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► I l / J. Vajie Two THE CLINTON CHRONICLE 7 Thursday, February 13, 1958 CHS Boys Turn Back Woodruff; Gaffney And Belton Victors CHS hoys were defeated in the last | Shady Grove H. D. Club ihome game February 7. (taffney |. r_ was*on top with a 36 49 score. nos February Meeting Ceci) Davenport, who led the scor- j mg,with 14 points, was closely trail-' The Shady drove Home lemon ed bv Tommy Sublett with 12. Hey-i Oration Club met Tuesday. Feb- ward Nettles was responsible for 8 ruary 4. at 3:30 at Shady Grove points Donnie Stewart. 2 1 ; Billy! Clufe* Hous? Devotional was given Cauble. 6. and Bobby Thomas, 7. by Mrs. B *C Cooper. During bus- The Devilettes. leading at the^end ■ IIH>SS session Mrs of the first quarter, finally suc- w hole cunvbed to a 43 28 defeaj from Gaff- Bobby nev Gaffney won the game, on foul shots. Dollv Crouch racked up 13 Clinton High Red/ Devils traveled to Woodruff last Tuesday night ai»d rtefeated the home team 62-56 The CHS boys were ahead the game Billy Cauble and Thomas each shot 17 points and tied for high scorer Joe l-ark put 10 SCH points through the hoop Heyward Nettles Dianne Price 3 12, Tommy Sublet! 3 and Cecil ^The Clinton teams will encounter Davenport 3 Union there tonight. The same night the Devilettes. af-1 t ter lagging’behind from the first, JownS In County i lost bv a score of 39-27 Nineteen of 1. O Hueble w as elected vice president to succeed Mrs. T. Luther Johnson. Mrs. D. T Pitts was elected local leader for girls 4-11 club. C. W. Jenkins was Norma Felder 10. Receive Beer Taxes Towns in Laurens,County have re- ceived $2,173 39 from the State Tax, Commission as their share of beer- wine tax collections for the last; quarter of 1957. Clinton received $915.91: Cross Hill. $64 90; Gray Court. $6117:| $1.106 25; and Waterloo. the points were shot by Norma Fi nder and 6 by Dolly Crouch Sue Hamilton ami Dianne Price-, each dropped in 1 Sue Boyce, Jane Ann Davis and Jackie Pitts were out standing defensively. Belton Takes Two Clinton had a double loss to Bel ton last Monday night at Belton The Red Devils were red hot during the Laurens, firs! half and led by 2 points in a $20.66. 34-32 halftime scon* Belton, how-, Payments to cities and towns to- cver surged ahead during the sec- taled $100,285.45, while the state nv ond half to win 70-58 tamed $1,065,533. and the counties Bobby Thomas took high scoring got $87,749 77. honors, shooting 16 points. Cecil _ . * . ’ Davenport followed with 13. The Clinton Girl Plans remaining goals were shot by— Lark. 9. Sublett. 2;»^yettlesT^-107 Cooley. 2. and Cauble( 8. Hie Clinton High girls were beat en by Belton 35-26 Norma Elder Peggy Mclnvaille, Clinton senior dropped in one-half the total score at Winthrop College. Rock. Hill, is a Dolly Crouch .iccounted for 6; Sue member of the planning committee Hamilton. 4 and Dianne Price, 3 i for Gaffnev Downs CHS and i elected local leader for boys 4-H | club. , 1 ■!. Miss Bernice*'Johnson, president of Home Demonstration Club. gaVf a brief talk on value of hobbies In enrichment of life and showed a hooked rug she was making. Mrs. Holliday, assistant Home Demonstration agent, gave a dem onstration on “Tailoring Your Menu to Fit Your Family Needs.” During the social hour refresh ments were served by Mrs. J. P, Johnson, Sr., and Mrs. Ben Sum mers. Announcement was made that 4-H clubs;will meet Monday, February 25 at 4 o’clock at Shady Grove Club House. -t— Elvin L. Floyd At Kansas Station Religious Emphasis 'faeek At Winthrop Elvin L. Floyd, airman appren tice. son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Floyd of Joanna, is serving at the Naval Air Station, Huchinson, Kan sas. The station trains naval cadets Religious Emphasis Week now and student officers in the flying of underway at the college, to continue multi-engined land based patrol In one of their hardest struggles through Friday bombers From February 1 to 14 Over at our bank right now it’s Customer Appreciation Time. We have chosen this Valentine Season to tell all our customers, "Thanks for Banking with us”. We think the big difference in banks today is the way people are treated. - a At the same time, however, we want to extend Valentine greetings to all our other friends and neighbors whether they bank with us or not ‘3% On Savings Accounts Compounded Semi-Annually” i.i iiim & sot, ju* ESTABLISHED N 18 8 6 ^ ([m CAPITAL AND SURPLUS S600 OOO DO MEMBER - FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 'T/w bMiK iA J/ie Savetii 'B^Atff/uend / FILMS AVAILABLE HERE Countv Records A How hurricanes are tracked is explained by Richard Carlson^ln “The Unchained Goddess,” a Bell Telephone System science series program on the weather It may be seen over CBS television network on Tuesday, Feb. 18, including WSPA-TV. • This film and others, "Our Mr. Sun,” “Hemo the Magnificent,” and "TheStrange Case of Cosmic Rays,” are available for showing to Clinton groups. They are in 16mm color films and may be secured through the Southern Bell business office. County Dairymen ~ ~ Elect New Officers Af Meeting Tuesday New officers and directors were elected at a meeting Tuesday night for the Laurens County Cooperative Breeding Association, composed of commercial dairymen of the coun ty. Named as president was James Jacks: vice-president. Brooks Cog gins; secretary-treasurer, J W. Tinsley; recording secretary, C. B Cannon Elected to three-year terms as di rectors were James Jacks, Byron W. Brown, and Brock Coggins. Holdover directors for one-year terms are Caldwell Henderson, Fred Irwin, and J. T. Manley. Two-year holdovers are Harry' League, L F. Davis, and Brock Coggins. The meeting was held in the Agri- culutral Building in Laurens, and was featured by the presence of Clyitf* Walker, field representative (ifthe Northern Ohio Breeders As sociation. t h e cooperative *from which frozen semen is supplied to the local cooperative, and R. D. Steer, extension, cooperative mar- k e t i n g specialist, from Clemson College, both of whom made talks of interest to the dairymen A mo tion picture, was also show Class C Basketball . Tourney Here Next Tuesday, Wednesday ™ lm ‘ •~'C..T7: Ray To Attend Insurance Meeting T Clayte Ray, representative of The Life Insurance Company of Vir ginia, has been invited to attend the district leaders convention of the Life Insurance Company of Virginia at the Edgewater Gulf Hotel, Edge- water Park. Miss., February 16-19. The invitation is extended in recog- nitii n of outstanding production and service to policyholders during 1957. Mr Ray will leave for the conven tion on Saturday, February 15, The lowdr half of Conference I Class “C” basketball tournament will open in the Hartness gym on the ThomweU Orphanage campus Tuesday night at 7:30 p m. The Thornwell girls will meet the Hickory Tavern girls in the opening game. The second game of the night will find the Thornwell boys and Gray Court-Owings boys battling to see who will meet the Hickory Tav ern boys on Wednesday night. The winner of the girls’ game Tuesday night will meet Gray Court-Owings girls Wednesday night at 7:30. The winners of the two games Wednesday night will meet the win ners of the upper half of Conference I Class “C” in the Hillcrest gym at Simpsonville Saturday night, Feb 22, for tile Conference I Class “C” championship. The girls and boys winners in both lower and upper half of the confer ence will go to Columbia the last week in February to partiepiate in the state finals These games on Tuesday and Wednesday promise to be very close and exciting, so come out and enjoy some good games. Thornwell Wins Thornwell defeated Pomana Tues day night in a double header and plays Laurens High at Thornwell to morrow nig|t (Friday) starting at 30 This is Thornwell’s last home game before the tournament starts - next Tuesday night The following public records were filed the past week in the office of the Clerk of Court of Laurens Coun ty. _ N Property Transfers' J. C. Bradley, Robert B. Bradley and Olin D. Bradley; to Leonard Bradley, 2.25 acres in Lauretis Township for $2,100.00 D. V. Wright to R. C. Oxner and Ruth J. Oxner, 9 87 acres in Hunter Township for $10.00 and other con siderations. J H. Rector to Zack Gray and Martha W. Gray, lot on Lake Green- Wood, for $500.00., Luther Teague to Joseph B. Bry son and Mildred B. Bryson, lot on Lake Greenwood for $1,500.00. Frances W. Crisp to S. N. Crisp lot Jersey Section of the City of Lau rens for $300 00. R. M. Langston to Fred F. Burns, 2 acres on Highway No. 76 for $700. Ralph T .Wilson, Jr., to Milton L. Fuller and Mary Elizabeth Fuller, lot in Forest Hill Sub-Division, for $10.00 and Other considerations. James A. Barnes to Sara B. Blakely lot on the Airport Road in theVTown of Clinton-for $1,800.00 and assumption of mortgage. Mamie J. Kennedy to Callie Roy Kennedy, Vi acre oh Saxon Street, Laurens, for $1,00, love and affec tion. Mrs. Fannie Todd to Frances Todd Poole, 59 acres known as “The Nathan Todd Place,” for $5 00, love and affection George Sapp to Robert Henry Woody, 79 acres iiva£ullivan Town ship for $1,00 agd partition of land. D. E. Tribble Co., Inc.,' to Robert L. Plaxico., Jr., lot on comer of Musgrove and Davidson Streets in the City of Clinton for $10,628.48. Aubrey W: Everett and Irene F^ Everett, to David A. CoTeman and Blanche B. Coleman, 1 acre on U. S. Highway No. 25 beaween Ware J, Hewlette ' Wassson, Probate Judge for Laurens County, to Blanche Rice Wfokman, lot on Osik Street, Clinton, for $1,700.00. Eloise B. Alexander and G. M. Bryson ,to John R. Frazier, timber on 50 acres konwn as the Laura B. Bryson tract, for $10.00 and other considerations. • —i Shirley McGlohon Bowers to Myr tle C. McGlohon, 82 acres known as part of the Weathers Place, in Lau- 1 rens Township, for $100, love and affection. Lee Roy Jackson "to Robert How ard, 87 acres in Sullivan School Dis trict No. 17, for $10.00 and other valuable considerations. Elise T. Ramsey to E. H. Ram sey, Jr., 40 of an acre on U. S Highway No. 76; for $1 00, love and affection. Divorce James F. Douglas vs Joyce Gail Douglas. ' Marriage Ureases Issued Reginald George Morse, Joanna, and Services Held Sunday For Mrs. Copeland —- - 11 • Funeral services for Mrs. Mary B. Copeland, who died Thursday in Alexandria, Va., were conducted Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Laurens by the Rev. Vic tor Hickman.^ Mrs. Copeland was the widow of the late Robert E. Copeland of Clin ton and Laurens. She is survived by a number of nieces and nephews. Mrs. Harry Nettles of this city, Mrs. J. M. Dick and Mrs. John Beaman of Raleigh, N. C., were nieces of Mrs. Copeland. Bell St. Elementary Teachers And Pupils Give $378.18 In Drives The teachers and students of Bell Street Elementary School have con tributed a total of $372.18 in three re Martha Teague Johnson, Lau-' cent drives. , LOSES MOTHER Friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hughes will sympathize with them in the death of the former's moth er, Mrs. J. G. (Martha Rebba Mat- tie) Hughes, which occurred early Sunday morning at the Onion hos pital. Mrs. Hughes, 89, had bedft se riously ill for several months. She was a lifelong resident of Union county and a member of Grace Methodist Church. Funeral services were conducted at the church Mon day morning with burial in Wesley’s Chapel cemetery. In addition to Mr. Hughes of this city she is also survived by two daughters and four other sons. 1 t ' s S I aim ww m wwi 1 *» 8 Laurens County Girls Make Distinguished Records At Winthrop Four Laurens County students have been named to the Winthrop College distinguished list for aca demic excellence during first se mester, 1957-58 To be named to the distinguished list a studentfmust have an average of “B" plus on courses taken during the semester. The Laurens County students were: Margaret Annette Bolick, a fresh man commerce major, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Julian S. Bolick of Clinton. Martha Susan Goodwin, a fresh man English major, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan A. Goodwin of Laurens. She made all “A’s” for the semester with the exception of one two-hour course. i Elizabeth Jane Hamer, a fresh man-liberal arts student^ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pickett Ha mer of Clinton. - Margaret Ramage, a senior borne economics major, the daughter of Mr and Mrs. W. B. Ramage of Laurens. Shoals and Princeton, for $2,500.00. Joe H. Bonds to James H. Hill and Kathleen E. Hill, lot on McMil lan SFreet, in the city of Clinton, for $10.00 and other considerations. NOTICE TO DEMOCRATS AND DEMOCRATIC CLUBS OF LAURENS COUNTY Notice is hereby given that under the rules of the Democratic Party of South Carolina and the applicable laws of the State of South Carolina, all the Democratic Clubs in Laurens County are required to meet at theie usual meeting place on the fourth Saturday.in February, 1958, (Febru ary 22. 1958) at 3:00 P. M., EST, for reorganization. At this meeting each club shall elect a president, one or more vice- presidents, a secretary, a treasurer, a member of the County Executive Committee aqd such committees as to each club may seem expedient. As provided by law the, poll list of the first primary of the 1956 election shall be tfiV v prima facie list of the members of each club for the pur pose of club organization and the election of delegates to the county convention. Each club at the meeting herein called- shall elect delegates to the county convention which will be held at the Court House in Laurens, South Carolina, on the first Monday ih'March, 1958, (March 3, 1958). Each club shall elect one delegate to the said convention for every twenty-five members and one dele gate for a majority fraction thereof' based upon the number of votes polled in the first primary election of 1956. The list of delegates so_ elected shall be certified by the President and Secretary of each club. The delegates elected to the Coun ty Convention on Monday, March 3, 1958, at a time yet to be announced at the Laurens County Court House without further notice. The secretary of each club is re quested to furnish to the secretary as promptly as possible the names of its president, secretary, execu tive committee and delegates to the county convention. R. L. PLAXICO, County Chairman MRS. CAROLINE COLEMAN Acting Secretary rens. Billie Eugene Lawsori, Enoree, and WUUe Fay-Benjamin, Enoree. Walter Fred Whitlock, Clinton, and Eunice Grace Fennell, New Brunswick, N. J. Charles Arthur Oxner, Aiken, and Shirley Ann Merchant; Joanna. Wister Adams, Simpsonville, and Minnie Williams, Fountain Inn. M. Y. F. Group Visits Epworth On Sunday ten members of the Methodist Youth Fellowship of Broad Street Methodist Church, ac companied by Mr. and Mrs. Milford Smith, adult leaders, visited Ep worth Children’s Home iq Columbia. They attended church services there and enjoyed a tour of t e campus. After dinner they also vis ited at Columbia College. Making the trip were Misses Rachel Ann Wilson. Margaret Ella Copeland, Ann Ray, Joyce Simmons, Jackie Pitts. Maurice Singley, Bar bara Simmons, Louise Speake and Linda Copeland, and. Bob Pinkston. For the United Fund the teachers gave $105.50; from the TB Seal Sale Drive, teachers and pupils reported $116.65. The faculty and students made a donation of $150.03 in the March of Dimes campaign. Clinton Dentists Get Diplomas For Graduate Work Dr. Marion E. Lawson and Dr. A. D. Salter, Clinton dentists, have re ceived diplomas for graduate work in attendance on several annual sessions of the Thomas P. Hinman Post Graduate Clinics in Atlanta. Another session of the clinic is scheduled for March 16-19 when sev eral leading dental authorities will again lead the forums and deliver lectures. The Clinton dentists plan to attend, it was stated. 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