The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, November 26, 1970, Image 1
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Two Sections, 14 Pages
Classified 4-A
Deaths 3-A
Socnety 2-A
Sports 5-A
Clinton Chronicle
Vol. 71 — No. 47 Clinton, S. C., Nov. 26. 1370
THANKSGIVING
1970
i:-: The spirit of thanksgiving encompasses :j:
many principles and ideals which deserve daily
as well as annual tribute. Certainly, Thanksgiv-
x ing Day is a meaningful and cherished holiday,
and it is right that we have set aside a special x
occasion to count our blessings and good for-
tune. In so doing, let us be continually grateful *
that we live in a land where people can still >:•
laugh, dream, hope, and speak their minds and
x worship as they please.
*•* *•'
•j: Our Founding Fathers had great vision. They
saw for the future of our country a promise of :•
x hope, right, justice, freedom, and equality for :•
x men and women who braved the dangers to enjoy •:
these blessings from God. And all but the most •:
j:; cynical would have to admit that our Nation has •:
made extraordinary progress in striving for these x
x goals. No other countrv has ever done more to x
promote the spiritual and material needs of its *
x citizens. x
x A noted American author and editor once x
£ stated. “There never was a land that better de- x
x served the love of her people than America, for
x there never wa> a mother-country kinder to her
x children. She has given to them all that she
Play Here Thursday Afternoon
PC, Newberry Battle For The Derby
FRED HERREN
Newberry Coach
Community
Thanksgiving
Service
The Bronze Derby has not
seen the Newberry College
campus since Thanksgiving
1966 when the Presbyterian
team claimed it with a 26-7
victory in Clinton.
This year, following four
straight Turkey Day losses,
the Indians will visit Presby
terian campus to renew the an
nual battle for the symbolic
topper. The meeting will be the
fifty-sixth in a series which
dates back to 1913, when the
Indians demolished the Blue
Hose 51-0. Despite the initial
setback, Presbyterian holds a
35-16-4 edge over Newberry.
Thursday’s game will start at
2 p.m. at Johnson Field.
The Bronze Derby originated
as the result of a highly-spi
rited ruckus on the night of
Jan. 30, 1947, following a bas
ketball game between the two
rival schools. Before the game
got underway, several PC stu
dents put up a banner high on
the wall which read; ‘Beat
Heal Out of Newberry.*
Sometime during the game, a
group of Newberry students
secured a ladder, set it up a-
gainst the outside waU, climbed
through a window, rolled up the
banner, and escaped unnoticed
the same way they had entered.
Near the end of the game the
visiting Blue Hose supporters
realized the banner was gone.
After Presbyterian had taken
a 51-47 victory, the irate Hose
partisans demanded the return
of the banner. This prompted a
scuffle, and in the midst of
the general confusion, a New
berry student snatched a derby
from the head of a PC student
and ran.
During the next couple of
days, the athletic publicity di
rectors of the two schools ne
gotiated for the return of the
derby.
They finally came to the a-
greement that the derby should
serve as a laurel of victory
in the athletic contests between
Newberry and Presbyterian.
Consequently, the hat was re
turned to PC, packaged, and
forwarded to a casting company
in Ohio, where it was bronzed.
Until 1956, possession of the
derby was determined by vic
tories in football, basketball,
and baseball, but then the
schools agreed to award the
trophy on the basis of football
superiority alone. Since then,
Newberry has won the Bronze
Derby four times.
“As far as I’m concerned,
the Bronze Derby is a myth,*
exclaimed Newberry’s head
football coach Fred Herren.
He was owing this statement to
the fact that since he has been
coach at Newberry the derby
has not been in the school
trophy case.
Presbyterian is sporting a
7-3 record at present, and all
indications are they wiU take
the Carolina’s Conference
crown from Elon this year.
Perhaps the biggest threat the
Tribe will face is the throw
ing ability of quarterback Al
len McNeill. Presently McNeill
is averaging 160.4 yards per
game in the aerial department
But if McNeill is impres
sive in the passing department,
the Indians pose just as big a
threat in the running game
with the Conference’s second
leading rusher Donald Garrick
with 1,073 yards so far this
season. Quarterback Tommy
Williamson hit nine for lipases
and three touchdowns against
Samford week before last It
looks like it will be one wide
open football game.
“They are a very fine foot
ball team,* stated Herren.
“They are not the biggest or
the fastest team we’ve played,
but they are definitely one of
the best Their record speaks
for itself,* he continued.
“McNeiU is one of the best
third down quarterbacks in this
area. We will have to make a
minimum of mistakes to stay
in the ballgame, because they
will not make very many. Bob
by Norris is an outstanding
linebacker and a fine football
player,* concluded the head
coach.
CALLY GAULT
PC Coach
Hospital
Payment
Policy
could give. . . . Millions upon millions of men
have lived here with more comfort, with les> fear,
than any such numhers el-ewhere in anv age
have lived. Countless multitudes, who>e fore
father from the beginning of human life on earth
have 'pent wearv live
anxietv. in helples-ne"
here, m the com >e ol
to the lull and -eciire
' in unrewarded toil, in
. m ignorance, have risen
even a 'ingle generation.
At Thornwell
The annual Community’
Thanksgiving Service will be
held on Thanksgiving morning,
November 26th, at 10:00, at
the Thornwell Presbyterian
Church, on the campus of
Thornwell Orphanage.
The Clinton-Joanna Minis
terial Association, in coopera
tion with Thornwell Orphanage,
is again sponsoring this ser
vice.
Clergymen of the Ministerial
A ssociation who will be partici
pating in this year’s service
include; Preaching, the Rev.
J. Ben Cunningham of Broad
Street Methodist Church; pre
siding as newly-elected Presi
dent of the Association and
leading the Prayers, the Rev.
M. Floyd Hellams of Davidson
Street Baptist Church; Invoca
tion and Scripture, the Rev.
Alfred L. Bixler of First
Presbyterian Church; Greet
ings and Benediction, the Rev.
M. A. Macdonald, host pastor
of Thornwell Presbyterian
Church.
enjoyment of the fruit'
x of then laboi , to (oiifideut hope, to intelligent
x po''e"ion ol their own faeultie>. I> not the land
x to he dearlv loved in whieh this i' possible, in
x whieh thi' ha' been achieved.''' Truly, thi>
:j: \merican wa' imbued with the spirit of
x I hanksgiv ing.
Our Nation does possess a heritage which i>
x unique in the history of man. But today this
£ heritage with its religious ideals and moral
X principle' mean* practically nothing to many
Americans. They do not seem to recognize nor
x appreciate the rewards of self-government. To
£ them, du'v. individual responsibility, enterprise,
X self-respect, and obedience of the law are tenets
x of oppre'sion. They demand and expect ‘‘the
rj: good life." but without personal sacrifice or
X effort. The true meaning of Thanksgiving, as ex
perienced in the humble and devout tribute bv
the earlv settlers, is lost on them.
x Let us earnestly join in the observance of
£ Thank' giving. But let the spirit of Thanksgiving
x not be a scheduled sentiment which we turn on
x once a year. Rather, let it be an abiding testi-
x mony , a recognizable 'vmbol of our dailv faith—
£ our faith in ourselves, our faith in our country,
£ and our faith in God.
Special music and the hymns
of thanksgiving will add rein
forcement to the service.
The community is cordially
invited.
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JOANNA SERVICE
A Community Thanksgiving
service will be held at the Ep-
worth United Methodist Church,
Joanna on Wednesday night at
7:00 o’clock. Rev. Ed Pierce,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church will be the speaker.
Superior Knits
To Build New
Plant In N.C.
DR. STIDHAM
Dr. Stidham
To Address
Clinton PTA
The Clinton Elementary
School P. T. A. will meet next
Tuesday night, December 1 at
8:00 p.m. in the school audi
torium.
The program will be a talk
by Dr. Ann Stidham entitle'*
•Gold Stars, Gum Drops and
a Good Squeeze*. Here parents
and teachers will be shown how
psychological knowledge can be
put to work to promote better
relations with children and to
help children better accomplish
their goals. There will be a
question and answer period
following the talk.
Clinton Mills’ President Ro
bert M. Vance announced to all
Clinton Mills’ employees yes
terday plans of the Superior
Knits Division to build a new
plant in Greensboro, N. C.
within the near future.
W. B. Rhodes, Jr., Presi
dent of the Division, merged
by Clinton Mills earlier this
year, will make the principal
announcement according to Mr.
Vance’s statement
..."Consistent sales growth,
since inception of the Company
in 1968, has created an acute
need for considerable addi
tional manufacturing and ware
house space. Demand for double
knit fashion apparel fabrics
Florida St.
PTA To Meat
The Florida Street Elemen
tary PTA will hold their
moothly meeting Tuesday night,
December 1st, starting at 8:00
p.m. All friends and parents
are encouraged to attend. This
will be our last meeting before
Christmas.
such as we produce atSuperior
continues strong. Long-range
sales forecasts indicate an in
creasing and profitable market
for these fabrics. We want to be
in a ready position to meet the
anticipated demand with two
prime objectives in mind.....
to strengthen the future of our
Company and to build greater
job security for all employees*,
Vance said in his announce
ment
* * *
Satterfield
Wins Contest
Fred Satterfield of 207
Florence St. is the winner of
last week's Chronicle football
contest.
He missed only two of 15
predictions and won first place
on the basis of his “tie break
er* score. Eddie Cleland of
35 Caldwell St, Clinton, also
missed only two but Mr. Sat
terfield’s “Tie Breaker* score
was closer to the correct mar
gin in the Clemson-SouthCaro
lina game.
Sisters Represent County
MISS ROGERS RUNNER-UP—Dur
ing- the closing program of the 27th
annual meeting in Charleston last
Saturday, Miss Kathy Joe Knoece ol
Aiken County, center, was crowned
South Carolina Farm Bureau Queen.
Miss Almeda Rogers, right of Lau
rens County, was second runner-up
and Miss Lynn Edmunds of York
County, left, was first runner-up.
Miss Rogers is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Phillip W. Rogers and is a
1970 graduate of Clinton High
School. Miss Kneece is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Kneece,
and Miss Edmunds is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edmunds.
T.W.
Is Wounded
At Station
T. W. Hardin, operator of a
Clinton service station, was
wounded in the leftchestSunday
night when he was shot by one
of three Negro youths,
Mr. Hardin, who lives on
Route 1, Clinton, was treated
at Bailey Memorial Hospital
and released.
He told police he was shot
by one of three Negro youths
who came to the station and
purchased five gallons of gaso
line.
He said after they had pur
chased the gas in a can, one
of the youths started firing at
him from behind the station.
He fired back at the youth
several times, he said, and
the trio fled on foot. He said
that he heard a car door shut
and an automobile drive away
while he was calling police.
Police officers said they lo
cated a gasoline can near the
service station and also re-
oorted that a drink box at the
door of the station was riddled
with 14 holes from buckshot
Mr. Hardin operates the
Atlantic Service Station at the
intersection of Interstate 26
and S. C. 56.
Christmas Carol
Service Set At PC
Miss Rogers Represents
County In Carillon
Lovely young Miss Virginia
Rogers of Clinton will repre
sent this area In the annual
festivities of the Carolina Ca
rillon in Columbia on Friday,
Nov. 27. She is a sister of
Miss Almeda Rogers who re
presented Laurens County re
cently In the S. C. Farm Bureau
Queen Contest Miss Virginia
Rogers is a former ‘Miss
Clinton.’
She will ride on a float in
the mammoth Carillon parade
in the morning, be introduced
at the Carillon Luncheon fea
turing Lief Erickson of “High
Chaparral“ and'TheBugaloos*
at mid-day, and be presented
to the Governor at the Carillon
Ball in the evening.
Approximately 200,000 per
sons are expected to view the
parade Friday morning, begin
ning promptly at 9:30 a.m. Co-
stars for the event are Leif
Erickson, The Bugaloos, and
that grand old gent, Santa
The sixth annual Christmas
Carol Service will be presented
Sunday, December 6, at 7:30
p.m. by the Presbyterian Col
lege Choir at Belk Auditorium
on the Presbyterian College
campus. The public is invited
to attend.
Dr. Charles T. Gaines, as
sociate professor of music and
conductor of the fifty-four
voice choir, has announced that
the service will include choral
works by Praetorius,Costeley,
Gevaert, Mendelssohn and
Holst. Another work. Magni
ficat by Georg Forsteri, will
be sung by the women and will
perhaps mark the first time
this particular piece has been
sung since it was published by
Martin Luther’s printer in 1542
in a collection of music to be
used in the Latin schools of the
day.
Bach’s weU-known Cantata
Sleepers, Wake! will also be
presented by the choir, a guest
Instrumental ensemble, and
soloists. Mrs. Lewis Brannon
of Atlanta, a busy soloist in the
Atlanta area and the mother of
the president of the choir, will
be the soprano soloist Pat
Phillips, GreenviUe, S. C. and
Hal Lewis, Hartsville, S. C.
will be the bass and tenor solo
ists respectively.
An organ prelude by Mr.
Alan G. Cook, instructor in
music, will precede the ser
vice. Mary DeVault, Asheville,
N. C., will serve as pianist
Courtney Robinson, Columbia,
S. C., will be the soloist in
the Holst work. Leading the
service will be Marcia Whit
man, Marietta, Ga. and Tommy
Edwards, Anderson, S. C. Mr.
Edwards is president of the
Student Government Associa
tion.
The audience will be invited
to join in singing traditional
carols.
Reaffirmed
The Bailey Memorial Hos
pital Board of Trustees re
cently reaffirmed its policy
concerning deliquent accounts.
The board reviewed the policy
in an effort to reduce the ac
counts receivable and provide
the necessary cash for the
operation of the hospital.
The policy which has been
followed in previous years was
reaffirmed with one change.
The only change concerns pa
tients with a deductible in
surance policy. They will be
required to pay a deposit for
the amount of the deductible
clause up to $100 on admission
unless the patient has other inr
surance that will cover this de
ductible feature or is in emer
gency condition. The deposit
previously was $50.
Patients without acceptable
insurance wiU continue to be
required to pay the $100 ad
mission deposit unless the pa
tient is in emergency condition
or is determined to be a charity
case. This admission deposit
also was $50 previously.
The other phases of the policy
which were reaffirmed are:
1. The admistrator is au
thorized and instructed to turn
deliquent accounts over to an
attorney for collection to the
full extend of the law.
2. Patients owing old bills
who have not demonstrated a
satisfactory payment record
are not to be readmitted to the
hospital as patients, unless the
attending physician states that
the patient is, or soon will be,
in emergency condition. Bona-
fide charity cases will continue
to be served to the extent
possible.
OTHER MEMOIRS
BY JOE H. SIMPSON
Do you often wonder what has happened
to America, that we have so much disrespect for
the laws of our land, and crime of all kinds is so
rampant all over the w T orld. Murder, burglary,
arson, rape, divorce and all kinds of crime go
unpunished.
To me, there is only one answer, and that
is the fact that we have, in a sense, told our
Maker that we can run the world without his
help.
We older ones well remember when we at
tended Sabbath School at ten, preaching at elev
en, evening worship at seven or eight and prayer
meeting on Wednesday evening, and most of us
were taught the Catechism or Bible stories.
My early childhood was spent some four
miles from Clinton, and we attended three ser
vices regardless of the weather. Today, if we
have a heavy fog, we cannot attend church even
within a couple of blocks, in a closed car, for fear
it will rain. We feed our physical body with
good nourishing food three times a day, but we
seem to think that our spiritual bodies need re
freshment only about two hours a week. Arthur
Brisbane, the noted author, once stated that we
were neglecting the greatest source of power
known to man, and that is prayer. America
can still be saved, if we will only return to God.
and my prayer is that each one who reads this,
will find yourself in God’s House next Sabbath.