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4 CHntaa, S. C, Thimdmy, Aaguft 8, IMS / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE THE WOMAN'S PAGE Social Events and Club News of Interest Telephone 833*0541 Entertains With Canasta Party Miss Sharon Plqpico entertain ed a group of friends at her home Monday afternoon with a canasta part)’. The card room was appointed with roses shad ing from deep pink to red. At the conclusion of the games, prizes were presented to the high score winners who were Misses Sarah hyrm Wysor, Lee Davis, Kathryn Arnold and Kathy Bouknight. Sandwiches, soft drinks and other party dainties were serv ed buffet from a prettily ap pointed table in the dining room which was centered with an ar rangement of pink gladioli and white gaza mums. Assisting Sharon in her en tertaining were her mother, Mrs. Tom Plaxico, and her grandmother, Mrs. Wiley Monk. Bridal Couples Entertained Wednesday Evening On Wednesday evening, July 31, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jacobs Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. William’ Shields entertained several bri dal couples with dinner at the home of the latter on Chestnut Street ^ Guests of honor included, Miss Barbara Roberts, Russ Emer son, Miss Margaret Stump, Miss Georgia Young, and Lawrence Young:^—• The guests were served punch on the patio upon arriv aUater invited into the dining room where a buffet supper was serv ed. Each of the brides-elect found their places marked with a pink corsage. Arrangements of mixed sum mer flowers were used through out the receiving rooms. The honorees were presented with bridal gifts. Earle-Chondler Wed In Laurens Church 'Miss Fleda Katherine Earte of Laurens and James Robert Chandler of Clinton were united in marriage on Saturday, July 27 at two o’clock in the Chapel of the First Presbyterian Church in Laurens. Dr. Chalmers F. McCutchen, the bride’s, pastor, officiated at the double ring ceremony. Glenn Neal, assistant organist at the local church, presented wed ding music. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Earle of 517 Sullivan Street. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Chandler of 708 South Broad Street, Clinton, v The bride wore a white suit with empire lines, white hat and white accessories. She also wore a white orchid corsage. For a wedding trip to the mountains of North Carolina, the bride changed into a pink and white sheath dress em broidered in eyelet and white lace. She wore a pink hat and gloves and white accessories. The bride, a 1900 graduate of Laurens High School, attended Lander College one year and is now a senior at Presbyterian College where she will graduate in January. The bridegroom is a 1966 graduate of Clinton High School. He attended the University of South Carolina and Spartanburg Junior College. He also served in the United States Army for three years. They will make their home at 172 South Pine Street, Spartan burg. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. R. L. Horton of Clinton, the bridegroom's grandmother; and Mrs. R. E. Downer of Moorhead, Miss., the bride’s grandmother. CATHERINE deVEAUX HART -ahw* HART-R AINEY ENGAGEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Blondel Hart announce the engagement of their daughter,^ Catherine deVeaux, and John Stringer Rainey, son of Dr. and Mrs. John Faulkner Rainey of Ander son. The wedding is to take place in November, i Miss Hart attended Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia two years and is presently a rising senior at the University of South Carolina where she is pledged to Kappa Delta social sorority. In 1961 she made her debut in Spartanburg and at tended the Assembly Ball there. Mr. Rainey was graduated from McCallie Preparatory School, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the University of Virginia. He was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order at the University mid was a distinguished military graduate of the Army R. O. T. C. Mr. Rainey is a student in the School of Law at the University of South Carolina, and is a Second Lieutenant of Field Artillery in the United States Army Reserve. Family Needs School Oofhmg A white family with three school age children is in need of clothes for the children to wear to school this fall. Two boys wear size 16 and 10 clothing and sizes six and four shoes. The daughter wears a size 12 dress and size five shoe. Bed linens are also needed by the family. The father is dis abled and unable to hold a full time job. Persons having the above items to donate are asked to call Mrs. Irby S. Hipp, local field representative of the Red Cross, at 833-2979 and she will get them. SHANNON REUNION HELD Eighty descendants of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Shannon attended the Shannon reunion held Sunday, August 4, at De Hart picnic grounds near Newberry. Mrs. Connie Young, oldest member of the family, was elect ed president for the coming year. The youngest member present was Jimmie Shannon Ervin of Raleigh, N. C. Each member was asked to wear a fancy head dress. Mrs. Louise Shannon of Greenwood won the prize for the women and Zack Reeder of Charlotte, won Joe the men. A picnic dinner was served fol lowed with music and songs by the Golden Quartet of Newberry in the afternoon. One new member was added to the group, little Pat Berry .daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom mie Berry of Charlotte. Parties Honor COKE PARTY Mrs. A. B. Stump and daugh ter, Margaret, entertained Miss Georgia Young Friday after noon, August 2 with a coke party at the Stump home on Calhoun Street. Around twenty guests called during the appointed hour, and were seated in the living room. Summer flowers in shades of pink decorated the home. Assisting the hostesses in ser ving dainty party refreshments were Misses Nancy and Mary Bart Stump. Miss Young was presented a corsage and gift of china in her chosen pattern. LUNCHEON AT WILSON’S Miss Georgia Young was en tertained Wednesday, July 31 with a luncheon at the home of drs. Cecil Wilson by Mrs. R .P. Hamer and daughter, Mrs. Jack Crandall of Chester. Upon arrival, guests were Party Honors Brides-Elect Mrs. A. Gt Young Jr., Mrs. Taylor Martin, Mrs. Locke Simons, and Mrs. Harry Ay ers entertained Saturday morn ing, August 3 with a drop-in at the home of Mrs. Young in Merrie Oaks for the popular bride-elects, Miss Barbara Rob erts and Miss Georgia Young. Approximately thirty guests called during the appointed hours. They were greeted upon arrival and invited into the liv ing room. Punch and party dainties were served in the dining room. The buffet table, overlaid with a pink cut work cloth, was beau tifully decorated with an ar rangement of pink roses and feverfew in a crystal epergne. Out of town guests included Mrs. Bonner Harvley and daugh ter, Mrs. TJiornwell Dunlap, Jr. of Greenwood. The honorees were remember ed with gifts of silver. Greenwood, Laurens Counties Have 30 In TB Hospitals There are at present 30 pa tients hospitalized with tuber culosis from Greenwood and Lau rens Counties, according to fig ures furnished by the two Coun ty Health Departments and re leased by the Tuberculosis and Health Association. Of those hospitalized, 21 are patients in the South Carolina Sanitorium, tax supported tuber culosis hospital at State Park, 4 are patients in the Veterans Hos pital at Oteen, North Carolina, 1 in Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver, 1 in Veterans Len- wood Hospital in Augusta and 3 in South Carolina State Hospital in Columbia. The local figures point up the fact that tuberculosis is more prevalent among men than wom en, and that the Negro race is more susceptible to tuberculosis than the white race. Classified according to sex, there are 23 males and 6 females. Of the 30 hospital patients, 14 are white, 15 are Negro with race and sex un known in one instance. It is generally conceded that tuberculosis respects no age but attacks all ages. The ages of pa tients range from 16 to 71 with one unknown. Eighteen of the cases were ad mttted io the hospital during 1963, seven were admitted in 1962 and two in i960. Only three been hospitalized longer than that. These admission dates indicate that most patients can return to normal life after treatment with modern drugs. FOR DOLLAR DAYS OUR FINAL SUMMER 1H$AR£MCL Now Is The Time To Shop And Save. Reductions Up To %! 3m. 9:86 A. M.-5:30 P. M. ELEANOR FRANCES JONES -Portrait br NichoU IONES-CLARY ANNOUNCEMENT Mrs. Myrtle Jones of this city announces the *nf»g»niw»«it of her daughter, Eleanor Frances, to Jimmie Smith Clary of Saluda. He L<? the son of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Clary of that city. Miss Jones is the daughter of Mrs. Jones and the late Jo seph W. Jones. The wedding will take place Sept. 6 at the First Baptist Church here at 6 p.m. No invitations will be issued to the ceremony, but friends and relatives are cordially invited to attend. Estes Is Graduate Of Marine Course Marine Lance Corporal David E. Estes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Estes' of Joanna, graduated June 28, from the Command Link’ Receiver course, which qualifies him to service and repair the Douglas “Sky- hawk”, a jet propelled attack aircraft of the Navy and Marine Corps. He will now be assigned duties in the aircraft maintenance de partment of Marine Attack Squadron 332, a unit of the Sec ond Marine Aircraft Wing, based at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, N. C. A graduate of the Clinton High School, Estes entered the Ma rines in June 1961. George Blackwell, Jr. Is Aboard Enterprise George W. Blackwell Jr., store keeper second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Black- well of Route 1, Clinton, is serv ing aboard the nuclear-powered attack aircraft carrier USS En terprise, currently operating'with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterra nean and slated to return to the U. S. late this summer. The Enterprise has been with the Sixth Fleet since February. Recent ports of call for the car rier include Ganca, Italy, and Rhodes, Greece. The Enterprise, an Atlantic Fleet unit, normally operates out of Norfolk, Va. Smokey Saytt Folks—keep matches away from children! Laurens and Gray Court for the “Sarah DeLoach Fund”. Con tributions may be made at any of these or .mailed to Mrs. Eula Bolt, treasurer, 629 Chestnut St., Laurens. What Price Peace of Mind? $49.60 m term DeLoach Fund Is "“.Progress; Ends on August 15 The county-wide drive to offer assistants to Mrs. Sarah D. De Loach, who lost all her belong ings in a fire on July 11 is “pro gressing nicely” according to re cent reports. A fund was begun after many county citizens expressed a de sire to help “a person who has spent most of her life helping others.” The guiding committee behind the movement is composed of J. Allen Thompson, chairman; . . . , , j , , . Mrs. Eula Bolt, Mrs. Lucille greeted and invited into the den Wattlf Aiken and Fred Davis. A “Climax Day" has been set for August 15, when a watermel on cutting will be held at 6 p.m. at the former homesite. - The wa termelon cutting is an annual af fair which has been held at the DeLoach home for many years. Chester Aiken is chairman of the climax day event. Participation in the fund is on a voluntary basis. Accounts have been opened at banks in Clinton, ■SB" for punch. Summer flowers decorated the receiving rooms. Lunch was served buffet style from the dining table where an arrangement of pink and white in a silver epergne was very effective. The honoree was presented a pink corsage and gift of silver in her chosen pattern. Mrs. Bonner Harvley and Mrs. Leslie Milling of Green wood were out-of-town guests. COOK OUT Among the many parties hon oring Miss Georgia Young and her fiance, Lawrence Young, was a cook-out at the C. W. Bridges’ home on Holland Street. Hosts and hostesses for the occasion were Mr. and Mrs. Bridges and daughter, Linda, and Maynard Schaible of Lau rens. Education Group To Hold Conference At Mountain Camp Three delegates will represent the Laurens County Education Association at sessions of the leaders conference of the South Carolina Education Association to be held at Camp Socareda, near Caesar’S Head. Two sessions will be held, each lasting three days. The first will convene August 15-17, and the second will be August 1930. Delegates from 28 counties will participate In each confer ence. Delegates from Laurens Coun ty will be Fraier Sandsrs, B. E Martin and Miss Agnes Davis. Dr. Cooler Joins Presbyterian StaH Dr. Claude Henson Cooler, a native of Ridgeland who received his undergraduate training at Clemson, is joining the Presby terian College faculty as profes sor of psychology and guidance director, Dean Joseph M. Gettys announced today. He will begin his new duties with the start of the 1963-’64 ses sion in September. Miss Helen Wallace Mims, guidance coun selor at PC during the past year, has accepted a position with Co- umbia College. Cooler recently completed work on hsi PhD in guidance and IF YOU DON’T READ YOU DON’T GET Mtato** 1 counseling at Florida State Uni versity. He received his BS de gree from Clemson in 1938 and his master’s in education from the University of South Carolina in 1953. His career includes high school teaching at Williston (1938-’42), JonesvUle (1947-’50) and St. George (1950-’61). During the lat ter period, he also assisted in the supervision of the Clemson stu dent-teacher-training program and taught at the Fort Leaven worth Command and General Staff College as a reserve officer during the summer training pro grams. Dr. Cooler sa wservice as an of ficer with the Rainbow Division during World War H, 1942-’47, was twice-captured by the Ger mans and remained a prisoner- of-war for six months. His dec orations include the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart with oak- leaf cluster. The new PC professor has been active in the civic and religious life of the communities in which he has resided, and he holds membership in various profes sional organizations. He is married and has two sons and a daughter. To Coodr ln McCleHonvtHe , Tommy SuMett, 1963 gradu ate of Erskine College will as sume the duties of head bas ketball coach at McCMlanvlUe High School in Charleston Coun ty, when school reopens in Sep tember. Tommy former 1969 Clinton High basketball stand out, was a physical education and History major at Erskine He will also instruct U. S. His tory, World Geography and General Science. Tommy is a son of Jkir. ai Mrs. A. G. SuMett of 60t Chest nut St. Health Group Asks Donation of Hobby Materials for Sick The Tuberculosis and Health Association of Greenwood-Lau- rens Counties recently received a request for articles to be used by State Park patients in occupa tional therapy projects. The needed articles include: Nylon j ' ^ ^ _______ ____ i hose for' stuffing toys ahtT pll- i lows, sewing, embroidery, cro- jehet and knitting thread, lace, 1 ribbon, rickrack; and fabric of any kind. ^ The Patient Services Commit tee of the Tuberculosis and Health Association felt that many housewives would welcome an opportunity to unload storage space and put usable odds and ends of cloth, thread and decora tions to work in this project whicbcan contribute to the health and happiness losis patients. ' Members of this committee in clude: Mrs. V. W. Hayes, chair man; Mrs. W. F. Mauldin, Har- odl W. McClintock, Miss Bettie W. Richards, Mrs. Anne O. Tay lor and W. K. Waits. Some articles taken to the hos pital patients in June by Mrs. Onnie B. Chisholm, TB Nurse Co ordinator for the State Board of Health, were received with en thusiasm and gratitude. Mrs. Chisholm reported that there was a continuing need for these ar ticles. Articles will be received at the following places: Health Center in Clinton; W. K. Waits in Joan na and the Health Department and Tuberculosis and Health As sociation Office in Laurens. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my friends, neighbors and everyone who were so thoughtful while I was a patient at Bailey Memorial Hospital. The many flowers, cards, visits were greatly appre ciated and 1 shall ever be grate ful for your many kindnesses. Mrs. Kate (S. A.) 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