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Clinton, S. C., Thursday, July 22,1954
Number 29
Local National Guard
Goes To Camp Sunday
lottenr S Consisting Of Six Officers And 114 En
listed Men To Spend Two Weeks Training.Feriod
At Comp Stewart, Go.
Serly next Sunday morning e Corporal*—Bofain F. Attaway,
oonvOy of army trucks will roll Hubert Dl Bridges, Temple
away from the local National I Carnpfceil, Edward F. Carroll,
Guard Armory and Battery B, Robert C. Cobb, William E. Dom-
107 AAA AW Bn (SP) will be on | imek, Silas Douglas, Carl E. Ea-
v its way to the annual summer ton, Charles a Foster, Robert L.
camp at Camp Stewart, Ga. The! Franklin, J. B. Gilliam, Riley 1*
Battery will join other units of Gilmer, James W. Holland, A1
the 107th Batallion at Trenton
and the groups will proceed in
one large convoy for a two
week’s encampment training.
The Battery, equipped with
four M'16 Multiple Machine
guns and three 40 MM Anti-Air
craft guns will tarin primarily in
anti-aircraft tactics. The train
ing, officers state, will consist
primarily of practice firing the
weapons at radio-controlled and
aiiplane towed targets. Also on
the training schedule are class
es and practice in the use of the
Rocket Launcher, Carbine and
Sub-Machine gun.
The Battery is headed by Capt.
Guy A. Tumblin as the com
manding officer. Other officers
are 1st Lieut. Milford Smith as
executive officer, 1st Lieut. Vail
Oxner, 2nd Lieut Robert Can
non, 2nd Lieut George Wolfe
and Bobby Sanders Warrant
Officer.
The following is the roster of
the company:
• Master Sergeants — TuUje E.
Blackwell, Louis J. Bond, Ralph
E. Johnson.
Sergeants First Class—William
J. Bailey, Arthur R Davis, Chas.
H. Johnson, Bobby J. Meadors,
Claude B. Monroe, Robert A-
Neighbors, Charles T. Oakley,
Edward E. Simmons, Roy T.
Smith, Haskell R. Williamson.
Sergeants—James R. Braswell,
Robert A. Butler, Harold N.
Copeland, James M. Copeland,
Jr., George R. Corley, Douglas
E. DeYoung, Heibtrt W. Fallow,
Robert A. Gmdnar, Samuel O.
Hairston, Francis 6. Lowery,
Charles R. Meadors, Henry E.
Pitts, Otha H. Price, Harold C
Johnston Takes
Over Lead In
Carolina loop
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Johnston climbed back on top
of the Carolina League peren
Saturday night by handing
Greenwod a 0-2 loss while
Mathews dumped Ware Shoals,
7-1, and the two. teams are now
• knotted lor second place at one-
half games behind Johnston.
The torrid battle for the 1054
Carolina Textile League pennant
is going down to the wire and
with eight games remaining for
each club, five teams have a
chance to capture the pennant
in the exciting race.
While the top clubs were
knocking each other out, Clinton
and Calhoun Falls have moved
into contention for the pennant
with Clinton only four games off
the pace and Calhoun Falls is
ont-half game behind the Cava
liers.
Calhoun Falls bumped Joanna
6-5 and Ninety Six racked up. a
5-2 victory over the Clinton
nine.
Games this Friday night will
find v Joanna at Greenwood,
1 Mathews at Johnston, Calhoun
Falls at Clinton and Ware
Shoals at Ninety Six.
How They Rata
W L Pet.
Johnston 1# 8 .704
Ware Shook 18 t .692
Mathews 18 8 .892
Clinton 14 11 .580
Calhoun Falls 14 12 .538
Joanna 12 15 .844
Ninety Six 7 20 .259
Greenwood ..... 2 23 1.074
fred W. Johnson, Darrell J. John
son, Thornton M. Meadors, Alvin
A. Nabors, Steve C. Neal, James
X. Owens, Sam O. Owens, Ralph
V. Simmons, George R Simpson,
George J. Sineath, Jr., Jimmy L.
South, J. W. South, Joe B. Spili-
ers, Broadus R. Starnes, Charles
J. Vincent, Thomas D. Young.
- Privates First Class—William
B. Adams Perry R. Burbage,
Bobby B. Cannon, James E. Car-
roll, James B. Cathcart, Jr., Nim
W. Dunaway, Jesse F. Fuller,
Franklin M. Gilliam, James C.
Kemells, Jr., George N. King,
Jr, Thomas L McCarson, Chas.
rA. Oxner, Ronald F. Pace, Bob
by G. Pearson, Bobby F. Quinn,
Wright M. Simpson, Howard E.
Stroud, William Thrift, George
C. Tucker, Donald E. Vander-
ford, Boyce L. Wilson, Bobby C.
Wooten. •
Privates (E-2)—Fred D. Ad
ams, Charles L- Barlow, Millard
H. Campbell, Silas M. Campbell,
William R. Carlisle, David L.
Eaton, Henry D Haselden, John
nie E. Horton, Jr, Eddie L. John
son, Jack O. Laney, Carl P.
Lusk, Kenneth S. McCrary,
Claude H. McElhannon, Guy H.
MoElhannon, William L. Moore,
William M. Patterson, Floyd M.
Phipps, Isaac H. Phipps, Frank S.
Pitts, Harold P. Prater, Augus
tus I. Ray, Bobby L. Richey,
Harold W. Simmons, Guy G.
Smith, Jr, Ruben B. Stroud.
Privates (E-l) — Tommy E.
Butler, Herman J. Coleman, Is-
Q. Evans, Jimmie E. Greg-
JL Lukstat,
Pitts, Frank H. Rowe, Charles
W. Templeton, Doyle L. Temple
ton, Lawrence E Young.
Mr. and Mrs. Scblior
Return To Home Here
Friends of Mr. ana Mrs. Don
Schlier and small daughter jviU
be interested to know they have
returned to their apartment here
in the home of Miss Jemie
Little on Woodrow street.
Mr. Schlier who has been in
army service two years has re
eently returned from Korea, and
will resume his position with
Hallmark Manufacturing Carp.
Mrs. Schlier’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. B. K. Woodward of Milling
ton, N. J., are visiting here.
The Wobtr Family
Moves Into The City
Dr. and Mrs. F. L Wdbfa and
daughter, Miss Louise Cox, have
moved into the city and are now
occupying a recently completed
home on Woodrow street.
The Wefabs have made their
home on the Whitten Village
campus for a number of years
where Dr. Wsbb holds the posi
tion of assistant superintendent
and medical director.
JAMES MacDONALD. M. D.
Joanna Community
Now Has Two
Resident Physicians
The thriving Joanna Cotton
Mills community now has two
private practitioners to serve the
medical needs of the people of
that area.
Dr. James Macdonald recently
moved there with his family and
began practice on July 15 with
his office located on Joanna
Square at the entrance of the
mill.
Dr. Macdonald was reared in
Columbia, and graduated from
the public schools of that city
and Orangeburg. He attended
The Citadel, Charleston, for one
year before entering the Army
Mother, Child
Die In Wreck
Near Laurens
Woodruff, July 19.—A Spartan
burg county mother and her five,
year-old daughter were killed in
stantly Monday at 11 a.m. when
a piokiip truck driven by the
mother went out of control on
Highway 221 near Latrford and
collided with a transport truck.
Mrs. Mary HaWldns Lida, 35,
of near Enoree, and her daughter,!
Mery Patsy, were thrown from 1
the pickup in the collision. The
driver of the transport truck,
F. D. Harlan, 37, of Americus, Ga.,
was not injured.
Laurens County Coroner Joe
Smith impanelled a jury and set
an inquest for 11 a.m., July 28.
The accident was investigated
by Qpl. J. T. Townsend of the
State Highway Patrol and Deputy
Sheriff Paul Prince.
Corporal Townsend said Mrs.
Lida was traveling north and
went into a curve that bears back
to the left. Getting into the curve
she ran up behind an automobile
driven by L. C. Capps of Rt. 1,
Laurens.
When she saw she was over
taking Mr. Capps she must have
spied the transport owning from
the opposite direction and applied
her brakes. The tracks indicated
that she skidded off the right side
of the road, Corporal Townsend
said, and lost control of her pick
up, which swung back to the left
side into the path of the oncoming
transport, meeting it pracically
head-on.
He said the pickup was demol
ished and extensixe damage done
Junior Clan RopresontatiYe Clinton Hi
l u $ '’sSp
Air Corps for twenty-seven to \ he ~ tr3inaf>on '
Corporal Townsend quoted Mr.
months from 1943 to 1945. Re
leased from the service he re
turned to The Citadel from
which he graduated in 1949, He
then entered the Medical College
of South Carolina from which he
graduated' in 1953. During the
summer months while attending
the Medical college he received
Harlan as saying that he sarw the
pickup swerve into his path and
sought to avoid it by guiding his
truck as far as possible out on the
shoulder to the right but could not
avoid the collision.
His own examination of the
truck Corporal Townsend said,
Joanna Hospital
Has 5lh Anniversary;
Barbecue Given
The Joanna Memorial Hospital
celebrated its fifth anniversary
last Friday evening with 125 per
sons attending a barbecue din
ner served in the Joanna club
house. The preceding hour from
6 to 7 o'clock was given over to a
tour of the hospital with 14-bed
facilities including an operating
room, laboratory, and complete
obstetrical department. The hos
pital, modern in every detail,
representsan investment of
more than 3150,000 and was
erected as an employee-employer
project by voluntary contribu
tions from Joanna employees
and a generous gift from the late
William H Regnery of Chicago.
The hospital was opened for the
admission of patients on July 15,
1949, at which time it was dedi
cated to the World War II dead.
Guests at the anniversary cele
bration included 30 doctors and
their wives from Clinton, Lau
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MISS JOAN RAY
In the recent beauty queen selections at Clinton high representa
tives for its five grades were named.
For the junior class Miss Ray was chosen. She is ths daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Tan M. Ray of this city.
additional training in the Massa-.^Qj^ ou ^ driver’s state
chusetts General Hospital uMment.
Boston. He served a junior in-j Tht . also quoted Mr.
Marion Sima hespitaMcappi as saying that when he met
Lancaster, during the summer of
1952, and a year’s internship at
General hospital in Greenville,
which he recently completed.
Dr. Macdonald married the
former Miss Lucia Jenkins of
Charleston, and they have one
small daughter. - Their residence
in Joanns is on Lauren* Road.
Dr. D. H. McFadden, whose
residence is on Milton Road, be
an the practice of medicine at
oanna in 1941. He was in the
armed services from 1942 to 1945.
Following his discharge he re
turned to Joanna to resume his
profession.
the transport it was traveling at
a moderate rate of speed on its
side of the road.
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I:
Completes Work At
University Of S. C.
Gilbert Blakely, son of Mrs. J.
B. Speake of this city, has com
pleted work for a bachelor of
Science degree in business ad
ministration at the University
of South Carolina and will re
ceive his diploma later at regu
lar graduating exercises.
He leaves Sunday to attend a
six weeks Marine Corps training
camp at Quantico, Va., at the
end of which he will receive his
coipmission as a lieutenant.
making no charges for the present.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lida
and her 5-year-old daughter were
conducted Tuesday afternoon at
New Harmony Baptist church
near Fountain Inn by the Rev.
Robert Edwards and the Rev.
John Stepp. Burial was in the
church cemetery. •
Mrs. Lids’s survivors include
her husband, Homer Lida; one
son, Eugene Lida; a sister, Dor
othy Hawkins of Laurens, and a
brother, Bobby Hawkins of near
Enoree.
Natural Gas
Office Opened
On South Broad
The Clinton-Newberry Natural
Gas Authority has recently
changed location of its offke
from the city hall to 111 S- Broad
St., telephone' 460. All Natural
Gas customers will pay their
monthly gas bills at this office.
Mayor Joe P. Terry stated that
CLERK OF COURT
MAKES ANNUAL
REPORT FOR COUNTY
Larceny Heads List of
Offenders With Violators
of Liquor Law Second
The report of Clerk of Court
Walter E. Dunlap for the year
ending June 30 showed that a to
tal of 245 cases were disposed of
in the county General Sessions
court. •'»
Five of the 245 were found not
guilty and 154 were either found
guilty or pleaded guilty without
trial. Eighty-six cases resulted
in no bills by the grand jury or
were discontinued.
House breaking and larceny
led the cases with 45 disposed of
in some manner. Ranking next
was larceny with 31 cases; viola
tion of the liquor law 23; and
abandonment and non-support
22
Cases disposed of include the
following, the number indicating
rens. Newberry, Njnely^Htr-Pttlty^rdew otherwise speci
Wyman Shealy who has in' the
past been employed by the city,
will continue to serve as manag-
_ , HU. . tr of the distribution department
Corporal Townsend said he i* ant j w jji ^ available for counsel
Ireland Youth On Visit To Farms In
This Stale Including Laurens County
Chronicle Advs Are
AII-ImportantTo You
The advertising columns of
THE CHRONICLE each week
carry important and helpful
advertising “news’* from local
business firms. They tell you
of latest prices and values in
groceries, meats, clothing, dry
goods, automobiles and all
lines of merchandise. They
help you in supplying Use
daily needs of your family
and home
Shop in THE CHRONICLE
first Newspaper advertising
is all important to the buying
public. It doea not hang on
the air .... it is not brief
headlines here or there with a
momentary inturaat Adva
have an invariant local value
to you. Thflor help yau buy
well and save. Don’t over
look them.
John A. Crombie, an Interna
tional Farm Youth exchangee of
Northern Ireland, is in the state
visiting farm families to learn
about our agriculture and the
American way of life.
He has visited the Fred E. Mc
Laughlins in Florence county
and the J. W. Tinsley family in
Laurens county in the Trinity
Ridge community for ten days,
and has talked to delegates at
the State 4-H Conservation camp
at Rocky Bottom in Pickens
county July 5-9.
L. O. Clayton, state IFYE
chairman, said that John’s sched
ule also includes spending sev
eral days with the Joe Stuart
family in Dillon county, speak
ing at the State Master 4-H club
meeting at Camp Cooper July 30
to August 1, and being on the
program of the State 4-H Council
meeting August 2-6 at Camp
Cooper.
John lives wuu nis family on
a 65-acre farm in Northern Ire
land. His farming record shows
that he has taken port in stock
judging, public speaking, silage
making, and farm efficiency
competitions. He has won the
championship for stock judging
and a trophy in a silage contest.
For 13 years, he has been a mem
ber of Mstwynia Young Fuvners’
club and recently represented
on a tour of
On their farm the Crombiee
have a hard of 48 Holstein and
City Is Given
Cerfificite For
Traffic Safely
Last week Mayor Joe P. Ter
ry and Police Chief B. B. Bal
lard accepted on behalf of the
City of Clinton a certificate of
merit for the city’s accomplish
ments in traffic safety from the
South Carolina Automobile asso
ciation.
The framed parchment was
presented by Jack Conn, division
manager of the Motor club on
behalf of the company and T. C.
Bryant, president of the National
Automobile association with
which the State AAA is affiliat
ed.
In making the presentation
Mr. Conn said, “It is a real pleas
ure to have this opportunity to
present the City of Clinton with
this certificate recognizing its
fine record in traffic safety that
has been accomplished here.”
In the acceptance city author
ities made it clear they ..would
not rest on their laurels and will
strive always to maintain a good
safety record for years to come.
and advice at any time. Mayor
Terry also stated that J. H.
Smith will continue as general
manager of both Clinton and
Newberry and that when he can
not be reached, Mr. Shealy will
be available-
The Authority wishes to ateie
that its staff of capable employ
ees will install appliances that
you wish to purchase from your
dealer on a cost basis- If you
need service of any nature per
taining to gas, the Authority will
be happy to make this service
call at no charge
1954 Polio
Toll Now Af
83 In Stale
Aryshire cows, 40 pigs, and 300
hens; grow hay, fodder beets and
grass for sitege; fatten 30 lambs
annually; and produce grade A
fluid milk.
John has come to the United
States 8s an exchangee in the In
ternational Farm Youth Ex
change to live and work with
farm families in South Carolina,
and Nebraska. This project, in
turn, enables selected farm
youths from this country to visit
farm families in other countries
for four to six months. Some 120
young men and women from the
United States will visit in 42
other countries this year. Billy
Dailey of Marlboro county is
now in Scotland.
This two-way exchange helps
farm youth to understand how
farm families in different coun
tries live and work. The pro
gram is dedicated to the belief
that understending people is the
foundation of world peace, and
mutual respect and understand
ing must begin at the family
level.
TO CALL 2X600 MEN
The Army has issued a draft
call for 23,000 men in September,
the same quote previously an
nounced for July and August
The Srakwbw draft will taring
te 1,701.430 the total nranhar of
men drafted or earmarked tor In
duction since the resumption of Sunday, July 2&
Selective Service in Septemebr, lag an requested to bring picnic
1*86. lunches and tea.
Special Services At
Holly Grove Church
A series of revival services will
begin at Holly Grove Baptist
church Sunday night July 25,
and will continue through Satur
day night July 31. Services will
begin each evening at 8 o’clock,
with the Rev. James Mitchell of
Joanna as the guest minister.
Rev. M. Floyd Hellaxns, pastor,
invites the public to attend these
services.
COLEMAN REUNION
TO RE HELD SUNDAY
The rlwsrenrisnti and relatives
of the late Absalom and Matilda
Coleman will hold their annual
family reunion at Gamp. Fel
lowship on Lake Greenwood,
ColuotbU, July 19.—There have
been 83 cases of poliomyelitis re
corded in South Carolina this year
through Sunday, the State Board
of Health said today.
This compares with 46 cases at
the corresponding point a year
ago.
Fourteen of the cases oocuraed
last week, compared with nine for
the corresponding week of 1953.
The State Health Department
said about half the caaes this* year
Farai Women To Have
County District
Meetings This Month
The home demonstration clubs
in Laurens county will have
their annual district meetings
the last week of July at 4;00 p.
rrv North District will be at
Gray Court-Owings school on
Monday, July 26, with the Ow-
jygs club as hostess. Mrs Toy
Patton is director with the fob
lowing clubs in her district: Dur
bin, Lantord, Youngs, Owing*,
Grsenpond, v Bethany, Warrior
Creek and Ora.
East district meets at Long
Branch school on Wednesday,
July 28. Mrs. Joe Poole is di
rector of Shady Grove, LongfDr. F. K. Shealy, Clinton, Dr. G
L Thomas, Ninety-Six and Dr.
Macdonald
Greenville and Columbia. Others
attending were members of the
board of directors and trustees of
the Joanna Foundation which
sponsored and operates tne hos
pital; their wives and husbands
and members of the Joanna Re
lief Chest, an organization ad
ministering a mutual benefit em
ployee hospitalization progranr
John Holland Hunter of the
Joanna personnel department,
presided and presented Walter
Regnery, the company’s execu
tive officer, who made the prin
cipal address.
Mr. Regnery traced the history
and gave the purposes of the hos
pital. John Ross, Relief Chest
president, spoke on the workings
of that organization. Miss Kittle
Mae Moseley, hospital adminis
trator, conducted the visitors
with her staff, through the hos
pital and spoke briefly of its
service to the community and
the splendid cooperation it has
received since its opening.
,.- Dr James Macdonald, who ar-
Branch, Wadsworth, Musgrove,
Barksdale-Narme, Oak Grove,
and Sandy Springs clubs in the
district.
Mrs. Gray Hipp is director of
West district which meets at Ed
en Community building on
Thursday, July 29. Trinity Ridge,
Eden, Shiloh, Hickory Tavern,
Center Point-Camak, and Cross
HiU-Mountville clubs are in the
West district.
The County Council of Farm
Women's chorus will sing three
selections. Mrs. Harold Wallace
and Mrs. Charles Hill are the di
rectors for the chorus.
A dress revue will be present
ed by three representatives from
each of the clubs. These women
made and modeled dresaee at
their regular club meetings in
June and were selected by club
members to represent their club
in the county district dress re
vue- The demonstrations given
in the clubs for the past three
months have been on clothing
and a hat remodeling school was
held in May. Club members re
modeling hats will model these
in the dress revue.
Each president will give a re
port of the year’s activities for
have been of the paralytic type. her club - These reports will be
None of hundreds of Charleston and outstanding dubs
abandonment and non-sup
port, 16; one not guilty; assault
and battery with intent to kill, 6;
assault and battery of a high and
aggravated nature. 5; carrying a
concealed weapon, 3; disposing
of property under hen, l; driv
ing while under the influence of-~
intoxicants, 11; forgery, 5.
Also houe breaking and lar
ceny, 40; larceny, 11; one not
guilty; larceny and receiving
stolen goods, 6; malicious mis
chief, 2. manslaughter, 2; mur
der, 2; not guilty. 3; obtaining
goods under false pretense, 1; re
ceiving stolen goods, 3; violation
of check law, 5; violation of li
quor law. 21; one not guilty;
breaking into motor vehicle with
intent to commit a crime, 2; as
sault, 1; operating a motor ve
hicle while driving license was
suspended, 1; grand larceny, 1;
house breaking with intent to
commit a crime, 1; involuntary
manslaughter, l; burning to de
fraud insurance, 2; escaping pub
lic works.
rived recently to begin practice
at Joanna, was presented. All
doctors present were introduced,
including the following present
and former doctors of Joanna
who were seated at the head ta
ble: Dr. D H McFadden, Joan
na; Dr. W. T. Martin, Greenville;
Laurens 4-H Girls
And Boys Attending
District Round-Up
Annual Co-Op
Laurens Med
On August 2-3
The annual membership meet
ing of the Laurens Electric Co
operative. Inc , has been an
nounced for August 2 and 3 with
the activities to be held tn a
large tent at the Laurens couity
fair grouids The announcement
is made by Henry Faria, manager
of the co-op.
Business, beauty and tractor
driving wil compete , for the
membership meeting Full de
tails as to the program will be
announced next week.
The co-operative has lines in
Laurens. Greenville, Spartan
burg, Anderson, Newberry and
Union counties.
county second grade school chil
dren who were innoculated with a
new vaccine this spring has con
tracted the disease, although other
children in the temllies of some
have been struck by it.
County Co-Ops Get
Loon $595,000
For Extensions
in the county will be recognized
at the fall meeting of the County
Council of Farm Women.
REA loans totaling more than
one million dollars for electric
cooperatives at Laurens and
Pickens have been approved by
the Rural Electrification Ad
ministration, according to an
nouncements made last week
from Washington.
The $595,000 loan will enable
the Laurens Co-Op to service 1,-
000 additional consumers juid to
smake necessary system improve-
^ments. The Laurens Co-Op serv
es consumers in Laurens, Green
ville, Spartanburg and Newber
ry counties.
The Blue Kioge Electric Co
operative in Pickens had a loan
of 9430,000 approved to be used
to connect 700 new cnosumers in
Oconee, Pickens, Anderson,
Greenville, and Spartanburg
counties.
Friends of Mrs. Ansel Godfrey
will rasqri to know aha is ill and
• patient at Hags hospital.
Revival Services At
leesville Church
To Begin Sunday
Revival services will be held
at the Leesville Southern Metho
dist church July 25 through Au
gust 1, at 7:45 each evening. Sun
day morning service July 25.
preaching 10:00 o’clock Sunday
school at 11:00 August 1 ser
vices, Sunday school 10:00 a m .
preaching at ll.*0 Oand 1:45. Al
so August 1 homecoming will
be observed and picnic dinner
will be served on the grounds.
The pastor, Rev. David Miller,
will be assisted by the Rev. Lynn
Corbett of Bowman with a pub
lic invitation to all the services.
Laurens county will be repre
sented with boys and girls at the
Piemont District Round-Up at
Camp Long, Aiken, yesterday
and today. These girls and boys
have been selected as county
winners for outstanding work in
the various 4-H projects and a(iir
compete for further honors in the
Pie<hnont district. _
Those attending are Clara p J I D l.
Mae Thornhill, Clinton, clothing rTOd L. DUChOltQIV
achievement; Jane WatU, p ass€s | n TryOII
Mountville, dress revue and good -
grooming; Dorothy Haynes, Clin
ton, bread making; Idella PotU
and Mae Belle Moeely, Clinton,
dairy foods team demonstration;
Jo Ann Gibbs, Trinty Ridge,
farm and home electric; Mattie
Lee Wylie, Clinton, canning;
Dorothy Culbertson, Hickory
Tavern, Frozen toods; Amelia
Bolt, Barksdale-Narnie, health
improvement; Benny Marlar,
field crops; George Wasson,
home grounds beautification;
Curtis Wallace, tractor mainte
nance; Sanford Chapman, dairy;
Pete Wickham, demonstration of
soil and water conservation: Ben
Brockington, farm and
electric and leadership; Larry
Smalley, entomology; Wallace
Burnet* and Don Willis, team
demonstration on soil and water
conservation
J S. Boozer, Hazle Ann Dean
and Myrtice Taylor. Extension
Agents, are attending the meet
ing with the group.
Fred L. Buchanan, 86, Try on
business man. died Tuasday
morning at a Tryon hospital after
a long ill
Mr. Buchanan was the son of
Mrs Aisce Buchanan of Swan-
nanoa, N C. and the late F. A
Buchanan, former Clinton test
dents. He was twwe married
the first time to Miss Sarah Eliz
abeth Word who died in 1951
the second time to Mrs. Florence
B Butler who * survives Also
surviving are his mother, two
daughters and two sons by the
first marriage: Sirs John P: La
zar, Columbia; Mrs C. E. Barnes,
home Uunfns> j o. and -Alfred Buch
an of Asheville; four sisters, Mrs.
Joe Land, Mrs. J. P Prather and
Mrs. George Holland of this city;
Mrs. W H Gibson of Swann-
anoa, N C.; two brothers, W A.
and D. J Buchanan of Joanna
Mr Buchanan, owner of Buch
anan's store, had served as a
steward in the Methodist church.
Clara Mae Thornhill. Juanita a director and president of the
SAIL FOR CYPRUS
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fern ter
sailed yesterday aboard the U6S
Constitution from New York for
Genoa. Italy They will fly from
Genoa to Nicosia on Cyprus Is
land where Mr. Feniter will re
sume his pnakion with Sacony
Vacuum OH Co. for two year*.
Mrs. Farriter is the
Mias Mae Dicus of this city.
Lovett, Dorothy Haynes. Jean
ette Welch. Idella Potts and Dor
othy Howell of the Whitten Vil
lage club, Joan Coker and Sybil
Lothndge of the Camak junior
club participated last week m
the district talent show
Errors Mode In
Church Officers
In the historical sketch of the
First Baptist church of this city
appearing in last week’s paper,
due to incorrect information fur
nished the reporter, an error oc
curred in listing three officers
of the church TTie Chronicle is
glad to corrcet.
The correct officers should
read: J. C Thomas, chairman
the board ef deacons; J. D
president of the Men’s Brother
hood; and R. & Truluck, Train
ing Union director.
of
Tryon chamber of commerce and
took part ia other business and
civic affairs
Funeral services were held
yesterday at Tryon Methodist
church with interment in the
Tryon cemetery
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