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V v THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, April 21, 1960 Thornwell Model Among the sixteen models ap pearing in the Thornwell FHA fashion show Thursday night in the diniitg hall was Janice John son. She wears a white crease resistant cotton dress. She will represent Thorn well's Chapter at the district fashion show in Anderson April 30 Henry C. Young Ware Shoals — Henry Clinton Young. 80. of Ware Shoals, died Fri day at a Creonwood hospital after a short illness. He was a native of Laurens Coun ty .a son of the late Robert H and Caroline Lockwood Young He was a member of the Ware Shoals Pres- byterian Church and the W. 0. W. Before retirement he was engaged in textile work Surviving'are a sister. Miss Lutie Young, of the home; and a brother, Carlos L Young of Falmouth, Mass Funeral services were conducted Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church at 4 W p m by the Rev John AshenfeMer and the Rev. Har ry Fraser Bunal was in Lisbon Presbyterian Church cemetery near Mount ville Laurens Man Gets t Medal For Saving I Fellow Employee Laurens—Edsel Culbertson of the L.nir ns Ffec tric Co-tip was honored b\ fellow employees and guests at a banquet Thursday night at which Time he was presented the National Safety Council President's Modal for (he saying of a human life Henry Fans, manager of the Lau rens Electric Co-Op, presided at the banquet and recognized special guests. J Mr Culbertson was credited with having saved the life of J. O. Hedge- path last August 13 Mr Hedgepath came in contact with a, high voltage line northeast of Woodruff, and co worker Culbertson came to his aid administering pole-top resuscitation The certificate which he also re ceived from the National/Safety Council was signed by How,ard Plye president, and was presented to Mr Culbertson by Hoyt Williams, safety director of the South Carolina Elec ' trie Co-Op Mr Williams said that this was the first President's Modal awarded a co-op employee in the state. “All persons involved reacted'exactly the ! way they were supposed to have This proves safety training is impor tant." Mr Williams said Mr. Culbertson was also presented a certificate from the national Red Cross by Howard Anderson, district representative, from Greenville Waldo Haley also awarded him a bronze medal and life saving cer tificate from the Lumberman's Mu tual Casualty Co AmonJ: special guests were Mrs. Culbertson: Gordon Collins, coun ty chairman of the American Red Cross; and R O Benett, manager of the South Carolina Electric Co-Op. In receiving the honors, Mr. Cul bertson said he accepted them in the name of other.- wtio "had a hand" in the ncident. J*. Hwjgepath said, i deeply apprfealethi- occasion, and it's goad to be here." « Church of God Revival Begins Sunday, April 24 The Elizabeth Street Church of God will begin a revival Sunday, April 24 with the Rev J. M. Daniel as guest speaker Services will be gin each evening a; 7:30 There will be special singing each evening, with the Sunrise Trio and Kirby Trio participating. All other singers and the public are invited to attend these service- GETS FLORIDA MEDAL Maj. (ion. .Mark \V. Lance (left). Adjutant General of.the State of Florida, congratulates Maj. Gen. Ansel B. Godfrey, of Clinton, after presenting him with the Florida Distinguished Service Medal at the annual Florida National Guard Convention at St. Augustine. It is the highest honor the state of Florida can bestow. Gen. Godfrey is com mander of the 51st Infantry Division and part of the men are from Florida.—(National Guard Photo). i You Open The Door . to the finest banking service that human in genuity can devise when you pay us a call. Right now, treat yourself to banking at its best.? Stop in and get acquainted. M. 5. Bailey & Son Bankers Two Negroes Are Charged In Attack - Laurens—One Negro is charged with rape and another with assault with intent to ravish in connection with an alleged attack on a 22-year- old Negro woman near Laurens early Sunday. Robert Bell Little. 20, who is charged with raping the woman in a wooded area off highway 221 about four miles southwest of here, is being held in the Laurens County jail. Ifc bond was set at $1,500 by , CircuirJudge Steve C. Griffith. George Melvin Leake. 23, charged with assault with int< m to ravish, was released on $1,000 bond Monday afternoon. Little was arrested by Chief v Depu- jty Wesley Fowler and Deputy W. D Burns at the scene of the alleged attack when the officers went there after receiving a report that a wom an was heard screaming in the I vicinity. The woman implicated Leake, according to officers, and he was arrested later in the day. Officers. said that while Deputies Fowle rand Burns were enroute to the scene, two Negro boys came to the sheriff's office and said that they, the two men who are charged and the woman drove to the "ATfe 'oF the alleged attack together. The boys said they bt-oame frightened and escaped in the Tar. leaving the three others behind Thornwell Announces 1960 Football Schedule j- So.* 2—C'olumb.a JV at Thorn- well Sept 9—Calhoun Fails at Thorn- well. > , Sept. 16 — Thornwell it Hickmry 1 Tavern Sept 23—Thornwell at Landrum Sept StM-Thomwell at Lockhart. Oct. 7—Chapin at Thornwell Oct 13—Woodruff JY at Thorn- I well. Oct. 20—Greenwood JY at Thorn- well. Oct. 28—Thornwell at Ninety-Six Nov 4—Ridge Springs-Monetta at Thornwell Nov 11—Thornwell at Irmo Registrations Being Taken For 1960-61 Joanna Kindergarten Registrations are being taken for 1960-61 session of the Joanna Bap tist Church Kindergarten. Children who will be four years of age by November 1 and five year olds may be enrolled. Registration fee is $2.00 per child. Every child attending i Kindergarten must have a small pox vaccination unless a statement > from the family physician is shown stating the reason for not having such. Mrs. Cyril Abrams or Mrs. James Mitchell may be contacted for fur-| ' ther information. Census Enters Final Phase On Saturday Birth GILLILAND Mr and Mrs. Jack Gilliland of Whitmire, formerly of Clinton, an nounce the birth of a son, John Knight, on April 18. The 1960 census of population and housing enters its final stage on April 23 w hen a picked group of in-' terviewers begins a "mopping up" operation to complete the ten-year inventory of the nation’s people and their homes. The interviewers are primainly concerned with accounting for the, "blue" household questionnaires* ...ftijich were left at every fourth household during the first stage of the census which started on April 1. A small number of persons have failed to mail this report form to the Census Bureau's district office. Also, some of the report forms which have been received have not he n completely filled out. The clean up" interviewers will make personal visits to the house holds from which report forms have not been received and obtain the answers to the census questions. They will also seek, by telephone and personal visits, the answers to ques-, tions left blank or incorrectly an swered in the report forms already sent to the census office. Thornwell Tops Whitmire, 11-10 Gus Folk hit a triple in the last half of the ninth inning here Tues day to drive in three runs and give Thornwell an 11-10 victory over Whi.mire. Gordon Timmons struck out 16 batters and gave up nine hits to win the game. Timmons has chalk ed in 58 strike outs in 30 innings, rhornwell 320 210 003—U 12 5 Whitmire 102 010 402—10 9 6 Seven From County Attend State IB Meet Seven persons frofn Laurens Coun ty attended the annual mec'VTng of hte South Carolina Tuberculosis As sociation on Apriu 6, according to J. Allen Thompson. Jr. president of the Laurens County TB Associa tion. . Dr. H McCleod Riggins, president of the National Tuberculosis Asso ciation, was the featured speaker. Dr. Riggins, associate clinical pro fessor of medicine, College of Phy sicians and Surgeons. Columbia Uni versity, New York, is a native of Matthews, N. C. He challenged the health depart ments and the TB associations to eliminate all sources of tuberculosis infection by adequate treatment of every person with active tubercu losis and selected persons wKh in active disease. "With the eventual elimination of tuberculosis as a public health prob lem as our goal,” Dr. Riggins said, “the| 2.700 state and Meal voluntary tuberculosis associations affiliated with the NTA work in close coope ration with state and local health departments.” Those attending from Laurens County included: Mrs. D. 0. Rhame, Clirtton; Mrs. Sarah D. DeLoach, Mrs. M. M. Teague, J. Leroy Burns, Robert Riddle, Dr. A. A .Knight of Laurens; and W. K. Waits of Joan na. Bookmobile Schedule April 25 28 Monday — Cook home, Mason home, Camak school, Rhett Martin home. T u e s,d a y — Providence school Episcopal Kindergarten, Burdette home, M. S. Bailey school, Miss issippi Young home, Bishop home, Sanders home. Brown home. Wednesday — Mountville school, Crisp home. Miss Lizzie Carter home, B L Mitchell store. Cross Hill school, Fennell home, Davis home. Smith home. Thursday — Gray Court-Owings school, Owings Post Office, Gray Curry home, Thompson home, Hughes home, Wilson home, Maul din home. Mrs. Girl Teague, Laurens Coun ty librarian. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 16th day of May, 1960, I will render a final account of my acts and doings as Guardian of the estate of Emily Frances Bailey in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurens Coun ty, at 10 o’clock a. m. -and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Guar dian. Any person indebted to said estate is notified and required to make payment on or before that date; and all persons having claims against said estate will present them on or before said date, duly proven or be forever barred. OUIDA C. BAILEY Guardian April 15, 1960. 4t Two Services At Sacred Acres The Sacred Acres Prayer Band will meet at Sacred Acres Prayer Grounds, iocated on the Ware- Shoals-Waterloo Highway in the Fork section oi Laurens County, Friday, April 22 at 7:30 p. m. String music and special singing will be a feature of the service. Rev. "Buddy” Tollison of Reedy Grove Pentecostal Holiness Church will preach. There will be a Gospel singing at Sacred Acres featuring Mitchell Morse and Associate Singers of Greenwood on Sunday, April 24, at 2:30. All musicians and singers have a special invitation and everyone is invited to these two services. Mrs. Emma Dial Gray Dies At Gray Court Gray Court — Mrs. Emma Dial Gray, 94, lifelong resident of Laur ens Co&nty and a member of one of Gray Court’s earliest families, died in a Laurens hospital at 12:30 p. m. Monday. She had been in declining health for several years and had been seriously ill for two years. She was a daughter of the late Albert and Rebecca Barksdale Dial and was a charter member of Gray Court Methodist Church. The town of Gray Court received its name from the old homeplace known as Gray’s Court. She was educated at Staunton Fe male Academy in Staunton, Va. She was a life member of the Wom an’s Missionary Society and during her atcive years was associated with many phases of church and community affairs. Her husband, R. L. Gray, died in 1932. Surviving are four sons, R. Albert Gray, of Greenville; Dr. Ellis B. Gray, of Sebring, Fla.; Carroll D. Gray, of Gray Court, and Robert Lee Gray, of Laurens; two daugh ters, M!rs. C. D. Gregory, of Lan caster. and Miss Laura Gray, of Gray Court'; 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 11 a. m. at the Gray Court Methodist Church by the Rev. R. L. Brannan gnd Dr. F. C. Beach. Burial was in the church cemetery. • \ Continental Can Woodlands Division Creates New District % T. W. Earle, vice-president of the Continental Can Co., Inc., anounces that effective April 1 the Clinton CASH area of the Woodlands Division was transferred from the cotai!>any’s Savannah distrit; their newly tre ated Augusta district. P. M. Muller, area forester, wW continue with his work in managiyQ the cpnpany’a lore A lands in Lau rens, Union, Chester. Spartanbmg,, Newberry, Fairfield, Saluda, Edge- field, Gr ■enwcixf^Andorson. York, Cherokee. AJobevilje and Aiken coun ties. Tk Cantincntal Can Company is the succosor, by merger, of the Gair Woodlands Corporation which has operaitd in Uis sec.ion for several years. The company is now in the pro cess of building a new. Bleach Kraft Pulp and Paper Mill at Augusta YOUR fflOADlNPXj O^tealTe PROGRAM Last Time Today April 21 ONCE MORE WITH FEELING YU. BRYNNER — KAY KENDALL Friday-Saturday April 22-23 A Great Family Picture , Everyone Will Love It They’re out A Story Of A Man and 300 Small Boys Brought Back Because It Will Please A New Crowd Of Children and Grown Ups More Family Pictures Coming: KILLERS OF KILLMANJARO (Jungle Adventure) MA & PA KETTLE AT WAIKIKI KIDNAPPED (Robert Loais Stevenson’s) ULEASE DON’T EAT THE DAISIES Mon.-Tues.-Wed.-Thurs. April 25-28 Bhynner Loulobrigeda ■IISolomon^ShebaI ■■Honour n^UGEOMSMBB MVNII fa M.-M fTL.iBi ■owni-.wiin Features: 3:13, 5:45, Sri Last Feature 8:00P. 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Bridges will wiork for if elected: 1. ADEQUATE PAY FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS. He has advocated and supported increased compensation for public school teachers during the six years that he has served in the House of Representatives and fc will continue to do so if elected to the Senate. 2. NEW INDUSTRY FOR LAURENS COUNTY. He will work towards preparing Laurens County as a potential site for new* industry. He was the author of the bill creating the Laurens County Planning and Devek>pment Commission which has been instrumen tal in securing new industry for this county. 3. ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT. He believes that too much of the taxpayers money is being spent for non- essentials, especially in the State Government. He was successful in passing legislation through the House this year to re-activate the State Reorganization Commission which was created to promote economy in State Government. 4. A ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. 5. RELOCATION OF HIGHWAY NO. 76 BETWEEN LAURENS AND CLINTON. 6. A DIRECT ROUTE ACROSS LAKE GREENWOOD x TO THE CHEMSTRAND PLANT IN GREENWOOD * COUNTY: