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8 CLINTON-L EXPLORER S TAKE 35 JAUNT DC TWO RIV Fourteen members of Clinton's Explorer Post 60 tried their hand at navigation on a three day river trip this month. Traveling in six flat-bottom boats, they journeyed down the Enoree and Broad Rivers from near Clinton to Strother, a distance of about 35 miles. Taking off on the Enoree at Jones Bridge, about 10 miles from Clinton, at two o'clock Monday afternoon August 1st, they completed the trip at 3:55 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The boys carried rations for the three days and camped out on the river banks Monday and Tuesday nights. Clinton-Lydia sons making the trip were: Charles Cooper, Johnny Johnson, Nathan Gilstrap, Butch McElveen, and Billv Trammell. They were accompanied by Ellis Huffstetler, Lvdia Mills Athletic Director. Don Creighton and Bobby Womack. Bowater Paper Company Foresters. Creighton left the party at ! Whit mi re. on the Enoree being relieved by Womack. Claude Gilstrap and Odell Freeman furnished cold j drinks for the boys at this point. 1 Each boat was manned by I two or three boys and carried 1 gear and supplies and a five- < gallon can of water. Power 1 was furnished by good strong muscles and paddles. One of Clinton-Lvdia Mills' ; larger trailer trucks, driven ] by Oddist Thomas, met the RIVER R (] "super activity" August 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, 1960 Explorer Post #60, Clinton, Sc Carolina three (3) day Boat Trip d Bnoroe and Broad Rlvor3, beginning Jones Bridge on Enoree and ending Strother on Broad River, approxlms thirty five (35) miles. EXPLORERS PAI George Beaty, Charlie Cooper, Care "Scooter" Holcorabe, Johnnie Johns< McSween, Bill Nelson, Mike Redilc, Adults: Don Crelghton, Ellis Huf] The above color map, recording by Ellis Huffstetler. The framed r YDIA COUTS MILE x IWN Ad ERS ALL ABOARD . . . Ellis Huffs strap, Billy Trammell. Nathan Gili Johnson are ready to shove off i scouts by Skipper's Lodge. party at the end of their journey at Strother on the Broad River and returned the boats, which were loaned by Skipper's Lodge on Lake Greenwood. The bovs were brought back bv local cars. Explorer Post 60 includes 19 bovs in its membership and is sponsored by ClintonLydia Mills and the Clinton Lions Club. D. O. Freeman, >UTE OF TI1E EX '4 \| VWkWtI lot'n itoi7 ^trO" f*^4* "??*7 ITICIPATINO IN "St'PHK ACTIVITY" >1 Copeland, Nathan dllatrap, Johnnl >n, "Butch" McBlveen, Jimmle McKee, , Billle Shields, Billle Tranmell* Tstetler and Bobby VVomack. time and distance of each day's nap will be placed in the Exploi THE CLOTHMAKER Sil? Wr A tetler, Odell Freeman, Claude Gilstrap, Charlie Cooper, and Johnny n one of the boats loaned to the Clinton Mills Assistant Superintendent, is advisor of the group, with Claude Gilstrap. Lydia Mills Assistant Superintendent. Don Creighton and Bobbv Womack, associate advisers. Each explorer post is required to en^a^e in two "super activities" each year, which must be of three days or more duration. PLORERS ^ t l^^jmir'ia T 1 rf?mi frriic \ Vm*^[ . . ^-vV\r "R?p"v8r* ^4travel, campsites., etc., was drawn rer's Hut. CLINTON - LYDIA HOU WEEK A1 The above group of Horizon g prior to boardin gthe Clinton-Lydii Beach. FOOD FOR He who would climb a tree must first grasp its branches, not its blossoms. The future always holds something for a man who keeps his faith in it. Give the best you've got today. That's a recipe for "a better tomorrow". If you lose your temper, it is a sign that you "have wrong on your side". A nation is no stronger than the character of its citizens. One way to "get on" is to find a better way of doing things. Shallow men believe in luck. Wise men and strong men believe in cause and effect. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the others. Nothing will ever be attempted if you first must overcome "all possible objections". You are only doing your best when you are trying to improve what you are doing. Everything comes to him who waits ... if he works while he waits. Every good desire is a promise of what can be. if you earn it. The best way "to have face", is to keep the lower half of it shut more. I A MAN'S Teach mc that 60 minutes pound, and 100 cents a dollai can lie down at night with haunted by the faces of th brought pain. Clrant that I n the sc|uare. and in earning it would have them do unto m of tainted money. Blind me t and reveal to me my own . . to laugh with little children considerate of old a^e. And shades make the ceremony si "Here lies a man." AUGUST. 1960 ;iZON GIRLS SPEND r BEACH I Bi BS9 J KjgMr rjH [ i j I X W y 1 rfi t RBI iris and their leaders are shown a Recreation Bus for Ocean Drive THOUGHT The best way to win an argument is to avoid one. A determined man can do more with a rusty wrench than a loafer can do with all the tools in a machine shop. The "law of attraction" is universal. Everything works together for good, to those who sincerely believe in the good. The man who "never had a chance" is the man who wouldn't recognize a chance if he met it walking in the street in broad daylight. A small penny will hide the biggest star in the universe ... if you hold it close enough to your eye. Emerson once said, "Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that way I can learn from him." Tliis is the final test of a gentlemen, "That he shows his respect for those who can be of no possible use to him." A recipe for avoiding taxes; "Don't smoke, don't drink. don't eat, don't use gasoline, don't buy anything, don't live, and don't die." There is far more hunger for love and appreciation, in this world, than there is "hunger for bread". Do you help any? I'RAYKK make an hour. HI ounces a \ Help me to live so that 1 a clear conscience and tiniose lo whom 1 may have nay earn my meal ticket on I may do unto others as I e. Deafen me to tlie tingle o the faults of other fellows . . Keep me young enough and sympathetic so as to he comes the day of darkening lort and the epitaph simple: ?Author Unknown