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I ' # / THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Clinton, S. C n Thursday February 6, 1964 Jimmy Wooten (20) shooting; Jimmy Bankhead (44) blocking out 43, against Georgia State. PC 102, Georgia State 66. x PC’s Been Winning Games, But Has Rough Road Ahead By AL PEARCE to help in the winning streak. Head basketball coach Art Sophomores Doug Allen, a 6’3” Musseiman of Presbyterian Col-1Sumter forward, and Jimmy lege knows how the capUin of a Bankhead, a 6T’ Chester for- ship must feel when he has had n ard, round cut the suiting good sailing weather for several five: Both boys are good re- weeks but sees storm clouds on bnui the horizon. For three weeks the rejuvenated Blue Hose of PC have been winning basketball games in a big way, but for the next two weeks they will have their hands full every time they take the court. After defeating an improved College of Charleston team in the Port City on Tuesday night, the Hose’s fourth straight win and the fifth in their last six games, PC must take on Little Four foes Newberry, Erskine and Wofford. They also face St. An drews College and Cumberland College before the 20 game sched ule is completed. The Blue Hose have already lost to Newberry, Erskine, and St. Andrews, but have yet to face Wofford and Cumberland. Going into the mid-year exam break three weeks ago the Hose were only 3-8, claiming wins over Charleston, Mercer, and Georgia State. Only a 76-74 loss jo New berry dimmed the Hose’S late surge in the last week of the first semester. The ball players remained in Clinton during the week between semesters to prac tice, and it seems to have paid off. In their first game since the break the Hose exploded for a 102-66 win over Georgia State. The following night PC rallied in the second half to defeat Pem broke State College 102-89 and the win over Charleston Tuesday night indicates that the potential Coach Musseiman had known was there, is beginning to show. Leading the recent drive have been Gordan Adam, a 5’9” guard from Bloomfield, Ky. Adam, the team’s leading scorer, was the Player of the Week in South Carolina last week, an honor no PC player has achieved in sev eral years. Running at guard with Adam has been Captain Andy Karlsons, a 6 3" product ol the Bronx, N. Y. Andy is a four- year letterman at PC, and is second to 7 Adam in scoring. At center in the starting five '.is Danny Charles, a 6’3” junior from Spartanburg. Danny is the most rapidly improving player on the squad and has done much Rites Held Tuesday For J. C. T. Fuller John C. T. (Jack) Fuller. Jr., 50, died suddenly Sunday night at his home, 500 Jeffer son St., after several years of declining health. Native of Greenwood, he lived in Clinton since 1935. He was a son of the late John C. T. Fuller and Mamie Jester Fuller. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Alda Rawls Guest Fuller; a son, John Benjamin Fuller, of the home; two sisters, Mrs. Al- mena Proctor Fuller of Green wood and Mrs. Hattie Motes of Joanna; five brothers, Irvin, Casper, Leslie, Jesse and Hen ry Fuller of Greenwood; and four grandchildren. Funeral services were con ducted Tuesday at 4:00 p. m. at Calvary Baptist Church by Rev. J. W. SpiUers, Rev. I. H. Webb and 1 Rev. Thomas E. Moore. Burial was in Calvary petery, Clinton Mill. ' Pallbearers were J. R. Ham it, Evans Lever, Marvin Whitmire, Thomas Smith, Vlr- •U S. Webb, George Davis Lloyd Taylor. bounders and outstanding scor ers. ^ Running a two-platoon system, ~oach Musseiman will spell the starting five with Bill Tallent, Jimmy Wooten, Billy Petty, cmd John Etchison, alternating with Charles and Bankhead to com plete' the five. & PC travels to Newberry Satur day night to face the Newberry indians for the second time this season, and then return to Clin ton for a Tuesday night game with Erskine. Scholarship Honors George Yeldell, Jr, A scholarship in memory of George Sheppard Yeldell, Jr., is the gift to Presbyterian College of his mother, Mrs. George S. Ye’dell of Greenwood, President Marc C. Weersing announced to day. He said her $1,000 contribution for this purpose has been includ ed in the college endowment, with interest to provide funds “for a deserving boy in need of financial assistance.’’ George S. Yeldell. Jr., received his BA degree from PC in 1933 ind his law degree from the Uni versity of South Carolina law school. He practiced law in his! native Greenwood and served as magistrate there from 1947 until ’iis death in 1962. • ’ '■ • . . • Teague Appointment Requested for Board The appointment of Carl Tea gue as a member of the County Board of Assessors^to fill the un expired term of the late Henry Milam was requested by a group of Mountville residents at the first regular meeting Monday of the county legislative delegation. The request was relayed to the delegation by Representative David Taylor, who also requested that certain roads be placed in the State Highway System. No official action was taken an the requests. , Senator King Dixon stated that he had requested the County Reg istration Board to continue in session all week through Satur day at the court house to afford eligible persons an opportunity to get voting certificates before the March 17 Laurens City pri mary election. Rep. Marshall Abercrombie, the county's other member of the legislative delegation, was not present at the meeting. 3irlh Announcements SEASE Mr. and Mrs. James William Sease of West Point, Ga., an nounce the birth of a daughter, Mary Margaret, on Friday, Jan uary 24 in the Langdale, Ala bama hospital. Mrs. Sease is the former Miss Dawn Campbell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Campbell. Sease is the son of Mrs. T. M. Sease and the late Mr. Sease. • Laurens—j: Hewlette Wasson, who Once aspired to be a minis ter but gave up that hope be cause of the physical demands after he was stricken with polio bn his 16th birthday, Friday night was honored at a dinner here for the 25 years he has serv ed as judge of probate of Lau rens County. ; Determined to have an educa tion alter two years of invalid- sm. he returned to Hickory Tav ern High School to be graduated and later received a degree from Presbyterian College in Clinton. He was elected judge of pro bate in the summer of 1938. the Stricken With Polio, Wasson Pushes On; Is Honored On 25 Years As Probate Judge time in a person’s life when words can’t express his true feel- nigs. ‘‘Of all the things that have happened in my life, this is the best thing to ever happen to me. Certainly tonight you have sent back into my life a measure much greater than I have giv en,” he said. Recognized at the dinner were six persons, including Wasson, who have compiled more than 25 years of service. They were Miss Fuller, 34 years; Miss Vi vian Blakely, delinquent tax col lector, 33 years; Mrs. Lucille Watts, Laurens magistrate, 33 years; Burns, Superintendent of — — —- — r vx. atAAl wi ear of his graduation, and as- education, 29 years; and Miss >umed office Jan. 3, 1939. to be ome the youngest man to ever hold that position in South Caro- ina. L Leroy Burns, county super- trndent of education, said at the dinner that Wasson was so Jetermined to get an education after the crippling disease that he had his father cut him two voung sapplings and with those and later with the help of crutch ’s and a wheelchair, returned to high school to receive his diplo- ’a from the wheelchair. Burns said after entering Pres byterian College Wasson got a little Austin car and through ra n. sleet and snow” commut- d 40 miles each day until he as graduated. Burns said Wa# ’ on was a “young man of des tiny with courage and fortitude despite a physical disability.” "asson studied law through a correspondence course and was graduated from the La Salle Ex tension Course. With the aid d Laurens County lawyer friends, h;> became an attorney and w as admitted to the Sri C. Bar Association in 1953. . He is a member of the legis lative committee of the S. C. Probate Judge Association and has served as president of the association twice. He also is chairman'Bf the Laurens County Crippled Childrens Society and president of the S. C. RehabUi- tation Association. After serving his first four year term as judge of probate, he has not had opposition in any subsequent political race for that office. Other, persons taking part and relating events from Wasson’s life were Mrs. C. B. Patterson; Miss Isabelle Fuller, deputy pro bate judge; and Mrs. Meta Ful ler Brown, a clerk UUiiJUgfice. Allen Coleman, Laurens Coun-' ty treasurer, presided at the in formal program. Mrs. Brown presented Wasson with a scrap book with pictures of all his co workers in the colirthouse which carried personal’ messages and a silver tray was given to him and his wife. Wasson said there comes a Jtnn:e V. Culbertson, auditor, 26 years. Criitkinal Court Jurors Are Drawn Jurors to serve for a week of criminal court in Laurens, be ginning Monday, Feb. 17, were drawn Tuesday morning at the court house. The term will be presided over by Judge T. B. Greneker of Edgefield. The jurors are; Larry L. Thomas, Thomas W. Prather, C, E. Roberts, Horace E. Robinson, Arthur Lawson, and G. Edward Campbell, all of Clinton. R. B. _ Overstreet, Quinton Jones, and Joseph Overcash of Lydia Mill. Wallace Bates and Daniel Gunter of Joanna; Kenneth Young of Mountville; Richard W. Davis of Cross Hill; Joe m! Lynch of Bailey. 'i Marvin L. McMillan, E. E- Pitts, Rufus White. Rol Jones. Edwin Hazel, Margin At-' kinson, William T. Kesler, Charles E. Owings, and Bobbie E. O Bryant, Lloyd Hammonds, all of I.auigms. L. M. Steadman of Laurens Mill, James IVf. Spencer and William E. Landrum of Watts Mill, L. H. Jones and Eldon H. Smith of Shiloh, Sam Curry and Carroll Garrett and Everette O Hugh E. Marler of Woodville, Cook of Owings, Jack R. Wood of Poplar Springs, Ralph Gwinn of Hickory Tavera, C. G. Hlpps of Gray Court. LOOKING TO sac HIRE, Clinton S. C. I*h. 833-1411 SHOP EVERY DEPARTMENT... # SEE HOW MUCH YOU SAVE! PURCHASE! 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