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/ Paffe Two THE CLINTQN CHRONICLE Thursday, December 8, 1949 =1 Fisherman's Dream Comes True In Lake Greenwood Survey . Lake Greenwood, Nov. 16. — What ’ appened out here yesterday, in a :ttle inlet on the Laurens side of •he Lake, usually happens only in just as soon take ours the hard way Fish Laboratory As the. pails gradually filled, the boats nosed into the bank and dump- Dress Clearance! Street Dresses Afternoon Dresses the true fisherman's wildest dreams’! form Lake Greenwood almost 10 Fish, hundreds of fish, all sort of j years ago. fish, floated quietly to the surface i What's more, it was all perfectly of the water and begged to be taken I legal under appropriate State and out. All you had to do was ease your i Federal fishing laws, etc. For doing led their loads in a tarpaulin stretch- boat along and scoop out crappies. the scooping, along with fish-happy | er out on shore. There, the catches bass, and shad by the netful. Poten- volunteer helpers, were the Game; were sorted by specimen, weighed tially, the finny harvest had the mak-] Wardens of Laurens and Greenwood I and measured by Mr. Holloway. A ings of the biggest fish fry since! counties, Garvin O'Dell and John El-1 record was made of size and num- Pinson’s Bottoms were flooded to.lison! | bers of each kind of fish and special —— j under the direction of fisheries | attention was paid to the estimated expert Ancil D. Holloway of the U.j a Seof the catch. Then the fish were |S. Dept, of the Interior, O’Dell and i du roP«d in the brush higher up the' Ellison, along with the rest of the bank to make a feast for the ’coons, ' group, had earlier slipped a sea-go- that lived in an oak some distance >ing Micky Finn into this particular Dresses Originally to 22 95 Reduced to Dresses Originally to 11.95 Reduced to Dresses Originally to 15 95 Reduced to 1-2 Price 7.00 9.00 —Man> »t)le» —N e * rM 9-IS. 10 20. .Di-lt (jene Milder son's Your Merrv ChriMina* Store stretch of water. The knockout back in the woods. ’Coon showed plainly along the tracks banks, i drops for the guppies came in the making it evident that overnight the' form of a chemical powder which; ’coons would have their Thanksgiv- wre mixed just so, and then planted big dinner a week early. :i the water. For obvious reasons, Larger fish began to arise late in! 1 details of the chemicals and the plan- the afternoon and the party expected, ned assassination'“of the fish must! 10 find better specimens when they' ! be kept top secret. 'returned today. The poison affected, ^ r . ; the smaller fish first but was due »upp es .veryw • to knock over the bigger boys over- ! Le.t anyone s heart should bleed |, ni h . ^ over the carefully-designed massacre j _ ' of innocent fish, it must be explained The same process will be repeated, that the destruction was necessary in P r °b a bly on the Greenwood side ofj order to accomplish the first step in.^e lake and more ‘sampling’ will a Federal survey of Lake Green- b<? accomplished later. Mr. Hollo- wood, a survey which everyone hopes conclude his survey of the I will result in recommendations that, a ^ e ^is He will then make, will eventually see the improvement f ^P 01 ^ bis headquarters in At-, of fishing conditions at the Lake. I ^ anta * ai ] d a copy will be sent to Mr. Hollaway was sent here by Same o.ficials in South Carolina. It, the Dept, of the InteYior, in coopera-1 1S ex P*-t©d that the report will con-, tion with the State game officials tain recommendations for the im- at the request of the Greenwood provements of fishing conditions at ' Chamber of Commerce committee on ’“he lake. A. Stokes King New District Manager for Telephone Co. • A. Stokes King, division commer cial engineer of the Southern Bell Telephone company, Charlotte, N. C., has been appointed Greenville dis trict manager, effective December 1. Glenn L. McCullough, well-known Greenville district manager, will join the administration staff of South Carolina Manager J. M. McAlister. Mr. McCullough will continue to reside in and serve Southern Bell from Greenville, with an enlarged scope of duties concerned with tele phone business in the western sec tion of the state. Mr. King is a man of wide expe rience, welf qualified to assume the position of district manager. He is a native of Conway, and a graduate of Wofford college, Spartanburg. He entered the service of the Telephone company at Spartanburg and was latr district cashier at Darlington, , and later was manager of the Mar- i ion group of exchanges. From this position he went to Charlotte as di vision commercial engineer. He has held this position for a number of years and in this work has kept fa- , miliar with the growth of North and South Carolina and the telephone ' development in these two states. Dr. Fred E. Holcombe OPTOMETRIST Offices at 200 South Broad St Office Hour* 9:00 to 5:39 Phone €58 BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES NOTED The Chronicle Extends Greeting* T® Those Whose Birthday* and Anniversaries Orenr This Week. :::;::::s::usa5ccnnnnnntinta»nnc»nnnnnnc»Hwaaaiiintvx;»agc:: a Qteu) :: • • • • • • • • • • :: • • :t • • • • :: :: ft :: :: :: MMOAMRi rjheaJbie llo\ Office Opens 2:45 — Saturday 12:45 10 A. M. Shows Monday and Thursday Thursday and Friday, Dec. 8-9 :: • • :: :: Lake Greenwood. Th Federal ex- j pert arrived early this week andi spent yesterday morning becoming acquainted with the Lake Shortly) after noon, an inlet formed by a! branch coming into the lake from the gently rolling hills in Laurens coun ty was blocked off by stretching a net across its mouth A stretch of I water, extending about 100 yards oack to the mouth of the branch. | v.a* then treated with this special happyduit In a short while, small, Miss Carolyn Pitts celebrated a fish began to break the surface of birthday Monday. December 5. the water Punch-drunk and groggy. | George Ciybum Cato, son of Mr thc> swam for a while on their backs and Mrs George Cato, will celebrate or sides before being netted by the birthday December 11. wardens and dumped into pails. Frank Hartsell McKee, son of Mr Hungry Cat ' land Mrs J D McKee, will be two! Thu process continued for several Jear j 0 \^ Dec^n^r 12. hour*, as two boats cruised back Pa^hai Lewis Pitt*. Jr., son of, and forth over the inlet, netting hun- Mr and Mrl Lewil win I deeds of small fish Only -Mw® or brate hig jeoond birthday Dec 12 » three fish, including one cat, were Sara Agatha Hiers, daughter of big enough to eat. which may or Mr and Mrs. Marion C. Hier*. will may not mean anything One such ^ one ytBr oW December 9 and the cat each weighed over a y\ T and Mrr A cyDamel are ob- pound and the cat was further weigh- serving their wedding anniversary rd down by several small fish that today hr had gulped in bi« greed The tail, Mr. and Mrs. E E Wells observed of one small bream extended from a wedding anniversary December S the cat's mouth, but several more Ermiy Merrill Thayer, daughter had gone the way of all small fish 0 f Mr ana Mrs. Al G Thayer. wiU The unusual ang'e to all this was celebrate a birthday December 9. that the poison did not spoil the fish. December 13th it the birthdav of for eating purposes However, we'd b H Suddeth _________ | Mrs Cecil Scogm is celebrating a birthday today t Melanie Fant Martin, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Taylor Martin, of Newberry, formerly of this city, has 1 birthday December 12. Mr. and Mrs. P M. Clement will celebrate a wedding anniversary December 15. Mrs. Clement is the former Miss Elizabeth Nelsra of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Dula of Lau rens, will celebrate their wedding anniversary on December 15 Mrs.! Dula is the former Miss Madeline Adair of this city. Wayne Martin Bauknight, son of| Dr. and Mrs. P. L Bauknight, of Greenville, will celebrate a birth day December 15. Sherrie Diane Sessorm. daughter of Mr and Mis. L C Se ssoms. Jr , was two years old December 3. Gloria Fay Boyd, daughter of Mr end Mrs. J P. Bayd, was two years old December 6. T J. Dailey, formerly of Baldwin, Ga.. observed his 84th birthday Sunday, December 4. Mr. Dailey is making h'.s home with his daughter, Mrs. J. IJ. Dailey. McGee’s Drug Store \\ e*it Main St. — Phone No. 1 " aWBBtmaBdMHHHBBBHBMHBBddBHHBeHHMBdBHBBBHflBBHddHWBWMI An Announcement! :1 Saturday, Dec. 10 - One Day Only The Desperadoes Mighty Kpic of the West With Kundolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Evelvn Keves :: 8 ®Vs WARNER BAXTER. MICKEY ROONEY. WALLACE BEERY SLAVE SHIP Feature: 2:40, 4:52. 7:04. 9:16 Chapter 13— Batman and Robin 9c and 35c 10 A. M. Show WEDNESDAY I am now open and _qm prepared to do your Mechanical Work Large or small jobs. Rood seryice. Will try to give my customers the kind of service they want. Whatever your needs—see me. J. P. BOYD (Jake) In City Limits on Whitmire Highway Former Service Manager of Timmerman Motor Co. Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 12-13 THE INIIMATE STORY Of A DOCTOR’S PRIVATE LIFE! M-G-M presells I S :: I a i H Wednesday, Dec. 14 — One Day Only House Across The Street Mystery With Wayne Morris, Janis Page, Bruce Bennett and Alan Hale aoauago»«MB«HmtiiHBW«MCBiiiugr»rinmmnnntiiiHiwinrintirictfifi;i»w FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, December 9 and 10 GENE AUTRY in THE COWBOY AND THE INDIANS With SHEILA RYAN and “CHAMPION” Feature: Friday: 2:00, 4:43, 7:26, 10:09. Saturday: 1:54. 4:37, 7:20, 10:03. 0 MY DARLING CLEMENTINE With ROY ACUFF and THE SMOKY MOUNTAIN BOYS and GIRLS. * ~ Feature: Friday. 3:10. 5:53, 8:36. Saturday: 3:04, 5:47, 8:30. Chapter 12— James Bros, of Missouri 9c and 35c MONDAY AND TUESDAY, December 12 and 13 Feature: 2:24, 4:18, 7:24, 9:18. NEWS-SHORT. 9c and 35c Names of Needy Children Available At Welfare Department The County Department of Wel fare Mrs. Mabel Little, director, states that the department will be glad to furnish local clubs and or ganizations a list of needy children in this community to be remembered at the Christmas season. If there are individuals or organizations who are interested they are asked to _ contact the department office at Laurens and needy names will be supplied. James Carson, M. D. Physician - Surgeon Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat ...and... General Practice Fitting Contact Lenses Fish Scale or Plastic French Style and the Common Kind We Mold the Frame To Fit the Face—No Bending DR. JAMES CARSON, M. D.. has done post-graduate at Kra- kenkasse Clinic at Leipsic and Tttlane Ear, Eye. Nose and Throat Hospital. He is now In the Jacob* Building, Suite 219, Clinton. S. C. Hours 9 to 5 And by Appointment (Dr. Ci Phone 4C3-R Win Blake Calb) Special Sale! « WOMEN’S COATS i i •Values to 40.00 New fall colors and styles in lOO'c all wool. Sizes 8 to 18 Womens Coats . . 39°® Values to 59.00 (/ene Mnderson's Your Merry Christmas Store — ■ A