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y'— THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton, S. C., Thursday, February 7, IMS LOCAL HAIRDRESSERS GIVE SERVICES Members of Unit No. 14 of South Carolina Registered Cosmetologists Association gave 104 sendees to the girls at Whitten Village Monday, January 28. Services of hair shaping, shampooing, and styling were included. TTus is one of the activities arranged for National Beauty Salon Week.—Photo by Jimmy Cooper. Clinton High Will Meet Chester Friday Chester High will visit Clinton tomorrow (Friday) night on the local high school basketball courts. The conference game will get underway at 7:00 p. m. Clinton will be looking for a comeback after a resounding de feat in Newberry Tuesday night. The varsity squad went down, 53-41, with Freddie Whitman hit ting for 12 points, Joe Gettys for 10, Scooter Holcombe with 13, Rogers with 4, and Whitsel with 2. • — - .j' • — In the girls’ game, ending 49-17 in favor of Newberry, Janice Ruff led her team with 8 points. Other Clinton players were Net tles with 6, Huggins 2, Stroud 1, Estes. Davidson, Pitts, Cato, Leonard, Stump, Sease, and Boll. In earlier action, Clinton flown- ed Winnsboro in a tilt there on Friday night, 63-51. Scooter Hol combe led with 17 points, Joe Gettys totaled 19 rebounds. The Winnsboro win gave Clin ton the first away win in the conference circuit this season. Other scoring: Rogers. 14; Whitman, 10; Gettys, 9; Whitsel, 7; Marse, 2; Glenn, 2; Nettles, McSween and ing. In a make-up game Saturday night in Clinton, Woodruff went away the victor to a 61-45 score, giving the home team their first loss of the year on the local court. Joe Gettys with 18, and Scooter Holcombe with 16 points, led for Clinton, followed by Phil Rogers with 10. In girls’ games, Winnsboro took an eight-point lead to defeat Clinton, 48-40. Sandra Huggins led for Clinton with 20 points, followed by Nettles, 9; Ruff,7; Black, 2; and Shealy, 2 The Woodruff game final score was 69-30. Janice Ruff led for the local team with 15 points. Others scoring in that game in cluded: Huggins, 8; Nettles. 3; Black, 2; and^Stroud, 2. J. W. Morse, 82 James Whitfield Morse, 82, of 311 Owings St., Laurens, died Sunday following several years of declining health and several days of aerious illness. A son of the late Whitfield and Mary Glaze Morse, he wd* born June 22, 1880 in Saluda County. He had made his home in Laur ens for the past several years. He was a retired textile over- ser and was last associatd with the Chicapee Corp. of Walhalla. He was a member of Brandon Lodge 279, AFM, and of the Woodmen of the World Camp in Anderson. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Laurens. He is survived by his wife; a son, E. B. Morse of Laurens; one brother, L. C. Morse of Florence; one granddaughter, Mrs. Lee Madrazo of Laurens; one great- granddaughter; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conduct ed at the Thomas McAfee Fun eral Home on Tuesday afternoon by Dr. Robert S. Cooper and Rev. O. B. Lancaster. Burial was in Graceland cemetery.. 4y«V ^St' pp" in V S # * FREDDIE WHITMAN, M»- ior guard on the Cliatoa High basketball squad, is a top- notch defender and leads the fast break for the Red Devils. Services Held Monday For R. B. Overstreet Reuben B. Overstreet, 52, died Sunday morning at a Greenwood hospital after several months of declining health. ^ . He was a native of Georgia, but had lived in Laurens County most of , his life. He was * son Mullin G. Overstreet and*the late Mrs. Annie Dickerson Overstreet. He attended Lydia Mill Pentecost al Holiness Church. Surviving in addition to his father are his stepmother, Mrs. May belle Overstreet; his wife, Mrs. Lola Mae Lee Ovrestreet; three sons, James W. Overstreet of Clinton; Henry H. Overstreet of Ware Shoals; and Douglas Overstreet of the home; three daughters, Mrs. Mattie Dean of Waterloo; Mrs. Virginia Baker and Mrs. Betty Jo Frick, both of Clinton; a sister, Mrs. Geneva Brown of Vaucluse; a brother, Robert S. Overstreet of Dania, Fla.; two half-sisters, Miss Isa belle Overstreet of Clinton, and Mrs. Mary G. McCall of Clinton; two half-brothers, Silas Over- street * and Daniel Overstreet, both of Clinton; five step-sisters, Mrs. Inez Smith, Mrs. Ruddle Brown, Mrs. Mamie Sue Bag- well. Mrs. Elizabeth Samples and Mrs. Mildred Willis; two step brother^- Martin Wilbanks and William Gregory,; and 11 grand children. FtTWetal services were conduct ed Monday afternoon at the Ly- d i a Mill Pentecostal Holiness Church by Rev. J. Roscoe Bryan, Rev. I. C. Parker and Rev. J. B. Abercrombie. Burial was in Cal vary cemetery at Clinton Mill. George M. Wright, Textile Executive, Dies After Illness Abbeville—George M. Wright, active In textiles in South Caro lina for 65 years, died Saturday at a hospital in Anderson, after j brief illness. The 83-year-old retired textile executive was an officer in sever al mills around the state during lis career. He retired 15 yars ago but continued to serve as chair-1 man of the J. E. Sirrine Textile Foundation, eleemosynary corpo ration devoted to textile educa- : iMtr— He was a native of Cumber land County, Va., attended Ran dolph Macon College and came to South Carolina as an office | worker in the Union Cotton Mills at Union at the age of 18. Subsequently, he was president j of the Banna Manufacturing Co., at Joanna. Watts Mills at Lau rents, and Republic Cotton Mills at Great Falls, where he remain ed for 20 years until he retired. He once was a University of| South Carolina trustee and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank at Charlotte board of direc tors. Wright was active in legislative I programs of the South Carolina Textile Manufacturers Associa- tion. Graveside services will be held j at 3 p. m., Sunday at Long Cane Cemetery in Abbeville. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Jennie White Wright; one daugh ter, Miss Jennie Wright of Abbe-! ville; three sons, Thomas Perrin Wright of Blacksburg, Va.,’ George M. Wright Jr., and Joseph ] Wright, both of Charlotte, N. ; five grandchildren; and one great grandchild. Funeral services were conduct ed Sunday at 3 p. m. at the graveside in Long Cane Ceme- ery by Rev. George Baker and Rev. Randolph Kowalski. ( SCOUTING is new skills and learning how to be self-reliant. Here Scouts jof Troop 188 of Lydia Mills put ?n a .display of camping methods, one of many . ‘ skills that- they have learned through Scouting. Mr. Wright early in his career was a resident of Clinton while serving as president of Banna Manufacturing Company of Gold- vide (now Joanna). He and Mrs. Wright lived in the home on Cal vert Avenue now occupied by the W. S. Cannon family. The Banna Company, founded by the Blalock interests of Gold- ville, manufactured yarn for weaving into cloth. Mr. Wright moved here from Union, bringing with him as his young assistant, W. A. Moorhead. Mr. Moorhead became head of Banna when Mr. Wright went to Watts Mill in Laurens. The Banna plant was subse quently sold to the Hartshorn window shade interests of New York, being greatly expanded throughout the years into a com plete cloth manufacturing oper ation. It was later acquired by the Regnery Company of Chica- 80. - Mr. Moorhead contmued as directing head of the plant under both the Hartshorns and Reg- nerys until his death. The name of the mill and the community was changed J,o Jo- anna in honor of Mrs. Joanna Hartshorn, of the president of the Hartshorn Company. Benjamin Nix, 63 Benjamin Nix, Sr., 63, of 111 Whaley St., Laurens, died sud denly January 30 after several years of declining health. - He was a native of Spartanburg County. 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