 predictions but won the contest on the basis of his ‘tie-breaker* score. Saunders picked Palmetto to defeat Clin ton 18-8, a 10-point margin. Mrs. Vera Bodie, also of Jo anna, also missed only three predictions but she picked Pal metto over Clinton 20-14, a six point spread. Palmetto defeated Clinton 13-0. Saunders wins the $15 first prize and Mrs. Bodie wins $7.50 for second prize. r •SvWvXvX-W-XtWvWW^ Other Memoirs BY JOE H. 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