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t A V: Thursday, October 3,1957 THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Pa#:e Seven THREE MEN GET LIFE TERMS (Continued From Page 1) as the boy was taken for his usual afternoon walk by his Negro nurse' maid; take him to a pre-arranged secluded spot on the Enoree river in Spartanburg county, where Ja cobs would later meet them after collecting the ransom, money. Hie witness said Jacobs was to have paid him $30,000, Shelton $20,- 000, and Hill $5,000. Young said that when Jacobs first mentioned the plot to him the night of Feb. 14 when the defendant came to his home, Jacobs had said he was going to ask a ransom of $50,000. Hie next time he saw Jacobs, Young said, suggested to Shelton that they go to the Enoree River meeting place. He explained he suggested this for he knew that Shelton had the ran som note in his pocket and that of ficers were lying in wait at the river spot. He said that following Shelton’s arrest he went to Cross Anchor telephoned Jacobs and told him: “Things happened, and you can get going.” Jacobs, Young said, re plied “O. K.” In its'Cross examination, the de fense re-introduced testimony pre viously brought out by the state that Young had a record of two convictions for drunkenness, one for disorderly conduct and one for viola tion of the prostitution law. Attorney Sloan wanted to know Jacobs told him he was going to if Young had ever “informed’ on tip up the figure to $100,000. He said he did not know that the final figure was $350,000 until he read it in the newspapers after the arrest of the trio. Young ended his direct testimony at 12:45 p. m. and cross examina tion by attorneys Sloan and Aber crombie failed to shake his story. Through his lengthy testimony, the witness referred frequently to a little red notebook in which he said he had jotted down dates and other data, on instructions from Sheriff C. W. Wier, he said, during the period of Feb. 14 to June 10, the date the trio was arrested. This frequent reference to the notebook nettled Attorney Sloan and at one time the lawyer moved that the man’s entire testimony be stricken from the record. Judge T. B. Greneker, of Edgefield, promptly overruled the motion. Young said Jacobs had been drinking but definitely was not drunk when hp (Jacobs) came to his home Feb. 14. He said he was seat ed with Jacobs in Jacobs automo bile when Jacobs asked him: “Do you want to make some easy money” “Yes-* sir. How?” the witness said he replied “By kidnapping a child,” Young said Jacobs told him. Young said he told Jacobs he did not want to get mixed up in anything like that. .. Jacobs, he said, spent part of ' the night sleeping in the car and went into the house with Mm about 4:00 a. m. to get warm. H^ stayed throughout the next morning until Mrs. Jacobs arrived and the Mfo departed together. . -. • . . Young then said he went to a nearby country store and told the owner, Davis, what Jacobs had told him about kidnapping and th& Da vis then called the sheriff. v The witness said' that Sheriff anyone before and the witness said' he had not. “You were really acting as a de tective, weren’t you,” the lawyer asked. ‘ “No,” Young replied, “I was just carrying out the sheriff’s instruc tions.” , - - Young said he had been paid by the sheriff during the long investi gation and that he also had re ceived $100 from Mr. Vance after the men were arrested. “Didn’t you want to trap this man (Jacobs) in this thing,” Mr. Sloan asked. “No sir,” the witness replied. “I felt if it wasn’t for me going to the law I don’t believe that child would be living today.” was admitted in evidence and was read to the jury. Hie crudely-printed note gave de tailed instructions as to paying the $350,000 ransom note and threaten ing the chUd’s life if “the law” was informed. He also identified a second note, also admitted and read to the jury, as one Jacobs produced at the time of his arrest. This note told Ja cobs that if he wanted to help his friend, Bob Vance, he would go to the tree and retrieve the ransom money. Jacobs, the ■ SLED chief said, told him when arrested that “the note exp)ains everything.” Ja cobs said the note had been left under the door df his print shope, the officer added. Items Identified Lt. Fortson was recalled to the stand to identify items the solici tor wished to enter as exhibits. These included a cardboard carton about 10 by 16 inches which' had been left at the foot of the tree; a piece of brown paper which had been found on the floor of the car in which Shelton had been riding at the time of his arrest; brown paper found in the glove compartment in which the gauze and tape had been wrapped; a piece of blue toweling found in Jacobs’ shop; and a piece of toweling found on the floor of the car. All the items, except the box, had been sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington, examined, and re turned, Mr. Fortson testified. Robert B. Ducatt, an FBI agent began putting great pressure on him and finally appeared to threat en him with, blackmail if he still refused to go along with the scheme. Jacobs said that he and Young, a long-time friend and drinking companion, had been drinking the afternoon of Feb. 14. He said that he spent the night there. He said the pair resumed their drinking the next day. “I passed out,” Jacobs said. “I just fell across a bed and pased out some time after noon.” Jacobs’ wife came to the Young home and took her husband home early that night. He said the next time that he saw Young was about March ♦ when Young pame to the print shop Ja cobs owned and broached the sub ject of kidnapping. The defendant said he flatly re fused to join Young in the conspir acy, telling him: "I couldn’t do that. It’s foreign to my nature.” Young then told him, Jacobs said, that it was he, Jacobs, who had first mentioned a kidnapping dur ing the Feb. 14 drinking spree. have two children, a Boy 17, and a girl 13. \ , ‘ She testified that Young came to their home the afternoon of Feb. 14 and he and her husband began drinking. Hiey drank and got drunk together frequently ,she said. Later in the afternoon she said the pair 'drove off and that was the last she saw of her husband until she picked him up at the Young home the. next day. She said her husband remained drunk the next day. She said she knew nothing of the kidnap plot until after her husband had been arrested. On cross-examination, the solici tor attempted to show there was something of a “boss man-worker” relationship between the two men with Jacobs being the “boss'” Jacobs, it was brought out, fre quently had taken Young on trips out of town and H?d footed all bills for liquor, food and lodging. Young at one time woriu^ for Jacobs’ father and later hjf worked for the defendant. ’ In cross-examining Jacobs, the solicitor bgpught out the matter of $400,000 which Young, when he was Winslow Accepts Teaching Post At Indiana University Donald R. Winslow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rexford Winsloy, of San ford, Maine, has accepted a position as supervising teacher and instruc tor in biology at University High Two Negroes were eaUed to the from Washington, was next on the stand by the state. Substance of the testimony of each was that they had been approached by Hill and^n vited to join in the conspiracy, but both refused. Sheriff Wler was recalled to the stand and he told much the.same story as Young. The sheriff gave this deployment of officers on June 10, the date set for the kidnap attempt: one Offi cer stationed in the Vance home, seven officers concealed at the En oree rendezvous; and two officers, the sheriff and Agent Fortson, park ed nearby. The sheriff said that atiout 2 p.. m. he and agent Fortson saw Young and Shelton drive up and park near the Vance home. Young and his companion waited 4bout five min utes and then drove off, the sheriff said. „ Thursday’s Testimony Confessions of the two Negro de fendants admitting their part in the alleged conspiracy were read into the record. Hie confessions of Shelton and mil were read by Solici tor Jones and entered as exhibits over strenuous objections of defense Wier came to Ms home that night Jud « e < ? rene L ker over - 1 ruled the motions that the confes sions not be admitted. and he repeated to the officer what Jacobs had told him. - Young testified .that he next talk- 4 ed with Jacobs in the latter’s print shop in Clinton. Jacobs discussed the kidnapping again, he said, re marking that he .“could get $100,- 000 just as easy as $50,000.” The witness said he and Jacobs ' then went to a spot on the banks of the Enoree River in - the Mus- grove Mill Section and said that Jacobs told him that was the spot he had selected to hide the boy af ter he Was seized. The next time Jacobs contacted him was March 12. They met at a filling station and then went to Jacobs’ shop. ^The witness said “I wouldnt tell him yes or no about helping him" (in the kidnapping), Young said he was keeping the sheriff and officers of SLED who had fcsm cafiedJ^ in formed of every develpoment. The witness said that he did not see Jacobs again until June 5 and that was the first time, he said, ^that he learned the identity of the prospective kidnapping victim-.- He said on this date Jacobs told him he had arranged with two Ne groes to help him carry out the plot and named them as “Jobie and William T. Hill.” “He told me that he already had printed the ransom note with his left hand,” the witness said On June 8, Young said he went to Jacobs’ shop in a car furnnished When court reconvened Sheriff Wier was recalled to the stand and told of the arrest of Jacobs at the spot where a box containing dum my money-had been placed. - He said he and other officers had hidden at a crossroads where the Cross Hill to Kinards and the Clin ton to Chapells roads intersect about 7:30 p. m., June 10. He said that at about 8:15 p. m. a car stop ped briefly and then was driven off. At 8:30 p. m. another car drove up and a man, Robert Vance, got out and, using a flashlight, placed the box at the foot of a tree. He then drove away... At 8:35 another car stopped at the crossroads, a man got out, went to the pine tree marked with a white cross,, and picked up the box. The officers then stand. He described himself as an expert on fabrics and paper. He said examination in Washington showed that the pieces of paper had all come from the same sheet originally, and that the two pieces of toweling had been cut consecu tively from the same original piece. Attorneys for the defendants in dicated they would base their de fense on the element of entrap ment. Hme after time in their cross-examinations of the various witnesses, they sought to show that Lewis Young, who acted as a go- between for sheriff and SLED of ficers and the aUeged conspirators, actually had promoted the plot and urged Jacobs on with his plans. Shelton’s confession was obtained at SLED fieadquarters in Columbia on June 11, the day following the arrest of the trio. In it, he said that about May 25 Hill, his wife’s stop-father, came to his house and “told me he knew where I could get some money Several days later when Shelton was at Hill’s house, the confession related, and Mr. Jacobs came in. “Hill told me this was the man who knew where the money was, and would tell me how to get K. They were supposed to cut the telephone wire to Mr. Bob Vance’s house about that time Hill’s son came in and he quit talking.” Later, the confession said, Ja cobs took Shelton to a spot on the river. (Enoree) “He told me that when we got this boy we will bring him here, and I said bring him here for what, and he said that is how we get our money. I asked how much I wouk get and he said $10,000 or $15,000. Shelton said in his confession that on Monday morning, June 10, "Mr Young and Mr. Jacobs come to my house. Mr. Jacobs told me that this man is going to help. Mr. Jacobs told me to take this letter (ransom note) and the other man said to give H to him and put it in the pocket of the car . . . He told me 8 ra bb?d him. jhe ihg«f£.said. >-Tlje, to take ttitrlgCTgratfllo him by Agent Harold Fortson\ of — just -asked him-to-find out man was Jacobs, the sheriff testi fied. Under questioning by Solicitor Jones, the sheriff said he had paid Young about $94 during the course of the investigation. He said this was to compensate the go-between for his time lost from his job which the sheriff estimated at about eight or nine days. On cross-examination when he was asked whether Young had been promised any money for keeping of ficers informed of developments in the case, the sheriff said no prom ise had been made. Jacobs said he replied: “If I said °n the stand, had said Jacobs had iA. — _ • a 1 1 . a 11 tt t Is- it, it was just drunk talk.” His next visit from Young was in early May, Jacobs said, shortly after claim and delivery papers had been served against printing machinery in the closing of his shop. When Young asked him if he had decided to come into the plot, Jacobs said he replied: “I might and I might not.” - . Jacobs tesfitied that Young then took him to a secluded spot on the Enoree River and said that’s where he had decided to hold, the child. Jacobs’ testimony continued: “He again asked me to go into it with him and asked me to get somebody to help. I didn’t agree to it that day but I gave him to understand that I would. My job,” Jacobs said, “was to pick up the money.” Young; he said, was the one to have actually snatched the child when the maid took him for his customary walk- Jacobs said he also agreed to write the ransom note and did so at a later date. He also wrote'the second note which . was found on him when officers arrested him at the spot where he went to collect the ransom. ^ Jacobs said that about aSveek after he had more Or less agreed to come into the plot, he went to the home of Hill, whom he had known for years and tried unsuc cessfully to enlist his aid in the plot. However, he said he did get Hill to agree to help him find someone who would join him. The defendant said he went to Hill’s house a day or two later to see if Hill had found anyone, and there he met Shelton. He said the payoff as arranged by Young was to have been $150,000 each for himself and Young, with Shelton getting the remaining $50,- 000. “I figured,” Jacobs said, “that Hill had disqualified himself How ever, I’d probably have gvien him something, any how.” Jacobs said Young came to his print shop the morning of June 10 and said that would be a good day to “pull the job, if we can find Jobie." He said they located Shel ton, and the three drove to the En oree River spot in the Musgrove Mill community to take a last look at the terrain. mentioned' had been taken from him wrongfully. Jacobs said, under questioning, that what he had referred to was some 87 shares of stock in Clinton Cotton Mills which his 1 late father had owned but which he had never received. “Do you believe this stock you never got was withheld rightfully or wrongfully?” the solicitor asked.. “Wrongfully,” was-the reply. .. The solicitor then drew from the vCRness the admission that he be lieved Mr., Vance had received part of the stock, at .least. Saturday’s Session 'Jacobs was being cross-examined when court recessed -Friday and was returned to the stand Saturday morning. However,-Solicitor Jones said he had no further questions. The defense called its final - wit ness, Gordon Whitlock,. 17, of Whit mire, who said he was in the Lau rens coifnty jail lihe-up of seven men when a Negro', John* Watts, picked out Jacobs . Watts had testi fied for the state that’Jacobs had been wearing a white short sleeved shin when he, appeared in the line- u. Whitlock today stated that Ja cobs had not been wearing a white shirt- —_• -V'--- Watts earlier bad testified Ithat he had seen Jacobs talking to. Hill at the latter’s home. Following completion of the de fense testimony, Solicitor Jones presented several witnesses in re ply. Dr E. M. Bum, a psycriatrist at the State Hospital in Columbia, tes tified that Jacobs had been given routine tests when sent to Colum bia for a sanity examination. He said that Jacobs had been given additional tests, a brain wave test, to determine whether he had any brain injury or disease. This addi tional test was administered, the doctor said, after Jacobs had told of having slipped and fallen, strik ing his head, a year and a half ago. The test revealed no damage what soever, the doctor said. Mr Burn also said that the series of tests revealed Jacobs to be a man of above average intelligence who knew the difference between right and wrong. . Lt Frank Faulk, SLED agent, t I citizen, comes originally from Lue- matinee on Oct nen, Westphalia, Germany. His ancestors long before him 'were Biblical Dramatists and he has been trained from childhood to enact'the!, leading role of the Christus. He has appeared before thousands of au diences in Europe, United States and Canada and is generally regard ed as the most talented portrayor of this dificult role in the history of the Passion Play. _ _The advance sale of tickets Pasisdn Play in Anderson will com ment <tat. 10 and tickets may be obtmned from Passion Play head quarters at the Independent' rjfl Daily Mail qffices in Anderson. R^ served seats for the matinee on Oct. ^ 27 and the evening performance*!-^ Oct. 28 , 29 and 30 are $3, $2.50, $1.50 and $1.00 r Prices for the student 2» and 29 are 50 cents for students and $1.50 for ad ults. * - j Color Television —SALES & SERVICE— „ ■ S f ' i See RCA and Admiral Color TV at Our Store Licensed Color TV Servtoetnan . Laurens TV & Appliance Center ; 128 £!. Mala f eL 450 D DONALD R. WINSLOW School, School of Education, Indi ana University, Bloomington, Ind. A 1941 graduate of Sanford High School he received an AB degree in Zoology and MS degree in Education from Indiana University. Winslow served in the Navy between 1942 -and 1946 and was recalled -to -ser vice during 1951-52. For the past four years he has been education counsellor and biol ogy teacher at Martinsville, Ind., High School and * sponsor of the Science Qub,'Photography Club and Morgan County Science Fair. "Winslow is married to the former Miss Frances Thomason, daughter Of- Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Thomason, of this city, and they have a three- year-old son, Donald Rexford,. 2nd. 1 - t Southern Bell Forms New Plant Group W. M- Richardson, of Spartan- buft. has been named plant^man- ager for a rtewly-created plant de partment group, with headquarters in Union, by Southern Bell Tele» phone Company. In addition to Union, Mr Rich ardson will'be in,charge of plant Young Given Note He said they retiyjpd to ius shop. -*- Produced pic- SLED. The car, he said had been equipped with a tape recorder. He said he and Jacobs rode in the car to Shelton’s home with the tape recorder turned on. Failing to find Shelton at home they rode to Hill’s house and Jacobs told him Jobie and I were going to pull a kidnapping. They -then rode by^lhe Vance home and Young said Jacobs point ed out to him the spot the nurse usually took the child and where “we could pick up the child. Jacobs told him that Shelton would hit the nurse in the head, and stuff the ransom note in her “bosom or her belt, while I snatched the boy.” The witness said that Jacobs later provided tape and gauze with which to gag the child. Later on June 8, the witness said Jacobs told him, “there won’t be any slip-up. Thw is the easiest scheme I could think of to get money and it’s better than robbing a bank or store, or something like ^hat.” Monday morning, June 10, Jacobs decided the kidnap attempt would be made that afternoon, Young tes tified. He said Jacobs said. "Jobie, Mr. Young and you will pick up the boy. Take your time and watch out.” Jobie said, “Yes, sir, all right.” Young said he picked up Shelton . about 2:00 p. m. that day, drove to Jacobs’ shop and got the ransom note and the tape and the gauze '■-it from Jacobs. He said he and Shelton then park ed near the Vance home and wait ed for five minutes. When the maid 4 and the child foiled to appear he what he could and to give it to us; that he did,’’ the sheriff said. The defense made much of the fact that Sherif Wier and SLED of ficers consulted several times with the state attorney general and with Solicitor Jones about the case . Mr. Sloan and Mr. Abercrombie insisted that the visits were for the purpose of finding out how . much evidence the officers would need in order to convict Jacobs and the two Negroes of a kidnap conspiracy. However, the sheriff denied this. “We were not trying to build up a case,” he said. “We were trying to get the truth.” The sheriff answered^affirmative- ly when Mr. Sloaqxasked him if he did not know what Young would tell Jacobs on the phone after Shel ton had been apprehended. (Young had telephoned Jacobs and had told him, ‘Things happened, get going.”) “Why didn’t you arrest Jacobs then?” the defense attorney want ed to know. “We were going to let the plan go all the way through,” the sher iff answered. The sheriff denied that Mr. Vance had objected to cooperating with the officers in the development of the case. “He did just what we told him to do,” Sheriff Wier said. J. P. Strom, of Columbia, SLED chief under whose direction SLED Lieutenant Harold Fortson had worked closely with the Laurens sheriff, followed Mr. Wier to the stand. After telling about the same story as Sheriff Wier, Chief Strom identi fied the ransom note which he said he had taken from Shelton at the time of the latter’s arrest. TTie note and to put this letter on the girl (nursemaid for the Vances.) He (Jacobs) asked me if I wante< to hit the girl with a stick and said, no sir, I could not do that. . Mr. Young picked me up in a black Ford about 1 o’clock (that same afternoon) . . . then we sit on the road awhile right below Mr. Vance’s house. We did not see nobody .... Then we rode out to the place we were ar rested ... where Mr. Jacobs had showed me before (on the Enoree River).’ Hill’s confession was obtained June 12 while he was dicing treated in Laurens County Hospital for a heart condition. Hill said that about six weeks before June 12 he was approached by Thomas Jacobs. “He said I have got a little something I will give you $20,000 if you will help me out on it . . . He said they ain’t no killing, nothing like that . . , said no killing, no murder, nothing like that*. . . He said I don’t want /lobody harmed at all . . all he wanted was'to pick up a little boy ... I said Mr. Thomas you will have to get somebody* else. I can’t do it. I ain’t got no nerve to try nothing like that . . . And he said, well, you can get sombeody to help me, can‘t you? ... I said I will try to do what I carf for you, and my son-in-law, Jobie Shelton, came by and I told him what he told me. He said what is it. I will do it . . . Jobie told me the little boy of Mr. Vance . . Friday’s Session Taking the stand in his own be half Friday, Jacobs insisted that it was Young who originated the idea of the kidnapping and had urged him on several occasions to help him carry it out. Time after time the defendant reiterated that he was only carrying out instruc tions from Young as he executed his part of the plot. * Jacobs said Young first proposed the kidnapping about the middle of last February, but it was not until the early part of May that he, Jacobs, agreed to join the con spiracy. During this period, the witness said, Young visited him several times to urge that he join in the plot. Toward the latter part or this period, Jacobs said, Young IfTHinton where he gave Young the ransom note which Young put in the cars’ glove compartment. He also gave them a package wrap ped in brown paper which he said Young had left in the shop earlier. He said Young and Shelton drove of and that was the last he heard or saw of them until he received a telephone call from Young telling him, “the job has been pulled. The child had been picked up and you sell out now.” Jacobs said he became so ner vous he couldn’t work and rode around in his car most of the after noon. He said twr^mr to the * spot where the money was to have been left and picked up the box. He said at this point: .» "They (state’s witnesses) have said there were eight officers hid den there. But somebody doesn’t know how to count. About 20 or 25 officers were all over me before I knew what had happened.” This ended the defendant's direct testimony and Solicitor Jones be gan cross-examination. The solicitor began a detailed reading of Shelton’s confession and questioned the witness closely on statements Shelton said Jacobs had made and actions taken by Jacobs. He was interrupted almost con stantly as Defense Attorneys David Sloan and Marshall Abercrombie repeatedly leaped to their feet with objections, most of which Judge T. B. Greneker quietly overruled. At one point, the solicitor told the judge the frequent interruption had reached a point of harassment - The state rested its case after sending Robert M. Vance, Sr., falth- er of the intended victim, to the stand. Mr. Vance told of being in structed by officers on June 10 to carry out the instructions of the note. He deserbied how he obtain ed a cardboard box and stuffed it with checks. He later took the box to the appointed place and re turned to his home. , After the state’s testimony was in ,the‘ judge overruled several motions by defense attorneys for a directed verdict of acquittal. Mrs. Jacobs, wife of the defend ant, was the first defense witness. She said she had been married to Jacobs for 19 years and they ture. of Jacobs which he said he had taken when the prisoner was at SLED headquarters shortly af ter his arrest June 10. The picture showed Jacobs to be wearing a white, short sleeved sport shirt. Police Chief B B. Ballard, of Clinton, also testified that Jacobs had been wearing a white shirt when he appeared in the police line-up Mrs. Young, wife of the state’s chief witness, said that she had not seen Jacobs on Feb. 14, the day the kidnap plot was said to have been conceived, until he appeared at, their home about 10:30 p, m She testified that he and her hus band talked a while in Jacobs’ car and then the men came into the \ 7”, 7 ~%r\ iL In Anderson Oct. 27-30 W. M. RICHARDSON operations in Clinton, Gaffney, York, Whitmire, Clover and other communities in those areas. A native of Greenville, Mr. Rich- aTrfBWrioTned"SOtHTTCrn Bell in 1941, at Greenville. He held a variety of assignments with the company in York, Spartanburg. Union and Gaffney. Prior to his new position, he was a supervisor in the Spar tanburg District plaiht office. Mr Richardson was plant fore man in Union from 1949 to 1951. During the Second World War he served with the Signal Corps in the 1 communications section. Mrs. Richardson is the former Lucille Boyd, of Clover. The Rich ardsons have three children, Bar-1 bara Lee, David Ronald and Wil liam M , Jr. Dakota Black Hills Passion Play To-Be house and Jacobs fell asleep, drank and slept there most of the'K » next day until Mrs. Jacobs came for him about 4:30 f>. m., she said. Mrs. Jacobs previously had testi fied that Young had spent most of the afternoon of Feb. 14 at the Jacobs home, drinking with her husband. She said the two men drove off together late in the after noon. Bill Patterson, of the Clinton po lice, said he had been ordered to watch Jacobs during the morning of Feb 16 He said the Jacobs car was driven from the house four times that day and Jacobs had been in the car on two of the occa sions Earlier testimony had been to the effect" that Jacobs had not left his home at all on Feb. 16. Rev. 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The Passion Play which was brought to Anderson in 1953 by The Independent and The Daily Mail! will be brought to Anderson again by the Anderson papers Octo ber 27 for a Sunday matinee per formance, with evening perform ances October 28, 29 and 30, and two other student matinee perform ances Oct. 28 and 29 The presenta tion of the Passion Play will be at the Recreation Center^on North Main Street. Proceeds from the performances will be for the benefit of the Sal- vation’ Army Christmas Tree Fund for underprivileged children. This great dramatic event, por traying several days in the life of Christ, is given during the sum mer months in a great ampithe atre in the Black Hills of South Da kota where the American Pasion Play originated, and during several months of each winter when the cast moves to Lake Wales, Fla Thousands of persons travel long distances each year to see the play in Dakota and Florida. Even When the Passion Play is given in Ander son .hundreds of persons come from many nearby counties and from even greater distances to view the dramatic spectacle. Josef Meier, now a United States ART EXHIBIT SPECIAL CONTESTS IN NEEDLE ARTS DIVISION SPECIAL CONTESTS IN FOOD ARTS DIVISION HOUSE OF FLOWERS HOBBIES JUNIOR ARTS SPARTANBURG CITY SCHOOLS DAIRY AND BEEF CATTLE THE HEREFORD SHOW THE HEREFORD SHOW, OCT. 18th THE HEREFORD SALE, OCT. 18th PIEDMONT PARADE OF MARCHING BANDS COLORED DEPARTMENT THE WORLD ON PARADE • In the Midway STOCK-CAR RACES SATURDAY AFTERNOON JACK KELLY’S ICE FROLICS In Front Grandstand 6 COUNTIES-2 STATES SPARTANBURG, OCT. 14-19,1957